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No. 2874
(June 30th 2025 Issue)
| We denounce America's bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran! Condemn Israel's attacks on Palestine and Iran! Shatter Russia's aggression in Ukraine! Now is the time to rise up for antiwar struggles in solidarity with people all over the world! Let us rise in an antiwar struggle to break through the danger of the outbreak of a thermonuclear war! Down with the Ishiba-led Japanese government hugely expanding armaments and imposing poverty on working people! - Crush the regime assisted by major opposition parties in the name of 'surviving the crisis of the nation'! Create an explosive upsurge in the antiwar, anti-Ampo and politico-economic struggles! -- Gaining opposition parties over to its side, the Ishiba government bulldozed reactionary laws through the Diet in succession -- Definitely no to the boosting up of the prices of living necessaries! Don't allow the imposition of poverty on the toiling masses! -- Pulverize the attempts to expand armaments and tremendously strengthen the US-Japan military alliance! -- Denounce the JTUC leadership for underpinning the regime literally supported by all opposition parties! [2] Smash the machinations to revise the Constitution! The LDP, Komeito and three 'opposition' parties, including Ishin and Kokumin, have presented a 'draft framework' for revised provisions of the Constitution Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture Stop the setting up of new nuclear facilities by Kansai Electric Power Company [KEPCO]! [3] Faced with China's embargo on rare earths, Trump waved the white flag Imposing environmental damage on Chinese people, Beijing bureaucrats have got a 90 percent share in the world - The militarist empire was attacked at its 'Achilles tendon' by China - Untold hardships suffered by Chinese people behind the greedy competition over rare earths Military confrontation intensifying between the US-Japan vs. China, focussing on the South China Sea and the western Pacific - The Trump administration shouting the imminence of 'China's threats' - A multinational forces mainly made up of US and Japanese troops are consecutively conducting joint exercises - Chinese forces repeatedly conducting military manoeuvres to vie with US-Japanese forces [4] The offensive of the NTT management The introduction of a 'regional staff system' No more of low wages, temporary transfers, and intensification of labour! I. The ulterior motive of introducing a 'regional staff system' II. The deceitful nature of the 'interim measures attendant upon the switchover to the new system' III. Accuse the NTT Workers Union Western Headquarters of fully cooperating with the management in introducing the fraudulent 'new system of full-time employment'! [5] Series: Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Part 1 The prevalence of 'flexible part-time jobs' Don't let them use care workers as disposables! - Care workers driven to 'flexible part-time jobs' - The owners of nursing facilities are making the best use of 'flexible part-time jobs' - Care workers plunged into a state with no rights - The Ishiba government is intending to reduce even more social security expenses The introduction of 'AI agents' Workers are thrown out of their workplaces Topics The Ishiba government's 2025 'Big-Boned Policy' (for Economic and Fiscal Management and Structural Reform) and 'Growth Strategy' [6] Kaleidoscope 'We shall never forget the blood shed by our predecessors': the resentment of Panamanians towards the Trump administration The cunning of Xi Jinping: attempting to prevent a Hong Kong billionaire's sale of the right to run two ports on the Panama Canal Russia's 'deathnomics': Putin is buying the lives of ethnic minorities and poverty-stricken people with money TOP |
No. 2873
(June 23rd 2025 Issue)
| Rise in Workers and Students' United Actions! Crush Russia's aggression in Ukraine! Condemn Israel's genocide of Palestinians and armed attacks on Iran! Bring down the Ishiba-led Japanese government expanding armaments and imposing poverty on people! Let us fight resolutely by overcoming JCP-led opposition movements that have given up opposition to Ampo! Central Students' Orgburo I. The contemporary world engulfed in the horrors of war A. Netanyahu-led Israel has perpetrated massacres of Palestinians and armed attacks on Iran B. Putin-led Russia is frantic to expand its occupation areas, to attack whole towns in Ukraine C. An all-out confrontation between Trump-led America and Xi-led China D. The US-Europe-Japan vs. China-Russia: both sides are escalating build-ups of nuclear capacities to intensify military confrontation with each other II. The Ishiba-led government of Japan, a 'vassal state of the Trump empire', is dashing for the reinforcement of Ampo and a big military buildup A. A move to strengthen the US-Japan military alliance and build up Japan into a military power B. The critical situation of the established opposition movements and the endeavours of Zengakuren to break it through III. Let us create a nationwide explosive upsurge of revolutionary antiwar struggle! A. Crush Putin's war! B. Shatter Netanyahu's war! C. Stop the Ishiba government's reinforcement of Ampo and the gigantic military buildup! D. Down with the Ishiba government of Japanese-type neo-fascism! [4] Denounce the enactment of the law to convert the JSC (Science Council of Japan) into a corporation! Let us oppose the promotion of military research in universities! - Fight under the banner 'Antiwar, Anti-fascism' Say 'no' to Trump's repression against the people of Los Angeles by mobilizing armed forces! Denounce the crazy anti-immigrant witch hunt by the Trump administration! A big argument with Elon because ... A default risk creeping up on the Trump administration [5] One year after the introduction of 'Japanese type ride sharing' service Don't allow major ride sharing companies to use workers as disposables! - Ride sharing is spreading rapidly in Okinawa - 'Japanese type ride sharing' system that preys on workers Topics Keidanren's new president Tsutsui declares his intention to enjoin workers to sacrifice ever more [6] 'No to Japan's first long range missile launching exercise planned in Shizunai' Militant workers and students held an antiwar demonstration, Sapporo, May 24th  (pic) Voices of 'Smash Russia's aggression in Ukraine!' reverberated in Sapporo 'Stop the construction of a new US base!' Workers and students rose in Okinawa People's Action in Henoko, June 7th Militant students fought in the van under the banner of 'Anti-Ampo'  (pic) Fighting under the slogan 'Don't make Okinawa a military fortress!' Denounce the deployment of F-35A stealth fighters to be used for pre-emptive attacks in the SDF air base in Komatsu! Oppose the reinforcement of the Komatsu base as one for making sorties against China, Russia and North Korea! TOP |
