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The Shooting Incident in Moscow: a Conspiracy

Russian working people,
rise up now to bring down the Putin regime!

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No. 2815
(April 22nd 2024 Issue)

Create an enormous upsurge in the
spring labour offensive and antiwar struggles!

Denounce the JTUC leadership for assisting the Kishida government
in military expansion, constitutional revision and imposition of poverty on workers!

- Shatter the strengthening of the US-Japan global alliance!
- Denounce the agreements on derisory pay offers! Fight out 2024 shunto militantly to the end!
- Step forward towards the overthrow of the Kishida-led Japanese neo-fascist government!

'Stop the new US base construction in Henoko!'
Ryukyu Univ. and Okinawa Int'l Univ. students fought under the banner 'Smash the US-Japan global alliance!
'

Okinawa People's Rally in Nago, April 14th

[2]
No to the US-Japan summit talks!

'Pulverize the buildup of the US-Japan global alliance!'
Zengakuren raised their voice at the PM's Office Tokyo, April 10th

'Don't make the Southwest Islands a military fortress!'

Zengakuren Okinawa protested at the US consulate general

Urasoe, Okinawa, April 11th


The military use of airports and ports
The Kishida government is hell-bent on establishing a system of national mobilization for war

[3] Kaleidoscope
- Eruption of a brand-new rocket developed by a private company in line with national policy
- A pro-Chinese president reelected in El Salvador
- The US government is putting pressure on Japan to set up an 'active cyber defense' system

[4]
Stop the Netanyahu regime's all-out attack on Rafah! Denounce the imposition of starvation on Gazans!

- Condemn the monstrous hunger blockade on Gaza and the bombing of hospitals!
- Stop Netanyahu from expanding the war into Iran!
- The Biden administration is putting forward an 'alternative plan for annihilating Hamas'
- Prevent an all-out attack on Rafah aimed at the genocide of Palestinians!

[5]
The water still cut off : the Noto Peninsula Earthquake

Quake damage extraordinary due to the policy of wide-area water supply and outsourcing

Topics
2024 shunto of Zenroren [National Confederation of Trade Unions]
Under the name of a 'social strike', the JCP-led union leadership is dissolving Shunto into propaganda activities

[6]
Myanmer

The military junta driven into a corner
- Ethnic minorities and anti-government forces have risen up in concert against the junta
- China is using the military junta and anti-junta forces at the same time
- Denounce the military junta's bloody repression of people!

Competition between the US and China over mineral resources in Africa

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No. 2814
(April 15th 2024 Issue)

Thwart the strengthening of the
US-Japan global alliance!

Shatter the tremendous military buildup!
Prevent the constitutional revision!

Bring down the ultra-reactionary Kishida government!

- US-Japan summit talks: a dash to the building of an Asia-Pacific version of NATO
- Offensives to build Japan into a military power, to strengthen its system of authoritarian rule
- No to a massive tax increase for military buildup! No to cuts in social security!
- Advance antiwar, anti-Ampo struggles! Strengthen the Ukraine antiwar struggle and the struggle against the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza!

[2]
Oppose the Japan-UK-Italy joint development and export of the next-generation fighter!
The Kishida government frantic to beef up and develop munitions industries

'Stop the deployment of a GSDF missile unit in Okinawa!'
Workers, students and citizens blocked the government-organized celebration for missile unit deployment

At the GSDF post in Katsuren, Okinawa, March 30th


'No to the US-Japan summit meeting!'
Militant students fought at the front of the protest demonstration

Workers and citizens' rally in Osaka, March 30th


'Don't make the whole of the Southwest Islands and Kyushu a military fortress!
JRCL made a militant appeal to participants in the rally
Workers and citizens' rally in Fukuoka, March 24th

[3]
Land regulation law 583 zones in the country are placed under the government monitoring

Smash the Kishida government's mass surveillance and suppression of anti-base struggles!

Stop the construction of new facilities for nuclear weapons storage in the Henoko Ordinance Ammunition Depot!

[4]

Postal workers' shunto

Denounce the union leaders for agreeing to the management's derisory pay offer

Let us accuse the leadership of their treacheries to union members!

[5]
2024 revision of remuneration for medical treatment

The Kishida government is crying out for 'productivity improvements in health care'
Don't make a sacrifice of health care workers!

