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No. 2110
(March 15th 2010 Issue)
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Smash the massive dismissals and wage cuts! - Denounce their response to arrogant demands of monopoly capitalists and the Hatoyama government for heavier burdens upon workers! - Fight to win a drastic improvement in the labour conditions of temporary workers - Advance struggles against the US-Japan military alliance! [4-5] For a militant upsurge of the 2010 spring labour offensive Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive in the private railway sector! Fight in opposition to the central leadership distorting the offensive into a campaign to request the government for 'better traffic policies'! Fight to break the oppression by the NTT labour aristocrats! Fight against the NTT administration's plan for another restructuring with a drastic change in wage and personnel systems! [2] Fight back against the vicious attempt to destroy the Hokkaido Teachers' Union under the pretext of 'violation of the Political Fund Control Law'! Hokkaido Regional Committee Education Workers' Committee For the 128th meeting of the Zengakuren Central Committee [3] Oppose the attempt to permanentize the temporary labour system! Fight against the fake 'improvement' of the Worker Dispatching Law by the Hatoyama government! [6] Osaka: a regional meeting for 'fundamental improvement of the Worker Dispatching Law' (Jan. 29th) High schools in Hokkaido: One out of two job-seeking graduates have yet to receive offers Osaka: One out of twenty residents is on livelihood protection Topics One out of four is 'jobless' among high school graduates who want jobs this year [8] Islas Malvinas: a scramble for natural resources, charged with danger - British oil monopolies have started searches, with the protection of the Royal Navy - The Hu Jintao-led Chinese government is intent on capturing resources in Latin America A general strike in Greece shaking whole Europe - The working class have risen in a counteroffensive against the harsh burdens imposed for financial crisis - The Papandreou government is desperate to break the crisis by urging Pasok-affiliated trade union bosses to oppress the fight [7] Kaleidoscope - Territorial disputes on the South China Sea: greed for natural resources - A new stratagem for 'peaceful counterrevolution' in China - Hatoyama's letters to Vietnam: top sales of nuclear plants - The Russian auto industry: dependent on Europeans TOP |
No. 2109
(March 8th 2010 Issue)
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Fight to stop the new US Marine base construction! - Obama's hard-line policy towards China, with the aim of producing a 'G2 order' under the the US and China - New developments in the global tripartite conflicts, with Hu Jintao-led China at the centre of a storm - Hatoyama in hurry to reach 'an agreement' with Obama over the Hutenma base relocation - Denounce the official leaderships for abandoning opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! Fight to advance revolutionary antiwar struggle! [4-6] For a militant upsurge of the 2010 spring labour offensive Electric industry Fight in opposition to the distortion into a fake 'offensive' for 'overcoming the crisis of the nation and the industry'! Metal industry Denounce the labour aristocrats for their 'patriotic' guidance! [7] A prefectural Rengo rally for spring offensive (Feb. 6th, Fukuoka) Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co.: reduction of bus service on a large scale Topics Denounce the head of labour aristocrats in the electric industry for his acceptance of 'discussion for the review of an annual pay raise system'! [3] Toyota: faulty cars reported in succession US rulers intent on 'Toyota bashing' - Cover-ups and evasions: the Toyota executives have brought about their own ruin - Massive reduction of engineers and skilled workers, and dependence on computing: the inevitable consequence [2] Okinawa: a protest against an SDF war vessel visiting a civilian port (Naha, Feb. 13th) Denounce the US marines for firing white phosphorous munitions in a drill in Kyushu! [8] Kaleidoscope - Operation Mushtarak: 'mission accomplished'? - 100 years after the notorious executions of socialists in Japan - A Persian way of negotiation TOP |
No. 2108
(March 1st 2010 Issue)
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A war crisis brewing amid the intensified
