| back issues | English home | Japanese home |
No. 2390
(October 19th 2015 Issue)
|
Scrap the War Law! --- Denounce the bombing of Syria by the Putin government! - A rivalry is intensifying in East Asia: between the US / Japan and China / Russia - Overcome the JCP-led 'Defend democracy' movement without opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! [2] Mass protest actions against the US-Japan military alliance Nara Workers, students and citizens burning with anger rallied and marched: September 19th
(pic right) "Scrap the War Law!" Protesters marched on the Nara LDP office [3] Kagoshima Militant students of Kagoshima University rose up!: September 16th - 18th
(pic centre) An emergency rally in front of Kagoshima Chuo Sation (pic right) A speech of a militant student in the rally Kitakyusyu Voice against the Abe government echoed: September 23rd
(pic right) Workers raised a leaflet of the JRCL, showing their resolutions against the War Law The JRCL members appealed and distributed many leaflets at the main street in the Fukuoka City [4-5] Shatter the drastic reform of the social security system by the Abe government! -- The reactionary nature of the law for 'reforming the health insurance system' I. The health care reform law: aimed at fundamentally changing the public health insurance system II. Thoroughgoing reduction in the social security costs: designed for the restoration of 'militarist Japan' III. Definitely no to the victimization of workers and people! No to the imposition of poverty on the toiling masses! The Abe government lifted the ban on the use of foreign workers at low wages as houseworkers [6] Topics Deceptions in the Abe government's catchphrase 'Zero job leavers for reasons of family nursing care' Nursing facilities going bankrupt in succession due to the reduction in care payment Low wages and intensified labour imposed on care workers Smash Abenomics that imposes dire poverty on workers and the toiling people! No to the drastic reform of the social security system sacrificing the underprivileged! Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency launched: a rush to arms exports and the buildup of the Japanese military Monopoly capitalists calling for the 'promotion of arms export as a national strategy' -- The Japan Business Federation's 'Recommendation' concerning government policy for the defense industry [7] Confusion and confrontation in the EU laid bare in the face of massive influxes of refugees Kaleidoscope - Changing hotels in New York: the US-China summit meeting - Xi Jinping threatened Obama by referring to the 'Thucydides trap' in Seattle [8] My study note Lessons I learned from Kuroda's 'leap' in 1956 -- On reading Fifty Years of the Revolutionary Marxist Faction of the JRCL, vol. 1 TOP |
No. 2389
(October 12th 2015 Issue)
Scrap the War Law! - The Abe government is preparing the dispatch of the Self-Defence Force to the South China Sea, the Middle East and Africa based on the War Law - The US and Japanese governments are hastening the new US base construction in Henoko, while suppressing protest actions - Overcome the JCP-led 'Defend democracy' movement without opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! - Down with the Abe government! Build up a united front against fascism! [2] Mass protest actions against the War Bill various regions Okinawa Anger against the Abe government flared up
September 18th 1500 demonstrators marched through the main street Osaka "Prevent the forced passage of the War Bill!" Workers, students and citizens marched
[3] Kanazawa Voices against fascism echoed
September 17th Many flags of trade unions were raised Nagoya "Denounce the outrage by the Abe government!" Voices with anger echoed
[4] The crisis of China's 'new normal' economy shaking the global economy A. The shock of the worldwide drop in stock prices caused by China's stock market rout - China's economic decline brought about by the collapse of asset / housing bubbles - Imperialists' extraordinary monetary relaxation policies coming to a dead end B. The deepening crisis of China's 'new normal' economy - The collapse of China's stock market bubble - The explosion of all conflicts created by measures to 'boost domestic demands' by spending huge amounts of money [6] Denounce the recommendation by the National Personnel Authority for reducing salaries! A private senior high school in Kochi Pref. to set up a 'Self-Defense Force course' No to the introduction of a military personnel training course into a high school curriculum! Topics The Japanese government schemes to maintain and expand the daily-hire temporary worker dispatching system [7] An attempt to launch an 'amphibious mobile forces' as a core unit of the Japanese version of the US Marine Corps An Okinawa-based US-Japan joint detection system strengthened against Chinese submarines [8] Kaleidoscope - Japanese rulers defeated in winning the order of a rapid transit railway system from the Indonesian government - The advent of a new Australian prime minister makes it more difficult for Japan to sell submarines for strengthening military integration A letter from Britain The election for the Leader of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn's election and its backgrounds TOP |
No. 2388
(October 5th 2015 Issue)
|
Create a fight to scrap the War Law!
