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No. 2544
(November 12th 2018 Issue)
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Zengakuren and Antiwar Youths
- Crush the Abe government's revision of the Constitution and strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance!: the solidarity rally - Shatter the intensifying nuclear arms race between the US and China-Russia!: a JRCL delegate's solidarity appeal - Spread the surge of struggles against the constitutional revision, against the US-Japan military alliance and against fascism! [2] Okinawa: Struggles against the US base construction in Henoko
Anger exploded against the government's decision trampling on the dissenting voices of the people of Okinawa, at the Defence Ministry's agency in Okinawa (pic above left) 'No base in Henoko! Stop dumping sand!' Militant students fought with workers, in an emergency rally against the restart of the base construction, October 26th, Naha (pic above right) Militant students in Kansai strived in the van of workers and citizens  'No to the Road to War' rally, October 20th, Osaka Kobe Univ. and Nara Women's Univ. students fought under the slogan 'No to constitutional revision! Down with the Abe government!' [3] Militant workers and students rose in antiwar, anti-constitutional revision action in seven cities in Japan
Militants delivered an intense counterattack against the dumping of sand in the sea
Workers and Students' united action in Kansai, October 21st, Osaka Demonstrators raised a chorus of angry yells at the local LDP office in Osaka [4-5] Medical workers are compelled to work under more and more harsh conditions Denounce the resumption of the Ikata No. 3 nuclear reactor operation by Shikoku Electric Power Co.! [6] The 2019 spring labour offensive: Labour aristocrats of Toyota unions are scheming to scrap the struggle for higher wages Education workers placed under the performance evaluation system are obliged to overwork severely as advisers or instructors for students' extra-curricular activities Topics 80 percent of teachers want an 'increase in the number of teachers': the government's '2018 White Paper on Death from Overwork' Even the official survey shows extremely harsh working conditions [7] What happened to a suspended nuclear plant at the time of the Hokkaido Earthquake The region-wide blackout actually made it impossible for the Tomari plant to continue cooling spent nuclear fuel Toyota has embarked on a joint development of the fuel cell electric vehicle with a Chinese enterprise [8] Kaleidoscope - South Korea's Supreme Court decision: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. must pay compensation to former Korean workers drafted compulsively in wartime - Scandal-ridden Satsuki Katayama, the sole ministress in the Abe cabinet, is a dyed-in-the-wool right-wing nationalist - Vast airspace above Tokyo and eight other prefectures is controlled by the US military stationed in Yokota - US and Japanese rulers are scheming to involve the Australian government in their military alliance against China TOP |
No. 2543
(November 5th 2018 Issue)
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Create a big surge of struggle against the constitutional revision! -- Don't allow the strengthening of the NSC-helmed authoritarian ruling system! - Hair-trigger situations are occurring amid the US vs. China/Russia military confrontation -- Trump declared withdrawal from the INF Treaty: causing a still more intensifying nuclear arms race -- Following Trump's demands, Abe is strengthening the US-Japan nuclear military alliance - Denounce the JCP bureaucrats for fanning the illusion of a 'trend to peace'!
[2] 'Against the constitutional revision! Against the dumping of sand into the sea of Henoko!' Thousands of workers and students gathered in front of the Diet Building, October 19th, Tokyo
[3] 'Stop the US base construction in Henoko! Block the revision of the Constitution!' International Antiwar Day struggle in Okinawa, October 22nd
Smash the crackdown on demonstrations and rallies of anti-government movements by the Tokyo Metropolitan authorities hand in glove with the police The league of commercial broadcasting companies decided not to impose any restrictions on 'money talks'-style commercials advertising constitutional revision [4-5] Stop dumping sand in the sea of Henoko! Demolish the new US base construction! - Riding roughshod over the dissenting voices of the people, the Abe government has resorted to strong measures to resume the construction work - Abe is hell-bent on pushing forward the constitutional revision amid an explosive situation in the US-China confrontation - Spread the vehement antiwar fight of Okinawa to the whole country! Postal workers' struggle Expose the union leadership's deception in make preparations for a compromise in the 2019 spring labour offensive! Don't allow them to smooth the way for accepting agreements with the management on the 'work style reform'! [6] No to the Education Ministry's plan to introduce a 'year-based variable working hour system' into schools! No to the long working hours of education workers! No to the tightening of labour control! Two city education boards in Ishikawa Prefecture decided to use the reactionary junior high school textbook in question for moral education Topics Don't allow the legislation of foreign workers' 'new residence status' in this Diet session! [7] The Xi Jinping government's haphazard measures to 'exterminate poverty' -- The wretched realities of peasants forced to migrate from rural villages to urban districts The widening gap between rich and poor in the 'country of market socialism' 'Sharp power': The Trump administration is irritated at China's tactics for manipulating public opinion [8] Kaleidoscope - A clash of interests between the US and China is occurring also in the Arctic Ocean - The Trump administration has embarked on the tightening of restrictions on the export of nuclear power technology against China - The Abe government is still sticking to the totally bankrupt reprocessing plan of mixed oxide fuel TOP |
No. 2542
(October 29th 2018 Issue)
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No to the US and Japanese government - Stop the new US base construction in Henoko! Don't allow the resumption of construction work! - Strengthen the antiwar struggle to eradicate the danger of war amid confrontation between the US and China/Russia!
