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No. 2203
(January 30th 2012 Issue)
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Feb. 12th - The Noda government rushing headlong towards a massive consumption tax increase - Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2012 spring labour offensive by denouncing the Rengo leadership for abandoning a demand for wage raises and supporting a consumption tax increase! Main slogans the JRCL proposes for the 2012 spring labour offensive
[2] The environmental impact assessment report about a new US Marin base construction in Henoko: Reveal the mocking report of 7000 pages! Fight against the new base construction! Myanmar's military junta scheming to survive amid a confrontation between the US and China [4] Stop the restart of nuclear plants! Oppose the nuclear-plant export! Win a militant upsurge of the anti-nuclear development struggle! - The Noda government rushing headlong towards the restart of nuclear plants - A deceitful announcement that the Fukushima nuclear disaster is 'settled' - People in Fukushima suffering and struggling in areas of highly concentrated radioactive pollution - A conflict within the ruling class over the development of a nuclear fuel cycle - Stop all the nuclear plants right now! Decommission all the plants and facilities related to the nuclear development! [5] Smash the construction of 'a tax identification number system combined with social security'! - A step towards the introduction of a nation-wide identification system 'with the number on the peoples' back - Fight against the further strengthening of the neo-fascist ruling system! [6] The 'accepting-all' medical service in Okinawa now on the edge of its collapse due to budget cuts A trial on teachers who rejected to honour the national anthem 'Reign-of-the-Emperor' is held The top court recognises the rights of teachers and order the education board to partially revoke their punishments [7] Right-wing ideologists shocked by the Fukushima nuclear disaster and exposing their internal disputes The Mihama nuclear plant No.2 reactor Reveal the serious condition: pipes damaged and a massive amount of the primary cooling water leaking! [8] My notebook on 'collaborated labour' unfolded in the book written by Kan'ichi Kuroda Dialectics of Society A choice by the Pakistani government distancing itself from US imperialism: introduction of Chinese-language into education [3] Kaleidoscope - The European Union: Sounding a prelude to collapse, with EU rulers hit by the downgrade of bonds and thrown into turmoil - The Chinese bureaucracy shaken by endless storms of workers' protests and worried about 'Where is the next' - The government-led 'stress test on nuclear plants': showing global-standards in its deception and dangerousness - 'After me, the deluge': Struggling Chinese workers and greedy capitalists fleeing abroad TOP |
No. 2202
(January 23rd 2012 Issue)
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Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2012 spring offensive! (1) The Japanese government and the ruling class coercing workers and people into poverty - The Noda government rushing headlong towards the massive consumption tax increase - Sacking and wage cut offensives intensified under the pretext of 'reconstruction after the earthquake' - Workers' struggles distorted into an 'industrial patriotic' movement by the Rengo labour aristocrats under the slogan of 'breaking through the national peril' and the struggle of the revolutionary left (2) Overthrow the Noda government with a militant upsurge of the politico-economic struggle and the spring labour offensive! - Break the 'industrial patriotic' movement led by the Rengo! - Denounce the JCP-affiliated Zenroren leadership distorting the spring labour offensive into a movement begging the bourgeoisie 'to boost domestic demand' - Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring struggle! [8] Aichi University'Oppose the deprivation of students' right to autonomous activities! Oppose the reactionary offensive attendant upon the partial relocation of the campus!' 'No rise in tuition!' Over 400 of the students filled the lobby and pinned down the university authority (Dec. 8th) [pic] The students marching through the campus filled with boards encouraging all the students to rise in the protest (Toyohashi Campus of Aichi University) My resolve for New Year Zengakuren President Yuichiro Sakai [4-5] Criticizing the JCP policy for 'opposing Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership' The JCP leadership using shameless flattery towards 'conservatives' with the catchphrase of 'No to the politics ruinous to the nation' - A scheme for a survival squeezed out by the leadership neck-deep in the crisis of the organizational collapse of the party - A superficial analysis of the present situation in Asia in disregard of the confrontation between the US/Japan and China - Their anti-TPP policy for 'defending Japan's economic sovereignty' - Introduction of the monopoly bourgeois ideology of 'national interests' - A still more degeneration into modified capitalism [6-7] Reveal the terrible radioactive contamination of the ocean! Denounce the Noda government declaring 'the settlement' of the Fukushima nuclear accident! 'Sayonara, Shika Nuclear Plant' rally held in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture (Dec, 10th) Resolves for New Year No.3 - The Chugoku Regional Committee - The Telecommunication Industrial Workers Committee - The Masscommunication Industrial Workers Committee - The Metal Industrial Workers Committee - The Small and Medium Enterprise Workers Committee TOP |
No. 2201
(January 16th 2012 Issue)
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Overthrow the reactionary Noda government!
(1) Crisis deepened in the contemporary world - A head-on clash between the US and China over hegemony in Asia - Nakedly anti-proletarian offensives by the Noda government - Degeneration of the official leadership and the fight of the revolutionary left (2) Create a revolutionary upsurge in our struggle against nuclear development unified with antiwar and politico-economic struggles! - Fight by overcoming the JCP-led movement begging the government for a 'withdrawal from nuclear power generation' - Overthrow the reactionary Noda government with a militant struggle of workers and students! [8] 'Stop the submission of the environmental impact assessment report!' 'No US base construction in Henoko!' Militant workers and students resolutely led the intense struggles against the Japanese government attempting to submit the assessment report to the prefectural authorities in Okinawa on December 26-28, 2011 The Japanese government, pressed by the US Obama administration, attempted to carry out the procedure for base construction (pic top) Militant actions blocked the submission (in front of the Okinawa prefectural office, Dec. 26th) (pic middle) Angry workers, students and residents thronging the guardroom where the government officials left the report at midnight (in the prefectural office, Dec. 28th) Zengakuren rise in protest in Tokyo (pic bottom) 'No to the forced submission of the assessment report!', furious Zengakuren students fighting in front of the Ministry of Defence headquarters (Dec. 27th) 'I'll do my best by taking the pathos of Chairman Ueda to my heart' The determination I made in the last month's JRCL political meeting [4-5] Putin-led Russia: chasing the phantom of its restoration as a great power (1) Protests against the 'Putin regime' - An upsurge in anti-Putin demonstrations and the crushing defeat of the United Russia in the Lower House elections - Carrot-and-stick measures to survive (2) Strategy for Russia's restoration as a 'great power' - Ambition to recover the territory of the former USSR: attempts to create a Eurasian Union - Political, military offensives dependent on the alliance with China (3) Russian workers, rise in a working class-based counterattack! - A hole in Putin's authoritarian, military ruling system - Overcome Stalinism and create a genuine proletarian party! [10-11] Resolves for New Year No. 2 - The Hokkaido Regional Committee - The Kansai Regional Committee - The Kyushu Regional Committee - The Education Workers Committee - The Electric Industrial Workers Committee - The Traffic and Transport Workers Committee - The Social Welfare Workers Committee - The Eastern Kanagawa District Antiwar Workers Conference TOP |