-Mass protest actions for 6 days that shook the Abe government -Revolutionary workers and students led the struggle against the War Bill for aggression -The Rengo leadership announced 'a position against the Security Bill', pressured by struggles from below -Condemn the JCP leadership bent on campaining for a 'popular coalition government'! -A serious mistake in the slogan 'Defend constitutionalism, democratism and pacifism' -Scrap the War Law! Down with the Abe government! [4-5] Mass protest actions against the forced passage of the War Bill
Protest actions to the LDP prefectural office were held successively "Denounce the outrageous passage of the War Bill through the Special Committee!" Militant students rallied in a protest action to the Osaka LDP office under the banner: "Prevent the enactment of the War Bill for aggression! Crush the build-up of the US-Japan global war alliance! No to the revision of the Constitution! Against neo-fascism!": September 17th (pic 1) (pic) Workers, students and citizens yelled toward the LDP office: "Stop the War Bill for aggression!": September 18th (pic 2) Nara, September 16th Hundreds of protesters waged a sit-in and a demonstration (pic 3)
Voices with anger echoed "Down with the Abe government!" More than a thousand workers, students and citizens rallied despite heavy rain: September 18th (pic 4) Zengakuren Hokkaido waged a protest action to stop the passage of the War Bill toward the Hokkaido LDP office: September 18th (pic 5) Protesters burning with anger against the forced passage of the War Bill rose up!: September 19th (pic 6)
Militant students appealed:Against the US-Japan Security Treaty! More than a thousands of protesters yelled: Stop the forced passage of the War Bill! (pic 7) Kyusyu, September 6th Protest actions against the War Bill were held in Fukuoka and Kita-Kyusyu City Kagoshima, September 13th Two thousand protesters rallied and raised their fist with anger to stop the passage of the War Bill (pic 8)
[2] 25 thousand protesters yelled: Repeal the War Law! A 'Sayonara Nuke, Sayonara War' rally: Tokyo, September 23rd "Abolish the War Law!" Union workers yelled in response to militant students' yells (pic 9) Voices with anger echoed "Down with the Abe government!" (pic 10) [3] Block the construction of the Ohma nuclear plant! No to the full use of dangerous MOX [mixed oxide fuel]! Sendai Nuclear Plant Reactor No.2 'Stop the loading of nuclear fuel!': militant Kagoshima Univ. students fought against the resumption of operation together with workers and residents: Sendai, Kyushu, September 11th (pic 11) [6] Topics Leaders of Jichiroren, followers of the JCP, withdrew their instruction to attend the Sep. 23rd 'Sayonara to Nuke/War' rally Expose the parliamentarianist distortion of the anti-War Law struggle into an election campaign by the leaderships of Zenroren [National Confederation of Trade Unions]-affiliated unions! General Federation of Japan Printing and Publishing Workers' Unions: a crisis of its movement revealed in the 65th regular convention [7] The 37th Jichiroren [Japan Federation of Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Unions] Convention: Emphasis laid only on the need for a joint struggle with 'conscientious' conservatives / local government heads in a 'single-issue campaign' against the War Bill Utlranationalists-authored high school textbooks: the case of Ishikawa Prefecture Neo-fascist Abe-backed three boards of education forced the decision to choose them for the next four years [8] Kaleidoscope - Merchants of death's calculations: The Japan Business Federation aggressively recommends the Abe government to accelerate arms development and arms export - The incidence of childhood thyroid cancer is sharply increasing in Fukushima: 'It's a result of excessive diagnoses' -- with a demagogy, the Abe government is plotting to cut the thyroid checkup program - A disaster drill by dispatching an aircraft carrier?: Stop building up a system for mobilizing the whole nation in the name of coping with earthquake disaster! TOP |
No. 2387
(September 28th 2015 Issue)
|
Condemn the forced passage of the War Bill through the House of Councillors!
