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No. 336
May 2025 Issue
(Printed in March 2024)
Three years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Now's time for workers and people to rise up to crush Putin's war No to the 'peace' that tramples down Ukrainian people! The militarist empire in its terminal stage goes berserk: the advent of the Trump administration in his second term Denounce Trump's 'Gaza ownership' statement! Never let him impose 'another Nakba' on Palestinians! Syrian people brought down murderer al-Assad's regime The 'vassal state' Japan's Ishiba government pledges obedience to the Trump Empire The meaning of the Feb.7th US-Japan summit talks Stop the enactment of the 'Active Cyber Defence Law'! The Ishiba government intent on revising the NTT Law The DeepSeek Shock The US Bigtech hegemony shaken in the arena of AI Feature - 2025 Spring Labour Offensive Win a big, across-the-board wage raise! For victory in the spring labour offensive! Denounce the JTUC leadership for assisting in price raising! Central Workers' Orgburo Let's fight for a militant upsurge in the 2025 spring labour offensive! Keynote report to the Workers' Solidarity Meeting, Feb. 9th Arrogant declaration of wage restraint and the imposition of reskilling Criticism of 2025 Labour Management Report Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2025 spring offensive despite the union leadership's destruction of the offensive Postal Workers' Committee Don't allow the imposition of long working hours on teachers! Scrap the Special Law that legalizes unpaid overtime work! Education Workers' Committee One year after the great earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula Denounce the Ishiba government for leaving the victims of the double disasters in the lurch! Monopoly capitalists are enjoining disaster victims and local workers to sacrifice more TOP |
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No. 335
March 2025 Issue
(Printed in January 2024)
Make a great step forward in the
anti-Stalinist revolutionary movement! Let us fight for a radical change of the crisis-ridden world of today! JRCL public political meeting Dec. 1st Achieved overwhelmingly Dialogues with Ukrainian comrades Exchanged messages and a movie The International Event on 'Revolutionary Marxism and War' November 2nd The working class-based solidarity spreading and deepening all over the world Create waves of antiwar struggle! Crush the aggression in Ukraine! Shatter the attacks on Gaza! Foil Japan's massive military build-up and the strengthening of the Ampo alliance! Central Students' Orgburo Denounce Yoon Suk-yeol's declaration of martial law! Denounce the Kim Jong-un regime for participating and assisting in the aggression against Ukraine! Trump's return accelerating the drastic structural changes of today's world economy The false charge of 'unlawful receipt of extra benefits' Don't allow the frame-up engineered by the police against four Zengakuren students! Denounce the police for framing up a 'fraudulent obtainment of a health insurance card'! Postal workers Fight against the intensification of labour for the year-end and New Year period! No to the imposition of long working hours and intensified labour on bus workers! The anti-proletarian nature of the JCP argument for the 'increase in the amount of disposable time' The JCP central leadership's approval of Russia's aggression in Ukraine TOP |
No. 334
January 2025 Issue
(Printed in November 2024)
Trump's landslide victory and the
deepening darkness of the world Shatter all the offensives launched by the shaky Ishiba government! The end of the Liberal Democratic Party's 'one-party dominant system' and the present tasks of the revolutionary Left Smash Russia's aggression in Ukraine! Denounce Israel's genocide in Gaza! Go all out to stop the constitutional revision, to crush the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! Central Students' Orgburo No to the deployment of US Army intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Japan! Stop the escalation of warmongering in all over the Middle East! Stand up and fight against Putin's war! Torrential rainfall after the catastrophic Noto Peninsula Earthquake Condemn the LDP government for abandoning the disaster victims to their fate! · 'Temporary housing' for quake victims, built in a hazard zone, got submerged - Hit over again by an crushing calamity: miseries of workers in northern Noto Legal medical fees for fiscal 2024 revised Don't allow the sacrifice of medical care for the old! - The criminal nature of the Health Ministry's Outline of the Measures against an Aging Society No to the major restructuring and rationalization based on the JP management's 'Vision 2025 plus'! Let us fight by overcoming the union leadership's 'business vision' proposing movement! The 91st National Convention of Japan General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions Denounce the leadership for pressing affiliated unions to yield to wage cuts and restructuring! A rush for an Industrial Patriotic movement that touts 'solution of social problems and the development of the industry' Criticism of the JEIU [Japanese Electrical, Electronic and Information Unions]'s 2024-2025 plan of action Year 2024 problem in physical distribution 'Higher efficiency in distribution' imposes harsh labour on transport workers Fraudulent acts coming out one after another in Toyota Stop the restart of and construction of new / additional nuclear reactors by the Ishiba government! Don't allow the government to add construction costs of new nuclear plants and promotion costs for resuming reactor operations to the electric bill! No to the resumption of Cepco (Chugoku Electric Power Co.)'s Shimane No. 2 nuclear reactor operation! Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No.2 The 'experimental attempt to take out nuclear fuel debris' failed Don't allow the start of the operation of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu City Re-reading 'Overseas Appeal for the 62nd International Antiwar Assembly in Japan' inspired in me deep thoughts TOP |
No. 333
November 2024 Issue
(Printed in September 2024)
Besiege Putin the aggressor!
