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No. 2849
(December 16h 2024 Issue)
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JRCL public political meeting Dec. 1st - Emergence of a 'Trump Empire' and an all-out attack of the Ishiba-led government - Build an ideological = organizational bridgehead to radically overturn today's world covered with darkness Presentation of letters from a Ukrainian comrade and a movie  Resolves expressed by worker comrades - Hokuriku region: we denounced the government for abandoning disaster victims and strengthened our organization - A municipal worker: Let us break though the crisis of the declining labour movement in Japan Reports by student comrades: struggles to crush the destructive offensives against students' associations Denounce the Liberal Democratic Party government for causing a shortage of rice and skyrocketing rice prices! [3] Denounce Yoon Suk-yeol's declaration of martial law! Overthrow the government of the People's Power Party supported by the US-South Korea alliance! - 'Eradicate pro-North Korea, ant-national forces' (Yoon Suk-yeol) Denounce the Xi-led government of China for supporting the military junta in an impasse! Myanmar: A year after the Oct. 27th uprising US Space Force Japan launched US and Japanese rulers hell-bent on building up a joint military system for nuclear pre-emptive attacks [4] 'Common digital infrastructures for the state and localities' being built up by the LDP government Smash the attempt to strengthen the neo-fascist ruling system! [5] Prevent a bad revision of the personnel and salary system for public service workers! This year's Recommendation from the National Personnel Authority and its reactionary nature Immigrant 'technical trainees' killed and injured in frequent work-related accidents Don't exploit foreign workers like expendable objects! Topics The Ishiba government's 'comprehensive economic policies' to coerce the toiling masses into greater hardships TOP |
No. 2848
(December 9th 2024 Issue)
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Take a big step forward for antiwar struggles! - Denounce the JCP leadership's abandonment of struggles and fight under the banner 'No to the US-Japan military alliance'! - Let us promote the Ukraine antiwar struggle and the struggle to denounce the genocide in Gaza! [2] The 'festival of students' autonomy and culture' realized powerfully The 63rd Kagoshima University Festival November 15th-17th Moldova Buying votes and spreading disinformation: Putin-led Russia plotted for the overthrow of the present government [3] Monopoly capitalists are crying out for the 'maximum use of atomic energy' Keidanren presented a Basic Energy Plan, proposal to the government Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station Monopoly capitalists deceitfully justify Tepco's bankrupted '40-year plan for decommissioning reactors' [4] The anti-proletarian nature of the JCP leaders' argument for the 'increase in the amount of disposable time' On the so-called 'qualitative development in the movement over working hours' (A) A miserable setback in their policy of 'promoting increases in the amount of disposable time' (B) Petty bourgeois vulgarians' argument for the 'recovery of disposable time' (C) Their so-called 'movement for the increase in the amount of free time, which is adjacent to future society' [5] The Volkswagen management plans to sack scores of thousands of workers Metal workers' unions of Germany are braced for industrial action Topics 'Improve your company's ability to pass the jump in costs on to the product prices, or else quit your business'!? Nikkei Shimbun threatens small and medium companies in the name of reporting 'conditions for wage raises' [6] The twilight of the Intel Empire The US government and Pentagon try frantically to rescue the declining semiconductor manufacturer Chinese working people have been plunged into unprecedented unemployment and poverty TOP |
No. 2847
(December 2nd 2024 Issue)
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Fight for a militant upsurge in the - The JTUC leadership are directing unions to self-restrain their wage hike demands and to accept higher prices of living necessities - Let us fight to win a big, across-the-board wage raise! [2] 'Oppose the strengthening of the US military X-band radar site!' Militant students fought in the van of protesters November 10th, Kyotango, Kyoto