US-China confrontation - Hu Jintao-led Chinese rulers pushing forward to a 'superpower' v.s. Obama-led US imperialists taking countermeasures - Obama's hard-line stance towards China, an attempt to make a 'G2 system' with China - New developments in the global rivalries between the three blocs - Advance a struggle to break the growing war crisis caused by the intensified confrontation between the US and China! - Fight to stop any alternative base construction for the relocation of the Futenma Air Station! [4-5] The annual Rengo report 2010: consistent in the idea that labour, management and the government share the same destiny - An ideological justification for their nationalist guidance of the labour offensive' - 'Three distortions in the Japanese economy': an arbitrary analysis - A new definition of spring labour offensive as 'a mechanism for social distribution of incomes' - Deceptive demands for 'maintenance of wage levels' and 'reduction of disparities' - Demands on the government for 'overcoming a crisis of the nation' - Praise for 'new corporatism of a Japanese type'
[3] The JRCL speech to the Feb. 7th Workers Meeting for the Offensive Strengthen the working class-based forces to smash the attempts to impose 'war and poverty'! [2] Protests against a port visit by the USS Blue Ridge, the flagship of the US 7th Fleet - Zengakuren Hokkaido protested its entry into the civilian Otaru port (Feb 5th) (Pic right upper) - Militant workers and students in the forefront of a Rengo Hokkaido's rally of protest (Feb 4th) (Pic right lower) [6] JCP-led Zenroren's action on Toyota (Toyota City, Aichi, Feb. 11) Militant workers denounced degenerate leaders for distorting the spring offensive into demands for 'returning the company's internal reserves' Results of medical examinations in Hokkaido: the historically highest rate of disorders Topics The Rengo rally on Feb. 12: for patriotic 'labour offensive' [7] Fight back against the Tokyo prefectural authority forcing teachers and students to respect the Rising-Sun flag and the Reign-of-the-Emperor anthem! Denounce the official leaderships of teachers' unions for abandoning the protest! [8] A conference in St. Petersburg arranged by the Russian Party of Communists Some advances for overcoming Stalinism Kaleidoscope - China in Africa: 'a new type of neo-colonialism'? - South Korea: nuclear plant business TOP |
No. 2107
(February 22nd 2010 Issue)
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Fight for a militant upsurge of - Monopoly capitalists are imposing additional burdens on the working class - The Hatoyama government is desperate to save monopoly capital - Denounce the Rengo leadership for ordering workers to 'overcome the crisis of the nation'! - For a militant upsurge of the offensive! Stir up the flame of struggle from every factory and workplace! [4-5] The keynote report to the Feb. 7th Workers Meeting for the Offensive Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2010 spring labour offensive in opposition to its 'patriotic' distortion! - The Hatoyama government and the bourgeois ruling class are imposing heavier burdens on the toiling masses to save themselves from the economic crisis - Stir up the flame of struggle against their imposition of 'poverty and war'! - Organize temporary and ununionized workers in fightback! [8] Denounce the military intervention in Haiti by US imperialism bent on regaining its dominance over Latin America! - The Obama administration is carrying out an effective military occupation under the pretext of 'disaster relief' - The imposition of neo-liberalism, the root cause of the calamity - Reveal the dark imperialist ambition of the Hatoyama government in its dispatch of troops to the UN 'peacekeeping' operation in Haiti! China: a strike by two thousand workers against harsh conditions of labour A liquid crystal panel producing factory in Suzhou [6]  Harsh conditions of labour at a private garbage
processing plant killed a temporary worker
in TokyoThe JCP-led cadres in the medical trade union federation: their wage hike demands dependent on a government-planned decision to raise hospital fees Topics A joint statement by the Rengo leadership and the employers' federation: 'to stabilize the employment of the younger generation' [2] Okinawa: 'Stop a new US base construction in Henoko!' Militant workers and students marched through the capital city of Naha (Jan. 31st) (Pic. right) Osaka: 1500 workers, students and citizens at a meeting against a new US base construction in Henoko (Jan. 28th) [3] 'Stop the live firing exercise by US Marines! Zengakuren students in Kyushu fought to stop the military drill. - Zengakuren calling on workers to fight against the US-Japan Security Treaty (at a protest rally near the firing range, Jan. 24th) (Pic. below left) - Stop the landing of munitions! (at the unloading port, Jan. 26th) (Pic below right)
A police novel on sale: propaganda for bringing the people under police surveillance [7] Kaleidoscope - Toyota: to grill in North America - A wartime false charge based on a frame-up cleared after half a century: a painful lesson from the JCP's failure to fight back - Lack of confidence: responses by the US government to the latest Bin Laden statement - Operation Moshtarak in Afghanistan: a vain attempt to buy out Muslim fighters TOP |
No. 2106
(February 15th 2010 Issue)
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Workers' Meeting in Tokyo, Feb. 7th Fight to stop a US base construction in Henoko,
Okinawa!