Ukrainian forces' operation to gain control of Kursk; Putin's ruling system shaken The August 4th International Antiwar Assemblies uplifted Crush Russia's aggression against Ukraine! Condemn Israel's massacres in Gaza! For an upsurge in the struggle to prevent a nuclear war! The 62nd International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Shatter Putin's war and Netanyahu's war! Create an explosive upsurge in our struggle to prevent the outbreak of nuclear warfare! The Keynote report to the central meeting Stop Israel’s provocation of war throughout the Middle East! Denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza! Condemn America’s full support to Israel! The first US-Japan ministerial conference on 'extended deterrence' No to the building and strengthening of the system for the US and Japan to conduct nuclear pre-emptive strikes! The European Parliament elections: the rise of far-right parties Macron-led France shaken by the rise of far-right fascists Scholz in a dilemma Neo-Nazi AfD’s detached corps Terrible repression of Georgians The Russian army is deceiving Asian and African youths into fighting on the front line Bangladesh: the regime collapsed by the uprising of students and people Japan's dash for becoming a 'semiconductor power', combined with the strengthening of the US-Japan global alliance Denounce JR Tokai and the Kishida government for going on with the maglev Shinkansen construction in disregard of strong opposition! Denounce the JCP-affiliated Zenroren [National Confederation of Trade Unions] leadership's treachery to the 2024 spring labour offensive! The deceitful nature of Zenroren’s policy of 'going on a strike' The 17th National Convention of the JP Union Delegates' anger unleashed on the low compromise wage hike figures and redundancies Criticisms cropped up against the leadership's ‘business visions' and the 'vision of the future' Overseas Appeal for the 62nd International Antiwar Assembly in Japan The Executive Committee for the 62nd International Antiwar Assembly Crush the Putin regime's war of aggression in Ukraine! Denounce the Netanyahu regime for genocide against Palestinians in Gaza! Prevent the outbreak of a nuclear war with the unity of the world’s people! Click to see the English version TOP |
No. 332
September 2024 Issue
(Printed July 2024)
Come together for the International Antiwar Assembly August 4th! Overseas Appeal for the 62nd International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Crush the Putin regime's war of aggression in Ukraine! Denounce the Netanyahu regime for genocide against Palestinians in Gaza! Prevent the outbreak of a nuclear war with the unity of the world’s people! The Executive Committee for the 62nd International Antiwar Assembly Click to see the English version Justice for Ukrainian Workers! Ukrainian unionists' joint appeal Break through the crisis of a thermonuclear war erupting amid the 'new East-West cold war'! Workers and Students' United Actions Rise up across the country! Stop the tremendous military buildup! Stop the constitutional revision! Pulverize the US-Japan global alliance! Smash Putin's war! Condemn Israel's genocide against Palestinian people in Gaza! Sino-Russian summit talks A bloodstained handshake between the invader of Ukraine and its supporter Denounce the rape of a young girl by an American soldier! Stop the reclamation work in Oura Bay in Henoko! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL No to a tremendous increase in tuition fees at national, public and private universities! The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) Column 'Anti-Semite'-baiting is raging in campuses across the US No to the revision of the Local Autonomy Law! Denounce Russia's aggression and massacres of people in Ukraine! Bring down the FSB-helmed authoritarian ruling system! In solidarity with fighting Ukrainian people (6) Sharing their anger against the degenerate self-styled Western Left In solidarity with fighting Ukrainian people (7) Class solidarity that has crossed the ocean A desperate struggle of BOJ Governor Ueda to get out of 'different dimension' monetary easing An appeal to postal workers for the union's 17th National Convention Let us reject the compromises agreed upon by the union leadership in the 2024 Shunto! Prevent the leadership from adopting the 'future plan'! The Postal Workers Committee of the JRCL Denounce the NTT union leadership for justifying its acceptance of the ultra-low wage hike! The deceitful nature of the 'work style reform of doctors' Don't allow the legalization of medical workers' long working hours by the Health Ministry and the government! How did revolutionary and militant education workers fight against the enactment of the notorious law concerning overtime? TOP |
No. 331
July 2024 Issue
(Printed May 2024)
Stop the massive military buildup! Prevent the constitutional revision! Smash Putin's war! Stop Israel from attacking Rafah in full force! Central Students' Orgburo Smash the fortification of the Southwest Islands! Let us stop the new US base construction in Henoko! It is time to fight against the US-Japan military alliance! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL The Shooting Incident in Moscow: a Conspiracy Russian working people, rise up now to bring down the Putin regime! Stop the Netanyahu regime’s all-out attack on Rafah! Denounce the imposition of starvation on Gazans! The NTT Law to be abolished A headlong dash towards the military use of cutting-edge communications technology Columns Japan-UK-Italy joint development of a next-generation fighter Thwart the enactment of an economic security law for a ‘security clearance’ system! In solidarity with fighting Ukrainian people (4) A meeting with new friends: a report on our exchange of ideas with Ukrainian leftists In solidarity with fighting Ukrainian people (5) What I felt and thought in a direct dialogue with Ukrainian leftists Denounce the low-pay ‘offers and agreements’ reached in unity by management and labour aristocrats Stop monopolies from raising prices! Win a big, across-the-board wage increase! Electrical workers’ 2024 shunto Let us make a militant spring offensive The anti-working class nature of the ‘action plan for the 2024 shunto’ of the JAW [Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers’ Unions] Toyota workers' shunto amid the successive exposures of scandals in its affiliated companies The 2024 shunto of Shitetsu-soren [Japan General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers’ Unions] Denounce the union leadership for demanding an increase in fares! For a militant upsurge in NTT workers’ spring wage offensive! The JAM [Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers] shunto Win a big, across-the-board wage hike Postal workers' shunto Denounce the union leaders for agreeing to the management’s derisory pay offer For an upsurge of publishing workers’ 2024 spring labour offensive The Noto Peninsula Earthquake The water supply still cut off due to delays in repair work The water still cut off Quake damage compounded by the local government’s policy of wide-area water supply and outsourcing Some thoughts on so-called discriminatory expressions Smash Putin’s war! (English translation) Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) The Shooting Incident in Moscow: a Conspiracy (English translation) Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) TOP |
No. 330
May 2024 Issue
(Printed March 2024)
