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No. 2010
(March 17th 2008 Issue)

Oppose the expansive deployment of
MD systems
throughout Japan!
Overcome the JCP-led peace movement
abandoning the opposition to the US-Japan military alliance!

- The final bankruptcy of the Bush Empire in its attempted rule over the Middle East
- The US-planed deployment of missile defence systems in Japan and the Central Europe, and counteroffensives by China / Russia
- The Fukuda government bent on pushing Japan into 'a country that can engage in war'
- Smash the reactionary offensives by the Fukuda government!

[4-5]
Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive 2008!
(From the keynote report to the Feb. 17 meeting of workers)
- Impoverishment imposed upon the working class and the offensives for leaping to 'a country that can engage in war'
- Deceptive, reactionary nature of the Rengo leaders' agenda for the spring offensive with the catchphrase of 'getting out of the gap-widening society'
- Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring offensive 2008 under the slogan of 'Win a big, uniform wage raise!'
- A trade union in every workplace!

[7]
Fight for a militant spring offensive in the postal industry!

[6]
Rengo's central rally for the spring offensive (March 1st)
- Explosive angers for the Rengo president trying to dodge his responsibilities

Rengo Okinawa rally (Feb. 15th)
- Militant workers condemning the rape incident by the US Marine

Militant propaganda at a Zenroren action for Toyota workers

Topics Zenroren's proposals 'to correct' the Worker Dispatch Law

[3]
Denounce the violation on the 14-year-old girl by the US Marine!
Rise in the Okinawa people's rally on March 23rd!

JRCL Okinawa Prefectural Committee

[2]
'Stop the the redeployment and expansion of US Air training bases!': Zengakuren Hokkaido marching through Chitose City
(Feb. 23rd) (Pic. right upper)

Kagoshima University students denouncing the US aegis destroyer calling at a local civilian port (Feb. 13th) (Pic. right lower)

JRCL propaganda against the MSDF destroyer collision with the fishing boat (Feb. 25th)

[8] Kaleidoscope 2008
- 'Change, Hope, Unite': Only an empty shout of three words
- Monologue from the old Commandant
- Russian strategic bombers: 'Tokyo expresses' again
- BJOCC: headquarters underground the US Yokota Base near Tokyo, commanding Japanese troops

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No. 2009
(March 10th 2008 Issue)

Smash the ultra-reactionary attacks
by the Fukuda government!

in opposition to the degeneration and betrayal by the official leadership
advance the spring labour offensive 2008, and
struggles against war and US-Japan military alliance!

- The Bush administration inciting 'wars on terror', with the aim to recover the lost influence
- The collapse of the US domination of the world as the 'sole superpower' and the challenges by China/Russia
- Intensified expropriations from the toiling masses, the new US-Japan military alliance strengthened in reality -- Fight back against the ultra-reactionary offensives!

(Pic.Successive outrages by US Marines adding fuel to the fire of anger: workers and students protesting in front of the US Camp Zukeran on Feb. 22nd)


Denounce the Israeli military invasion of Gaza! Denounce the murder of the Palestinian people!


Special: Win a victory in the Spring Labour Offensive 2008!
[4-5]
Zenroren's tactics for 'spring offensive to eradicate the poverty': illusion for 'a better capitalism'
- 'Eradicate the poverty!' : empty calls
- Their poverty in analyzing the issue of poverty
- Their progressive disease of revised capitalism
[6]
For a militant upsurge of the spring offensive in the private railway front

- Denounce the central leadership positively responding to an expansive introduction of performance-based payment and labour management!
[7]
Denounce the central leadership in the NTT Workers Union abandoning their demands for 'improvement in monthly wages'!
[8]
Deceptions and hypocrisy with the Rengo agenda for 'departing from the gap-widening society'
(1) 'Social responsibility' stressed from the point of view of today's Industrial Patriotic Association
(2) Deceptions with its agenda for 'departing from the gap-widening society'
- A superficial perception of the 'gap-widening society'
- Demands for 'improving the redistribution structure' from the standpoint of 'a stake holder'
(3) Playing a complementary role to the neoliberalist reform of state monopoly capitalism
- The course of labour-management consultation decorated with the stake holder approach
- What is called the welfare governance as 'a fourth way'
- Surrender, or complement, to the theory of 'small government'
Topics What is called 'the same wages to the same value labour

