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No. 2872
(June 16th 2025 Issue)

Condemn Russia's massive air raids
on the whole land of Ukraine!



Impeach Netanyahu for perpetrating terrible massacres
of Palestinians in cahoots with Trump!


[1-2]

Xi Jinping is vying with Trump's plot to drive a wedge between China and Russia

Sino-Russian summit talks on the '80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany'

- Managed to obtain Russia's cooperation towards machinations to annex Taiwan
- Building an 'anti-American united front' by taking advantage of Trump's tariffs
- Expanding the export of war supplies disguised as supplies for civilian use
- Denounce the Xi Jinping regime for supporting Putin's war!

[2]
Russia's wartime economy in jeopardy

- A sharp decrease in oil income and the aggravation of a financial crisis
- Inflation and shortage of consumer goods caused by the wartime economy
- A shortage of labour power and the loss of techniques
- Dependency on neo-Stalinist China

[3]
Accuse Putin of 'Russianizing' the occupied territories of Ukraine!

- A Ukrainian woman journalist murdered after being tortured
- Liquidation of the Ukrainian people's identity as a nation


Stop the deployment of Ospreys in a new GSDF base in Saga in July!
- Reject the establishment of a Japanese version of Marine Corps Aviation!
- Oppose the building of a US-Japan joint pre-emptive attack system against China!

[4]
In the name of 'economic security', a revised law was passed to support Rapidus, a government-controlled semiconductor manufacturer

No to the scattering of Fukushima Daiichi's radioactively contaminated soil in public work sites across the country!

[5]
Reports from the labour front
Local government authorities are sacrificing workers hired by the fiscal year

The Ishiba government virtually permits increases in the number of workers employed in the guise of 'independent contractors'


Topics

Major community hospitals are going bankrupt; care service facilities are being closed one after another

[6]
Condemn the US marine's rape of a Japanese base worker in Okinawa!

From a former US base worker to the reader of Kaihoh
- One sexual assault case after another by American soldiers
- Never ever cover up the incident! Resolutely create struggles to remove all bases, to repeal the US-Japan Security Treaty!

Impeach the LDP Diet member Nishida of his insults at the memorial exhibition of the Himeyuri (Star Lily) Corps, a unit of field hospital student nurses, who died in Okinawa in the final stages of the Second World War!
- Denounce the Ishiba government and the LDP for abhorrently attacking Okinawan people's peace education and antiwar movement!
- Don't let them consecrate the war of erstwhile Japanese militarism! Let us oppose the move to make Okinawa a military fortress!

What's going on behind the scenes in the SDF base construction site in Mage-shima in the Southwest Islands?

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No. 2871
(June 9th 2025 Issue)

Block the bad revision of the Labour Standards Law!
Don't allow the Ishiba government to remove the minimum legal standards of working conditions!

- The government and the monopoly bourgeoisie manoeuvring to emasculate the Labour Standards Law
- The government and the ruling class scheming for removing the minimum legal standards and destroying trade unions
- Don't allow the established union leaderships to distort the struggle against the revision!

[2]
No to the restart of reactor operations in Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station!

The Nuclear Disaster Prevention Council's 'evacuation plan' was put together in a hit-or-miss manner
- The governor of Niigata Prefecture is watching for a chance for 'giving approval' to the resumption

No to the construction of a 'radioactive waste' disposal plant in Suttsu and Kamoenai!
The desktop research report put together by NUMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization) is horribly tricky
- Totally disregarding the danger of a massive earthquake caused by active faults
- Don't let them proceed to the next step of 'general research'

[3] Kaleidoscope 2025

Beijing bureaucrats' headlong rush at manufacturing robot soldiers

A lethal weapons fair in Japan

Taiwan to be guarded with drones

Xi Jinping's plan of unmanned troops


[4]

Trump has embarked on saving Boeing now struggling to get through financial difficulty

The IG Metal leadership accepted Volkswagen's 35,000 redundancies


[5]

Postal workers' 2025 spring labour offensive

Let's not give approval to our union leadership's agreement on the ultra low compromise figures!
Denounce the JP Union leadership for giving full cooperation to the management's massive restructuring!

The Postal Workers Committee of the JRCL
- Denounce the union leaders for making a compromise on derisory pay offers! Condemn them for having been immersed in labour-management consultations!
- Shatter the offensives of dismissals, reshuffling and labour intensification with the united power of workers!
- Frustrate the attempts of the Ishiba government to expand military capacity, strengthen Ampo and revise the Constitution of Japan!
Smash Putin's war! Let us fight in solidarity with the workers of Ukraine!

Topics
Panic-stricken at Trump's tariffs: Japanese steel industry capitalists are suspending one blast furnace operation after another

[6]
Learning from Comrade Wakahara's exchange of thoughts with Ukrainian leftists

On reading Wakahara's article (published in The Communist No. 332)
- Making myself immanent in Ukrainian Marxists
- To make Marxism indigenous

The misery of 'data workers'
Workers of the Global South are treated as 'disposable workers' for the development of AI

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