Let us fight in solidarity with working people all over the world! Ukraine antiwar struggle flared up in Tokyo: February 25th In solidarity with fighting Ukrainian people Introduction by the International Division of the JRCL I. Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian People -------Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity Group Why Ukrainians Should Support Palestinians -------Daria Saburova II. Ten Terrible Leftist Arguments against Ukrainian Resistance -------Oksana Dutchak III. Thinking about solutions, we must at least not mistake the causes -------Hanna Perekhoda No to price raising by the government and monopoly capitalists! Win a big, across-the-board wage raise! For a militant upsurge of the 2024 shunto! The first keynote report to the Workers' Solidarity Meeting on Feb. 11th Stop the military build-up and the constitutional revision! No to tax increases and cuts in social security! Let us fight to bring down the reactionary Kishida government! The second keynote report to the Workers' Solidarity Meeting on Feb. 11th For an explosive upsurge of postal workers' 2024 shunto! The Noto Peninsula Earthquake Denounce the Kishida government for deserting earthquake victims! The Shika Nuclear Power Plant in danger of losing external power supplies ■ Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -----------Don't allow the power company's overbearing attitude about the bankruptcy of its 'decommissioning plan' Denounce the government and its research committee for having ignored the undersea active faults Quake victims driven to 'disaster-related deaths' Xi fears the rage of workers and peasant workers ■ The dark side of China, the 'number-one' car exporting country in the world TOP |
No. 329
March 2024 Issue
(Printed January 2024)
Smash the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! Thwart the revision of the Constitution! Central Students' Orgburo Shatter Putin's war! Condemn the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza! Bring down the reactionary Kishida government! Denounce the Aichi Univ. authorities' decision on the 'nonrecognition' of the students' self-governing association and the 'indefinite suspension of the offering of facilities'! Reject the unilateral order to 'indefinitely suspend the activities' of two student circles The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) The Tokai Regional Committee of the MSL (RMF) Smash the revision of the National University Corporation Law! Stop the government and the Education Ministry from taking neo-fascistic control of universities The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) Universities of International Research Excellence A scheme to build research and development hubs of dual-use technologies The world economy today revealing grave decay amid the US-China confrontation 'De-globalization' and intensified economic battles A special feature Stop Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza! - Hamas' struggle for the liberation of Palestine - What is Zionism? - The origin of the Palestinian issues - Palestine Liberation Organization: degeneration and betrayals - US policies towards the Middle East - Crimes repeated by the Stalinist Soviet Union To Lotta Comunista: Stop defending Putin! Long strikes of the UAW: Workers achieved big wage increases A business tie-up with Yamato Transport Japan Post management to impose tremendously increased amount of parcel sorting and delivery on workers Denounce Israel's massive attack on Gaza! TOP |
No. 328
January 2024 Issue
(Printed November 2023)
Condemn the massacre of the Gazans! Stop Israeli forces' ground raid into Gaza! 60 years after the formation of the Revolutionary Marxist Faction of the JRCL The JRCL public political meeting brimmed with fighting spirit Make a great step forward under the banner of 'anti-imperialism, anti-Stalinism'! Break through the danger of the outbreak of a thermonuclear war! Crush the Kishida government's huge military expansion, revision of the Constitution and strengthening of Ampo! Create an overwhelming upsurge in the Ukraine antiwar struggle! Central Students' Orgburo Columns - The tragedy of Nagorno-Karabakh - A new base for the Black Sea Fleet in Abkhazia - A pro-Chinese regime to be established in Maldives - The US initiated 'Pacific Islands Forum' The earth growing hot Western, Japanese and Chinese rulers undermine anti-global warming measures Impeach the false charge of 'fraud' by the Aichi Prefectural Police! Denounce the police for unwarrantable searches of the Aichi and Nagoya University students' houses and the Tokai branch office of the JRCL! The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) The Tokai Regional Committee of the MSL(RMF) Condemn the unlawful arrest of an antiwar activist worker in the Kansai region on Sept. 9th! What will become of workers when a 'wage system based on job description' is introduced? The true character of Kishida's 'three-part labour market reform' Denounce the labour aristocrats for assisting Kishida's military buildup, planned constitutional revision and promotion of nuclear development! The 71st national convention of the Japanese Electrical, Electronic and Information Unions Let us achieve a militant strengthening of the Union! The 97th national convention of Jichiro [All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union The pro-JCP leadership urges workers to 'work hard for residents' The 45th regular convention of Jichiroren [Japan Federation of Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Unions] Go forward by overcoming the 'labour movement designed for the defense of the printing industry'! Criticism of the 2023 Course of Action for Zen'insoren [General Federation of Japan Printing and Publishing Workers' Unions] Messages from Foreign Friends to the 61st International Antiwar Assembly (Part 2) TOP |
No. 327
November 2023 Issue
(Printed September 2023)
No to the strengthening of the US-Japan-ROK nuclear military alliance! Stop the creation of an Asia-Pacific version of NATO! The International Antiwar Assembly held in high spirits Crush Putin's war! Break through the crisis of a thermonuclear war erupting amid the headlong clash between the US and China/Russia! Messages of solidarity from overseas to the 61st International Antiwar Assembly (Translated into Japanese) Part 1 The assassination of Prigozhin: what lies at the bottom India's diplomacy of 'strategic autonomy' Modi's attempt to win 'Global South' countries around in rivalry with China ● The Russia-Africa Summit Meeting in Moscow ● A coup in Niger A 'Sino-American semiconductor war' and an impending crisis over Taiwan LSGE 2023, a US-led global scale military exercise The centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake The massacre of Koreans and the assassination of labour movement leaders Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Denounce the discharge of radioactively contaminated water into the ocean! Denounce the restart of Takahama No.1 nuclear reactor! The criminal nature of Kishida's 'Fukushima creative reconstruction' measures Aimed to promote research on information control, or crisis management, in an emergency A Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in imminent danger of collapsing One trouble after another over the 'My Number card' system No to the government's imposition of a duty to acquire an identification card! Denounce the government for shifting the blame onto municipal workers! Support Sogo & Seibu workers rising in a strike Achieve the annulment of the special measures law that legitimates teachers' overtime without pay! JRCL Education Workers Committee The 26th national convention of All NTT Workers Unions Delegates condemned the leadership's withdrawal of the '100 thousand yen' demand The 16th national convention of the JP Union Delegates' anger exploded at the leadership's full collaboration with the management _____________________________________ Overseas Appeal for the 61st International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Messages from Foreign Friends to the 61st International Antiwar Assembly (Part 1) TOP |
No. 326
September 2023 Issue
(Printed July 2023)
Crush the ultra-reactionary offensives of the Kishida government to expand armaments, revise the Constitution and strengthen the US-Japan military alliance!