[2]
Join in the 124 meeting of the Zengakuren Central Committee

[3]
Okinawa: Voices of anger for the rape incident by a US Marine and oppositions to the US bases
- Successive outrages by US Marines adding fuel to the fire of anger: workers and students protesting in front of the US Camp Zukeran (Feb. 22nd) (Pic. above)
- A rally of protest in front of a US Marine base (Feb. 19th)
- Fists of anger to the US Consulate in Okinawa (Feb. 16th)
- A student march through the prefectural capital (Feb. 22nd)

'Denounce the MSDF destroyer killing the fishermen!' Zengakuren Kansai protesting (Feb. 22nd)

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No. 2008
(March 3rd 2008 Issue)

A bridgehead for the victorious spring labour offensive!
1200 workers at the Feb. 17th meeting
Win a big, uniform wage raise! No to the neo-liberalist structural reform!

- Overcome the surrender to the bourgeois offensive to oppress the wages! Fight for an upsurge of the spring offensive! (Keynote report)
- A special appeal from the JRCL, revealing the class, historic meaning of the ongoing economic turmoil
- Burning resolves expressed by industrial fronts
- Fight the labour offensive in opposition to the oppression by the official trade union leaders!

[4-5]
Deceptions and hypocrisy with the Rengo agenda for 'departing from the gap-widening society'
(1) 'Social responsibility' stressed from the point of view of today's Industrial Patriotic Association
(2) Deceptions with its agenda for 'departing from the gap-widening society'
- A superficial perception of the 'gap-widening society'
- Demands for 'improving the redistribution structure' from the standpoint of 'a stake holder'

[2]
Denounce the fatal collision of the aegis-equipped MSDF destroyer with a fishing boat!

Don't cover it up to dodge your responsibility!
(Zengakuren in front of the Defence Ministry, Feb. 21st)
Okinawa Kengakuren in front of the local office
of the Defence Ministry
(Feb. 19th)

Workers and students in Kyushu struggling against US nuclear carrier Nimitz calling at Sasebo port (Feb. 11th)


Zengakuren Hokkaido struggling against the successive port calls by US warships (Feb. 5, Feb. 7)

Calls of protest at Sasebo port ( Feb. 11th) Face to face with USS Blue Ridge (Feb. 7th, Otaru port)

[3]
Fight against the coercive respect to the Rising Sun flag and the Reign-of-the-Emperor anthem at graduation and entrance ceremonies!
- The education ministry and the local boards of education bent on authorizing the 'patriot education'
- Attempts intensified to force students and teachers to respect the Rising Sun flag and to sing the Reign-of-the-Emperor anthem
- Militant workers struggling in opposition to the central JTU leadership abandoning the protest
- Denounce the JTU leadership abandoning its opposition to the patriot education
- No introduction of the patriot education! Fight it in connection with antiwar struggle!

[6]
Construction workers forced fatally dangerous kinds of labour

Extremely intensified labour at a hospital reorganized for terminal care

A Canon factory in Oita ridden with illegal concessions

Topics Jichiro [Prefectural and Municipal Workers Union] to disappear?

[7]
Japan Post planning to set up a new company for courier service

No more 'murders' by Toyota!

[8]
Kaleidoscope 2008
- Star Wars
- What is SWF?
- Skyrocketing prices of corns
- Retired Koizumi on bio-ethanol
- The increasing number of seals in Hokkaido

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No. 2007
(February 25th 2008 Issue)

Fight against the strengthening of the
new US-Japan military alliance!
Stop the deployment of MD systems and operational exercises!
Fight by overcoming the JCP-led peace movement
abandoning opposition to the alliance!

