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| The 64th International Antiwar Assemblies achieved August 2nd Stop Trump's war! Crush Putin's war! No to the revision of the Constitution by the Takaichi government! ![]() (pic) Workers and students made a resolve to fight (the central assembly, Tokyo) Break through the danger of the outbreak of a world war amid a new East-West confrontation!: keynote report - The revision of the Constitution: a full-scale offensive launched by the Takaichi-led Japanese-type neo-fascist government - Make great advances in the Ukraine antiwar struggle, in the Iran antiwar struggle! -- Create a big upsurge of struggles against the constitutional revision! -- Let us squarely confront Stalinism! Messages of solidarity from abroad A resolve to fight against the wars, against the constitutional revision expressed by a representative of the labour front A passionate declaration of Zengakuren's resolve to fight: Chairman Ariki ![]() (pic) 'We'll bring down the Takaichi government!' Aflame with a determination, workers and students chanting slogans in chorus 'Stop the revision of the Constitution! Down with the Takaichi government!' JRCL put up a signboard at the front of its head office building ![]() [3] The struggle of Kokugakuin University students The self-governing committee meeting and Students' general meeting realized A revolutionary executive body overwhelmingly trusted and reestablished Denounce the establishment of the National Intelligence Bureau! The Takaichi government is scheming to build up intelligence organizations of Japan as a vassal state - The US-Japan joint project of building up a system for conducting war and/or intelligence works - A plan to newly set up a foreign intelligence agency and the establishment of an antiespionage law [4] Reorganization into an 'Aerospace Self-Defense Force' No to the US-Japan's expansion of armaments into space in rivalry with China and Russia! - Building a surveillance and attack system in space by mobilizing JAXA [Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency] - A positive response to the Trump administration's military expansion in space Rice stocks are tending to skyrocket this year The Takaichi government is sacrificing rice farmers reduced to poverty [5] The Takaichi regime is crying out for a 'strong economy' Shatter the removal of restrictions on working hours! - Commanding to 'reconsider the uniform guidance by the Labour Standards Inspection Office' on the regulation of overtime hours -- The numbers of deaths from overwork, of mental/physical disorder increasing -- Accuse the JTUC labour aristocracy of their treacheries! A symposium held to oppose the Takaichi government's repression of peace education, July 17th, Sapporo JRCL called on participants to fight against the repression [6] What is the 'life-blood of capital'? - How important it is to understand subjectively and in a processual manner - 'The means of production make use of the worker': its economic-philosophical meaning - The overcoming of things petty bourgeois sticking in my mind - Learning from my comrades, supporting each other, creating unity with each other to fight - Seeking to abolish wage labour, that is, capital TOP |
| Stop the constitutional revision! No to the restoration of 'militarist Japan'! Down with the neo-fascist Takaichi government! Smash the US-Israeli armed aggression against Iran! Prevent Japan dispatching troops to the Strait of Hormuz! Pulverize Russia's military aggression against Ukraine! - Fight under the slogan 'antiwar, anti-Ampo and anti-fascism'! - Shatter the offensives that plunge working people into poverty! - Stop Trump-Netanyahu's war! Crush Putin's war! - Let us fight by overcoming the JCP-led opposition movement that abandons 'anti-Ampo'! [2] Voices of 'Bring down the Takaichi government!' echoed July 19th Militant workers and students fought in the van of the mass protest action around the Diet Building
(pic rigt) Protesters yelling in chorus towards the Diet Building [3] The JCP's policy 'against the constitutional revision': a parliamentalianist, citizen-centred fallacy Denounce their distortion of the struggle into a propaganda for 'peaceful diplomacy'! I. Sense of crisis lost about the revision of the Constitution II. Denounce their abandonment of opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! III. Praising Chinese and Russian rulers through the lens of the 'world's structural change' IV. A call for 'forming a majority of the nation' lacking in 'anti-fascism' [4] Reducing 'medical care for curing' and imposing extremely intensified labour on medical workers The 2026 revision of the remuneration covered by health insurance for medical treatment 1. Revision of medical fees designed for a major reorganization of the system for offering medical services 2. Intending to raise efficiency in nursing services 3. Realities of the intensified labour in hospitals for the 'advanced acute stage' 4. Along with struggles against the bad revision of social security systems, promote struggles against the revision of the Constitution, against wars and against Ampo! [5] Japan Post Union 19th National Convention Postal workers raised angry voices at the leadership immersed in a 'business salvation campaign' I. Discontent and anger burst out at the course of action proposed by the leadership II. Postal workers! Rise in struggles to stop the constitutional revision and bring down the Takaichi governement! [6] Neo-Stalinist China is making a frantic attempt to be a major nuclear power giant TOP |
