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No. 2935
(September 14th 2026 Issue)
| Come together for the 96th Zengakuren National Convention Stop Trump's war! Smash Putin's war! Shatter the Takaichi government's full-scale onslaught to revise the Constitution! Advance revolutionary antiwar struggles to break through the danger of the eruption of a World War! - Let us be ready to go into action this autumn - Solidify the significance and lessons learned from last spring's struggles - Let us make great strides in our revolutionary student movement [2] 'No to the surface-to-surface missile firing practice!' Workers, students and citizens held a protest rally, August 20th, Sapporo
(pic right) 'No to the live firing practice!' 'No to missile deployment!' Demonstration held in the broad avenue in Sapporo The land of Okinawa is severely contaminated with cancer-causing PFAS that is still being discharged by US forces Don't allow the US Forces to exact sacrifices from the toiling people of Okinawa! [3] Loudly trumpeting 'Japanese-style democracy' to restore militarist Japan Takaichi-led LDP's 'New Vision of the Party' - Planting of absolute obedience to the state in the minds of working people - Building of a warfare state amid the headlong confrontation between the US and China-Russia Contribution from a reader 84 years after the Cho-sei Coal Mine accident in Ube Never forget the former militarist Japan's crime of drafting Korean workers! [4] Merz-led Germany is rushing headlong to build the most powerful military machine in Europe - The military budget without a fixed limit; the draft system to be resumed - Workers in Germany! Crush the rampancy of AfD! Liven up antiwar struggles in solidarity with Ukrainian people! It's again working people who have to pay the price for the heat waves West European governments and monopoly capitals have changed their posture 'from green to munitions' [5] The report on the 93rd regular convention of the General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions 'Our trade union must take the lead in the anti-constitutional revision struggle!' Delegates' rage against the union leadership exploded - Denounce the Federation leadership for restraining itself in demanding higher wages! - Don't allow the parliamentalianist distortion of the struggle against the constitutional revision! [6] Messages from overseas to the 64th International Antiwar Assembly (2) - Tavini Huiraatira no te Ao Maohi - The Left Radical of Afghanistan (LRA) - The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) TOP |
No. 2934
(September 7th 2026 Issue)
| Screaming for the 'single greatest financial campaign ever marshalled in
history', the Trump administration is making a last-ditch attempt Let us deliver the coup de grace to Trump's war! - The administration virtually acknowledges its defeat in the aggression against Iran - The foolish emperor made little of Muslims' resistance and bonds The Ukrainian army is dealing heavy blows to the leading munitions distribution network that supports Putin's war Condemn Putin-led Russia's air bombings on Kyiv, Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine! [2] Kim Jon-un is making a frantic commitment to rescuing the Putin regime now driven into a fix - Don't allow the dispatching of additional 50,000 North Korean troops! - Putin has been driven into a corner by Ukrainian people's counteroffensive Resisting Russian forces' concentrated attacks Tough struggles of Ukrainian postal / delivery workers [3] Takaichi devoted herself to winning Modi over to her side to rebuild QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) The Indo-Japanese summit meeting on July 2nd - Enticing India to join an anti-China network - Agreement on cooperation in the military and the 'economic security' fields - Japanese monopoly capitalists are watching for a chance to make further inroads into India [4] The great earthquake that hit Kumamoto Denounce the Takaichi government that leaves the earthquake victims in the lurch! - The earthquake shook Kumamoto when residents were hit by a heat wave - The Takaichi government puts off support to disaster victims and lifesaving - Let's say no to the constitutional revision and the move to tighten security by exploiting the earthquake disaster! The explosion of the Aeon Mall Kumamoto The terrible disaster was caused by a crime committed by the Aeon management! [5] Small and medium businesses go bankrupt one after another in the Kansai Region A cross section of the result of the 2026 spring labour offensive Topics Distortion of the anti-constitutional revision struggle from the citizen-centred point of view The annual convention of Zenroren, a trade union national centre led by JCP [6] Messages from overseas to the 64th International Antiwar Assembly (1) - European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) - Die Linke, Germany TOP |
No. 2933
(August 31st 2026 Issue)
| Shatter the Takaichi government's attempt to reinforce the US-Japan nuclear military alliance and revise the Constitution! - Smash Takaichi's plot to 'review the three non-nuclear principles', which means to deploy US forces' tactical nuclear missiles in Japan! - Chinese and Russian rulers are colluding with each other to strengthen their military threat against Japan - The US Trump administration has started to 'review' its nuclear strategy - Stop the Takaichi government's rush for constitutional revisions and the military buildup!  