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No. 1740 (October 21st issue)

20 Oct. Demonstration
Stop the impending US attack on Iraq!
Smash the Emergency Bills! Stop Japan's participation in the war!
In solidarity with the working people all over the world
Burn flames of revolutionary antiwar struggle!

- The war-crazy Bush administration rushing to a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iraq
- The Koizumi government preparing to join in the war through the mass propaganda of chauvinistic nationalism
- Stop Anglo-American imperialism invading Iraq! Stop Japan's participation in the war!
Zengakuren protests against the Congress' war resolutions.
- In front of the US Embassy, 12 Oct.
[2]
The split-ridden Democratic Party of Japan in decline: confusions over the leadership
- The elected Hatoyama-Nakano leadership to support the Emergency Bills
- Rises of the younger right wing, and manoeuvres by the group from the former DSP
- Denounce the DPJ purifying itself as an assistant to wars!
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- Financial Minister Takenaka on the edge of a precipice: supports come only from Washington.
- A French tanker exploded in Yemen: too good timing.
- For Hussein, the Japanese model?: a US stupidity.
- New Defence Agency Chief Ishiba: nuts for the military with no experience of war.
[4] JRCL Central Students' Orgburo
Fight the October 20th Demonstration! Stop Anglo-American imperialism invading Iraq! Stop Japan joining in the war! Fight by transcending the official peace movement based on the illusion of the UN!
1. The US / UK aggression against Iraq impending and the international upsurge of opposition movements
- 'A new UN resolution' persistently insisted
- US imperialism rushing to a pre-emptive attack on Iraq
- Russia and China: a 'pragmatic' diplomacy
- The Koizumi government bent on enacting the Emergency Laws and war participation
- The international upsurge of opposition movements and the official Japanese peace movement in decline
2. Fight by transcending the JCP-led movement demanding a policy change to 'peace diplomacy'
- Expand our antiwar flames over the world!
[6]
Create a mass movement against the nation-wide network of resident registers [Juki Net] from municipal workplaces!
- No to the Big Brother system for controlling the people!
- The leadership of the municipal workers' unions trying to limit the opposition to demands 'for better condition'
Fight back against the wage-cut plan of the Kushu Postal Bureau!
- More intensified control of the personnel aimed
Topics 'Next spring offensive to be limit to the job issue': Rengo chair Sasamori declares the abandonment of wage struggle
[7]
Anti-US Arab nationalism surging up
- Explosion of 'anti-US, anti-Zionist' angers
- Pan-Arabism of power holders in Arab countries
- Hamas and its Islamic Arab nationalism
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No. 1739 (October 14th issue)

Stop Anglo-American Imperialism
Launching an Aggressive War on Iraq!
One Year after the Start of Bombings in Afghanistan:
JRCL Appeals to the World!

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Don't Attack Iraq! Zengakuren to demonstarte on 20 Oct.
- In Tokyo, Hokkaido , Kansai.
[2]
Stop US Force live firing drills! Zengakuren Hokkaido march on the targeted zone, 16 Sept.
- Protests waged in front of the gate.
Denounce the cover-ups of damages on nuclear facilities!
- Zengakuren students wage protests at the site, 30 Sept.
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- The Gold Dinar of Malaysia: recommended to be the Islamic common currency.
- The statetue of Dzierzynski to come back: Russian nationalism.
- SDF special squads for 'anti-terrorism operation': who is targeted?
- A Mitsubishi-built luxurious passenger boat burned in a mysterious fire: following the successive troubles on war planes.
[4] Postal Workers' Union (Zentei) National Convention
Denounce the labour aristocrats in Zentei for imposing 'devotion to the state and the service'!
- Full cooperation in the major restructuring in the postal service
- An active promotion of the industrial patriotic movement under the war-time order
- Dashes to a merge with a pro-ministerial union
[5]
Zentei Hokkaido Regional Convention decides against the Emergency Laws.
- No to the Laws! Delegates spoke one after another.
- Pressed from below, the leadership had to propose a resolution.
JR West to scrap company-owned houses for employees and built commercial-based condos
- A symbol of the plunder of workers' gains
- Denounce the rotten leaders of the pro-business trade union for helping the management!
[6]
The first dismissal of a teacher for a 'lack of aptitude': Sapporo City Board of Education
- Voices of protest erupted against the reactionary offensive
The achievement-based classification of pupils: the 'horse course' for 'the able', the 'tortoise course' for the other
- The selection of the elite
Topics The Mental Health Report: For selection.
[7]
Responding the questions about the translation of Stalinist Socialism
[8]
What I found at a quiet mountain during my hiking
- Low-flying drills of SDF fighter bombers every afternoon like a shave
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No. 1738 (October 7th issue)