| 'Stop the constitutional revision! Bring down the Takaichi government!' Students demonstrated in anger in the heart of Tokyo July 11th ![]() (pic) Denouncing the successive enactment of reactionary laws, militants raising their clenched fists towards the Diet Building - 'No to the US-Japan military alliance! Crush the Japanese type of neo-fascism!': solidarity rally held prior to the demonstration - Demonstrators clenched their fists at the Diet Building, the PM's Office, and the US Embassy
(pic right) A chorus of protest chants raised as marchers neared the US Embassy Denounce the establishment of a law to punish the act of 'damaging the national flag'! [2] Stop the constitutional revision! Down with the Takaichi government! A breath of militancy brought into the rally at Sapporo Station July 10th, Hokkaido
(pic right) The chorus of 'No to revision! Bring down Takaichi!' echoed around the station square Students from the Tokyo metropolitan area stood in the van 25,000 workers, citizens and students shouted 'No to constitutional revision! Bring down Takaichi!' Around the Diet Building, July 19th (Details will appear in next issue) ![]() (pic) 'No to the US-Japan military alliance!' Making their position clear, metropolitan area spirited students fought in the forefront of 25,000 protesters
(pic right) 'Topple the Takaichi gov't!' Students raising placards to inspire participants China's 'AI version of One Belt, One Road initiative' The US's 'supremacy over artificial intelligence' shaken [3] No to the government's expanded distribution of the pamphlet Defense of Japan Edited for Children to schools! Denounce the established union leaderships' abandonment of struggles and fight against the government's nationalistic reorganization of education! - The Defense Ministry starts to impose utilization of Defense of Japan on each school to instil children with consciousness for Japan's military buildup and strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance - The Defense Ministry is frantic to recruit new troops for Self-Defense Forces - Let us fight resolutely by denouncing the abandonment of struggles by the corrupt union leaderships! Prices spiralling out of control in the intense heat of summer Direct anger against the government and capitalists who are plunging toiling people into destitution! [4] Takaichi's policy of 'proactive finances' designed for the restoration of militarist Japan The reactionary nature of 'Sanae-nomics' revealed in the basic policy (draft) of the Council on Economy and Fiscal Policy [CEFP] A. Development of the dual-use technology industry led by the state B. A last-ditch attempt to revive Japan that has plunged into the final stage of capitalism - Random promotion of state-initiated 'investment on the growth industry' [5] Postal workers' struggle Fight against personnel retrenchment, rejection of the contract renewal of non-regular workers Tragic realities brought about by discretionary work systems [6] China 'Those who stand against "ethnic unity" are punished even abroad': Xi Jinping, the neo-Stalinist Denounce the Beijing regime's policy of obliterating ethnic minorities Beijing bureaucrats have set about digging a gigantic tunnel through the Himalayas Planned construction of hydroelectric power plants will surely cause a great deal of damage to the inhabitants of the lower reaches of the river TOP |
| Come together for the International Antiwar Assemblies on August 2nd! Crush Trump's war! Smash Putin's war! Break through the danger of a Third World War breaking out! - Let us denounce US imperialism for resuming attacks on Iran! - Condemn Putin's slaughtering of Ukrainian people! - Stop the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! Stop the turning of the whole land of Japan into a military fortress! No to military actions taken by China and Russia! - Create an explosive upsurge of antiwar / anti-Ampo, anti-fascist struggles and a struggle to stop constitutional revision! ![]() 27,000 rallied for a protest action in front of the Diet Building, June 10th Militant students rose in the van under the banner of 'anti-war, anti-Ampo, anti-fascism' [2] 'No to the new US base construction in Henoko! Stop the constitutional revision!' Ryukyu Univ. and Okinawa Int'l Univ. students fought vehemently in Henoko July 4th, Okinawa ![]() (pic) Boiling with rage at the government's repression, students, together with workers and citizens, clenched their fists 'Stop the constitutional revision! Bring down the Takaichi government!' Militant students held a demonstration in the main street of Kanazawa July 5th