- US and Japanese governments routinizing the quasi-war posture against China and Russia
- JCP leaders desperate for 'cooperation with conservative voters'
- Fight to advance struggles against war and the military alliance! Fight against the intensified economic offensives on the working masses by the government!

Denounce the MSDF aegis destroyer running over to sink a fishing boat!
In the early morning on Feb. 19th, Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer Atago, equipped with an advanced Aegis system, ran over a fishing boat off the Boso Peninsula and sank it . Atago was on the return sail from a missile exercise off Hawaii. Denounce the outrageous, murderous act by the MSDF vessel!

[2]
Denounce the assault on a teenage girl by a US Marine!
Fists of anger to the US Forces in Okinawa

In the evening on Feb. 10th, a US Marine sergeant kidnapped a 14 year-old junior high school girl and violated her. Workers and students rose in protests with seething angers for repeated violence in Okinawa.
Workers, students and citizens protesting
in front of the US Force headquarters in Okinawa (Feb. 12th)

Protesters demonstrating (Feb. 12th)



Zengakuren in front of the US embassy in Tokyo (Feb. 16th)
Students from Ryukyu Univ. and Okinawa International Univ.
in front of the US Consulate in Okinawa (Feb. 16th)

[3]
A verdict of not guilty returned: the framed-up 'violence on a school administrator' at the Osaka University of Economics
- 'Unreliable suspicion of violence': the frame-up recognized by Osaka District Court (Feb. 8th)
- A press conference and a mass meeting held
- Strengthen the counteroffensive against the school authority and Osaka prefectural police to smash their planned destruction of the student association!

Denounce the frame-up of a minor offence and police raids!
- A pre-emptive suppression for 'safeguarding the G8 summit'
- Smash the police attacks for destroying the spring labour offensive and antiwar struggles!

SDF troops and police jointly mobilized for security exercises

[6]
Privatized postal companies cutting the commutation allowances

'Sales helpers' badly exploited at electrical appliance stores

China: Mass reemployments after mass sackings before the enactment of the labour contract law

Topics 'To see the dispatch of temporary workers as evil is a mistake'?

[7]
No to introduction of a jury-like system designed for summary justice and severer penalty

Foreign residents obliged to hold ID cards with IC tips

[4-5]
Chukakuha remnants going through successive mini splits

[8] Kaleidoscope 2008
- Rice in temper with German troops: over Afghanistan
- Subprime refugees
- A Bulgarian way of getting on in the world
- Demagogic electoral propaganda to disgrace the Iwakuni Mayor rejecting the deployment of US troops

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No. 2006
(February 18th 2008 Issue)

Fight struggles aiming for
overthrow of the ultra-reactionary Fukuda government!
Oppose the country-wide deployment of MD systems!

Fight to stop the extension of the 'extra rates' on gasoline taxes!

- The Bush Empire agonized in the collapse of its global dominance as the 'sole superpower'
- Russia intensifying its counteraction to the planned deployment of MD systems in Central Europe
- The Fukuda government attempting to sacrifice the working masses for the economic conjuncture
- Smash all reactionary offensives by the Fukuda government!

[4-5]
Ambition to force absolute poverty upon the working people and to strengthen the Japanese neofascist ruling system
The latest annual report of the Japanese Employers' Federation: ultra-reactionary
(1) Breakthrough measures sought around for the global economic turbulence
(2) Attempts to shift burdens onto the working people
- What is called 'a new development of the Japanese employment system'
(The above in the previous issue)
- The latest attempt to reform the merit-based form of payment of wages, and its deceptive embellishment
- Fully using the 'company's another division for labour management' as 'a social stabilizer'

For a creative advancement in the teachers' movement of educational research!