Fight for the overthrow of the Kishida-led Japanese-type neo-fascist government! Advance antiwar, anti-military alliance and anti-constitutional revision struggles! Crush Putin's war! US-Philippine joint military exercise: US imperialism intent on winning the Philippines over to the anti-Chinese encircling net
- The Defense Funds legislation aimed at a trmendous military buildup - Enactment of a law to boost the infrastructure of the munitions industry - The launch of Official Security Assistance, a new military aid programme - Legislation aimed at promoting nuclear power generation - Making the possession of My Number [identification number] cards mandatory - Revision of the Immigration Control and Refugee-Recognition Law aimed to expel refugees
Covid-19 classification: from Class 2 to Class 5 Denounce the Kishida government for abandoning infection control measures and sacrificing social security The Wager Rebellion: The Russian ruling system shaken Overseas Appeal for the 61st International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Create an antiwar struggle to break through the crisis of nuclear war erupting amid the clash between the US and China/Russia! The Executive Committee for the 61st International Antiwar Assembly Denounce the blasting of the Kakhovka dam perpetrated by Putin! 'Russia's defeat' laid bare in the Victory Day ceremony on May 9th Let's fight against Russia's aggression in Ukraine! Q & A (English translation)
Reject the union leadership's agreement on the derisory wage increase in the 2023 spring labour offensive! The Postal Workers Committee of the JRCL The spring labour offensive in the electric industry Denounce the reduction of shunto into labour-management consultations to promote a job-based employment system UA Zensen [Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers' Unions]: Denounce the leadership for agreeing on ultra-low compromise figures! Toyota's supply chains to be reorganized along with a 'shift to EV' TOP |
No. 325
July 2023 Issue
(Printed May 2023)
Oppose the G7 Summit in Hiroshima for building an Asia-Pacific version of NATO!
Oppose the revision of the Constitution and the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! Let us fight together! Arise under the flag of Zengakuren! Yusuke Ariki, Zengakuren Chairman Let's fight against Russia's aggression against Ukraine! Q & A The Global Week of Action for Solidarity with Ukraine: Warm solidarity with Ukrainian leftists in resistance Fight against the US-Japan military alliance, against the revision of the Constitution! Shatter Putin's war! Central Students' Orgburo
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No. 324
May 2023 Issue
(Printed March 2023)
Crush Putin's war!
Advance the Ukraine antiwar struggle beyond borders! Shatter Russia's aggression! Protests flaring up all over the world Putin clinging to the myth of the 'great victory in the Great Patriotic War' ■ Russia's aggression and Ukraine's resistance till today: a chronology Stop the constitutional revision and a major military build-up! Crush 'Putin's war'! Central Students' Orgburo The American empire in decline: divisions and devastation uncovered
Win a big and across-the-board wage increase! No to the raising of prices by the government and monopoly capitalists! For a militant upsurge in the 2023 spring labour offensive The first keynote report to the Workers' Solidarity Meeting on February 5th Stop the constitutional revision! No to massive military build-up! Fight for a mass upsurge in antiwar, anti-military alliance struggles! The second keynote report to the Workers' Solidarity Meeting on February 5th Denounce the deceitful pay offers made by Toyota and Honda managements! The distortion of shunto by the auto workers' union leadership into labour-management consultation for the 'survival of the auto industry' Create a militant upsurge in electrical workers' 2023 shunto!
Denounce the cabinet decision to prolong the period of operation of nuclear power plants and to promote the building of new reactors! The Kishida government hell-bent on achieving energy security to build Japan into a military power The government's dangerous plan to extend the period of operation of nuclear reactors Negation of the 'finding of active faults' designed to resume the operation of the Shika nuclear plant No to the discharge of radioactively contaminated water into the ocean! A scheme to create a base for military technology development in the disaster-stricken area of Fukushima The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant: the plan to 'decommission reactors in forty years' has collapsed TOP |
No. 323
March 2023 Issue
(Printed January 2023)
60 years after the formation of the Revolutionary Marxist Faction of the JRCL Break through the crisis of a world war! From Ukraine, from Russia, from around the world Fervent messages to the JRCL Today, 60 years since the formation of the Revolutionary Marxist Faction in the JRCL Let us take a leap forward by reliving the starting point of our anti-Stalinist movement! A special report to the JRCL political meeting on Dec. 4th, 2022 Denounce the cabinet decision on the ‘three security documents’! Re-skilling: what does it mean for workers?
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China Xi’s ‘sole leadership’ caught up by people’s roars -- People’s anger exploded: the collapse of the real-estate bubble in China Ukrainian forces and people’s battles that drove back Russia’s aggression: from the beginning of July to December, 2022 -- Russia’s aggression and battles of the Ukrainian army and people Judicial records on the Kobe case disposed of We denounce the cover-up of the state crime! Shatter a ring of counter-revolutionary elements! (Continued from the last issue) ***** ***** < New Year supplement > A New Year’s cartoon: Turn the war into revolution! Tanka-like poems: Ukrainians, your fight is ours! Photogravure: JRCL public political meeting, December 4th, 2022 TOP |
No. 322
January 2023 Issue
(Printed in November 2022)
Crush the desperate attempts by Putin on the verge of ruin! Denounce Putin’s missile attacks on the whole of Ukraine! Xi performed diplomatic manoeuvres to rally the governments of developing countries opposing / distancing the US -What was shown in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit Stop the revision of the Constitution! Crush Japan’s military buildup! Stir up the flames of the Ukraine antiwar struggle! Central Students’ Orgburo Fight back against the government’s imposition of sacrifices upon the toiling masses in the name of ‘new capitalism’! Denounce the holding of Abe’s ‘state funeral’!