(pic right) Solidarity rally prior to the demo [3] The Takaichi government accelerates the new construction / expansion of nuclear power plants and the development of new-type reactors - Numerical targets for the replacement of aging reactors presented by the Industry Ministry - The government's headlong plunge into the operation of an unfinished nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho Village - Making a dash for the US-Japan joint development / export of SMRs (small modular reactors) [4] EdTech [education technology] companies crowding around the 'digitization of education' Nihon Ishin, a genuine fascist party, and the Osaka Prefectural authorities go about destroying peace education, teachers' unions [5] A contribution by a reader Just sitting and doing nothing about the 'bad revision of the medical system' -- is this the 'right thing' for the union leadership? On reading a report by a certain medical union official (appeared in the April issue of The Economy) Topics The Takaichi government scrapped its own target: 'to achieve the minimum wage of 1,500 yen an hour by the 2020s' [6] The Takaichi government has started running full tilt towards forging a de facto military alliance with the Philippines 'We deal in secondhand weapons, too' The Takaichi government is accelerating arms export The banner of Flamingo 'Don't sell Albania by the piece to the Trump family!' - People have risen who have long been groaning under Stalinism and Capitalism TOP |
| Condemn Russia's air raids on Kyiv, slaughtering of Ukrainian people! Stop the revision of the Constitution! No to the sending of troops to the Strait of Hormuz! Down with the neo-fascist Takaichi government! Militants staged a spirited demonstration in Sapporo All-Hokkaido workers and students' united action, June 28th
(pic right) Militants raising cheers to fan their fighting spirit: solidarity rally [2] 'No to Resolute Dragon 26!' Protesters resolutely denounced the US-Japan joint military exercise Uruma, Okinawa, June 22nd ![]() (pic) Protesters expressing anger by raising fists at US White Beach Naval Base 'Stop the constitutional revision! Down with the Takaichi government!' Workers, students and citizens raised a war cry in a rally and demonstration Nagoya, June 19th ![]() (pic) Aichi Univ. and Nagoya Univ. students striving in the van to create a militant uplift in the rally Introduction of AI systems into command and control of the Self-Defence Forces under way [3] The Takaichi government feverishly launched out into establishing a production base for missiles and drones Chinese People's Liberation Army The purge of PLA leaders: conducted on an unprecedented scale Coercion to pledge absolute allegiance to Xi Jinping - Five Central Military Commission members purged out of seven - Intensification of intra-party / army strife [4] East Japan Railway Company Deterioration of technical ability in the field of maintenance and repair work What is disclosed by repeated 'power failure-related accidents' - Deterioration in technical ability on the part of on-site labour organizations as a result of outsourcing - The tradition of the 'struggle to secure driving safety' broken [5] The course of action submitted prior to the 93rd regular convention of the General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions No to the distortion of workers' movement into mere campaigns for 'creating an attractive transit industry', for demanding 'investment in people'! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Bring down the neo-fascist Takaichi government! I. Let us fight in opposition to the leadership that restrains our wage raise demands! II. Now is the time for trade unions to stand at the front of the struggle to stop the constitutional revision! [6] Learning from Comrade Wakahara's article (published in The Communist No. 332) What does it mean, to make Marxism 'indigenous'? Poetry Overturn the world covered in darkness! TOP |