- Millions of people's protests that shook the Abe government - US and Japanese rulers bent on building a US-Japan global war alliance - Let us fight resolutely by overcoming the Japanese Communist Party's campaign to 'defend democracy' --without calling to fight against the US-Japan military alliance! - Scrap the War Law for aggression! Block the revision of the Constitution of Japan! [4~5] Stop the passage of the War Bill for aggression through the House of Councillors! Mass protest actions shook the Diet September 14th - 19th Zengakuren fought for a militant upsurge of the struggle, overcoming the JCP-led 'Defend democracy'movement September 14th - "Smash the US-Japan military alliance! No to fascism! Down with the Abe cabinet!" calls of protest thundered on
September 16th -Protest actions drove the Abe cabinet to give up passing the Bill through the special committee of the Diet
September 17th -Denounce the passage of the War Bill through the special committee!
September 18th and 19th -Over fourty thousand workers, students and citizens rose up in actions to stop the passage of the War Bill through the plenary session
[8] Prevent the resumption of the construction work for the new US base in Henoko! Block the new US base by militant protest actions! Fight together aiming at 'the removal of all US bases and the abandonment of the US-Japan Security Treaty'! The JRCL Okinawa Prefectural Committee -The Abe government bent on resuming the new US base construction -The reinforcement of the preparation for US-Japan joint military operations according to the new Guidelines for US-Japan Defence Cooperation -Political and military confrontation is intensifying between the US / Japan and China / Russia -Overcome the JCP-led movement against the new base construction without opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! -Let us create a militant upsurge of the struggle against the US-Japan military alliance! Down with the Abe government! [3] Protesters burning with anger rallied against the resumption of the new US base construction: Henoko September 12th
(pic right) Militant students in canoes beset a workboat (center with a banner) and finally prevented the installation of barrier floats September 14th
(pic right) Militants in canues were fighting to block the instalation of a landing stage by the Coast Guard 22 thousand protesters besieged the Diet building against the new US base construction September 12th
(pic centre) Waves of people besieging the Diet building "Prevent the construction of the new US base in Henoko!" (pic right) Wide-spread sympathy with Zengakuren
A protest action against the US-Japan joint military exercise: Aibano in Shiga Prefecture, September 12th (pic 1) Militant students were marching together with workers and citizens, raising the banner: "Against the US-Japan joint military exercise! Against the build-up of the US-Japan global war alliance!" Over three thousand protesters yelled: "Down with the Abe government!": Sapporo, August 29th (pic 2-3) Militant students of Hokkaido University and Obihiro Agricultural and Veterinary University marched together with workers under the banner: "No to the War Bill for aggression!" Militant workers and students fought for a militant upsurge of the first Rengo rally against the War Bill: Sapporo, September 7th (pic 4)
[7] Voices of protesters echoed: "Stop the restart of nuclear plants!": Kyoto, September 6th Militant students appealed by raising the banner: "Stop the War Bill for aggression! Down with the Abe government!"(pic 5) More than five thousand protesters rallied against the restart of the nuclear plant (pic 6) Denounce the labour aristocrats of the JEIU [Japanese Electrical, Electronic and Information Unions] for arresting the uplifting of the struggle against the War Bill! [6] Topics Their 'no' is only a pose: Denounce the labour aristocrats' call for a 'thoroughgoing security legislation'! -- Rengo [Japanese Trade Union Confederation] held a series of rallies to 'stop the passage of the security bill' in front of the Diet Building: September 15th and 17th The case of Osaka City: The board of education, minions of neo-fascist mayor Hashimoto, forcibly decided on the use of the ultrarightists-authored high school textbooks Regular convention of the UA Zensen* Chairman Ohmi let out his endorsement of Japan's 'exercise of the right to collective self-defense' * UA Zensen [The Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers' Unions]: Japan's largest general trade union federation under the umbrella of Rengo TOP |
(1)
No. 2386
(September 21st 2015 Issue)
|
Stop the passage of the War Bill for aggression through the House of Councillors!