[3] Denounce the Kim Jong-un regime for participating and assisting in the war of aggression against Ukraine! - Entreated by Putin, Kim sent North Korean soldiers - The dispatch of troops is thoroughly concealed from the people of the country - Prevent a thermo-nuclear war from breaking out in the Korean Peninsula! The summit meeting of BRICS Rulers of emergent countries gathered in preparation for Trump's second presidency The Xi leadership of China hell-bent on winning emerging countries to its side - 'Enemies boarding the same boat' for the single point, 'Against higher tariffs and protectionism' - Putin the aggressor took advantage of his turn for the Chair [4] Postal workers Fight against the intensification of labour for the year-end and New Year period! [5] No to the imposition of long working hours and intensified labour on bus workers! Denounce the leadership of Shitetsu-soren [General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions] for fully cooperating with the managements under the banner 'Make the industry attractive' Harsh labour in TSMC factories for manufacturing advanced semi-conductors Topics A JTUC meeting for the spring labour offensive: critical remarks burst out against the Yoshino leadership [6] Chancay Port in Peru The Xi-led government of China embarked on the construction of a hub in South America for its One Belt One Road project Japan and Australia '2 plus 2' meeting Agreed to rally Pacific island states by the bait of aid for constructing communication infrastructures The Defence Ministry frantic to mobilize start-ups in a bid to recover from Japan's delay in developing military technologies TOP |
No. 2846
(November 25th 2024 Issue)
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Crush the Ishiba government's reinforcement of the - Strengthening the US-Japan-South Korea triangular alliance centring on the US-Japan nuclear military alliance - Let us fight dauntlessly by accusing the JCP leadership of its treacheries and degeneration! [2] 'Smash all the reactionary offensives taken by the Ishiba government!' Militant students called for opposition to US-Japan military alliance in a rally against the new US base construction November 2nd, Henoko, Okinawa  One antiwar event presented after another Students realized the festival of their 'autonomy and culture' The Wakagi [Sapling] Festival in Kokugakuin University Tokyo, November 2nd-4th [3] 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 unjustifiable police search of those students' apartments! Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) JRCL and Zengakuren jointly held a press conference to fight back November 13th 'Denounce the unjustifiable police search!' Voices of indignation being raised on campuses [4] US-Japan joint field training exercises Keen Sword 25 Pulverize the scheme to make civilian airports 'paramilitary bases'! An SDF Osprey crash in Yonaguni Island Don't make the Sakishima Islands, Japan's westernmost archipelago, a military fortress against China! 'Give me back my husband, my son!' Russian people continuing to fight despite Putin's repression The symbol of the seizure of territory Statues of Stalin are being built in many places in Russia [5] Wajima City in the Noto Peninsula Taking advantage of the 'double disaster', the municipal authorities plan to merge and scrap elementary schools Sharp Corporation: A liquid crystal panel factory in Sakai closed Denounce the dismissal and redeployment of all 800 employees! Topics Monopoly capitalists are crying out for wage restraint and the raising of prices Keidanren's 2025 Labour Management Report (draft) [6] The International Event on 'Revolutionary Marxism and War' held in Buenos Aires, November 2nd The working class-based solidarity spreading and deepening all over the world Shatter Russia's aggression in Ukraine! Condemn the genocide of Palestinians! - The JRCL-RMF sent a message of solidarity to the Event - The Social Movement of Ukraine sent greetings to the Event - JRCL received a mail of thanks from the FLTI as an initiator of the Event TOP |
No. 2845
(November 18th 2024 Issue)
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Rally to the This is the time to uplift antiwar struggles! - The US Presidential election and its meaning - The American state transforming: the emergence of a 'Trump empire' -- Arrogantly pushing through 'America First' - The collapse of the militarist empire as the 'sole superpower' and its root cause - Let us fight for a radical overturn of the present world in a deepening crisis! [3] 'Let us stop the Ishiba-led government launching reactionary offensives!'  Antiwar and anti-constitutional revision voices raised upA mass rally in front of the Diet building, November 3rd - 'Prevent military build-up and constitutional revision! No to the strengthening of the military alliance!' JRCL encouraged the participants - 'Constitutional revision becomes less likely' The JCP leadership with no sense of crisis to the situation - Break the JTUC leadership's oppression of mass struggles and the JCP leadership's distortion of the struggles! Let us fight in unity! 'No to the military alliance! Stop the revision of the Constittion!' A 'Rally for the Constitution' in Kanazawa, November 3rd The JRCL inspired the participants  [4-5] Vehement counterattacks against the Ishiba government promoting military build-up and the constitutional revision! Osaka The united actions of workers and students in the Kansai Region November 2nd Raising yells in anger in front of the US Consulate General
Fukuoka The united actions of workers and students in the Kyushu Region November 3rd 'Don't make the Southeast Islands a military fortress!'