| Overseas Appeal for the 64th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Stop Trump and Netanyahu's war! Shatter Putin's war! Break through the danger of the outbreak of a world war with the international unity of working people! The Executive Committee for the 64th International Antiwar Assembly I. The US and Israel's military attacks against Iran - Stop all the atrocities perpetrated on Palestinians II. Russia's aggression and Ukrainian people's resistance III. Transformation of the World Structure IV. Let us besiege the warmongers with the unity of the people of the world! See the full text [2] The Trump Administration hurrying to put military production on a war footing - The United States' stock of missiles is'exhausted' as a result of armed attacks on Iran - Trump claimed tremendous increase in the defense budget, instructed munitions monopolies to dramatically step up arms production - Car manufacturing monopolies also requested to expand their arms production The Trump administration imposing destitution and famine on Cuban people Don't allow US imperialism's invasion of Cuba! [3] A'Road Map for the Resuscitation of Japan's Shipbuilding Industry' : intended for the restoration of'militarist Japan' - Drastic doubling in the number of building ships, especially warships - Reorganization / integration of shipbuilding companies and building of state-run arsenals -- Exporting Japanese vessels to Asia-Pacific countries; expanding Japanese bases for the maintenance of US ships -- Don't let them exact sacrifices from workers! [4] For a militant promotion of electric workers' movement! Denounce the union leaderships' agreement on the ultra-low wage increase ! Condemn the labour aristocrats for distorting shunto into labour-management consultations aimed for a'virtuous circle of the economy'! 1. Labour aristocrats of the JEIC [Japanese Electrical, Electronic and Information Unions] justified the increase in pay differentials 2. No to their cooperation in the promotion of rationalization dependent on AI digitization! 3. Let us denounce all the treacheries of the labour aristocrats and rebuild a militant labour movement! [5] Hokkaido Let us oppose the abolition / reduction of regular route bus services, along with fare increases, by the managements of bus companies! - Workers and residents are undergoing destruction of the foundations of their livelihood - After suffering intensified labour, bus drivers are obliged to change jobs - Managements have ventured on the training of foreign bus drivers Topics The Takaichi-led neo-fascist government is plunging headlong towards the mobilization of workers in arms production [6] Revision of the 'three security-related documents' Bring to light the Takaichi government's intention! Part 3 The Takaichi-led LDP cries out for the'securing of war sustainability on a yearly basis' A'drastic bolstering of the defense industry' called for by the Takaichi government A dash for arms export and joint development with overseas companies TOP |
| No to the dispatch of Japanese troops to the Strait of Hormuz! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Down with the Takaichi government that pushes forward the constitutional revision, a gigantic arms buildup, oppressive rule and impoverishment on the toiling people! - Fight back against the authoritarian suppression of the anti-constitutional revision, antiwar struggles! - Stop the introduction of a neo-fascist constitution! Don't allow this country to be a military power! - Smash the aggression against Iran! Pulverize the aggression against Ukraine! - Create mighty struggles under the banner 'anti-Constitutional revision, antiwar / anti-Ampo [US-Japan military alliance] and anti-Takaichi government'!
Militant students calling on rally participants to oppose war, Ampo and fascism! [2] Stop the constitutional revision! No to the making of the Southwest Islands a military fortress!' 'Overthrow the Takaichi government!' Voices echoed Workers and students' united action in Okinawa June 14th - 'Spread our flames of passion against the constitutional revision, against war, against Ampo from the island of nuclear bases!': keynote address - Overturn the 21st century world plunged into darkness: a representative of the Marxist Student League ![]() (pic) 'Stop the constitutional revision! No to the aggression against Iran!' Militant workers and students raising a war cry, June 14th JRCL distributed leaflets among workers and citizens coming from across Kyushu to an anti-constitutional revision rally Sasebo, June 13th ![]() (pic) 'No to the turning of whole Kyushu into a military base!' Participants held a demonstration in the main street of Sasebo [3] Feature articles The constitutional revision at the word of Takaichi Deal a crushing blow to the attempts to reorganize Japan into a warfare state! 'Japanese style democracy' that accedes to the '2600 years of the Imperial reign'!? A line of long-range missiles held ready to attack across Japan A bad revision of the health care system sacrificing the underprivileged [4] The extremely reactionary nature of 'Sanae-nomics' Part 2 Takaichi's policy of 'proactive finances' designed to 'revive the militarist Japan' - What is meant by 'responsible proactive finances'? - The policy of 'increasing national prosperity and military strength' combined with the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance - A 'new industrial policy' to vie with China - 'While the nation becomes strong, its people vanish'!! [5] Series Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Postal workers' struggle No to the reduction in personnel and intensification of labour caused by the reorganization of bases for collection and delivery! Let us smash the offensive of rationalization with the unity of workers! JFE Steel What lies at the bottom of the crane accident in the ironworks in Kawasaki - Condemn the fatal falling accident that killed and injured five workers! - Sacrificed by the growth strategy of the JFE Steel [6] Kaleidoscope The revision of the Personal Data [Non-] Protection Law Tightening surveillance by making full use of AI All cockroaches, unite! Indian youths, struggling with difficulty in finding jobs, rose in indignation Tickets are 300,000,000 yen each!? 