Successive suicides of fresh teachers

JRCL slogans for the spring labour offensive 2008
Click to see


[2]
The elected governor for Osaka Prefecture: a worst fascist patronized by the Fukuda-led LDP

500 workers at a trade union based rally against the military base (Jan. 19th, Sasebo, Kyushu) (Pic)

[6]
Postal busy time: overwork to the verge of death, and a lot of accidents

A clane accident at the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Co. factory in Kobe: three workers killed by the capitalist

Topics Electric monopolies attempting to reorganize its businesses and systems

[7]
No to the planned introduction of a 'social security number system' for surveying the people!

Campus reports
- Kokugakuin University
- Nagoya University

[8]
Reading Bush in Dilemmas, Kuroda's posthumous work
- Learning from his thinking, dynamic and penetrating

[3] Kaleidoscope 2008
- Kosovo: an attempt to open the Pandora's box
- India: 'The first shift in balance preferable for India for these four centuries'
- The fate of the Gdansk shipyard: a stern treatment
- After its fall and bourgeois conversion: the renaming of infantile radicals in the former Communist League

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No. 2005
(February 11th 2008 Issue)

Don't sacrifice the toiling masses for the economic crisis!
Fight for lifting up the spring labour offensive 2008
against the monopoly capitalist measures for their survival

- The Bush Empire agonized in an impassable crisis
- The beginning of the final collapse of the USD system
- The collapse of the economic base for US imperialism dominating the world as the 'sole superpower'
- Agonies of the US dependent imperialism of Japan
- Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive 2008!

[4-5]
Yokosuka (Jan. 24th)
Sasebo (Jan. 25th)
Ambition to force absolute poverty upon the working people and to strengthen the Japanese neofascist ruling system
The latest annual report of the Japanese Employers' Federation: ultra-reactionary
(1) Breakthrough measures sought around for the global economic turbulence
(2) Attempts to shift burdens onto the working people
- What is called 'a new development of the Japanese employment system'
(The following to appear in next issue)
- The latest attempt to reform the merit-based form of payment of wages, and its deceptive embellishment
- Fully using the 'second executive for labour management' as 'a social stabilizer'

JRCL slogans for the spring labour offensive 2008
Click to see


[2]
Zengakuren struggle to stop the MSDF troops to the Indian Ocean
- Jan. 24, Yokosuka: Fists of anger to MSDF warship Murasame
- Jan. 25, Sasebo: Calls of denunciation to MSDF replenisher Oumi

[3]
Denounce the destruction of a national JTU meeting by means of rightist provocateurs! Denounce the repression of the teachers' movement for education research!


[6]
Denounce the leadership of the JP Workers Union pledging allegiance to the managerial boards of privatized postal services!
(Continued from the previous issue)

Angers for degenerate leaders dependent on the DPJ: militant workers struggling at an official peace rally

Topics The Central Council for Education report for 'Government Guidelines for Teaching': its reactionary aim

[7]
Obsession of joining in 'a non-LDP coalition government'
The miserable end of the JCP as converted Stalinists

(Continued from the previous issue)

[8]
How we overcame the mistake of analyzing situations simply from the contradiction between 'wage labour and capital' in the struggle against the Japan-ROK Treaty' in 1963
- Internal theoretical struggle to overcome the 'wage and capital' deviation
- Another mistake: overemphasis on political dynamics in the struggle against Chinese and French nuclear tests in 1963
- Struggle to overcome the mistake of a simple counterposition to the JCP analysis of situations
Reflecting our internal theoretical struggles at that time

[8]
Kaleidoscope 2008
- Begging from Middle East and Chinese SWFs
- The gyoza incident
- Battles on the Antarctic Ocean
- High-tech weapons for the Toyako G8 Summit


JRCL slogans for the spring labour offensive 2008

Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive 2008 in opposition to today's Industrial Patriotic Movement accommodating to 'war and impoverishment'!