[2] No to the deployment of Ospreys in the US Yokota base! US warplanes are flying arrogantly in the skies over Japan Putin-led Russia is attempting to make inroads into African countries by means of resource development technology and military aid The US-Taliban secret negotiations There is no way for US imperialism to get out of a quagmire of the Afghan War [3] The Hokkaido Earthquake: the worst ever power blackout Due to the blackout, medical facilities in Hokkaido suffered critical situations [4] The rise of 'anti-refugee' ultranationalist tendencies in Germany - The head of the intelligence agency defended a neo-Nazi assault on foreigners - Taking advantage of the Chemnitz murder case, AfD is fanning 'anti-refugee, anti-immigrant' sentiment German ultranationalists shout 'Heil Hitler!' [5] A JCP bureaucrat glorifies the 'artificial intelligence revolution' as a new stage of the ICT revolution [6] JTUC's 'basic plan' for the 2019 spring labour offensive Denounce the leadership for abandoning the setting of wage increase rates! - Labour aristocrats are intending to eradicate even the already emasculated system of the spring labour offensive - Leaders are urging union members to improve productivity and boost competitiveness - Denounce the labour aristocrats' treachery! Create a militant upsurge of the 2019 spring labour offensive! Topics Drug company trade unions withdrew en masse from UA Zensen, one of the major affiliated union federations within the JTUC, to establish a new one The newly formed union aims for a 'labour movement serving to the development of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry' A contribution from a reader of Kaihoh Oppose slashes in social welfare spending! Don't allow the cut-off of subsidies to 'mind' intractable disease patients' [7] Bring to light the degeneration of union leaders who seek for 'collaboration' with capitalists in the name of 'surmounting the difficulties of the publishing industry'! -- The 68th convention of Shuppan Roren [Japan Federation of Publishing Workers' Union] [8] Kaleidoscope - 'Turkey may find another ally if sanctions are continued': Erdogan is acting in defiance of US sanctions - GM, a standard-bearer for the American-style Fourth Industrial Revolution, is in financial difficulty - The 'fifth generation' technological development: Abe aims to monitor the whole nation and win through in a global competition for information technologies TOP |
No. 2541
(October 22nd 2018 Issue)
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Shatter the revision of the Constitution! - Revolutionary workers are fighting despite official leaders' oppression and distortion of struggles against constitutional revision - Create resolute struggles against the constitutional revision, against the Abe government across the country! - Crash the nationalist propaganda conducted to justify war preparation against China! [2] The Okinawa gubernatorial election: The anti-US base candidate won an overwhelming victory People's anger erupted at the Abe government carrying of the new US base construction in Henoko The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL [3] Denounce Abe's agreement with Trump to start a bilateral FTA negotiation! An anti-Chinese speech by Pence 'We will not be intimidated' The Vice-President of the declining imperialist state aroused nationalist hatred against the 'revisionist force' The JCP Chairman reproaches Abe for his 'fatuous smile' at Putin's proposal on territorial issues The bureaucrat is trying to sell his party as a 'patriotic party' [4] No to the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile systems! - Smash the construction of a new US-Japan joint 'missile defence system'! - No to the build-up of the US-Japan nuclear military alliance! - Smash the plan of the Japanese government to hold 'capabilities for attacking enemy bases'! [5] 'Stop the deployment of the Aegis Ashore system!' Militant students strived in a mass rally held near the planed cite in Yamaguchi September 30th
Oppose the strengthening of the US-Japan joint operational systems! The US-Japan joint landing exercise was conducted in civilian areas, Tanegashima Island, south of Kyushu! A headquarters for missile defence systems is to be set up in the suburbs of Tokyo Trump is intending to step up monitoring systems against China by linking US X-band radars [6] Denounce the local authorities for rejecting the recognition of a teacher's death as a 'death from overwork'! Topics Abe intends to revise the pension system; 'Payments to be started at the age of seventy' [7] From the printing labour front Create a resolute struggle against the Abe governments' reactionary offensives! -- The 68th convention of Zen'insoren [General Federation of Japan Printing and Publishing Workers' Unions] [8] Kaleidoscope - Abe's reshuffled cabinet for constitutional revision - Behind the Macedonian referendum: A n antipathy between the US / EU and Russia - Putin's mercenaries: A Russian private military company' is engaging in secret manoeuvres in Syria, in Ukraine and ... TOP |
