The Seven Seas and the Seven Deadly Sins

The first: the sin of pride
In pursuit of dominion over the seven seas,
Yankee rulers have committed
the cardinal sin of plunging other peoples into a sea of blood.
Those demons with a human face
are now afflicted with the wrath of people all over the world.
The declining empire is obsessed
by the horror of falling down the ‘cliff’.

The Statue of Liberty: ‘You are now paying the penalty for your arrogant attempt to dominate the seven continents and the seven seas!’

The second: the sin of lechery
The man who sucked the blood of Muslims
in the invasion of Afghanistan
and sat back in the chair of the CIA director
was in fact besmeared with illicit love affairs.

The third: the sin of gluttony
China, dashing to chase
food, resources, territories
and territorial waters in rapid succession,
is committing the sin of gluttony.
This state of neo-Stalinism is fervently
brandishing China’s ‘5,000 years of history’.
Acting big on ‘socialism’
is a reigning pig of the ‘princeling group’

Kim Jong Un: ‘Hurray!’
Park Geun Hye: ‘How is your economy?

The fourth: the sin of authoritarianism
Putin’s FSB is clamping down
on the people who are shouldering the glory of Revolutionary Russia,
while Gazprom and Rosneft
have made a fast buck by exporting natural gas and oil.
The act of Putin the Terrible,
of enforcing authoritarian repression
against the opposition movement,
is not degeneration but
the sin of authoritarianism.

V. Tyulkin (Russian Communist Workers Party First Secretary): ‘After all, Stalin’s theory of the utilization of the law of value was a mistake…. The JRCL’s argument might be correct….’
V. I. Lenin: ‘The sin of Stalinism is so deep.’

The fifth: the sin of anger
Genocide committed by Israeli rulers
bears a resemblance to the Holocaust by Nazis
The bombing of Gaza, enforced out of hate for Hamas

Zengakuren students are fighting in solidarity with people in Gaza under the banner ‘Denounce the bombing of Gaza by Israeli rulers!’
Mohamed Morsi: ‘I can’t solve the riddle of ethnic feuds entangled with religious antagonisms.’

The sixth: the sin of avarice
The sin of the troika is avarice,
forcing destitution on workers in the name of austerity
while scheming to preserve financial institutions and capitalists.

Hollande: ‘You look cold, eh?’

The seventh: the sin of envy
Rousseff and Kirchner,
Greedily rushing headlong
towards the introduction of foreign investment
and the boosting of economic growth,
Running after piggishly fattened China.

Castro: ‘Oh, dear, the gilt has come off. Our Bolivar Revolution is now showing its true colours.’
Kirchner: ‘The gilt? No, you don’t mean it, do you?’
But Kirchner, gaudily dressed up with a sash saying ‘I’m a second Evita’, finds her real face in the mirror.
At her feet, CIA-led security forces show their fangs, attacking the fighting workers and toiling masses. Fighting in the forefront are the comrades of the FLTI.

‘The seven deadly sins’ are sweeping through the whole world.
Added to that is a fascist government
that recently emerged in Japan.
Its aim is to revive a ‘militarist Japan’,
flourishing a proposal to ‘revise the Constitution’,
‘The war-renouncing article 9 is a serious impediment’.
In confederacy with the aged fascist running wild
and the frivolous fascist performing wild,
the newly established Abe government
coerces the masses into war, poverty and dark rule.
Gangsters are evoking earthly devils.

Evil deeds rampant in the whole world
clearly show what paved the way for greedy imperialists:
it is Stalinism.
All are brought about,
because of the crime of the Stalinists.
Comrades, we shall certainly overcome Stalinism.

Workers of the world!
‘Reeds swaying in the wind’
That’s not what we hope to be.
Rise and rally here and now!
That’s the way we advance forward.
Join our forces under the banner of ‘anti-fascism’!

In solidarity with workers all over the world,
Revolutionize this darkened 21st century into the ‘century of revolution’!
Raise the flag of ‘Down with imperialism! Down with Stalinism!’!

— Inspired by Pieter Bruegel

[In a boxed item on page 7, upper left, there is a haiku poem composed to the comrades of the FLTI. It is found in the eighth line from the left, the second column from the top.

‘The FLTI / Don’t be defeated / JRCL is with you’.
This is composed in a way of following a famous Japanese haiku.]