Sapporo The united actions of workers and students in the Hokkaido Region November 3rd White-helmeted protesters marching on the LDP's regional office
Nagoya The united actions of workers and students in the Tokai Region November 2nd Raising angry fists at the local LDP office
[6] Sakai Moving Service Co. Defrauding workers of overtime pay under the guise of a 'piece-work system' 'Grants-in-aid to human resources development': Companies' illegal receipt revealed Training companies profiting from the government's measures for 're-skilling' Topics The Yoshino leadership of the JTUC pressing workers to accept price hikes and the restraint of wage raise TOP |
No. 2844
(November 11th 2024 Issue)
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Stop the Ishiba government's rush to expand armaments and - The JTUC leadership schemes to form a political force that supports the 'strengthening of Ampo [US-Japan military alliance]' and 'promotion of nuclear power generation' - The JCP leadership now on the point of collapse: Let us deliver a hard blow to them! - Create a militant upsurge in the antiwar, anti-Ampo, anti-constitutional revision struggles, wage hike struggles and politico-economic struggles! [2] Small / medium-sized manufacturers are mobilized for military production [3] Stop the planned construction of an intermediate storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture! The devastating earthquake, followed by torrential downpours The Noto Peninsula visited by a 'complex disaster' - Catastrophic landslide disasters: brought about by central and local authorities' abandonment of restoration work after the earthquake [4] Haruki Wada, a historian taken in by Putin The criminal nature of his argument 'for an immediate cease-fire in the war in Ukraine' - 'A cease-fire in any case! You had better hear also what Russia has to say' - The deceitful nature of his argument 'for an immediate cease-fire' - Praising Putin, justifying his invasion - Wada is won over by the FSB [5] The 98th convention of Jichiro [All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union] Criticisms burst out against the JTUC leadership's suppression of antiwar, peace struggles Let us fight militantly for the upsurge of the local government workers' autumnal wage struggles! Topics The Yoshino-headed JTUC leadership cries out for the formation of a 'new nucleus of political power' [6] No to the US-Japan joint exercises Keen Sword 25! Protesters gathered to stop the unloading of SDF vehicles October 19th, Naka-gusuku Gulf Port, Okinawa  (pic above) 'Smash the strengthening of Ampo!' Ryukyu Univ. and Okinawa Int'l Univ. students appealed to workers and residents 'No to the joint exercises!' Angry workers and militant students raised clenched fists at the SDF Komatsu air base October 28th, the early morning rally at the base, Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture (pic below)  A US commander openly declares a planned operation to attack Chinese forces with unmanned vehicles A Big Tech company plans to aid the restart of a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor once closed TOP |
No. 2843
(November 4th Issue)
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Shatter all the offensives launched by the - Power strife within the LDP intensified after the general election - Moves towards new grand political realignment accelerated amid the global turbulence - Let us fight to break the danger of extinction of the Japanese labour movement and promote antiwar, anti-constitutional revision struggles and politico-economic struggles! [2] Oppose the Keen Sword 25, preliminary exercises for war against China South China Sea Frequent attacks by Chinese coastguard ships on Philippine and Vietnamese vessels [3] The Defense Innovation Science and Technology Institute Don't allow the government to mobilize universities and researchers for developing high-tech weapons! The joint development of next-generation fighters promoted by the Japanese, UK and Italian governments under the control of US imperialism [4] The 91st National Convention of Shitetsu-soren [Japan General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers’ Unions] Denounce the leadership for pressing its affiliated unions to yield to wage cuts and restructuring in the name of 'making the industry attractive'! [5] Boeing workers' strike Unions launched an indefinite strike for a 40% wage raise - Rejecting offers from the management three times - Workers are fighting on, not allowing the IAM leadership to make treacherous submissions - A militant upsurge in the American labour movement Topics The JTUC leadership justifies its self-restrained demands in the name of a 'sustainable wage raise' [6] Kaleidoscope Sri Lanka in turmoil No more 'trap of debt'! Vietnam's omni-directional diplomacy: friendly to both China and the US Kashmir Modi-led party's landslide defeat in the regional election TOP |
No. 2842
(October 28th 2024 Issue)