Denounce the scandalous bargaining over the abductees
between rulers of Japan and North Korea!
Break the chauvinistic propaganda!
Denounce the SDPJ / JCP leadership for supporting the Koizumi's 'peace diplomacy'

- The JRCL denounces the state crime by the Stalinist state!
- Rulers of Japan and North Korea: for their survivals of crises
- The tragedy continue to arise from the new Cold War
20 Oct. United Actions against War
- Stop US pre-emptive nuclear strikes! Stop Japan from joining the war!
No to the Emergency Bills! Denounce Israel's military control of Palestine

[2]
Protests against SDF war vessels leaving for the Indian Ocean
- Zengakuren Kansai demonstrated in Kure, 17 Sept.
600 workers rallied against SDF war vessels entering the civilian port of Osaka, 20 Sept.
- JRCL propaganda inspired the participants.
What JCP delegates did not care in China
- Partocrats praising China's 'remarkable development'
[3]Kaleidoscope 2002
- Hate a terrorist, and the state will punish his family: Israel's double standard.
- Two Russian leaders: would-be de Gaulle.
- So the US is hated.
- A fictitious talk between Kim Jong Il and his father: 'What you're bowing for before Japanese imperialists!'
- Ubiquitous-computing society: a ubiquitous surveillance by the state.
[4] JCP line of labour movement
Degeneration into a 'labour movement' that accepts the mass restructuringorldCom and the US stock plunge (continued)
3. Fallacious theory on the 'course of development of labour movement'
- Acceptance of restructuring in the name of 'limited struggle'
- Tricks in the 'two windows' theory of the party's approaches to workers
- Following Rengo in the name of 'a new course of development'
- Mutation into 'a party loved by capitalists'
[5]
Think over not why the US is hated but how to be loved!
On an article by a Harvard's professor
- Like an infant: how he was shocked by the incident
- A 'pattern-based' way of thinking
- Inhuman nature of 'behavioural science'
- Give up the fucking Yankee values!
[6]
Smash the introduction of the 'assessment and training system for teachers' by Osaka Prefecture! Fight back in spite of oppressions by trade union leaders!
- Leaders in the teacher's union trying to cover up the news.
- The aim is to encourage a nationalist and talent-based way of education
- Never allow leaders to cooperate with the prefectural authorities
Subsidiaries of electric monopolies imposing 'voluntary retirements'
- Denounce the labour aristocrats helping the sackings
Topics Rengo central leadership abandons unified demands for higher wages
[7]
A notebook: with what impetus and how the JRCL theory of tactics for organizing labour movement was created (Continued)
2. To the theorization of the 'triple transcendence'
- The structure of the 'transcendence in theory'
- On the 'transcendence in organization'
- At last
Why? Secret JCP information made by police appeared in Chukakuha's paper.
- Drop-outs used for destroying labour movement
[8]
Listening to Bruce Springsteen's The Rising
- Voices of poor Americans heard
- The soul of a terrorist
- Some fine day

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No. 1737 (September 30th issue)

Stop US pre-emptive attacks on Iraq!
In solidarity with fighting people over the world,
create mass waves of antiwar struggles!