(1) Denounce the Rengo leaders' deceptive demand for 'improving wages'! Win a big uniform wage raise for all workers! Oppose the fixation and expansion of temporary forms of employment!
- Fight back against the capitalist offensive to oppress the wages under the pretext of 'breaking through the US-made economic crisis'! Stop the introduction and strengthening of the merit-base forms of payment of wages!
- Win a big raise of wages for temporary workers and drastic improvement of their labour conditions! Denounce pretended subcontracts, pretended dispatches, and pretended managerial posts! No to the attempt to change the form of employment and work for the worse in the name of 'work-life balance'!
- Fight back against sackings, transfers and wage cuts for business reorganizations called 'choice and concentration'! Oppose extreme intensification of labour under big personnel reductions! No to forced, unpaid overtime works!
- Oppose big businesses intensifying their expropriations from minor, poor enterprises!
- Fight back against cuts in wages and personnel by central and local governments under the pretext of 'financial crisis'!
- No to price increases of daily necessaries by monopolies for shifting their expenses for higher prices of oil and materials onto toiling masses!

(2) Denounce the neoliberalist 'structural reform' expanding 'the working poor'! Oppose the reactionary revision of the labour codes!
- No raise in tax! No change of the social security system for the worse! Denounce the justification of the state defraudment of public pensions! Oppose the lower standard for livelihood protection planned under the pretext of the extremely low minimum wage! Stop the prolongation of the provisional tax rates for petrol! Oppose the 'structural reform' to desert the social unfortunate and the localities! Don't shift the difficulties of the state financial crisis onto the localities! Oppose any reactionary reform in the civil service!
- Denounce the enactment of the Labour Contract Law for destroying trade unions! Stop the planned introduction of exemptions in working time regulations for unpaid overtime work! Oppose revisions in the Worker Dispatch Law!

(3) Oppose the strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance as an offensive and defensive alliance against China and Russia!
- No deployment of missile defence systems! Oppose the resumption of the MSDF replenishment mission on the Indian Ocean! Oppose the enactment of a permanent law for SDF missions abroad! Denounce the CX scandal! Fight to stop the Constitutional revision!
- Oppose the construction of a national mobilization system for transforming the Japanese state into 'a country that can engage in war'! Smash the offensives for neofascist reaction!

(4) Break through the grave offensive to destroy trade unions! Fight for a militant revival of the Japanese labour movement!
- Fight for a militant deconstruction of Rengo degenerated into today's Industrial Patriotic Association! Denounce the labour aristocrats supporting the Ozawa-led DPJ aiming at a 'two conservative party system'!
- Denounce the leadership in the JCP-led Zenroren attempting 'cooperation with Rengo'! Denounce the distortion of struggles into a policy advertising campaign based on the notorious line for 'reform for a capitalism with rules'!
- Fight for a militant strengthening of trade unions! Fight to organize ununionized workers into trade unions! Organize a trade union in any workplace!

Strengthen the class-based battle front to break through the dark rule of neofascism! Advance aiming to overthrow the Fukuda government!

In solidarity with workers all over the world, fight to create an international unity of the working class!


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No. 2004
(February 4th 2008 Issue)

Feb. 17th Workers Meeting for Struggle
fight the spring offensive 2008

to break through the 'war and poverty'!

- The monopoly bourgeoisie desperate to oppress the wages
- Attacks to transform Japan into 'a country that can engage in war'
- Labour aristocrats in Rengo bowing down before the attacks to oppress the wages
- The Rengo leadership positively responding to the capitalists' measures for labour management
- No submission to the attacks to oppress the wages! Fight to boost up the spring offensive 2008!

Zengakuren fight to stop MSDF vessels sailing for the Indian Ocean
- At Yokosuka Port on Jan. 24th (Pic. right), and at Sasebo Port on Jan. 25th.

