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No. 2885
(September 15th 2025 Issue)
| Chinese, Russian and North Korean rulers plunging into stronger collusion
'against America' China's military parade on the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japanese aggression Denounce the Xi Jinping leadership for supporting Russia's aggression in Ukraine! The Beijing bureaucrats hell-bent on pulling through troubles from within and without No to the extensive deployment of long-range missiles over the country! - Oppose the making of a military fortress out of Okinawa and Kyushu! - Don't allow the reinforcement of the US-Japan joint pre-emptive attack system against China! [2] Stop the US-Japan joint military exercise Resolute Dragon 25! Production of suicide drones enormously increased by Putin-led Russia By deceitfully recruiting and abusing female workers from Africa [3] Layoffs for the introduction of AI to invest in AI development The meaning of the mass dismissal in Microsoft - The replacement of technical workers with generative AI No to the resumption of operation of reactor No. 6 in the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station! [4] The inspection operations of sewer conduits in Gyoda City Denounce the fatal accident that took the lives of four workers! Condemn the LDP government for neglecting the maintenance of ageing sewer conduits! From a reader I've made up my mind to fight with my fellow readers of Kaihoh [5] 80 years after WWII No to military buildups! No to the revision of the Constitution! Let us oppose the promotion of nationalist education! The Education Workers Committee - No to the glorification of the ultra reactionary Imperial Rescript on Education! - Oppose the new form of meritocratic education based on the active use of information and communication technology! - Denounce the still worse revision of the notorious law that 'entrenches' teachers' overtime without pay! We definitely oppose the tightening of personnel management! - Raise our voices for antiwar / peace movements from our work place of education! Topics Zenroren sponsors a 'gathering of union members': a desperate attempt to break the impasse threatening the existence of its organization [6] Messages from overseas to the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly (3) - News and Letters Committees - Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation - Iosif Abramson, Russian Communist Wokers Party - Iosu Del Moral, Spanish Section of the Forth International - The Left Radical of Afghanistan TOP |
No. 2884
(September 8th 2025 Issue)
| Condemn Russia's massive air raids on Kyiv, massacres of people! Denounce the homicidal monster Netanyahu's bombardment on a hospital! Stop him from starving the people of Gaza to death! - Stop imposing famine and starvation! - No to the crazy operation to gain control of Gaza City! [1-2] 'King' Trump is hell-bent on reorganizing the US into a state under the President's arbitrary rule - Launching an all-out attack to 'sweep away liberals' - Stand up against Trump, against fascism [2] Trump the tyrant gives a command to accelerate the development and active use of artificial intelligence The brain drain from the US By massively purging researchers and scientists from public office, Trump has dug his own grave [3] 'No to Resolute Dragon, the the SDF's joint exercise with US Marines!' Stop the training in the use of US forces' intermediate-range ballistic missile launcher in the US Iwakuni Base! Excessive inter-enterprise competition inside China The solar battery industry is mired in overcompetition The 'state of New Caledonia' Macron's deceitful recognition of a 'state within a state' [4] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Part 4 100 years after the enactment of the Maintenance of the Public Order Act Trade unions and left organizations suppressed brutally to wage war My memory of an air strike Major air raids on the whole of Japan [5] Let us fight for a militant upsurge of the autumnal wage offensive! Rise in antiwar struggles despite suppression by the JTUC leadership! The Prefectural / Municipal Workers Committee - Let's say 'No' to the strengthening of the neo-fascist ruling system! - Stop the massive military buildup and the revision of the Constitution! - Let us fight in solidarity with workers and the toiling masses struggling against the increased cost of living! - Shatter Putin's war! Smash Netanyahu's war! Topics JTUC Chairwoman Yoshino presses the Constitutional Democrats and the Kokumin to merge [6] Messages from overseas to the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly (2) - Tavini Huiraatira no te Ao Maohi - The Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International / FLTI - Исайчиков Виктор Фёдорович, Marxist Platform, Russia TOP |