'World Cup soccer for the rich' mirrors class divisions visualized Tungsten shock Xi-led China blocks the narrow path of semiconductor manufacturing TOP |
| Feature articles The constitutional revision at the word of Takaichi Deal a crushing blow to the attempts to reorganize Japan into a warfare state! A frantic rush to the revision of the national referendum law, to the formulation of draft provisions of a revised Constitution The introduction of a state-of-emergency clause designed to invest the cabinet with full powers Destruction of Article 9: the total negation of Japan's 'renunciation of war' and 'non-possession of war potential' ![]() (pic) 'Stop the constitutional revision! Crush Ampo! Smash the aggression against Iran!' Okinawan workers and students held a heated rally on July 14th (Details will appear in next issue) [2] A plot to enact an antiespionage law, today's version of the repressive Maintenance of the Public Order Act Total removal of the ban on arms exports and a command to expand military production Arms sales to allied and partner countries Cooking up a 'crime of damaging the national flag'; with the aim of excluding 'unpatriotic people' Tanka Poems The Rising Sun flag, saturated with the blood of a soldier [3] The ultimate 'insider trade' Greedy Trump profiteering from the aggression against Iran A state-involved group fraud committed by the US government Subjected to a storm of criticism, the Anti-Weaponization Fund was obliged to withdraw, but instead... Stop the constitutional revision! Down with the Takaichi government!' JRCL distributed leaflets to workers and citizens at the station (pic below)Many protesters rallied at Sapporo station in solidarity with the action around the Diet Building in Tokyo May 29th, Sapporo, Hokkaido (pic left)''No to the constitutional revision' Workers, students and citizens raising voices in front of the station
[4] Accelerating yen's decline, accelerating inflation: Takaichi's policy forces toiling people to suffer destitution The extremely reactionary nature of 'Sanae-nomics': a commentary in dialogue - A terrible price rise and its cause - Why is it that the yen is continuing to fall? - Who makes profits with the yen's decline? - Those who are sacrificed are workers and people in the low income bracket - A policy to accelerate inflation reinforced with 'high-pressure economic theory' [5] Hyndai Motor, South Korea The trade union opposes the introduction of AI robots into the production line - The management is pushing forward with expanded production in the US - No to the South Korean government's criticism of the struggle of the Hyndai Union Topics Aggression against Iran, naphtha in short supply ... Don't allow the Takaichi government to impose poverty on working people! [6] Revision of the 'three security-related documents' Bring to light the Takaichi government's intention! Part 2 A 'picture of Hell' with the US-Japan joint use of drones -The anti-human nature of the 'building of asymmetric defense capacity' 'Strengthening of sea-lane defense on the side of the Pacific' The LDP's proposal to put the country on a war footing against China - Defense of the US main-force units coming from the US mainland Okinawa Rank-and-file JCP members are giving vent to their pent-up indignation against the Shii-Tamura leadership They have quite a bit of sympathy with the JRCL's anti-Ampo struggles Conscientious members of the JCP! Break away from your leadership and join with us in our struggle! TOP |
| Create a torrent of struggles to stop the revision of the Constitution! Denounce the labelling of peace education as a 'violation of the Fundamental Law of Education'! Frustrate all attempts to establish an antiespionage law! Bring down the ultra-reactionary Takaichi government! - No to the introduction of a state-of-emergency clause! Shatter the strengthening of repression against dissidents! - Don't allow the infusion of Japanese nationalism! - Stop the dispatch of the Japanese military to the Middle East! No to Japan's increase in arms exports! [1-2] Condemn the Netanyahu regime's bloody massacre of Lebanese! The fanatic Zionist is desperate to 'build Greater Israel' [2] 'We're determined to prevent the revision of the Constitution!' Antiwar Youth Committee in Fukuoka stood up, May 26th
