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Denounce Israeli air raid on Gaza! Demonstration in Tokyo

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:14:36 +0900

We denounce Israeli air raid on Gaza!
Overthrow capitalist rule!
New Year demonstration in downtown Tokyo
On January 3, a demonstration sponsored by the National Coordinating Center of Labor Unions was carried out in Shibuya, downtown Tokyo, with slogans: "Join us in the January 8 demonstration to stop slashing dispatched workers! Down with Nihon-Keidanren (National Corporate Organization)" "We denounce Israeli air raid on Gaza!" By an emergency call, 160 participants rallied, including those dispatched workers who got recently fired and signed up for the latest street campaign against slashing of dispatched workers.

November 2 National Workers' Rally hit neo-liberal offensives

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:12:18 +0900

November 2 National Workers' Rally hit neo-liberal offensives
5700 workers determined against reactionary trends

On November 2 in Hibiya Outdoor Music Hall, 5700 workers and youth gathered to National Workers' Rally in confrontation against reactionary trends within labor movement. A gigantic step forward was thus made to revive Japanese labor movement in a revolutionary direction through smashing the defeatist line of "The Four Parties and Four Organizations" in regard to the struggle of dismissed 1047 national railway workers.

Appeal of JRCL to the Working Class of the World

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:52:47 +0900

Appeal of JRCL to the Working Class of the World

World revolutionary situation is ripe as global financial crisis erupts. Let's fight, taking back Marxism--the thought of self-emancipation of working class!

Japan Revolutionary Communist League -National Committee
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● The collapse of capitalism, imperialism, has entered a decisive stage. It is high time to accomplish proletarian world revolution.

A worldwide financial crisis far surpassing the Great Depression in 1929 has erupted. Imperialism at its final period has, in the last decades, carried on its neo-liberal agenda of deregulation and privatization practicing the capitalist law of the jungle to its full extent. A handful of bourgeois have thus earned an astronomical profit through exploiting working class brutally, imposing extremely heavy work, dismantling social welfare system and driving all working people into unbearable poverty. The full-scale practice of the neo-liberal agenda finally ended in a disintegration of the whole economic and social system of capitalism in its core.

International World Teachers Day in Tokyo and Osaka

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:26:22 +0900

On October 6, in solidarity with worldwide actions in International World Teachers Day, Japanese education workers stood up for rallies in Tokyo and Osaka. In Tokyo, a rally was held at 18.00 17:00 in the evening in front of the building of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office with 150 participants including education workers of Tokyo and Kanagawa prefecture, workers of other sectors and their supporters.

Rally on August 15: "We can change the whole world when we are united."

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:08:37 +0900

　August 15, the day of the 63rd anniversary of the end of World War II (day of the surrender of Japanese imperialism), was commemorated by a rally titled " ' Crab-Canning Ship ' －Do we allow the Constitution succumb to national interest and chauvinistic nationalism?'". 580 participants gathered to the rally in Nakano, Tokyo.
　※ "Crab-Canning Ship"(1929): a slave labor story by a prewar proletarian writer, KOBAYASHI Takiji, who was tortured and murdered by police in 1933. Its first line sounds like this: "Let's go on board. Are you ready? It's a hell on the sea"

Militant demonstration in Nagasaki on August 9: Presence of Prime Minister Fukuda at remembrance ceremony condemned

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:20:12 +0900

On August 9, the day of the atomic bombing on Nagasaki, a protest demonstration was organized to denounce Prime Minister Fukuda who was attending the Nagasaki ceremony of commemorating the atomic bombing. Fukuda was accompanied by KYUMA, ex-Defense Minister who had commented that the US atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were to be admitted. Fukuda administration of Japanese Imperialism and ruling politicians are promoting nuclear armament policy on the one hand and are bringing about day by day desperate situation on the other hand where workers, especially young workers can no longer live. The demonstrators raised angry voices against those politicians who are driving for war with an attempt of nuclear armament.
Prior to the demonstration, a rally was held in the adjoining park to the official ceremony spot. Workers, students and anti-war activists, including Ms. Arlene Inouye from US (she is a leading activist of CAMS and belongs to UTLA), expressed their determination to keep fighting. Ms. Arlene Inouye stressed among other things the importance of international solidarity.

Anti-war/Anti-nuke Rally in Nagasaki on August 8 very successful with Arlene Inouye

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:15:15 +0900

Anti-war/Anti-nuke Rally in Nagasaki on August 8 in commemoration of the 63rd year since the atomic bombing on Nagasaki was held with 115 workers and students. An excited atmosphere filled Nagasaki Labor Welfare Hall.
Highlight of the rally was a speech of Ms. Arlene Inouye of CAMS. She spoke of confidence gained by her direct action that drove out military recruiters from school together with her colleagues and of her belief that workers should play a central role in fighting for peace and justice. She encouragingly proclaimed: "You all have a power to change the world!"

August 6 Hiroshima Great Action sends a message of "Unity of Workers" to the world

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:36:16 +0900

In the morning of August 6, a protest demonstration was made to accuse the attendance of Prime Minister Fukuda to the memorial ceremony of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima 63 years ago. 500 workers and students gathered to an independent rally in a park close to the official rally.
In the afternoon August 6 Hiroshima Great Action was fought successfully with 1900 participants from across the country, which filled the Hiroshima prefectural general gymnasium. It was the tenth occasion since the event was started.

We denounce the court decision of extension of detention! Release immediately 8 comrades arrested in June 29 demonstration in Shibuya against G8 Summit

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:16:00 +0900

The Tokyo District Court decided on July 10 to admit extension of detention of 8 people arrested quite unjustly in the demonstration on June 29 in Shibuya, downtown Tokyo, to protest against G8 Toyako Summit.
This outrageous decision is totally impermissible. We resolutely demand immediate release of 8 comrades who are already in custody for almost two weeks under false allegation.

June 29 Shibuya demonstration broke up police guard for G8 Summit

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:32:57 +0900

On June 29, National Anti-G8 Summit National Workers' Rally under the auspices of Doro-Chiba was successfully carried out with 2150 participants. The Metropolitan Police Department banned the demonstration in front of Shibuya railway station and surrounded the rally with a large number of riot police. However, their attempt to suppress the united power of angry workers completely failed.

Fight back against G8-Summit of war and poverty! Workers of the World, Unite!

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:02:00 +0900

The world is in a revolutionary situation

Why are our wages so low? Why are our livings, livings of workers in such poverty?
Because capitalists are getting unprecedented gains, replacing full-time workers by temporary ones. They are making large profits, speculating on grain and oil. They are completely responsible for state of things today.
People of the world are getting angry. There are demonstrations and strikes everyday and everywhere: public sector workers in England, education workers in France, post and traffic workers in Germany, and health workers in Denmark etc. There are also food riots everywhere in the world, in Asia, Africa and Latin America as well as in the Middle East.
It’s high time to demonstrate our strength to Bush, Fukuda and the capitalists of the world.

War, disparity and poverty――enough is enough!

“Smash G8!”――this is the slogan of the working class. Let’s concentrate our anger to this point!
The Presidents and Prime ministers of the US, the UK, France, Japan and so on gather at a hotel at Lake Tohya in Hokkaido on July 7-10 to hold a G8-Summit.
G8-Summit and the working class are incompatible. The Iraqi War, existence and increase of working poor, privatization, dismantling of health care and pension systems, starvation and destruction of environment――all these things are their works from which we suffer extremely. Let’s smash the G8-Summit by united action of the working class!