No. 2883
(September 1st 2025 Issue)
| Condemn Russia's indiscriminate, massive attacks on Ukraine! Crush an attempt to carve up and seize Ukraine based on collusion between the US and Russia! - Ukrainian and European leaders resistant to the US-Russian collusion - Driven by a fear of Russian invasion, European leaders stuck together - Shatter an attempt to carve up and seize Ukraine! Liven up struggles to crush Putin's war! [2] Condemn the Kim Jon-un regime for getting more and more involved in the war of aggression against Ukraine! - Kim promised Putin to send 30,000 more troops - Sacrificing the lives of North Korean people for the survival of Kim's nepotist regime Poetry Together with workers of the world Nippon Steel made US Steel its wholly-owned subsidiary Desperately seeking to survive by becoming a 'global company' [3] Antiwar assemblies were completely successful August 3rd The Okinawa assembly Urasoe Antiwar battle cries from the islands of military bases against China  The Hokuriku assembly Kanazawa Break through the danger of a thermonuclear war!  [4-5] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Part 3 Crimes of Stalin's USSR Entry into war with Japan: expansion of territories and promiscuous massacre of people Long-term detention of 600,000 Japanese war prisoners in freezing cold Siberia [5] Toyota Don't allow the drastic change in the personnel and wage system! - The widening of range in the bonus-related evaluation - The evaluation of skill-demonstration and the pay system on this basis to be abolished - Don't allow the reworking of the personnel and wage system of skilled jobs! Topics Denounce the JTUC leadership for suppressing antiwar / peace movements and anti-constitutional revision movements! [6] Messages from overseas to the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly (1) - European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) - Jim Smith, Revolutionary Marxists in Britain - Fourth International Programmatic Tendency - greek section of the Fourth International (TPT-"4") - Union Pacifiste de France - All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions (APFUTU) TOP |
No. 2881-2882
(August 25th 2025 Issue)
| No to the carve-up and seizure of Ukraine based on collusion between the US and Russia! The meaning of the US-Russian summit meeting 80 years after the Second World War Break through the danger of the outbreak of a thermonuclear war! - Definitely NO to competition between the US vs. China-Russia over the strengthening of nuclear capabilities! - Prevent warfare from breaking out in East Asia! [2] What prevents ending of war? Two main problems Vitaliy Dudin Problem 1 - Pseudo-pacifism among Western progressive forces Problem 2 - The Ukrainian state's inability to put the public interest over market interests Condemn the genocide by the Zionist regime against the Palestinians in Gaza! [3] 'Stop the construction of a new US base in Henoko!' Workers and students staged a protest in front of the Camp Schwab gate August 2nd, Henoko, Okinawa
ASDF's training exercise for attacking Chinese aircraft carriers The Ishiba government heading straight for the buildup of a preemptive attack system A psychological war over 'backdoors' between the US and China Attack and defense intensifying over semiconductors for AI [4-5] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Part 2 The truth of the Kume-jima Massacre: in the final stage of the Battle of Okinawa, June - August, 1945 We'll never allow the government to conceal the mass slaughter of islanders by the Japanese military! The Great Tokyo Air Raid by the US military: March 10, 1945 The genocidal massacre of 100,000 people in one night Colonial rule over Korea: the crime of Japanese imperialism Hell-bent on exterminating the Korean nation and repressing their revolts Unit 731, a 'unit of the Devil' in Manchuria Dropping of bacteriological bombs on Chinese people; repeated experiments on living human subjects: atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army [6-7] Antiwar assemblies held across the country Aug. 3rd Stop a thermonuclear war! Cries rose up The Hokkaido assembly Sapporo Crush Putin's war!  The Tokai assembly Nagoya Resolves renewed to stop a world war breaking out  The Kansai assembly Osaka Down with the neo-fascist government!  The Kyushu assembly Fukuoka Don't make the Kyushu region a military fortress!  [8] Series: Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Part 6 Postal workers Win a big, across-the-board wage raise and a drastic improvement in working conditions for delivery workers! - Deceptions in the so-called 'pay improvement' of workers of the 'general position' - Unscrupulous intensification of labour due to the vacancies in the staff Topics The Zenroren chairman, a JCP-affiliate, self-betrayed his abandonment of antiwar, peace movement TOP |