[4-5]
Obsession of joining in 'a non-LDP coalition government'
The miserable end of the JCP as converted Stalinists

Our revolutionary ideological struggle at a JCP-led peace rally in Okinawa

[2]
Struggle to stop the deployment of MSDF vessels equipped with SM3s (Jan. 4th, Sasebo)

Okinawa: angers for the enactment of the law to resume the MSDF anti-terror mission (Jan. 11th-12th)

Antiwar Students March in Okinawa (Dec. 16th)

[3]
Jan. 14th: Antiwar flames throughout the country against the resumption of the MSDF anti-terror mission abroad
Sapporo
Naha
Nagoya
- A militant demonstration through the snowed city (Sapporo)
- Protests to the Okinawa office of the foreign ministry (Naha)
- Antiwar calls in front of the prefectural LDP office (Nagoya)

[6]
Fight against the planned wage cuts under the pretext of 'redeeming the prefetural bonds'

Realities of 'an activated Nagoya'

Topics The first labour-Management talk on Jan. 23rd.

[7]
Denounce the leadership of the JP Workers Union pledging allegiance to the managerial boards of privatized postal services!

[8]
Kaleidoscope
- Poland running away from the MD plan
- An unharmonized society
- The rightist version of The (No) Truth of Nanking

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No. 2003
(January 28th 2008 Issue)

Fight to stop the MSDF troops
dispatched again
to the Indian Ocean!

Successive struggles by militant workers and students
January 11th-14th, 2008

Jan. 14th demonstration in Tokyo Jan. 11th, in front of the Diet Building
Denounce the legislation to resume the MSDF anti-terror mission abroad!
Oppose the strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance!
- Calls against war and the military alliance resounding through the Capital, with demonstrations held in Hokkaido, Tokai and Okinawa
- Full of angers for the legislation to restart the MSDF anti-terror mission
- Zengakuren struggling against the government steamrollering the bill: January 11th, in front of the Diet Building
- A footing secured to rebuild antiwar struggles by denouncing the official leadership abandoning the struggle
- Fight to stop the MSDF troops dispatched again! Advance under the banner against the US-Japan military alliance!

[4-5]
Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2008 spring labour offensive!
Struggle in opposition to today's Industrial Patriotic Movement accommodative to the 'war and impoverishment'!
Central Workers' Orgburo

(1) The 2008 spring offensive under war and the dark rule, and amid a bottomless impoverishment
- The Fukuda government going on attacks to build 'a country that can engage in war'
- The monopoly bourgeoisie plunging the working class into the worst poverty
- The Japanese labour movement in crisis, on the verge of ruin
(2) Break through the crisis of the Japanese labour movement verging on ruin!
- Expose the deceptions of the Rengo leaders' agenda, 'way out of the gap-widening society'!
(Sections above in the previous issue)

- The JCP-affiliated leaders in Zenroren dreaming of 'cooperation' with Rengo labour aristocrats
- Fight to revive the Japanese labour movement against the dark rule of neo-fascism!

[2]
Protests nationwide with angers against the steamrollering of the MSDF anti-terror mission bill
(Jan. 11th)
Osaka, on the prefectural LDP office Kagoshima University
Central Fukuoka Kanazawa University

Students from the Tokai region protesting against the armed marching exercise of the local GSDF unit (Dec. 22nd) (Pic. right)

[3]
No expansion of the ASDF Tsuiki base in Kyushu!

A new US Army headquarters founded at Camp Zama in Kanagawa prefecture: a frontline command for war against China

City offices informing SDF recruitment offices of resident registers

The first 'open prison' and its realities

[6]
Withdraw the plan to set up 'a school office work centre'!

Working straight for 36 hours: underground station workers in Sapporo

Topics Labour aristocrats in the NTT workers union abandoning demands for wage raise

[7]
Japan Post: a day-to-day way of settlement introduced, imposing hard work on workers

Objections spreading in workplaces against the education ministry releasing the results of the national achievement test

Angers growing against the government deserting minor farmers

[8]
Kaleidoscope
- Bush's round trip to the Middle East
- RRW: not only shields but also pikes
- A new girl of Sarkozy: an operation for popularity
- Total surveillance of the nation

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No. 2002
(January 21st 2008 Issue)

Fight for a militant upsurge of
the 2008 spring labour offensive!