[6]
The NTT Law to be abolished

The Japanese government is now heading towards the military use of cutting-edge communications technology

Topics
In the name of 'different dimension countermeasures against a falling birth rate':
Kishida schemes to reinforce mass expropriation by setting up a new 'child-rearing support' system

[7]
Frustrate the resumption of operation of reactor 7 in the Tepco Kashiwazaki-Kariwa neuclear power plant!


Swarming drones

US and Japanese rulers are frantic for the development of AI weaponry

Tanka Poetry
To the Palestinian people!

[8]
In solidarity with fighting Ukrainian people
(4)
What I felt and thought in a direct dialogue with Ukrainian leftists

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No. 2813
(April 8th 2024 Issue

Smash the fortification of the Southwest Islands!
Let us stop the new US base construction in Henoko!
It is time to fight against the US-Japan military alliance!

JRCL Okinawa Prefectural Committee

- Denounce the resumption of the flight of Ospreys!
- The US and the Japanese militaries have effectively prepared their troops for action against China
- Trampling down the rage of workers and students, the government deployed an SDF missile unit in Okinawa
- US and Japanese rulers are strengthening the US-Japan military alliance (Ampo) as an offensive and defensive alliance against China
- Denounce the JCP for abandoning opposition to Ampo!
- 'Remove military bases! Repeal Ampo!' With these aims, let us fight resolutely!

[2-5]
Stop the massive military buildup! Prevent the constitutional revision!

Smash Putin's war!
Stop Israel from attacking Rafah in full force!

Let us fight by overcoming the JCP-led opposition movement that has abandoned opposition to Ampo!


Central Students' Orgburo

1. Today's world thrown into turmoil amid the head-on clash between the US vs. China and Russia
A. Putin ordering 'escalation of war'; Ukrainian people fighting back
B. Israeli rulers hell-bent on attacking Rafah in full force
C. A danger of the outbreak of war growing in the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and the South China Sea
2. The Kishida government rushing headlong towards tremendous military buildup, new base construction and constitutional revision
3. Degeneration of the official opposition movement and revolutionary struggles of Zengakuren
4. Rise in antiwar, anti-Ampo, anti-constitutional revision struggles! Strengthen the Ukraine antiwar struggle and the struggle against the genocide in Gaza!

A. Thwart the deployment of missiles by the Japanese military! Frustrate the revision of the Constitution!
B. Shatter Putin's war!
C. Never, ever let the Netanyahu regime launch a full-scale offensive against Rafah!

No to the deployment of Tomahawk cruise missiles on MSDF warships!

[8]
The deadly shooting incident in Moscow's suburb: a conspiracy


KVPU (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine) Statement

Russia Launches Massive Attacks to Destroy Homes, Workplaces, Energy, and Economy of Ukraine

[6]
For an upsurge of publishing workers' 2024 spring labour offensive!

Win a big, across-the-board wage hike!
Stop the revision of the Constitution! No to the massive military buildup!

[7]
Fight the JAM [Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers] shunto militantly!
Win a big, across-the-board wage hike!

Topics
Teachers are to be kept murderously busy working as long hours as possible without overtime pay
The Central Council for Education is to issue a report, sticking to the purport of the notorious law concerning teachers' working hours and pay


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No. 2812
(April 1st 2024 Issue)

Besiege Putin the invader!
Create a big upsurge of the Ukraine antiwar struggle
in solidarity with working people across the globe!

Denounce the massive Russian bombings on Ukrainian cities and towns!
Condemn the intensive air raids on Oddesa!

- Putin's 'victory' in the presidential election by the use of force, threats and fraud
- A headlong rush to recover the territories of the former Soviet Union
- Smash Putin's war! Bring down the FSB-helmed authoritarian ruling system!

[2]
Zengakuren Okinawa stood against the SDF deployment of missiles in Okinawa

March 10th, Okinawa
'Crush the US-Japan global military alliance!' Militant students fighting in the van of workers and residents (pic left)
Protesters occupying the road to check SDF vehicles in their course to Camp Katsuren (pic right)

Putin kidnapping and brainwashing Ukrainian children


[
3]
'No to the extended operation of the decrepit Sendai nuclear reactors!'
Kagoshima Univ. students strived for the uplifting of workers and citizens' parade held in commemoration of the March 11th Fukushima disaster
March 10th, Kagoshima, Kyushu

'Decommission the Shika Nuclear Power Plant immediately!'