Shatter a ring of counter-revolutionary elements! (Continued from the last issue) _____________________________________ Messages from Foreign Friends to the 60th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 2) Click to see TOP |
No. 321
November 2022 Issue
(Printed September 2022)
Advance Ukraine antiwar struggle!
Oppose the revision of the Constitution of Japan! Don't allow the holding of neo-fascist Abe's 'state funeral'! The battle of the Ukrainian armed forces and people to foil Russia's attempt to annex two southern oblasts Shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: Denounce Putin's nuclear intimidation! Dugina killed by a car bomb: an assassination plotted by Putin Build up struggles from the labour front to prevent the constitutional revision! Denounce the JTUC leadership for supporting the Kishida-led neo-fascist government! For an upsurge in the Ukraine antiwar, anti-constitutional revision and anti-Ampo struggles! A huge success achieved: the International Antiwar Assemblies on August 7th
From overseas on Russia's aggression against Ukraine - Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social movement) Ukraine - The Journal of Social Criticism 'Commons' Ukraine - Alt Left Russia - Socialists Against the War Coalition Russia - AntiCapitalist Resistance Britain - Tamworth Surrealist Manifestation Britain - Revolutionary Marxists in Britain Britain - News and Letters Committees, USA - Socialist Workers Party, USA Right to weapons. How can leftists support Ukrain? Zakhar Popovych A 'semiconductor war' heated up amid the clash between the US and China-Russia Aichi Univ. students' two-month battle against the university authorities' attempt to destroy students' autonomy The Japan Marxist Student League (RMF) Aichi University Branch Shatter a ring of counter-revolutionary elements! _____________________________________ Overseas Appeal for the 60th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Messages from Foreign Friends to the 60th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 1) Click to see TOP |
No. 320
September 2022 Issue
(Printed in July 2022)
Overseas Appeal for the 60th International Antiwar Assembly The Executive Committee for the 60th International Antiwar Assembly Working people all over the world, crush Putin's war! Break through the danger of a thermonuclear war erupting amid the clash between the US and China-Russia! Denounce the confusion of the self-styled left! Fan the flames of the Ukraine antiwar struggle! Central Workers' Orgburo Degenerate Trotskyists and their failure to confront 'Putin's war' The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an accomplice of Putin in the war of aggression 'War on neo-Nazis': Putin's demagogy A Stalin-style attack to exterminate nationalists The Russian Orthodox Church, a supporter of 'Putin's war' Denounce Putin for launching armed attacks on Ukrainian nuclear power plants! Ukrainian railway workers taking on the maintenance of the 'main arteries' of the nation ● The Battle of the Rails in Belarus ● Putin's 'Holodomor': Ukrainian farmers fighting at the risk of their lives Russia's military aggression in Ukraine and the courageous counteroffensive mounted by the Ukrainian army together with working people: from February 24th to the end of June ***** ***** From a comrade who works in a nursing home visited by a Covid-19 cluster I am determined to create our fight here! Nursing facilities hit by Covid-19 clusters: Kishida's policy compels many elderly patients to stay in nursing homes instead of being treated in hospital TOP |
No. 319
July 2022 Issue
(Printed in May 2022)
Crush the attempt to make the whole of Okinawa a military fortress! Advance Ukraine antiwar struggle! Oppose the revision of the Constitution of Japan! Overcoming the JCP's abandonment of opposition to Ampo, let us carry forward the antiwar, anti-Ampo struggle! Central Student Orgburo What I felt and thought when I talked with Ukrainian people ... Holodomor in Ukraine Stalin compelled several millions of Ukrainians to die of starvation' Lenin's struggle against Stalin's Great Russian nationalism On the incorporation of Ukraine into the USSR ● A chronological table: Russia's aggression in Ukraine and its prehistory
Denounce the big company managements' derisory offers! Denounce the union leaders' immediate acceptance! Denounce the Rengo leadership for serving monopoly capitalists under the slogan 'investment in people'! The introduction of a 'job-based employment system', coupled with major restructuring -- Criticism of Keidanren's 2022 labour management report Denounce the JP Union leadership for accepting no increase in the basic wage for seven consecutive years! Achieve an explosive upsurge in postal workers' 2022 spring offensive! Private railway workers' spring wage struggle Denounce the agreement on ultra-low figures by the central union leadership and leading company union leaders! Devotion to the survival of the company in the 'age of carbon neutral' A criticism of the Toyota union's policies for the 2022 spring labour offensive For an upsurge of the 2022 spring offensive of auto workers For victory in the 2022 spring labour offensive! For the upsurge of the labour movement in the electrical industry! Let us carry out publishing workers' spring offensive militantly! TOP |
No. 318
May 2022 Issue
(Printed in March 2022)
Don't allow a general attack on Kiev by the Russian troops!