-The Abe government bent on enacting the anti-Constitutional War Bill for aggression -Rivalry is intensifying between the US / Japan and China / Russia: An impending crisis of a war -Advance towards the overthrow of the Abe government, overcoming the JCP-led opposition movement without opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! -Fight under the banner: 'Against the build-up of the US-Japan global war alliance!' -Build up a united front against fascism! [2]
Protesters rallied to prevent the resumption of the construction, Okinawa, September 5th Workers, students and residents with anger against the resumption the construction work rallied and occupied the main gate of Camp Schwab Militant students of Ryukyu University and Okinawa International University fought in solidarity with workers and residents
Condemn the resumption of the new base construction!,Tokyo, September 12th 22 thousand protesters with anger besieged the Diet building (pic 1) [3] Mass protest actions against the War Bill in various regions Thousands of protesters rallied despite of heavy rain, Hibiya Park near the Diet building, September 9th "Down with the Abe government!" The participants filled the Hibiya Band Shell (pic 2) Militant students marched on the Diet building, with the banner: "Prevent the passage of the War Bill for aggression through the House of Councillors!" (pic 3) Nagoya, September 5th (pic 4) Kanazawa, August 30th (pic 5) [4] Denounce the revision of the Worker Dispatching Law! - No to the introduction of temporary labour to all jobs! - Fight to win drastic improvements in the working conditions of temporary workers without allowing the major reduction of permanent employees! Shatter the government bills to revise the Labour Standards Law! The Abe government and the capitalist class are imposing overwork on employees, driving them into death and suicide [6] Stop the passage of the War Bill for aggression through the House of Councillors! Topple the Abe government with the united power of workers and the people! The JRCL Education Workers Committee 'Don't send our pupils into war again!' The Japan Teachers' Union staged a sit-in in front of the Diet Building, September, 7th (pic ??) Topics The poverty of women and children is becoming more and more serious in Japan [8] My study note Learning from Kuroda's 'lectures' on the building of the party organization: The Pioneering of Reality-Theories of Organization, vol. 5 (continued from the last issue) My thoughts on hearing the chorus 'NO PASARAN!' amid the latest protest action against the Abe government: Remember Stalinists' crime in Spain that paved the way for fascists' victory [5] The 53rd International Antiwar Assembly Messages from foreign friends to the Antiwar Assembly (5) - Socialist Alliance, Australia - Russian Communist Workers Party - Tyumen Regional Committee, Russia Beijing bureaucrats frantic to 'fortify' the South China Sea [7] Kaleidoscope - The LDP's recent party leader election: Abe dirtly intimidated his rival into withdrawing her candidacy - The meaning of Russian Prime Minister Medvedev's visit to Iturup Island, one of the 'Northern Territories' that Japan claims - Government mouthpieces are irritated at the big protest demonstrations surrounding the Diet Building - Arrogance in revising history: the Japanese government made a complaint about the UN Secretary-General's participation in China's 70th anniversary ceremony commemorating its victory over Japan - The so-called 'toilet revolution' in China TOP |
No. 2385
(September 14th 2015 Issue)
|
Down with the Abe government with a militant fight of workers and students! --Break a crisis of war impending under the military confrontation between the US / Japan and China / Russia! -Condemn the JCP leadership deteriorating the opposition movement into a 'Defend Democracy' movement without opposition to the US-Japan military alliance!