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Shatter Netanyahu's war! - Stop the attack on Iran, escalation of warmongering in all parts of the Middle East! - Let us fight in solidarity with Palestinians and other people in the Middle East who are struggling desperately to resist - Stand up and fight against Putin's war! [2] A hair-trigger situation off the northern edge of Hokkaido A flare launched at a Russian patrol aircraft by an ASDF fighter The Tumen River: China's new military base to be set up near the coast of the Japan Sea? Poetry Make this 21st century a century of revolution [3] Condemnations against the government and prefectural authorities for abandoning disaster victims in the Noto Peninsula Miseries of workers in northern Noto: hit over again by an crushing calamity 'Temporary housing' for quake victims, built in a hazard zone, got submerged by torrential rain [4] JEIU [Japanese Electrical, Electronic and Information Unions] A rush for an Industrial Patriotic movement that touts 'solution of social problems and the development of the industry' Criticism of the 2024-2025 plan of action I. Labour aristocrats emphasizing the building of a 'new movement and system of organization' II. An aspiration for the development of the electrical industry and the revival of the Japanese economy III. The JEIU bureaucracy is hell-bent for today's version of the Industrial Patriotic movement [5] Sharp increase in the number of 'spot workers' or pay-as-you-go workers Don't dispose of workers freely! Topics '5 per cent and more': The JTUC leadership again restrains wage increase demands for the 2025 spring labour offensive [6] 'Don't allow the Ishiba government to strengthen the US-Japan military alliance and the constitutional revision!' Workers and residents gathering together to oppose the new US base construction October 5th  (pic) Ryukyu Univ. and Okinawa Int'l Univ. students fought in the van 'No to the construction of a powder magazine in Satsuma Town!' Workers and citizens' antiwar rally in front of Kagoshima station October 13th
'Crush the constitutional revision!' 'Smash the military expansion!' JRCL appealed to the citizens of Kanazawa October 11th  TOP |
No. 2841
(October 21st 2024 Issue)
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A vehement outcry raised
- Smash all the reactionary offensives mounted by the Ishiba government!: solidarity rally prior to the demonstration - 'Break through the danger of the outbreak of a Third World War!': a comrade speaking for the JRCL - Let us all strive to create an explosive upsurge in the anti-constitutional revision, antiwar / anti-Ampo struggles and in the struggle against fascism! [2] Don't allow the deployment of US Army intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Japan! The launch of Defense Innovation Science and Technology Institute The LDP government is intent on promoting military-technological development in the form of cooperation between the military, industrial enterprises and universities [3] Stop the restart of and construction of new / additional nuclear reactors by the new government led by Shigeru Ishiba! Suspend and scrap all nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel cycle facilities immediately! Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No.2 The 'experimental attempt to take out nuclear fuel debris' failed [4] An inexcusable crime The JCP leadership approves of Russia's aggression in Ukraine - A proposal for 'peace talks' that presses Ukraine to surrender - Faced with the JRCL's criticism, it made a crafty modification - Denounce the JCP leadership for acquitting Putin the aggressor All the commotion about the expulsion of the adherents of a former right-leaned party leader aggravates the confusion inside the JCP [5] Year 2024 problem in physical distribution 'Higher efficiency in distribution' imposes harsh labour on transport workers Topics 2025 budget requests The Education and Finance Ministries to place heavier burdens upon education workers [6] Militants demonstrated with a fiery spirit against the government's move to make the whole Southwest Islands a military fortress Workers and students' united action in Okinawa, October 6th - Thwart the creation of an Asian version of NATO!: solidarity rally prior to the demonstration - 'Smash Putin's war!': a comrade speaking for the JRCL
Zengakuren Okinawa and Antiwar Workers Committee members marching through the main street in Naha The banner reads: "Definitely no to the new US base construction in Henoko! Stop the constitutional revision and the military buildup! Shatter Russia's aggression against Ukraine! Condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza!" (pic above right) Solidarity rally prior to the demonstration 'Don't allow the Ishiba government to launch ultra-reactionary offensives! 'No to War' Rally in Aichi, September 28th, Nagoya Overcoming JCP's distortion of struggles, militant workers fought in the rally In solidarity with them, JRCL distributed leaflets
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