Win a big, across-the-board wage increase! |
No. 317
March 2022 Issue
(Printed in January 2022)
Shatter the revision of the Constitution! Smash the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! Create an antiwar struggle to break through the crisis of war mounting amid the 'US-China cold war'! Central Student Orgburo ● GSDF manoeuvres involving 100,000 troops conducted on the supposition of a 'Taiwan emergency' ● Despite the crushing defeat, JCP Chairman Shii says the election results showed 'advances in the opposition coalition' ● 'They still adhere to a violent revolution' (government propaganda): JCP bureaucrats are desperate to deny their past
Japan's strategy of reviving its semiconductor industry for an 'economic security guarantee' The government-led invitation of TSMC and its meaning The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant The bankruptcy of the government and Tepco's plan of 'decommissioning the reactors in forty years' Reduction of workers' struggle for higher wages into 'tripartite consultations between the government, labour and management for surviving the crisis for the nation' -- The criminal nature of Rengo's action plan for the 2022 spring labour offensive The leadership proposes cuts in wages and worse treatments of employees -- A criticism of the JP Union leadership's guidelines for the 2022 spring labour offensive The government is strengthening its ruling system by promoting 'digital administration' The government is imposing a swift start of online application systems on municipalities The leadership of Jichiro [All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union] advocates the 'reinstatement of public services' The national education research conference of Zenkyo [All Japan Teachers and Staffs Union]: Denounce the pro-JCP union leadership for abandoning 'opposition to long working hours' and even opposition to the constitutional revision! The leadership of Zen'insoren [General Federation of Japan Printing and Publishing Workers' Unions] abandons organizing fightbacks against restructuring and layoffs On 'the controversy about the popularization of arts' A historic debate over proletarian arts in 1928 ●Photogravure: JRCL public political meeting, Tokyo, December 5th, 2021 ●A New Year's cartoon: The Grand Sumo Tournament of the World TOP |
No. 316
January 2022 Issue
(Printed in November 2021)
Launch a counterattack against the neo-fascist Kishida government! |
No. 315
November 2021 Issue
(Printed in September 2021)
The fall of Kabul:
the militarist empire of America routed Topple the LDP government with the power of the toiling masses! Shatter the US-Japan global alliance! Overcoming the JCP that abandons opposition to the US-Japan military alliance, let us fight! The keynote speech to the central meeting of the 59th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Break through the war crisis impending amid the US-China cold war! Smash the US attempt to deploy intermediate-range missiles across the Japanese archipelago! The Suga government hell-bent on establishing a system for 'electronic warfare' against China With the successful Zengakuren convention as a bridgehead, let us make a great step forward of the revolutionary student movement! The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) The Economic Security Strategy of Japanese imperialism A strategy of the Japanese state for its survival under the US-China confrontation The Suga government, having courted healthcare collapse, is now forcing Covid-19 patients into recuperation at home Patriotic education by the name of the 'Olympic-Paralympic education' The 14th national convention of the JP Union Condemn the adoption of the union's Vision for Business Activities that drives postal workers to higher productivity! My resolution to fight back against the planned rationalization, including the sacking of 35,000 postal workers Overseas Appeal for the 59th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan (English translation) Messages from Foreign Friends to the 59th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 1) TOP |
No. 314
September 2021 Issue
(Printed in July 2021)
Overseas Appeal for the 59th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan
Rise up in antiwar struggle to break through the crisis of war breaking out amid the US-China cold war! The Executive Committee for the 59th International Antiwar Assembly
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No. 313
July 2021 Issue
(Printed in May 2020)
The US-Japan summit meeting
Smash attempts to reduce the spring labour offensive to labour-management consultation aimed to 'survive the national crisis'! |
No. 312
May 2021 Issue
(Printed in March 2021)
Bring down the Suga government!
Denounce its act of leaving the toiling masses in the lurch!
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No. 311
March 2021 Issue
(Printed in January 2021)
Put an end to the imposition of poverty amid the pandemic! |
No. 310
January 2021 Issue
(Printed in December 2020)
Shatter the Suga government’s attempts to build a pre-emptive strike system and revise the Constitution! |
No. 309
November 2020 Issue
(Printed in September 2020)
Cartoons：The bad guy wiped out The keynote speech to the Central Meeting of the 58th International Antiwar Assembly Create an antiwar struggle to break through the crisis of war erupting amid the 'US-China cold war'! The integration of US and Japanese forces against China - The revised 'basic space plan': US-Japan joint development of a military satellite network - Japan's Space Operations Squadron: to support the US' 'space domination' - Flying 'lethal robots': competition over the development of AI warplanes between the US and China-Russia - Japan's foundation of a new corps for 'electronic warfare' - US Marines to be reorganized as frontline deployment forces against China A dash for a 'great contemporary socialist country' --- China's National People's Congress --- Fukushima nuclear reactors Stop the government-planned discharge of tritium-contaminated water into the ocean! The nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho Village Denounce the Nuclear Regulation Authority for authorizing the company's 'new safety measures'! Fight against dismissals and wage cuts amid the 'pandemic depression'! Imposition of harsh labour on workers: the Health Ministry's 'health centre reforms' Japan Post: deceptions in 'preventive measures' against infection Postal life insurance: the management shifting all the blames for 'inappropriate sales' onto workers After the lifting of school closure: teachers' indignation mounting at extremely intensified labour Monopoly capitalists of the chemical industry shifting the burden onto workers Objective cognition and value consciousness or value judgment On the publication of the Collected Works of Kan'ichi Kuroda The Publication Commission of the Collected Works of Kan'ichi Kuroda _____________________________________ Overseas Appeal for the 58th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan (English translation) Messages from Foreign Friends to the 58th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 1) |
No. 308
September 2020 Issue
(Printed in July 2020)
Create an antiwar struggle to break through the crisis of war erupting amid the US-China cold war! The Executive Committee for the 58th International Antiwar Assembly Denounce the enactment and enforcement of the Hong Kong National Security Law! Create an upsurge of antiwar, anti-constitutional revision struggle! Topple the Abe government which leaves poverty-stricken people in the lurch!