- US imperialism: rushing towards a military aggression without UN resolutions
- 'Peace offensives' engineered by Russia and China against the 'sole super power'
- The Kim Jong Il government resorting to its last trick: the first summit between North Korea and Japan
- The Koizumi government dependent on a 'dialogue-based' line adopted by moderates within the US administration
- Stop Bush! Stop bloodthirsty warmongers!
[2]
Report: No to live firing drills in Hokkaido by US Marines from Okinawa!
- 3000 workers demonstrated through the local town; Zengakuren Hokkaido inspired the rally called by Rengo and farmers' organizations, 8 Sept.
- Zengakuren students protested against the arrival of Marines, 9 Sept.
- Zengakuren students struggled for 7 hours at a local port to stop discharges of the shrapnel, 10 Sept.
Kim Jong Il's last trick for survival
- Economic devastation in North Korea
- A price for the trick
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- N. Korea's crime and Japanese tragedies: N. Korean tragedies and Japan's crime
- A white Taliban and the others: the reason for anti-American sentiments
- PNAC: neo-conservatives for new imperialism
- As in the cases of the US: corporate scandals in Japan
[4] JCP line of labour movement
Degeneration into a 'labour movement' that accepts the mass restructuring
1. What is meant by 'a new labour movement' in the age of mass restructuring
- JCP on 'a course of development' in struggles against restructuring
- 'Changes in the style of activities' imposed on trade union leaders and activists
2. Babbles on 'changes in workplaces' or 'new signs'
(a) An arbitrary and idealistic 'perception of the present situation'
- 'Changes in consciousness of workers'?
- A 'future vision' with no reflection on the defeat of labour movement in Japan
- Full admiration for Rengo
(b) What is called 'two sore spots' with the major restructuring
- Positive interpretation of the failures of 'performance-based pay' systems
- A bankruptcy in JCP analysis of 'rationalization'
(Continued)
[6]
Yokohama City government: carrying out drills against 'terrorist attacks' in the name of 'anti-disaster drills', 1 Sept.
- SDF troops mobilized
- In compliance with Koizumi's intention
Learning an article on epistemology in The Communist
- What I think over the issue: 'I' and actual I myself
Topics JCP-led national labour centre: disagreements and dissatisfactions exploded in the 20th regular convention
[7]
A notebook: with what impetus and how the JRCL theory of tactics for organizing labour movement was created
1. The origin of the formation of the theory for organizing labour movement
(a) Deviations in clarifying tactics for antiwar struggle against the Vietnam War
- 'Indulgence in debates over a Vietnam revolution' in clarifying tactics for antiwar struggle
- On the 'effective realization of tactical tasks'
(b) The theoretical establishment of the 'three transcendings' through internal discussions over the anti-rationalization struggle in Japan National Railways
- Internal discussions over the tactics for the 20 Sept. struggle against rationalization in 1965
- A leftist deviation in discussions over the 'calling off'
(Continued)
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No. 1736 (September 23rd issue)

No to Koizumi's visit to Washington!
Zengakuren demonstration, 9 Sept.
Stop US pre-emptive nuclear attack on Iraq!
Stop Japan's participation in the war!
Smash the Bush-Koizumi talk!

- Militant students demonstrated to the airport, criticizing the official leadership for abandoning the fight.
[2]
Zengakuren Central Committee Meeting on 10 Sept.
- Stop US nuclear attack on Iraq! Smash the Emergency Bills! Ranks strengthened for the revolutionary antiwar struggle (photo right)
Okinawa: US military bases rapidly strengthened as the fortress for the 'war on terrorism'
- Crimes and accidents: one after another
- A frontline for Iraqi invasion
- Full cooperation by the Koizumi administration for strengthening US bases
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- Operation Champion Strike: Which is struck?
- Bereaved families critical of the 'retaliation': behind the enthusiasm
- The bloody wedding party: a historic crime never erasable.
- AIDS infection in China: through drugs and blood selling.
[4]
Argentina in a revolutionary turbulence: the working people fighting on despite the bloody repressions
1. Economic catastrophe: ever deepening
2. The worst example of the bankruptcy of 'neo-liberalism'
3. The toiling masses and their burning struggles
4. What's an obstacle to progress?
Communique: LOI (CI)-Democracia Obrera (July 2nd 2002)
- Santillan and Kostei fighting in the forefront of the working class and killed (Full text)
[5] No to the Big Brother system!
What is called the e-government project: examples in X City in Ishikawa prefecture
- 'Computerization of administrative works'
- For workers: dismissals and techno-stresses
[6]
Fight back against the Tokyo government's plan for outsourcing in jobs for the public transportation!
- Preparation for privatization
- Trade union leaders oppressing the fight
Smash the privatization of the five prefecture-run hospitals!
- Fukuoka Prefecture to desert the hospitals under the pretext of 'red notes'