Struggle in opposition to today's Industrial Patriotic Movement
accommodative to the 'war and impoverishment'!

Central Workers' Orgburo
(1) The 2008 spring offensive under war and the dark rule, and amid a bottomless impoverishment
- The Fukuda government going on attacks to build 'a country that can engage in war'
- The monopoly bourgeoisie plunging the working class into the worst poverty
- The Japanese labour movement in crisis, on the verge of ruin
(2) Break through the crisis of the Japanese labour movement verging on ruin!
- Expose the deceptions of the Rengo leaders' agenda, 'way out of the gap-widening society'!
(To continue)

Denounce the Fukuda government steamrollering the anti-terror MSDF mission bill through the House of Representatives!
Stop the resumption of the MSDF refueling mission!

(Pic right: Zengakuren students in front of the Diet Building, January 11th)

[3]
Win a judgement of innocence!: Unjust arrests of students at Osaka University of Economics

[4-5]
The 'US-dependent country' of Japan suffering conjunctional economic problems

- A quartet of cruxes
- US-dependent economy: limitations exposed
- Economic problems aggravated under Japan's international isolation

[6-7]
Resolves for New Year
- Chugoku Regional Committee
- Telecommunication Workers Committee
- Electric Industrial Workers Committee
- Metal Industrial Workers Committee
- Heavy Industrial Workers Committee
- Minor Enterprise Workers Committee
- Antiwar Workers Conference in Eastern Kanagawa

Interviewing Zengakuren leaders

[8]
Okinawa: Growing angers for the government's decision to erase 'the military order' for the mass suicides from history textbook (Pic below: A mass rally in front of the Okinawa Prefectural Office, Dec. 27th)


Against the resumed operation of Monju, dangerous high-speed breeder reactor (Pic. below: militant students leading a mass rally, Dec. 8th)


Antiwar students' march in Hokkaido (Pic. below: Marching through Sapporo City, Dec. 15th)


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No. 2001
(January 14th 2008 Issue)

Now is the time to strengthen the revolutionary stream
against war, against the US-Japan military alliance!

Stop the legislation to resume the MSDF anti-terror mission!

Rise in united actions nationwide on January 14th!

Central Students' Orgburo
(1) Danger of warfare intensified under the new confrontation between the US and China/Russia
- The Fukuda-led Japanese government rushing to build up the system for 'a country that can engage in war'
- Intensification of a 'cold war-like hot war' between the US and China/Russia
- The official opposition movement increasing its crisis and the struggles of the revolutionary left wing
(2) Fight to advance struggles against war and the military alliance and against the Constitutional revision!
- Fight by overcoming the JCP-led peace movement abandoning the struggle against the US-Japan military alliance!
- Build a stronger battle front against war and the military alliance and against the neofascist reaction!

[3]
Zengakuren struggle against the US Army opening its new headquarters in Zama

(At the main gate of the US Army Camp Zama, Dec. 19th)

[4-5]
A dark ambition to build a Chinese-type 'mature capitalism' in the name of 'harmonious society'
- Hu Jingtao's strategy for China to become a superpower in the 21st century: the 17th National Congress of the CPC
- Tragedies of a Chinese-type 'gap-widening society'
- In transition to, transformation into, a state representing the interests of the national bourgeoisie
[6-7]
Resolves for New Year
- Okinawa Prefectural Committee
- Hokkaido Regional Committee
- Hokuriku Regional Committee

- Education Workers Committee
- Prefectural/Municipal Workers Committee
- Chemical Industrial Workers Committee
- Masscommunication Workers Committee
- Social Workers Committee

[8]
For the January 14th united action in Okinawa
Marxist Students' League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction ) Okinawa Prefectural Committee

Workers and students in Okinawa at an emergency rally against 'an agreement' for a new US Marine base (Dec. 11th)

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