Denounce the Abe government for abandoning students in financial difficulties! Students across the country! Rise to topple the government! The Japan Marxist Student League (RMF) Waseda University Branch No to wage cuts, dismissals and rejection of employment contract renewals by the automobile monopolies! Cruel layoffs imposed on Toyota's subcontract factory workers Amid the 'pandemic depression': a drastic restructuring planned by capitalists in the steel industry Distortion of the spring labour offensive into a joint labour-management consultation for the promotion of 'digital transformation' Denounce the leadership of the Japanese Electrical, Electronic & Information Unions! NTT West Japan's newly introduced 'area-based employment system' No to the imposition of low wages, unilateral transfer, reassignment and intensified labour! Denounce the JTU leadership's dependence on the Education Ministry's 'future review' of the 'special measures law' that legalizes teachers' overtime without pay! The world economy plunged into a 'pandemic depression'ensive! Learning from Kuroda's 'Lecture on Revolution', included in his Introduction to Marxism, vol. 4 I'll grasp the quintessence of anti-Stalinism and make it my own On the 'penetration of our organizing tactics' in the topos of mass movement _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 15) - The struggle of denouncing the Lockheed Scandal, fought as an antiwar struggle, 1976 |
No. 307
July 2020 Issue
(Printed in May 2020)
Virus research in China: incorporated in a national strategy Don't let the rulers sacrifice the toiling masses amid the 'pandemic depression'! No to the authoritarian declaration of a 'state of emergency' without livelihood compensation! Compensate all households for income losses, directly and unconditionally! Supply funds and necessary equipments to medical facilities immediately! Denounce the Abe government for abandoning students in financial difficulties! Free tuition for university students! Give livelihood supports to all students immediately! The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) Abandonment of people suffering in the middle of the spread of COVID-19 Tanka Poems How I abhor capital that takes advantage of the pandemic! A report from medical workers in Tokyo Struggling on the brink of a collapse in the health care system Stop the reorganization of metropolitan hospitals into 'independent administrative corporations'! The bitter struggle of workers in eldercare facilities Education workers struggling amid the emergency school closure Trump, the one responsible for inviting the explosive spread of the epidemic * * * Denounce the leaders of the private railway and bus workers' union for agreeing on ultra-low figures of wage increase! Bus drivers, exposed to the danger of infection, are faced with the attacks of wage cuts and layoffs Let us, private railway and bus workers, fight the 2020 spring labour offensive! Overcome the union leadership's distorted campaign to 'achieve demands for better traffic policies'! Fight out the labour offensive in opposition to the destructive attempts of the leadership of the JAW [Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions]! Don't let the labour aristocracy destroy the spring labour offensive of the JEC [Japanese Federation of Energy and Chemistry Workers' Unions]! Denounce the NTT union leadership for agreeing on absurdly low figures of pay hikes and a still wider gap between employees! No to the planned closedown of Nippon Steel Corporation's ironworks in Kure! Denounce the Japan Post Union leaders' acceptance of 'zero pay increase' for five consecutive years! _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 14) The struggle against the making of Yokosuka the home port of the aircraft carrier USS Midway, from September to November, 1973 |
No. 306
May 2020 Issue
(Printed in March 2020)
Now is the time to step up the anti-Abe Government struggle! Create a torrent of protest movement against the revision of the Constitution, against war, against the military alliance! Medical workers obliged to fight tough struggles due to Abe's incompetence Coronavirus outbreak The Xi Jinping government frantic to control information and conceal facts China's manipulation of information using the Director-General of the WHO as a tool The 'breakdown' in COP 25 negotiations World rulers' interests clashing head-on amid worsening global warming A revision of the JCP programme: the worship of state monopoly capitalism Organizational, ideological collapse exposed: the 28th Congress of the JCP Fight for victory in the 2020 spring labour offensive! Win big, across-the-board wage hikes! Create a gigantic surge of struggles against the constitutional revision! Central Workers' Orgburo
No to the dispatch of Japanese troops to the Middle East! Oppose the buildup of the nuclear military alliance! Absolutely 'NO!' to the revision of the Constitution! - The second keynote speech Create a militant upsurge of postal workers' spring labour offensive! Don't allow the Japan Post Union leadership to distort shunto into a campaign for breaking out of the 'crisis in business'! Toyota labour aristocrats devoted to the survival of the company _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 13) - The valiant struggle against US Army Sagami General Depot, from August to November, 1972 Militant workers and students fought against the carrying of tanks and military vehicles to Vietnam - A landmark struggle in Kita-Kumamoto on October 28th, 1972, against the deployment of SDF troops to Okinawa |
No. 305
March 2020 Issue
(Printed in January 2020)
Stop US's attack on Iran! No to the dispatch of Japanese troops to the Middle East! - Smash the constitutional revision and buildup of the US-Japan military alliance! - Central Students' Orgburo A last-ditch attempt of the militarist empire tumbling from the status as the 'sole superpower' Denounce the Xi government's armed repression of Hong Kong people! Intention declared to seize 'world hegemony: China's 70th anniversary of the foundation Denounce the passage of the bill to revise the special measures law concerning education workers' working conditions! Block the introduction of a yearly overtime calculation system based on the fabrication of 'less busy seasons'! Abolish the special measures law! 'Education reform' for a Japanese version of 'AI strategy' The US-Japan trade agreement: Abe accepted whole Trump's demand to lower tariffs on American farm products The US-Japan trade agreement ruins Japanese farmers and workers - Trump forces Japan to buy surplus corn, a result of his own policy of reducing ethanol productiont Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant The criminal nature of the government plan to take the nuclear fuel debris out of No. 2 reactor Don't allow the restart of the Onagawa No. 2 nuclear reactor! The government, together with electric power monopolies, embarked on a 'joint enterprise' of nuclear power generation in an attempt to break the present deadlock _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 12) Doro [Nihon National Railway Motive Power Union]'s antiwar struggle resorting to work-to-rule tactics: from April to June, 1972 |
No. 304
January 2020 Issue
(Printed in November 2019)
For an enormous upsurge of anti-constitutional revision, antiwar, anti-Ampo struggles! Central Students' Orgburo Condemn the shooting of demonstrators by the Hong Kong police! No to the invocation of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, an actual martial law! Denounce the enforcement of a consumption tax hike! The Abe government's cutting of social security budgets Denounce the Abe government for having made no relief efforts for the Typhoon No. 19 disaster! The Abe government has abandoned Typhoon No. 15 victims The 7th JCP Central Committee Plenum: Bureaucrats wallow in a delusion of an 'opposition party coalition government' Part II of a fictitious trialogue: JCP bureaucrats' never-ending dream of an 'opposition party coalition government' Three major conspiracies in postwar Japan and historic crimes of the JCP Column 1: The crux of the Mitaka Railway Incident, a GHQ-SCAP plot Column 2: The present JCP leadership justifies its erstwhile definition of the occupation army as a 'liberation army' Don't allow the introduction of personnel evaluation into the 'work style reform in school'! A local accident compensation fund rejects the admission of a teacher's death from overwork No to the introduction of an 'integrated work support system' into schools!