No. 2872
(June 16th 2025 Issue)
| Condemn Russia's massive air raids on the whole land of Ukraine! Impeach Netanyahu for perpetrating terrible massacres of Palestinians in cahoots with Trump! [1-2] Xi Jinping is vying with Trump's plot to drive a wedge between China and Russia Sino-Russian summit talks on the '80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany' - Managed to obtain Russia's cooperation towards machinations to annex Taiwan - Building an 'anti-American united front' by taking advantage of Trump's tariffs - Expanding the export of war supplies disguised as supplies for civilian use - Denounce the Xi Jinping regime for supporting Putin's war! [2] Russia's wartime economy in jeopardy - A sharp decrease in oil income and the aggravation of a financial crisis - Inflation and shortage of consumer goods caused by the wartime economy - A shortage of labour power and the loss of techniques - Dependency on neo-Stalinist China [3] Accuse Putin of 'Russianizing' the occupied territories of Ukraine! - A Ukrainian woman journalist murdered after being tortured - Liquidation of the Ukrainian people's identity as a nation Stop the deployment of Ospreys in a new GSDF base in Saga in July! - Reject the establishment of a Japanese version of Marine Corps Aviation! - Oppose the building of a US-Japan joint pre-emptive attack system against China! [4] In the name of 'economic security', a revised law was passed to support Rapidus, a government-controlled semiconductor manufacturer No to the scattering of Fukushima Daiichi's radioactively contaminated soil in public work sites across the country! [5] Reports from the labour front Local government authorities are sacrificing workers hired by the fiscal year The Ishiba government virtually permits increases in the number of workers employed in the guise of 'independent contractors' Topics Major community hospitals are going bankrupt; care service facilities are being closed one after another [6] Condemn the US marine's rape of a Japanese base worker in Okinawa! From a former US base worker to the reader of Kaihoh - One sexual assault case after another by American soldiers - Never ever cover up the incident! Resolutely create struggles to remove all bases, to repeal the US-Japan Security Treaty! Impeach the LDP Diet member Nishida of his insults at the memorial exhibition of the Himeyuri (Star Lily) Corps, a unit of field hospital student nurses, who died in Okinawa in the final stages of the Second World War! - Denounce the Ishiba government and the LDP for abhorrently attacking Okinawan people's peace education and antiwar movement! - Don't let them consecrate the war of erstwhile Japanese militarism! Let us oppose the move to make Okinawa a military fortress! What's going on behind the scenes in the SDF base construction site in Mage-shima in the Southwest Islands? TOP |
No. 2871
(June 9th 2025 Issue)
| Block the bad revision of the Labour Standards Law! Don't allow the Ishiba government to remove the minimum legal standards of working conditions! - The government and the monopoly bourgeoisie manoeuvring to emasculate the Labour Standards Law - The government and the ruling class scheming for removing the minimum legal standards and destroying trade unions - Don't allow the established union leaderships to distort the struggle against the revision! [2] No to the restart of reactor operations in Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station! The Nuclear Disaster Prevention Council's 'evacuation plan' was put together in a hit-or-miss manner - The governor of Niigata Prefecture is watching for a chance for 'giving approval' to the resumption No to the construction of a 'radioactive waste' disposal plant in Suttsu and Kamoenai! The desktop research report put together by NUMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization) is horribly tricky - Totally disregarding the danger of a massive earthquake caused by active faults - Don't let them proceed to the next step of 'general research' [3] Kaleidoscope 2025 Beijing bureaucrats' headlong rush at manufacturing robot soldiers A lethal weapons fair in Japan Taiwan to be guarded with drones Xi Jinping's plan of unmanned troops [4] Trump has embarked on saving Boeing now struggling to get through financial difficulty The IG Metal leadership accepted Volkswagen's 35,000 redundancies [5] Postal workers' 2025 spring labour offensive Let's not give approval to our union leadership's agreement on the ultra low compromise figures! Denounce the JP Union leadership for giving full cooperation to the management's massive restructuring! The Postal Workers Committee of the JRCL - Denounce the union leaders for making a compromise on derisory pay offers! Condemn them for having been immersed in labour-management consultations! - Shatter the offensives of dismissals, reshuffling and labour intensification with the united power of workers! - Frustrate the attempts of the Ishiba government to expand military capacity, strengthen Ampo and revise the Constitution of Japan! Smash Putin's war! Let us fight in solidarity with the workers of Ukraine! Topics Panic-stricken at Trump's tariffs: Japanese steel industry capitalists are suspending one blast furnace operation after another [6] Learning from Comrade Wakahara's exchange of thoughts with Ukrainian leftists On reading Wakahara's article (published in The Communist No. 332) - Making myself immanent in Ukrainian Marxists - To make Marxism indigenous The misery of 'data workers' Workers of the Global South are treated as 'disposable workers' for the development of AI TOP |