 'Aim at the repeal of the US-Japan Security
Treaty!' Militant students showed the right direction. Students from the University of the Ryukyus and Okinawa International University stood in the forefront. Leaflets: the JRCL called for an antiwar, anti-Security Treaty struggle under the banner 'Remove missile defences!' (Pic right) [3]
Kansai: In front of the US consulate in Osaka Tokai: Marching through Nagoya City under the banner 'No to the US-Japan military alliance! Remove nuclear bases!' [4-5] US imperialism, the main culprit of environmental destruction Obama's attempts to recover from inferiority in the tripartite economic war connected with environmental issues - Failure in the attempts to recapture the initiative in 'countering global warming' - Implementation of the 'Green New Deal' for the 'revival of the US economy - Aggravation of environmental destruction in the US - Unsurmountable inferiority in the global economic war related to environmental issues [6] Almost being jobless: hired workers in the replacement driver business in Okinawa Welfare Benefits for the Seriously Handicapped: abolished by the Fukuoka authority Topics Rengo's 'counterargument' against the employer federation's annual report [7] Hokkaido: Fight back against the education ministry and the prefectural board of education forcing 'respect' for the Rising-Sun flag and the Reign-of-the-Emperor anthem! Lawsuits about labour issues: a drastic increase [8] Kaleidoscope - Haiti: under a US military control - Haiti, a mountainous land: not a natural but an imperialist-made disaster - Russian missiles: an 'iron hammer' fell again - Temporary CIA agents: a desperate attempt TOP |
No. 2105
(February 8th 2010 Issue)
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No to the US-Japan military alliance!
- Denounce the JCP central leadership for asking the DPJ government to implement its election promises - Fight to stop the new US base construction in Henoko! Advance antiwar, anti-Security Treaty struggle!  [2-3] Militant students of Zengakuren Hokkaido fought against a parachute drill of SDF troops in the snowy Tokachi district (Jan. 18th). Kagoshima University: a campus rally against a US Marine drill in Kyushu (Jan. 21st) Osaka University of Economics: the punished students won the law suit, demanding rehabilitation from the school authority (Dec. 25th) Aichi University: 300 students pressed the president No to the campus relocation plan! No to the new system of curriculum!
[4-5] Denounce the Zenroren cadres for leading the spring labour offensive into a campaign to ask the Hatoyama government to implement its election promises! - Abandonment of wage hike demands and emphasis on demands for 'better rules' - Demands on the Hatoyama government to implement its election promises: an act of spreading illusion about the DPJ government - Advocacy for 'economy with regulations': close to the DJP's 'Third Way' [6] Denounce the Japan Post managerial for imposing sales quota! A supermarket owner in Osaka accused of imposing extremely long duration of labour on part-time workers Topics The employers' federation intent on sweeping away the elements of the Japanese pay scale system based on seniority [7] Arrogant ways of survival of monopoly capitalists in the manufacturing industry On the 'industrial reorganization vision' by the employers' federation Shameless reports by Japanese labour aristocrats about their 'efforts to prevent labour disputes at overseas factories' [8] Kaleidoscope - The Google dispute: connected with a commercial race for a next system of internet - Today's Roosevelt? Feigned bashing by Obama on the Wall Street - Denomination in North Korea: Kim's economic delusion with no economics TOP |
No. 2104
(February 1st 2010 Issue)
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Feb. 7th Workers' Meeting - The Hatoyama government devoted to saving monopolies and forcing workers to pay for the crisis - The investigation of Ozawa's fund scandal: US machinations for expelling the DPJ leader, an advocate for the 'independence of Japan from the US' - Labour aristocrats in Rengo pledging cooperation with the bourgeoisie in 'overcoming the unprecedented difficulty of the nation' - Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2010 spring labour offensive!