No. 2880
(August 11th 2025 Issue)
| International Antiwar Assemblies uplifted August 3rd
Crush Russia's aggression against Ukraine! Condemn the genocide of the Palestinians! A foothold created to prevent a nuclear war Let us prevent a world war from breaking out!: keynote address Crush Putin's war! Smash Netanyahu's war! This '21st century world of darkness': its structural characteristics and historical grounds Messages of solidarity from abroad Determinations to fight expressed by a worker and a student comrades Zengakuren's struggle to advance a revolutionary antiwar struggle despite repression: a report from the chief secretary [2] Today, a century after the infamous legislation of the Maintenance of the Public Order Act The rise of anti-communist fascists: crying out for the crackdown on those who 'change the national polity' [3] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Part 1 The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the worst-ever crimes in human history committed in the 20th century Ushering in the armaments race between the US and the USSR The war of aggression against China and other Asian countries that killed 20 million people A great crime committed by the Japanese militarist power [4-5] The strategy of the Trump empire for AI supremacy Competition intensifies between the US and China over the development of Generative AI A. Trump's AI Action Plan aimed to 'win the competition with China B. Running wild in the name of 'accelerating innovation' C. An attempt to make US-made AI the 'global standard' D. Competition over the development of Generative AI, a life-or-death question for great powers E. Destruction of man and nature by the spread of artificial intelligence [5] No to the sacrificing of 'support to the handicapped people finding employment' Topics Buying out US Steel: a crafty scheme of Nippon Steel [6] Students' struggle in Kokugakuin University The self-governing committee and Students' general meeting realized A revolutionary executive body overwhelmingly trusted and reestablished 'Restoration' after 17 years' interval The Trump administration to deploy 'usable nukes' in England in preparation for war A pivot for integrating the vassal state's forces US forces' launch of JCT, or Japan Self-Defense Force Joint Operations Command Cooperation Team TOP |
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No. 2879
(August 4th 2025 Issue)
| Down with the power of Japanese-type neo-fascism with the united power of all the working-class people! The meaning of the House of Councilors election results and the tasks of the revolutionary left - A crushing defeat suffered by the ruling LDP-Komeito coalition and the rise of the 'Japanese first' party: its grounds - Shatter the rise of fascists who cry out for the expulsion of foreigners! - Build a battle front against fascism! [2] Zengakuren and antiwar workers fought against a US-Japan military exercise, part of the largest ever multilateral aerial manoeuvre REFORPAC [Resolute Force Pacific] July 22nd, at SDF Komatsu Air Base, Ishikawa Pref.  REFORPAC 2025 The US Air Force-led multilateral 'practical war game' conducted across the Pacific in preparation for a war against China [3] Joint appeal of the trade unions of Ukraine Kyiv 07 July 2025 Stop Russian terror, protect peace and justice - Russia continues to kill Ukrainian workers - The number of children killed and wounded by Russia has tripled this spring - Russia deliberately attacks schools and kindergartens - Russia kills rescuers - Russia continues to destroy medical facilities - Russia continues to destroy transport infrastructure - Russia continues its terror and genocide - Russia is violating international humanitarian law and core ILO conventions Denounce Putin's 'patriotic' education! Live firing practice is imposed on Russian youths as a compulsory subject [4-5] Japan Post Union 18th National Convention Over the bad revision of the personnel/wage systems and restructuring A storm of denunciation erupted against the leaders' full cooperation with the management - Union members' anger burst out over the 'roll-calling issue': management is shifting the blame on to workers - Denounce the union leadership for totally abandoning wage struggles! - Denunciation also made over the leadership's full cooperation with the management on the bad revision of the personnel/wage systems in the name of the 'vision of the future' - With the participation of a labour delegation from Ukraine, postal workers were convinced of their firm solidarity and unity with Ukrainian workers [5] Topics A crushing defeat in the recent election: Standing at the brink of the collapse of the party, the JCP leadership is upset The Ishiba government has launched out supporting the 'development of Japan-made AI technologies' [6] Condemn Israel's air strikes on Syria and its expansion of occupation! Condemn the genocide in Gaza! People all over the world! Besiege Netanyahu, today's Hitler, with rage! - The Netanyahu regime is hell-bent to hinder Syria from being restored - - A desperate attempt to evade losing its parliamentary majority - All Arabs in Syria and elsewhere! Go beyond religious sectarian strife and rise against Zionism, against US imperialism! TOP |