'Sayonara to Nuke' rally in Kansai, Osaka, March 10th
Workers, students and citizens gathered in commemoration of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

'Smash Putin's war!' 'No to Israel's genocidal attacks on Rafah!' Students also appealed

'Stop the restart of Tomari nuclear reactor No. 3!'
'Sayonara to Nuke' rally in Sapporo, March 11th
JRCL's appeal evoked rally participants' favourable responses

[4]
NTT workers' shunto

Denounce the union leadership for agreeing upon a derisory pay rise!

For a militant upsurge in NTT workers' spring wage offensive!


[5]

Don't allow the Kishida government to cut the budget for health and nursing care!


Topics
Auto monopoly capitalists coerce subcontractors into reducing their product prices

JRCL distributed leaflets in a local Rengo shunto rally
Sapporo, March 5th

[6]
Thwart the enactment of an economic security law designed to set up a 'security clearance' system!


Haiku Poems on Gaza children

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No. 2811
(March 25th 2024 Issue)

Denounce the low-pay 'offers and agreements' reached
in unity by management and labour aristocrats!
Stop monopolies from raising prices!
Win a big, across-the-board wage increase!

Don't allow the Rengo leadership to distort shunto into one 'for emerging from deflation'!
- A chorus for price increases with 'the government, labour and management united'
- No to the imposition of low wages on the majority of workers!
Fight out for a militant advancement of the 2024 spring labour offensive!
- Bring to light the criminality lurking in the demand for 'price increases for wage raises'!
- Fight to win a big, across-the-board wage increase!

[2-3]
Don't let the Israel army attack Rafah in full force!
- Crush the genocide in Gaza by the Netanyahu regime!
- Condemn the Biden administration, an accomplice in Israel's barbarity!
- Rise in a struggle against Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, against Russia's aggression in Ukraine!


'Smash Putin's war!'
Demonstrators besieged the Russian Consulate General in Sapporo
All-Hokkaido Zengakuren and Antiwar Youths' United Action
March 3rd, Sapporo

'Don't make the Southwest Islands a fortress against China!
'
Okinawa People's Action in Henoko, March 2nd
Militant students livened up the rally with an anti-Ampo appeal


'Stop the deployment of an SDF missile unit in Okinawa!'
March 10th, at Nakagusuku Port and in front of Camp Katsuren
Zengakuren Okinawa, together with angry workers and citizens, staged a sit-in to stop the carrying in of SDF vehicles


The Kishida government is dashing for the establishment of a 'Japanese version of the US agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

[4]

Denounce the leadership of Shitetsu-soren
[Japan General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions] for demanding the raising of fares aimed to 'secure funds for wage increases'!
Let us create an upsurge in private railway/bus workers' shunto!

[5]
Toyota's spring labour offensive
Denounce the agreement based on the acknowledgement of big pay differentials!
Labour-management consultation dealt from start to end with the issue of 'storing up energy for challenges'

Toyota's shunto amid the successive exposures of scandals in its affiliated companies
Criticism of the Toyota Union's course of action in the 2024 spring labour offensive

[6]
Distributing JRCL leaflets in local Rengo shunto rallies

Nagoya, March 3rd
Osaka, March 1st
Kanazawa, March 8th

Topics
Monopoly capitalists are plotting to completely negate the present Labour Standards Law

[7]
The Noto Peninsula Earthquake


The water supply is still cut off due to delays in repair work
Don't allow the government to introduce a scheme to privatize water supply and drainage operations by taking advantage of the chaotic conditions caused by the earthquake

Nurses are leaving their jobs in large numbers: public hospitals in northern Noto
The Kishida government is leaving quake victims and medical workers in the lurch

[8]
13 years after March 11 TEPCO Fukushima nuclear plant disaster


Serious accidents occur frequently: tons of highly contaminated water leaked (February), scattered, causing fatal exposure of workers to radioactivity (October)

Stop the Kishida government from continuing to discharge radioactively contaminated water into the ocean!

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