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No. 2865
(April 28th 2025 Issue)
| Smash the strengthening of the military alliance and the massive expansion of armaments! Down with the Ishiba government victimizing working people in submission to the Trump empire! Crush Putin's war and Netanyahu's war! The Trump administration forcing the Japanese government to accept its demands for increase in Japan's military burdens The Ishiba government vowed to be devoted to building a military encirclement against China - Hell-bent on reinforcing Japan's army and building a pre-emptive attacking system Create antiwar and anti-military alliance struggles in opposition to oppression by the existing leaderships! Rise in the Ukraine antiwar struggle! Denounce the massacres in Gaza! [2] Stop the enactment of the Active Cyber Defence Law, another war law! - Every communication is to be monitored, intercepted and collected - A pre-emptive cyber attack in the name of 'active defence' - Aimed to build a system that enables Japan and the US to jointly wage a cyber war The mandatory retirement ages raised in China The Xi leadership imposing burdens on working people [3] Competition for rare metals heated in Africa: Congo as a focus 12 years after the massacre of mine workers in South Africa (From the International Workers Organizer, an international magazine of the FLTI-CI) 2018-19: a mass upsurge divided by Stalinists [4] Electric workers in the 2025 Spring Offensive Denounce the leadership for reducing the offensive into labour-management consultations aimed to accept wage restraints and mass sackings [5] The Saga Prefectural authorities ordered dismissals for the reason of 'insufficient ability' Self-Defence Forces' recruitment campaigns rampant in elementary and junior high schools Topics A 'labour-government' joint press meeting by Ishiba and Yoshino, which stressed in a duet on the need 'to overcome the national crisis' [6] Kaleidoscope Georgian people's struggles against Russia's interventions in the elections A gas crisis in Moldova Putin's plot to topple the pro-EU government Russia's attempt to secure a naval base in Sudan In place of the one lost in Syria TOP |
No. 2864
(April 21st 2025 Issue)
| Don't allow the Ishiba government and the monopoly bourgeoisie to shift the burden of Trump's tariffs onto the toiling masses! Bring down the Ishiba government ruthlessly attacking working people! The launch of Trump's tariffs: the start of a trade / commerce war between the US and China - Imposing poverty on workers and people all over the world The Ishiba government and monopoly capitalists mercilessly victimizing working people - Smash the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance and tax increases for arms expansion! Fight against wage cuts and sackings! Denounce the Rengo leadership for promoting an Industrial Patriotic movement! [2] 'Stop the deployment of F-35 fighters in the Komatsu base!' Trade union members and students held a protest at the base gate, April 1st
The Defence Ministry forcibly set up SDF missile regiments in Oita Prefecture Smash the build-up of a pre-emptive attacking system! Let us oppose the extensive establishment of ammunition depots in Kyushu and the Southwest Islands! [3] 12 years after the massacre of mine workers in South Africa: an interview dated on August 16th, 2024 From the International Workers Organizer, an international magazine of the FLTI-CI
- Stalinist betrayals carved in the African continent - Lessons from the struggle of Marikana workers [4] The rampancy of neo-Nazi AfD: German workers at a cross-roads - AfD encouraged by a new ally, the Trump administration - Agitation of anti-immigrant chauvinism AfD taking advantage of the poverty of former East German people [5] Publication workers in their spring offensive Win a big across-the-board wage raise! Let us fight assiduously to promote antiwar, anti-constitutional revision struggles! Topics An empty cry of JCP central bureaucrats: 'Build the party organization in workplaces, the sphere of labour!' [6] 'Care managing' workers in cruel conditions Leaving their jobs one after another TOP |
No. 2863
(April 14th 2025 Issue)
| Create an explosive upsurge in the antiwar struggle! Down with Putin's war and Netanyahu's war! Overthrow Ishiba's 'Dutch rolling' government madly rushing into the reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance and the massive military buildup! Let us fight by overcoming the JCP leadership that abandons opposition to the military alliance! Central Students' Orgburo 1. Due to the clash between the US and China-Russia, the present world is in mounting danger of the outbreak of a world war A. Trump the stupid president is resorting to 'tariff wars' against the whole world B. Putin is strengthening aggression to make Ukraine a 'dependency of Russia' C. The Netanyahu regime is frantically perpetrating genocide against the Gazans --- The US, together with Israel, has started a warmongering act against Iran D. Over Taiwan and the South China Sea, the US-Japan and China are escalating political and military confrontation 2. Obediently accepting the Trump Empire's demands, the Ishiba-led Japanese government is accelerating its massive military buildup and the reinforcement of its military alliance with America ---The existing opposition movement in Japan is on the brink of extinction; students of Zengakuren are striving to break through the crisis 3. Win an explosive upsurge of antiwar struggles with new students! A. Smash Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine! B. Condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza! C. Stop the Ishiba government's reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance and the tremendous military buildup! - Stop the building of the US-Japan pre-emptive attack system! - Crush the strengthening of the US-Japan global military alliance! - Create a resolute antiwar struggle to break through the danger of warfare on the verge of eruption amid the headlong clash between the US-Japan and China-Russia! 4. Let us create a nationwide upsurge in the struggle against high university fees! ---No to higher fees that will ruin students' lives and deprive them of their future! ---Shatter the fascistic transformation of Japanese universities! ---Don't allow machinations designed to make universities footholds of military research 5. Let us create a big wave of the revolutionary student movement starting from each of the campuses with new students! [5] A plan to deploy a 'constellation' of interceptor missiles: Tramp's mad version of Star Wars 'Defense tax' and 'military bonds': The Ishiba government justifies the massive military buildup as a 'public works project' [6] 2025 spring labour offensive of JAM [Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers] Let us fight by overcoming the union leadership's petition campaign for 'price pass through'! [7] Postal workers' 2025 spring offensive We adamantly denounce the union leaders' acceptance of management's ultra-law wage raise offer, an imposition of poverty on workers! Topics Boosting prices, abandoning public transportation systems, curtailing pensions ... The government and monopoly capitalists imposing poverty on the toiling masses [8] 14 years after the nuclear disaster at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi power station Don't make disaster-stricken Fukushima a site for the development of military technology! A Rengo Okinawa rally for the spring offensive March 27th 'Denounce the JTUC aristocrats for accepting derisory wage raises!' JRCL distributed leaflets among participants calling for victory in shunto TOP |
No. 2862
(April 7th 2025 Issue)
| Smash the development of nuclear power plants and other facilities, which is inseparable from the build-up of Japan into a strong military power! - Stop the resumption of operation of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Reactors 6 and 7! - Fukushima, 14 years after the accident: the government policy of abandoning disaster victims and using the stricken area as a hub for developing dual use technologies - The Japanese government hell-bent on developing nuclear power plants and a nuclear fuel cycle amid the head-on clash between the US and China-Russia Denounce Russia's air raids on Ukraine! No to the 'peace' that acquits the aggressor Putin and tramples down Ukrainian people! [2] No to the resumption of operation of Reactors 6 and 7 at the TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant! The Ishiba government frantic to resume the operation 'Stop the resumption of operation of Tomari Nuclear Reactor 3!' The JRCL appeal evoked warm responses 'Sayonara to nuke plants' rally in Hokkaido, March 11th, Sapporo [3] The imperialist power of Germany launching a historic military build-up The working class confronting rising neo-Nazi forces - The 'brake' on massive rearmament destroyed - SDP's crushing defeat and CDU's close victory - Interference by the Trump administration and an upsurge of anti-neo Nazi sentiments A deepening crisis of the German economy - 'Minus growth' in two consecutive years - Setbacks in the Green Deal and the EV shift - German workers rising against mass restructurings and dismissals [4] The road subsidence accident in Yashio city Denounce the government for neglecting to repair and replace decrepit drains! A policy taken by the Aichi prefectural authorities to aid manufacturing and munitions monopolies Their aim in launching the Station Ai as 'a hub for supporting startups' [5] From a postal worker My resolve: I will fight against the reorganization and rationalization of regional sorting stations Topics The government and the bourgeoisie crying for 'higher productivity in nursing care service' [6] Destruction of farming A rural town in Kumamoto forced to change in life by the launch of a TSMC [Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company] factory What I have thought on reading Kuroda's Theory of Alienation and the Materialist Conception of History TOP |
No. 2861
(March 31st 2025 Issue)
| Denounce the Netanyahu government's resumption of air raids and ground
attacks on Gaza! Denounce the genocide of the Palestinian people! Denounce Trump, an accomplice in the genocide! The Xi Jinping government cries out for 'opposition to protectionism', for the 'productive power of new quality' The meaning of the recent National People's Congress - Attempting to form an encircling net against Trump under the banner 'opposition to unilateralism' - Screaming for the 'expansion of domestic demand' and 'innovation in science and technology' - No to the strengthening of the authoritarian rule by the neo-Stalinist bureaucracy! [2] A dramatic 'raid' on a base for swindlers in Myanmar The Xi government has embarked on the disposal of the filth of an 'underworld One Belt One Road' [3] The Trump empire running wild Part 2 Hitler-like 'anti-leftist witch-hunts' and expulsion of immigrants Elon Musk's crimes Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act USAID shut down [4] The 2025 Osaka World Expo: to be started on April 13th at great cost to working people Denounce the right-wing party Ishin-controlled Osaka city authorities for cutting welfare payments [5] The quake-hit Noto Peninsula Fatal, on-the-job accidents occur frequently in the restoration work School children's 'mental health care' application software introduced into schools by the Education Ministry, aggravating confusion in the classroom Topics Japan Teachers' Union leadership abandoned the demand for 'repealing the 'special law' that legalizes teachers' overtime with no pay [6] Regional rallies of trade unions for the spring offensive Rengo Aichi Match 2nd Voices of denunciation erupting against the labour aristocrats' derisory wage hike demands and their call for 'price pass-through' Rengo Hokkaido March 10th Win a big, across-the-board wage raise!' The JRCL appeal received warm responses Zenroren's 'protest action' at Toyota Headquarters February 11th, Nagoya Anger growing against the leadership pleading with the Toyota management for wage hikes TOP |
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