No. 2878
(July 28th 2025 Issue)
| Crush the revision of the Constitution and the massive arms buildup! The ruling LDP-Komeito coalition suffered a crushing defeat in the election: Now's the time to topple the Ishiba-led neo-fascist government! - An upheaval of the political ruling system has started - Build up a battle front 'against fascism'! Now is the time to create a big upsurge of antiwar struggles! - Demolish the Ishiba government's massive military buildup and the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! - Rise up for antiwar and politico-economic struggles! -- Condemn the genocide in Gaza! Shatter the aggression in Ukraine! [2] The Trump administration to legislate for cryptocurrencies called stable coins Dreaming of 'rebuilding' the global monetary system based on the US dollar as the key currency - The expansion of the 'renminbi settlement bloc' encroaching on the domain of the dollar - The stable coins pegged to Treasury bonds - A struggle for 'currency supremacy' in the 21st century [3] 'The whole land of Ukraine is our land'!! Putin laid bare again his greed to seize territory Russia's war sustainability is in a critical situation; its war-time economy is now bankrupt Don't allow the final decision to give the green light to the resumption of operation of Tomari nuclear reactor No. 3! [4] On the pretext of 'inappropriate way of taking roll calls', the transport ministry imposed an administrative penalty on Japan Post Denounce the management of Japan Post for shifting the blame onto workers! - The realities of the so-called 'inappropriate roll call' in collection and delivery sections - What is the essence of the 'inappropriate roll call' problem? - Denounce the JP union leadership for acquitting the JP management! Smash the exaction of sacrifices from workers! Workers are to be made to work more ruthlessly in their second jobs The Labour Ministry intends to make a bad revision of the Labour Standard Law by abolishing the extra pay system [5] Series: Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Part 4 We definitely say NO to the curtailment of working hours that means our wage cuts! A report on our struggle Topics The trade union starts demanding a 'periodic raising of passenger fares' The 2025 action plan of the General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions [6] Kaleidoscope An 'enthusiastic response' Trump's tariff acted as a helping hand to Myanmar's military junta Trump is supporting a lot, but ... Boeing: the symbol of the decline in American manufacturing industry Over the deployment of intermediate-range missiles: The US-Japan vs. China throwing off sparks in the western Pacific A hydrogen bomb submerged: A fact of 60 years ago revived by the Tokara Islands earthquakes TOP |
No. 2877
(July 21st 2025 Issue)
| The 63rd International Antiwar Assemblies August 3rd Tokyo, Sapporo, Kanazawa, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and Okinawa Break through the danger of a third world war, a thermonuclear war, breaking out! - Crush Putin's aggression in Ukraine! - Shatter Netanyahu's genocide of the Palestinian people! - Stave off the outbreak of war in East Asia! - 80 years after the end of WWII: Prevent a new world war! [2] Stop the SDF surface-to-surface missile shooting practice! Workers, students and citizens staged a rally and a demonstration June 20th, Sapporo
(pic right) Angry protesters' rally in Sapporo Militant workers rose up in protest at the shooting range June 24th, Shizunai  Antiwar workers protesting at the gate of the shooting range in Shizunai The eve of another world war The Ishiba-led LDP publicly promised to establish an 'antiespionage law' Don't allow the setting up of a system of oppression similar to the one under the notorious prewar Maintenance of the Public Order Act! [3] A ghetto in Palestine Crush Netanyahu's outrageous plan for detaining Gaza people! The introduction of generative AI into classrooms accelerates the 'loss of humanity' The Education Ministry's 'Guidelines' embody the intention of the monopoly bourgeoisie [4] NTT workers' struggle No to the intensification of labour in the name