The development of genome editing technology causing further environmental and human destruction I've decided to make Kuroda's thought my own though at a snail's pace _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 11) - A no-time-limit strike by the all-Okinawa union of military base workers: from March to April, 1972 _____________________________________ Messages from Foreign Friends to the 57th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 2) |
No. 303
November 2019 Issue
(Printed in September 2019)
No to US imperialism's attack on Iran! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Rise up in an antiwar struggle to break through the danger of a world war! -- The keynote address to the central meeting of the 57th International Antiwar Assembly Stop the constitutional revision! Stop Japan's troop dispatch to the Persian Gulf! South Korea annulled Japan-ROK GSOMIA; a cataclysm caused in East Asia No to the Abe government's retaliatory economic sanctions on South Korea! Ultra-right ideologues crying out for a 'hundred-fold retaliation' against the South Korean court judgment on Japan's wartime forcible mobilization of Korean workers Forced conscription of Korean workers for back-breaking labour during WWII Crimes committed by the Tennoist state power and monopoly capitalists 'Inappropriate sales' of post office life insurance Japan Post management shifting the blame onto postal workers Introduction of a mandatory retirement system at the age of 65 into the post office Management imposing low wages and severe working conditions The Health Ministry yelling for 'productivity increases in nursing care' -- The Abe government scheming to sacrifice social security A decision to make Marx's burning passion underlying Das Kapital my own flesh and blood _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part10) - The struggle against the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, 1971 1. May 19th general strike that shook the whole island of Okinawa 2. The struggle against the signing and ratification of the Agreement that uplifted in Tokyo _____________________________________ Overseas Appeal for the 57th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan (English translation) Messages from Foreign Friends to the 57th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 1) |
No. 302
September 2019 Issue
(Printed in July 2019)
No to the buildup of the US-Japan nuclear military alliance! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Rise in action against the G-20 Osaka Summit! Overseas Appeal for the 57th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Break through the crisis of war created by the US-China confrontation! The Executive Committee for the 57th International Antiwar Assembly Don't allow the Abe government to cover up the issue of "short of 20 million yen for pensioners' livelihood"! Hot competition between the US and China-Russia in the development and deployment of AI weapons A plan to deploy top-of-the-line electromagnetic weapons in Ground SDF stations Hayabusa 2: a plot for military expansion in space, under the cover of 'science' Denounce the enforcement of the revised 'Wiretapping Law'! The Abe government hell-bent on bringing into wider use of each person's 'My Number card'
- JCP activists' defiance to their leaders immersed in a 'non-government party coalition' - JCP Osaka chapter shaken: criticisms cropping up from lower echelon members - The only 'shining hope' for distressed members of the JCP now in decline might be Kaihoh No to the school version of the 'work-style reform'! Fight resolutely by criticizing the official teachers' union leaderships for depending on the Education Ministry to solve the issues! The government's plan to reorganize the general course at high school, designed to develop 'human resources for technical innovation' State control of universities has been tightened by the Abe government More and more foreign workers used as disposable labour-power in the agriculture sector _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 9) - The JRCL created a gigantic upsurge in the 1970 Ampo struggle |
No. 301
July 2019 Issue
(Printed in May 2019)
Central Students' Orgburo The US-Japan '2 + 2' agreement on a new war plan: cooperation for 'cross-domain operations' The new National Defense Program Outline subordinate to US military strategy The relocation of US forces' Field Carrier Landing Practice to and the construction of a new SDF base in Mage-jima, an uninhabited island in southern Kyushu Denounce the dumping of sand in the new area of the Henoko seashore! March 25th
The Abe government's defiant attitude towards the issues of Korean sex slaves and workers drafted by Japanese companies during WWII! Don't allow the restart of the decrepit Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Plant reactor, the one hit by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake / tsunami! The reactionary nature of Keidanren capitalists' plan for the 'power system reform' The arrest and ouster of Carlos Ghosn The intensifying confrontation between France and Japan over Nissan's EV technology My determination to absorb Comrade Kuroda's spirit of 'break and leap' in 1956' What does it mean to 'objectivize the Subject'?: Learning from Kuroda's praxiology _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 8) - The JRCL led the Ampo [US-Japan Security Treaty] / Okinawa struggle, against the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance through the 'return of Okinawa to Japan with US nuclear bases', 1969 |
No. 300
May 2019 Issue
(Printed in March 2019)
US-DPRK summit talks in Hanoi broken down No to the reclamation work! Stop the construction of a new US base in Henoko! Column: The seabed of landfill-planed site in Henoko is found very soft like mayonnaise Denounce the Abe government's falsification of research data on workers' incomes! Build up a mass movement against the revision of the Constitution! Overcome the JCP' -led 'peace movement' that abandons opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! Central Students' Orgburo The all-out offensive of the declining imperialist state of America against China A 'safety valve' for the neo-Fascist ruling system -- A rightward window-dressing of the JCP line for a 'democratic reform of capitalist Japan'
Stop the revision of the Constitution!: the second keynote report Toyota labour aristocrats endeavouring to 'boost the competitiveness of the company'! I am learning from Kuroda's 'dialectic of Subject and Object' - Grappling with Kuroda's Introduction to Historical Materialism The tasks I assign to myself with renewed determination to build our organization - On reading Kuroda's writing on the vanguard organization _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 7) - 'Remove all US B-52 Bombers!' A bitter struggle to organize the February 4th general strike throughout Okinawa, 1969 - The solidarity battle to lift the restriction on travel both in the Japanese mainland and in Okinawa, August 1969 |