Stop the passage of the War Bill for aggression through the House of Councillors! "Down with the Abe government!" The anger of people was flaring up across the country! August 30th Around the Diet building and at Hibiya Park Militant workers and students leading the struggle A Japan Teachers Union column with the banner: "Don't send our pupils to war!" (pic right) In front of the gate, the flag of Zengakuren was flying. Militant students fought under the banner: "Down with the Abe government!" -----The protesters gathered around them and shouted together with them: "Build up a united front against fascism!" (pic centre) Workers, students and citizens protesting against the War Bill for aggression at Hibiya Park near the Diet building (pic left)
August 30th Naha in Okinawa Anger against the new US Marine base was flaring up! (pic 1) "Let's fight in unity!" (pic 2) Militant students marched, raising the banner: "Remove US bases! Abandon the US-Japan Security Treaty!"
August 30th Osaka 25 thousand protesters rallied, burning with anger (pic 3) The participants filling Ogimachi Park (pic 4) Workers joining the chorus of militant students of Zengakuren Kansai : "Against the new US-Japan military alliance!"
August 29th Kobe Students of Kobe University appealed: "No to fascism!" (pic 5) Militant students raising the banner: "Against the build-up of the US-Japan global war alliance!" (pic 6) Students of Kobe University marched at the head of the demonstration August 23rd Kagoshima Voices of protesters echoed: "Stop the War Bill!" (pic 7) All of the participants raising up the placards against the enactment of the War Bill for aggression! (pic 8) Students of Kagoshima University calling on the participants to fight against the War Bill for aggression and the new US-Japan military alliance
[4] Denounce the Panasonic managegent for introducing a more exploitative wage system! [5] The 53rd International Antiwar Assembly: Messages from foreign friends to the Antiwar Assembly (4) - National Alliance of People's Movements, India - Union Pacifiste de France, France - DIE LINKE, Germany - Victor F. Isaichikov, Russia [6] Topics Abe-led LDP pressing local governments to adopt ultranationalists-authored school textbooks for social studies Condemn the cut in the payment of part of corporate pensions! [7] Kaleidoscope - Xi Jinping's nightmare: 'Enough of Xi the Red-Emperor's nonsense!' (Mao Zedong from beyond the grave) - The Xi government detained over 300 lawyers in the name of the 'rule of law in socialism' - Abe boasts of the newly launched helicopter destroyer Kaga: virtually a full-fledged aircraft carrier, construction of which is prohibited by the 'war-renouncing' Constitution of Japan [8] My study note Learning from Kuroda's 'lectures' on the building of the party organization: The Pioneering of Reality-Theories of Organizatio, vol. 5 TOP |
(6)
No. 2384
(September 7th 2015 Issue)
|
Stop the passage of the War Bill for aggression
-Smash the ambition of the Abe government to restore 'militarist Japan'! -Condemn the JCP leadership for abandoning opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! -Besiege the Diet building with mass protest action!
[2] 14 thousand workers burning with anger surrounded the Diet building! Rengo held its first protest action against the War Bill for aggression, under the pressure from below: August 23rd Workers of Japan Teachers' Union rallied from all over the country (pic 1) Members of the Japan Post Union (pic 2) "Denounce the US military helicopter MH60 crash!" Militant students called for struggle against the US-Japan military alliance! On August 13th, exactly 11 years to the day since a US Force helicopter crashed into Okinawa International University, a mass rally and a demonstration were waged. Militant students of the university and Ryukyu University marched under the banner against the US-Japan military alliance, condemning repeated crashes of US Force helicopters. Workers and students marched on the Futenma base (pic 3) Demonstrators raised their fist toward a US Marine osprey flying over them (pic 4) "Stop the enactment of the War Bill for aggression!" Militant students of Nara Women's University rose up in a local protest action: August 22nd Workers, students and citizens marched in the Nara City (pic 5) The demonstrators burning with anger yelled toward the Nara prefectural office of the LDP (pic 6) Regulations to be reviewed with regard to Japanese companies' acquisition of foreign military companies -The Abe government and monopoly capitalists in the munitions industry bent on exporting weapons and military technologies [3] Block the US-Japan joint military exercises at Aibano and Nihonbara drill grounds! Rise up in the protest action at Aibano on September 12th! -The military exercises for invasion operations into enemy country according to the new Guidelines for US-Japan Defence Cooperation -Military confrontation over hegemony in East Asia: between the US / Japan and China / Russia -Degeneration of the established opposition movement and revolutionary struggles of Zengakuren -Overcome the JCP-led movement without