of the 'active involvement of all staff members'! - With the aim of making more profit, the management urges workers into increase in productivity - Denounce the NTT Union leadership for assisting the management! After the great earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula The misery of the elderly accommodated in temporary evacuation centres [5] Series: Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Part 4 Let us create a powerful labour movement from the workshop of the printing industry! Topics The deception of PM Ishiba's 'support measures for the wage raise of small and medium enterprises' [6] Kaleidoscope A terrible disaster in the Guadalupe River flood The crime of Trump who jabbers: 'global warming is a fake' A Novel Prize to Trump!? A precarious cease-fire between India and Pakistan, both aiming missiles at each other Prices continue rising this summer Deliver a powerful punch of anger on the government and capitalists who exact sacrifices from people! TOP |
No. 2876
(July 14th 2025 Issue)
| Militant workers and students staged a dauntless antiwar demonstration in the centre of Tokyo June 29th
on the Russian Embassy and on the Prime Minister's Office Condemn the US bombing raids on Iranian nuclear sites! - 'Denounce the nuclear-armed warmonger's state terrorism'!: solidarity rally - Let us advance a resolute struggle to crush Putin's war!: A JRCL comrade's address - Down with the Ishiba-led Japanese-type neo-fascist government! [6] Demonstrators bitterly denounced the US's bombing attacks on Iran Workers and students' united action in Hokkaido June 22nd. Sapporo
'Bring down the Ishiba government dashing to the military buildup! Protest action by Zengakuren Hokushin'etsu Region June 27th, Kanazawa  Militant students clenching their fists at the local LDP office We emphatically protest against the US's bombings of Iranian nuclear sites! Antiwar youths in Fukuoka fought in front of the US Consulate June 23rd, Fukuoka
[2] Absolutely NO to the deployment of GSDF Ospreys! Workers, citizens and students gathered to stop the opening of a GSDF post (pic below left) June 21st, Saga, Kyushu
[3] Shortage of rice and rise in its prices The LDP government is forcing the toiling masses to bear increased food expenses and hardships of life No to the participation of Maritime SDF warships in the 'port festas' in Kanazawa and Nanao! Two Chinese aircraft carrier fleets conducted an extensive manoeuvre in the western Pacific [4] Oppose the mass dismissals by the government-controlled LCD company Japan Display! Rapidus, a semiconductor manufacturer The government is pouring a huge amount of tax money into the support of a national policy corporation [5] Series: Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Part 3 No to the intensification of bus drivers' labour! Stop the strengthening of labour management! Topics JTUC chairwoman Yoshino presents an objection to making a consumption tax cut TOP |
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No. 2875
(July 7th 2025 Issue)
| Overseas Appeal for the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Crush Putin's war! Crush Netanyahu's war! Stop the outbreak of a world war with the united power of people across the world!
[2-3] Denounce the US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites! Militant actions across the country  Tokyo June 29thCrush Russia's aggression in Ukraine! Denounce the US-Israeli attacks on Iran! Condemn Israel's genocide against Palestinians! No to the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! Down with the Ishiba government! Zengakuren students and antiwar workers marching Okinawa June 22nd Marching through the downtown of Naha
Osaka June 22nd Closing in on the US Consulate General
Nagoya June 22nd Raising angry fists at the ruling party's prefectural headquarters
No to the US Marine's firing drills at the Yausubetsu field! Hundreds of workers and dairy farmers rose in protest Kushiro, Hokkaido, June 7th  [4] Don't allow Nissan to launch a major restructuring in the name of 'reconstruction' No to factory closures and the sacking of 20 thousand workers! [5] Series: Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Part 2 Non-regular postal workers Reorganization of regional sorting stations Let us fight back against the rejection to their contract renewals! Topics The '2025 agenda' of the Federation of Printing and Publishing Workers' Unions [6] An appalling 'gap' in medical service in the 'contemporarized socialist country of China' 'Commission of science and technology for defence' started Competition in the 'backyard' of the US The Colombian 'leftist' government participated in China's One Belt, One Road Initiative TOP |
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 |