Militant workers and students marching through central Tokyo (Jan. 24th) Main slogans the JRCL proposes for the 2010 spring labour offensive
[4] The total bankruptcy of the US attempt to reinstate its unipolar dominance over the world The death agony of US imperialism in decline (Continued from the previous issue) I. The grand failure of the Obama-led policies for rollback - The complete failures in the 'war on terror' and the sanction against the 'hostile nation' - The fundamental bankruptcy in the US's attempt to prevent China and Russia from emerging as its 'rivals' - The failure in the policy to reconstruct the 'power of alliances' II. The fundamental collapse of the US dollar rule - The financial turmoil and the economic depression impossible to escape from (The above in the previous issue) - The mounting fiscal deficit: a possible fall in the dollar III. Global struggles between the three blocs: highlighting the decline of US imperialism - A currency war connected with financial conflicts and the formation of economic blocs - Its lagging behind China and Russia in the global scramble for natural resources - Its lagging in an international race for developing technologies for environmental protection [5] Difficulties with the reconstruction of the 'nationalized' GM [6] For the annual JTU Meeting for Education Research Topics The annual report by the employers' federation on managerial issues [7] Okinawa: the prefectural board of education driving children and teachers to compete with each other for school records Oppose the planned introduction of a national ID number system for social security and taxation! [8] Chavez's call for a 'Fifth International' - Confused arguments at the Caracas Conference - Shocked by the Honduras coup - Aimed at embracing degenerate Trotskyists An intensified scramble for lithium among the US, Europe, Japan and China [3] Kaleidoscope - Obama on the CIA: 'a screw-up' - PIGS: a crisis in Greece - A new Chinese 'institute for Marxism' - Romania: the machinated 'revolution' in 1989 TOP |
No. 2103
(January 25th 2010 Issue)
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January 24th - The joint statement for 'deepening the US-Japan alliance': a political show with no reference to the US base relocation issue - The newly intensified race between the US and China-Russia for strengthening their nuclear military capabilities - Enormous degeneration of the official opposition movements and struggles by the revolutionary left - The JCP leadership asking the Hatoyama government 'to implement the DPJ's campaign promises' - Fight against the strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance! Fight under the banner against the Security Treaty! [4-5] The total bankruptcy of the US attempt to reinstate its unipolar dominance over the world The death agony of US imperialism in decline I. The grand failure of the Obama-led policies for rollback - The complete failures in the 'war on terror' and the sanction against the 'hostile nation' - The fundamental bankruptcy in the attempt to prevent China and Russia from emerging as 'rivals' - The failure in the policy to revive the 'power of alliances' II. The fundamental collapse of the US dollar rule - The financial turmoil and the economic depression impossible to escape from [6] A bill 'to improve the Worker Dispatch Law': full of deceptions Kirin Brewery Co.: a suddenly announced plan to close its Hokuriku factory Topics The Rengo leaders' report for the 2010 spring labour offensive [7] Japan Post: the total failure of the 'JP Express' project Denounce the Japan Post management for imposing a 'multiple duty system' on workers Osaka Governor's plan to relocate the prefectural office [8] A new development in the tripartite economic war connected with environmental issues The COP15, a theatre of conflicts and stratagems (Continued from the previous issue) - A deceptive collusion between the US and China, and a diplomatic win by China - A new era characterized by the intensified confrontation between the US and China - The tripartite environmental-economic war developing into a new phase [3] Kaleidoscope - The dual agent: a crushing blow to the US intelligence - US Predators and Reapers hacked by Muslim radicals - The JCP Chairman recommending an 'equal and fair alliance' modelled after the NATO - The world's largest emitter taking the issue of global warming to obtain advanced echo-technologies from foreign capitalists - Another attempt to strengthen US nuclear bases in Japan TOP |
No. 2102
(January 18th 2010 Issue)