opposition to Ampo (the US-Japan military alliance)! [4] Declaration of the ambition to restore 'militarist Japan': Denounce PM Abe's statement issued for the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII! I. Nullification of former PM Murayama's statement that expressed Japan's apologies for its past colonial rule and aggression II. A show of Abe's determination to enact the War Bill for aggression, to restore 'militarist Japan' III. The neo-fascist nature of Abe's statement - Justification of aggressive wars by the slogan of 'proactive contribution to peace' - Fabrication and distortion of the history of Japanese imperialism [5] Reactionary changes in the form of wage payment: in accordance with each worker's 'performance, roles and contribution' -- Revisions in the skilled workers' wage system in Toyota - Attaching importance to the 'degree of display of skills' - Urging workers to get into 'improvements in productivity' - Aiming to reduce costs for the scheduled introduction of a new system of making cars - Denounce Toyota labour aristocrats' full cooperation in revising the wage payment system! [6] Outrageous exploitation of workers: the realities of the job sites of customer support call centres in Okinawa
Topics The government is scheming to introduce a 'system of encouraging competition' in the area of health insurance [7] The 53rd International Antiwar Assembly: regional meetings: August 2nd A bridgehead fortified for the victory of the Henoko struggle: the Okinawa Assembly, Naha (pic 7) Declaration issued to overthrow the Abe government: the Kyushu Assembly, Fukuoka (pic 8) [8] Kaleidoscope - The explosion in Tianjin: Deliver an angry blow to the Beijing bureaucrats frantic to conceal the facts! - Abandonment of the voluntary evacuees: the announced revision of the Fukushima Disaster-Victim Relief Law - 'Our party defends SDF officials'?!: appalling consequences of the JCP leadership's nationalist inclination - The Public Security Investigation Agency plotting to secretly introduce hacking technology TOP |
(7)
No. 2383
(August 31st 2015 Issue)
|
Down with the Abe government with a militant fight of workers and students! -Break a crisis of war impending under the rivalry between the US / Japan and China / Russia! -Down with the neo-fascist Abe government ambitious to restore militarist Japan! "Stop the passage of the War Bill for aggression through the House of Councillors!" 14000 workers from Rengo affiliated trade unions rose up in a mass rally: In front of the Diet building, August 23rd Condemn the explosion at Sagami US military depot! [2] Condemn the crash of a US military helicopter! Win an upsurge of the struggle against the new US base construction in Henoko! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee
-A US Force helicopter crashed in the middle of a US-Japan joint exercise for a special operation -The Abe government is preparing to enforce the new US base construction in Henoko by staging a 'dialogue' with the governor of Okinawa Prefecture -The islands of Okinawa and southward to be used as a whole for a military fortress against China -Overcome the JCP-led movement against the new US base construction without opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! "Condemn the start of deliberation of the War Bill in the House of Councillors!" The JRCL members appealed and distributed leaflets: Kanazawa City, July 27th
Workers, students and residents carried out a protest action against the visit of the Chief Cabinet Secretary to Okinawa: Naha, August 11th (pic 1) [3] The Abe government and the Kyushu Electric Power Company forced the restart of the Sendai nuclear plant, suppressing the voices of protest on August 11th. (pic 2) To block the restart of it, thousands of workers, students and residents burning with anger rallied on a beach near the nuclear plant: August 9th (pic 3) Hundreds of protesters yelled, raising their angry fist in front of the gate of Sendai nuclear plant: August 11th Prime Minister Abe's statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of the WWII: full of deceptions Cornered PM Abe's followers pass one fascistic remarks after another in the middle of the deliberations on the War Bill [4] Spread a tidal swell of struggle against the War Bill for aggression from the battle front of publishing workers! [6] Block the enactment of the War Bill! Overthrow the Abe government! Oppose the union leadership's distortion of public service workers' struggle into a vote-gathering campaign for the upcoming House of Councillors election! The Prefectural/Municipal Workers Committee A senior high school version of 'moral education': No to the introduction of a new subject 'public' into the high school curriculum! Crush the Abe government's scheme to infuse 'allegiance to the state' into the hearts of senior high students! Topics Stop the passage of the bill for the revision of the Worker Dispatching Law through the House of Councillors! [7] A police-patronized book authored by two defectors from the Chukaku faction Smash the attempt of the state power to newly utilize the remnants of its running dogs!