15,000 protesters raised angry voices at the Takaichi government 'Stop the revision of the Constitution!' Militant students stood in the van August 19th, in front of the Diet Building (pic) The Tokyo Metropolitan area students fighting under the slogan 'anti-fascism' [2-3] International Antiwar Assemblies held in high spirits across the country August 2nd Antiwar cries raised in a 'state of war' Okinawa meeting in Urasoe  (pic) Participants vowed to fight back against the Takaichi government's all-out attack on the Henoko anti-base construction struggle and to advance antiwar, anti-base struggle in Okinawa (meeting in Urasoe, Okinawa) Workers and students resolved to move a step forward in antiwar, anti-constitutional revision struggles Hokuriku region meeting in Kanazawa  (pic) 'Never, ever allow the Takaichi government to revise the Constitution!' (meeting in Kanazawa) Create an explosive upsurge of revolutionary antiwar struggles! Tokai region meeting in Nagoya  (pic) A resolve confirmed among comrades to create a revolutionary antiwar upsurge in the Tokai region, a 'Mecca of munitions industry' (meeting in Nagoya) [4] Shatter Japan Post management's major restructuring based on the Midterm Management Plan! No to the merger and closing down of 500 bases for mail collection and delivery I. A structural reform in business based on the 'strategy for comprehensive distribution' II. No to the personnel retrenchment, involuntary redeployment and intensification of labour as a result of the reorganization of collection and delivery centres! III. Fight back against the imposition of severer collection and delivery setups assigned in the name of 'reworked plans'! IV. Denounce the JP Union leadership for cooperating fully with the management! Fight persistently to oppose the attempt to 'bring together the collection and delivery bases'! [5] Let us stop the revision of the constitution at all costs! Don't allow the neo-fascist Takaichi government to tighten state controls on education! The Education Workers Committee - Stop the launching of the initiative to revise the Constitution at any cost! - No to the making of the Japanese people the subjects of a warfare state! Don't allow the government to tighten state controls on education! - Let us stand against new statist, meritocratic education promoted inseparably with 'digital transformation in education' [6] Oppose the reinforcement of Self-Defense Force Reservists! An exemption law concerning 'civil service workers' side jobs' enacted In preparation for Japan's dispatch of troops to the Strait of Hormuz: Japanese military forces conducted a series of 'minesweeping operation' exercises TOP |
No. 2931-2932
(August 24th 2026 Issue)
| Break through the danger of the outbreak of a world war! The Keynote report to the Central Meeting of the 64th International Antiwar Assembly on August 2nd Stop Trump's war! Crush Putin's war! No to the revision of the Constitution by the Takaichi government! I. Wars are raging over the world today amid the 'new East-West confrontation' between the US vs. China-Russia A. The Trump Empire's military aggression against Iran B. Russia's aggression against Ukraine and Ukrainian people's resistance C. A hair-trigger situation mounting in East Asia D. The revision of the Constitution, a full-scale offensive launched by the Takaichi-led Japanese-type neo-fascist government E. The transformation of the structure of the contemporary world II. Let us pulverize Putin's war, Trump's war! A. Crush Russia's aggression against Ukraine! B. Smash US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran! C. Break through the danger of the outbreak of a world war amid the 'new East-West confrontation' between the US vs. China-Russia! III. Create an explosive upsurge in the struggle against the revision of the Constitution by overcoming the JCP-style 'protect the Constitution' movement! A. Denounce the JCP's parliamentalianist, citizen-centred distortion of struggles! B. The criminal nature of the JCP's policy of opposing the 'building of a warfare state' C. The anti-proletarian nature of the JCP-style 'protect the Constitution' movement! D. Shatter the bad revision of the Constitution aimed to restore 'militarist Japan' IV. Let us make our revolutionary antiwar struggle spread internationally! [5] Fight back against the destruction of the struggle against the Henoko base construction, an all-out attack launched by the Takaichi government! - Smash the fascistic repression of antiwar, anti-base struggles in Okinawa! - Stop the move to make Okinawa and the Southwest Islands a military fortress! - Let us fight back against the repression and create an uplift in the anti-constitutional revision, antiwar and anti-Ampo struggles! Workers, students and citizens gathered to oppose the base construction August 1st, Henoko, Okinawa
(pic right) 'No to the new US base construction in Henoko!' Protesters chanting slogans, with militant students in the van [6-7] Stop a thermonuclear war! International Antiwar Assemblies held across Japan August 2nd Firmly resolved to advance antiwar, anti-constitutional revision struggles Kansai region meeting in Osaka  (pic) 'Let us shatter the LDP-Ishin coalition government's all-out offensive, the revision of the Constitution' (meeting in Osaka) Foil the Takaichi government's attempt to turn Japan into a warfare state! Kyushu region meeting in Fukuoka Denounce the Takaichi government for leaving the victims of the Kumamoto earthquake in the lurch!  (pic) In spite of the big earthquake, workers and students gathered to stop the move to make Kyushu a military base against China (meeting in Fukuoka) Create a big upsurge of the revolutionary antiwar struggle! Hokkaido meeting in Sapporo  (pic) Workers and students from across Hokkaido consolidating their resolve to fight (meeting in Sapporo) [8] The wrath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Takaichi government is rushing into the annulment of Japan's 'three non-nuclear principles' The fifth year of Russia's aggression against Ukraine Condemn the lethal attacks by cornered Putin! Topics Labour leaders' bashing of the criticism of Defense of Japan Edited for Children TOP |
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