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Fight to advance antiwar struggle vigorously I. US imperialism vs. China and Russia: a new era characterized by their intensified confrontation and Japan's measures for survival II. Fight to advance antiwar, anti-Security Treaty struggle by denouncing the central JCP leadership for abandoning their policy against the Security Treaty! [4] Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2010 spring labour offensive! Fight back against any attempt by the Hatoyama government and monopoly capitalists to force the working class pay for the economic crisis! Denounce the Rengo aristocrats for distortion, self-destruction of the spring offensive under the pretext of 'overcoming the crisis of the nation'! Central Workers' Orgburo (Continued from the previous issue) I. Japanese imperialism desperate to wriggle out of the crisis in the middle of the global depression - Monopoly capitalists bent on discharging workers and cutting wages - The Hatoyama government plunging the working people into a new form of impoverishment - The Rengo leadership guiding the spring labour offensive 'to save the nation' and revolutionary workers fighting in opposition to the distortion II. Let us fight for a militant upsurge of the 2010 Spring Labour Offensive in opposition to the attempt to distort it in the names of 'national salvation'! - The Rengo leadership pledging their devotion to 'revival of the Japanese economy' - Smash massive dismissals and wage cuts! Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2010 Spring Labour Offensive! [5] A new development in the tripartite economic war connected with environmental issues The COP15, a theatre of conflicts and stratagems - A mutually deceptive, pragmatic collusion between the US and China, and a diplomatic win by China - A new era characterized by the intensified confrontation between the US and China (Continued to the next issue) [6]  Panasonic's purchase of Sanyo: heating international
competitions between monopolies for the dominance
over environment-related sections[7] A postal worker was crushed to death under an electric tractor at a postal office in Tokyo: He was killed by the JP authority who disregards occupational safety Denounce the managerial for emphasizing 'productivity' and profits more than safety Hokkaido: 'Denounce the Obama-led US government for its continued aggression against Afghanistan!' Students marching through Sapporo City (Dec. 12th, 2009) (Pic right) Nagoya University 'No to an increase in tuition!' A campus demonstration against the school authority (Dec. 16th, 2009)
[8] Resolves for the New Year (3) - The Chugoku Regional Committee - The Electric Industrial Workers' Committee - The Chemical Industrial Workers' Committee - The Masscommunication Industrial Workers' Committee - The East Kanagawa District Antiwar Workers Conference TOP |
No. 2101
(January 11th 2010 Issue)
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Fight for a militant upsurge of I. Japanese imperialism desperate to wriggle out of the crisis in the middle of the global depression II. Let us fight for a militant upsurge of the 2010 Spring Labour Offensive in opposition to its distortion under the pretext of the 'national salvation'! [6-7] Hatoyama's measures for breaking through the crisis under the slogan of an 'ecological course of the nation' I. Hatoyama's proposal for 'the 25% reduction' of the CO2 emissions and a new political dynamics in the COP 15 II. Attempts to change Japan's economic structure dependent on the exports to the US III. Escalation of the economic war connected with the environmental issues against the US, China and the European Union [5] Resolves for the New Year (2) The Prefectural/Municipal Workers' Committee Build a firm bridgehead to break the municipal version of the industrial patriotic movement! The Traffic and Transport Workers' Committee We, young workers, will stand in the forefront of the fight to overcome the crisis of the class struggle The Welfare Workers' Committee Reinforce the revolutionary nuclei with burning anti-Stalinist communist spirits The Heavy Industrial Workers' Committee Expand and strengthen our ranks despite the oppression by the labour aristocrats! The Small Enterprise Workers' Committee Smash the dismissals and wage cuts! Let us fight the 2010 spring labour offensive in its forefront! [8] The Okinawa Prefecture Committee Stir up the flames of struggle against the US-Japan military alliance on this island of nuclear bases! The Kansai Regional Committee Advance the anti-Stalinist communist movement in confrontation with the 'friendly neo-fascism' The Hokuriku Regional Committee Open a new horizon for the building of our party by lifting our original spirit of anti-Stalinist communist movement! TOP |