(pic right) Appealing to workers, students and citizens in the busy street Don't allow the permanent deployment of US Army intermediate-range missiles in Japan! -The US and Japanese governments are to deploy US missiles in SDF Kanoya Base for a series of joint manoeuvres [3] Revision of the 'three security-related documents' Bring to light the Takaichi government's intention! Zealously advocating a 'drastic change to an AI-centred battle' - A sense of crisis: 'Japan's delay in the use of AI will lead to a fall in her combat strength' - To follow the road to a 'double suicide' with the falling militarist empire of America The 'AI staff' for the headquarters'? Fujitsu has launched the development of a military AI system - Tied up with Palantir Technologies, a munitions company soaked in the blood of Iranians - Sacrificing workers in favour of the survival of the ICT monopolies [4] The Xi Jinping regime hell-bent on AI development at the sacrifice of people's livelihood - A mad dash to AI development supported by the 'new type of whole nation ' - Dismissals / unemployment, surveillance of its people and environmental destruction [5] Kawasaki Heavy Industries Its worker, sent temporarily to another company in China, was driven into committing suicide from overwork - No to the bad revision of labour laws pushed forward by the Takaichi government! Rapidus The government is pouring another hefty amount of tax money into a national policy semiconductor manufacturer [6] Kaleidoscope Is this to defend the US dollar system? The Trump family's hard selling of crypto coins in Pakistan A 'nuclear umbrella' made in France The miniature de Gaulle is having his own way in the gap between Putin and Trump 'Shelters of the Japanese type'? The government plans to use private facilities to bring Japan into a warfare state TOP |
| Stop the revision of the Constitution! Down with the Takaichi government! Shatter the US-Israeli armed aggression against Iran! No to Japan's dispatch of troops to the Strait of Hormuz, its participation in the war! Crush the US-Japan Security Treaty! ![]() (pic) Anti-constitutional revision rally in front of the Diet Building, May 29th - No to the nullification of Article Nine of the Constitution! No to the introduction of a state-of-emergency clause! - Let us advance the Iran antiwar, the Ukraine antiwar struggles! - Let us put up a gigantic struggle against constitutional revision, against war / Ampo, against the Takaichi government! Denounce the enactment of the law to create a state intelligence council! [2] 'No to the constitutional revision! Stop the sending of troops to the Middle East!' Angry voices reverberated in the streets of Osaka All-Kansai workers and students' united action, May 24th
(pic right) Solidarity rally The Takaichi government promoting bloody military cooperation with Israel - Tie-ups among military high-tech enterprises - Building of military cooperation to introduce 'new methods of waging war' [3] Condemn the Takaichi government's designation of peace education as 'violation of the Fundamental Law of Education'! - No to the state control of education in the name of the 'political neutrality of education'! - Pulverize the ultra-reactionary offensive that lays bare a sinister design to restore 'militarist Japan'! - Let us fight resolutely by denouncing the leaderships of the Japan Teachers' Union and the All Japan Teachers and Staffs Union for totally neglecting counteroffensives! No to the revival of military titles used by the former Japanese military in the Self-Defense Forces! [4] No to the exclusion of many of the drugs from the list of those covered by insurance! Denounce the passage of the revised Health Insurance Law! [5] The 19th Convention of the Japan Post Union The union's acceptance of pay cuts in shunto forces workers into hardships of life Let us reject the leadership's compromise in 2026 shunto! Denounce the JP Union leadership for giving full cooperation to the management on restructuring and rationalizing measures! The Postal Workers Committee of the JRCL - Fight back against the wage cut offensive and the bad revision of the personnel / wage systems! - By condemning union leaders' full cooperation to the management, establish an unwavering plan of action against restructuring and rationalization! - By overcoming the union leadership's distortion of struggles, create, from our workplaces, a solid movement to prevent Japan's participation in the war and the constitutional revision! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Stop Japan's sending of troops to the Strait of Hormuz! Bring down the neo-fascist Takaichi government! [6] Zyuganov's 'defiance': an old Stalinist's scream 'To die of losing livelihood or to die of overwork...' The number of those who make a living with gigs exceeds 200 million in China Far right AfD: fanning anti-immigrant feelings and extending its influence to former West Germany TOP |