The 53rd International Antiwar Assembly [8] Regional meetings held in high spirits: August 2nd - 'Down with the Abe government!' Battle cries resounded through the hall: the Kansai Assembly, Osaka (pic 4) - A solid foothold obtained: the Tokai Assembly, Nagoya (pic 5) [5] Messages from foreign friends to the Antiwar Assembly (3) - Fracción Leninista Trotskista Internacional - Colectivo por la IV Internacional (FLTI-CI), Argentina - News and Letters Committees, USA - Lewisham People Before Profit, Britain - Faridabad Workers Newspaper, India TOP |
(1)
(2)
(3)
No. 2381-82
(August 17th-24th 2015 Double Issue)
|
Stop the passage of the War Bill for aggression through the Upper House! - Rivalry intensifying between the US-Japan and China over East Asia -- China strengthening its challenge to the US on the basis of its alliance-like ties with Russia -- The Obama administration hell-bent on building a military encircling net against China - Overthrow the neo-fascist Abe government with the militant fight of workers and people! Denounce the US military helicopter crash in Okinawa! Denounce the restart of the Sendai nuclear power plant!
[8] Protest actions spreading against the War Bill for aggression
July 31st, Naha, Okinawa: 1,500 rose in an emergency protest Workers, students and residents raising angry fists to protest against the Abe government's enforcement of the US base construction in Henoko and its attempt to enact the War Bill (pic 1) July 29th, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture: Over 2,000 demonstrated against the War Bill The JRCL issued a call for action against the US-Japan military alliance Militant students showing a revolutionary course of action at the rally (pic 2) [2] Denunciations of the passage of the War Bill through the Lower House resounded across the country July 18th, Naha, Okinawa 'No to the US-Japan military alliance!' Militant Ryukyu Univ. and Okinawa Int'l Univ. students staging a powerful demonstration (pic 3) July 17th, Sapporo, Hokkaido 1,200 workers, citizens and students taking to the streets in protest (pic 4) July 16th Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture 400 angry protesters rallied; Kanazawa Univ. students rose together with militant workers (pic 5) The 53rd International Antiwar Assembly
Regional meetings held in a spirited atmosphere: August 2nd - All renewed their resolve to crush the War Bill: the Hokkaido Assembly in Sapporo, Hokkaido (pic 6) - 'Crush the building of a global war alliance!': the Hokuriku Assembly in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture (pic 7) [4] Speeches from the two delegates of Tavini Huiraatira to the central meeting in Tokyo 'Smash the exploitation of the toiling masses! Shatter colonialism and imperialism!' 'Say NO! to the destruction of the Pacific Ocean by the military-industrial complex!' [5] Messages from foreign friends to the Antiwar Assembly (2) - Russian Party of Communists, Russia - EEK (Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece), Greece - Vladimir Pronin, Ukraine - David McReynolds, USA - Left Radical of Afghanistan, Afghanistan [6] Topics Rengo [Japanese Trade Union Confederation] to hold a mass rally on August 23rd against the Abe government Bring to light right-wing labour aristocrats' dirty tricks to distort workers' struggles! Strive creatively for the achievement of the education research conference of Zenkyo [All Japan Teachers and Staffs Union]! [7] A report on the 8th national convention of the Japan Postal Union Don't allow the labour aristocrats-led leadership to distort the postal labour movement! TOP |
(6)
(7)* Weekly Kaihoh is edited only in Japanese.
Back Issuesthe head of this page /English home