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Endorsement from the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction)

October 27th, 2012

We send our warmest greeting to people who are rallying in today’s meeting to support the toiling and combating people in Syria.

We the JRCL denounce the massacre by the al-Assad government. We fight in solidarity with the Syrian masses who are determined to topple down the regime. The al-Assad regime, though pretending to be ‘against US imperialism and Zionism’, is nothing but a military Bonapartist regime that is disguised with such a mask. We call on people all over the world. Let us fight in solidarity with Syrian people who are continuing their fight to topple down the ruling regime!
US imperialists and Russian rulers are trying to intervene in the Syrian situation with the aim of reviving or promoting the evil interests of their own. Let us oppose their intervention! Let us fight in solidarity with Palestinian people struggling for their liberation against Zionist brutalities! Fight against Zionist attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities! Fight against military sanction on Iran by US and Japanese imperialists!

We the JRCL are now leading a historic fight against the US-Japan imperialist military alliance. On October 1st, the US government deployed its new air carrier, Osprey, notorious for a series of accidents, to a Marine base located in a densely-populated area of Okinawa, a southern island of Japan. Militant Japanese workers and students are now continuing their fight against the deployment.
In order to stop its deployment, Zengakuren and militant workers occupied the gates of the base. Despite the intimidation by US Marines armed with guns, and despite the repression by Japanese police units, they carried though the dauntless fight for days and finally paralysed the base. What must be noted was that Stalinist JCP leaders escaped from the occupation. They revealed their nature as the worst betrayer of the anti-base struggle. In September, there was a huge rally against the Osprey deployment, attended by more than 100 thousand people.
The US Obama administration is now planning to start flight drills of the Osprey in other regions of Japan, thanks to full cooperation of the Noda government. The Japanese imperialist government, which is intent on strengthening its military alliance with US imperialists against China and Russia, has nationalized the controversial Senkaku islands, and now is desperate to repress the opposition movement by propagandising anti-China nationalism. Despite such an offensive, we are determined to promote the anti-military alliance, anti-base struggle all over the country.
US Marine Corps, stationed in Japan, are the very units of killers, who have been dispatched to Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya to massacre the people. We know that US imperialists have their military bases in the Latin American continent. Militant Japanese student and workers are therefore determined to advance their struggle against US bases in solidarity with not only the toiling Chinese masses but also people all over the world.

We the JRCL strongly condemn the recent repression by the Argentinean state against militant workers and socialists. We express our firm solidarity and support to them.
Let us fight together beyond borders against offensives by our rulers to impose war, poverty and repression!

Akira Kato
For the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction)