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, by SAKAI Yohichi
Sakai, Yoshichi: Born in 1937. Entered Kyoto University in 1956. Joined in 1959 the Japanese Fourth International (FI) group – the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL), being its full-timer from 1963 to 1987. FI-International Executive Committee (IEC) member in the 1970s and 1980s, and (…)
, by SAKAI Yohichi
I participated in the student movement right after entering Kyoto University in April 1956, but up to that point I had never been a leftist boy, though I was somewhat fiercely independent and rebellious. The first leftist book I read was the “Communist Manifest”, but this was just after I (…)
, by O’DWYER Shaun
In May last year 28 German intellectuals published an open letter in the feminist journal Emma calling on Chancellor Gerhard Scholz to refrain from sending heavy weapons to Ukraine, and to help negotiate a ceasefire in the Russo-Ukrainian war. The letter expressed anti-war convictions dear to (…)
, by McCURRY Justin
Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English
The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a “new way of living”, according to a (…)
, by O’DWYER Shaun
On July 1st, 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its hundredth anniversary, and duly received congratulatory messages from political leaders and parties around the world. Japan was no exception. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) vice-secretary, Nikai Toshihiro, a veteran (…)
, by MOMOI Yuri
Century-old body shuns Beijing’s ’hegemonism’ in echo of clash with Soviets
TOKYO — Which of Japan’s political parties has the longest history? The answer may come as a surprise.
It is not the Liberal Democratic Party, for all its decades in power, but the Japanese Communist Party.
More (…)
, by ANDREWS William
What kinds of Asianist tendencies, or attitudes towards Asia, are visible in the post-war Japanese radical left? Is Pan-Asianism a useful framework for thinking about aspects of post-war left-wing activism in Japan? Drawing on a range of case studies, including a mass movement and several fringe (…)
, par YAZAWA Shujiro
Japan is on the brink of changing from a pacifist state to one prepared to go to war if necessary. Now, more than ever, we must refocus international scrutiny on the country’s social movements.
What do you know about Japan ? Answers to this question vary, but I can guess how familiar someone (…)
, by AKIMOTO Yoko
How many participants found that the venue was a historical site where the first declaration of Independence of Korea contributing to March 1 Independence Movement was announced in 1919? Possibly, some, but exactly, the Korean YMCA in JAPAN situated in central Tokyo, also turned out to be a (…)
, by KENJI Kunitomi
Dear comrades,
Japan Revolutionary Communist League(JRCL), a permanent observer organization of Fourth International in Japan, held its 21st national congress in late March 2009. 40 delegates and observers attended the congress from all over the country.
Along with discussions on situation (…)
, by JRCL, KENJI Kunitomi
The founding congress of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA : Nouveau Parti Anti-Capitalist) was held February 6-8, 2009.
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Japan Revolutionary Communist League
To NPA congress Dear comrades, Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL), a supporting (…)
, by SAKAI Yohichi
The first political text I wrote was a report on the situation and basic tasks, submitted to the general assembly of the JCP Kyoto University student cell in April 1959. This was the last meeting of the CP student cell, which had led the Zengakuren (All-Japan Federation of Student Self-governing (…)
, by KEIJI Hirano
A small publisher is struggling to expand the circulation of its biannual English-language magazine, which features hard-hitting stories on controversial issues, including the overseas deployment of the Self-Defense Forces and gender equality.
“We aim to deliver high-quality, critical stories (…)
, by AKIMOTO Yoko
There were some 300 participants at the plenary session, 400 at workshops and seminars, 140 at demonstration, which blessedly wiped out our initial uncertainty about low attendance. Persons at different age, from different groups such as NGOs, civic groups, social movements, trade unions, (…)
, by No-Vox
To demonstrate solidarity with Brazilian homeless people threatened by expulsion in Curitiba(Parana State) and Sao Paulo, associations from the international network “No-vox” in France, Japan and Portugal have organized a peaceful demonstration yesterday (15 of June)with the MNLM organization (…)
, by PPSG
Self-presentation of the taken from “Japonesia Review” website, April 8, 2006 and from PPSG’s website as well.
PPSG
The People’s Plan Study Group (PPSG), set up in 1998 as a network of social movement activists and action-committed intellectuals, aims to search for alternative social, (…)
, by APWSL
We are reproducing here the self-presentation of APWSL-Japan, taken from their website as of July 12, 2005.
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What is APWSL?
APWSL stands for Asian Pacific Workers Solidarity Links. It is an independent, grassroots network of trade unionists and labor activists in the Asia-Pacific (…)
, by KIMITOSHI Morihara
This talk was presented to the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, April 10-13, Sydney, by Kimitoshi Morihara, Vice-head International Department, Japanese Communist Party.
What is happening in Japan, the second largest economy in the world, in its economy and in its politics? If there’s a (…)
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