１１・９全国総決起集会プログラム 日英語版english)

プログラム　(program)
チョレ　ノドンジャ（鉄の労働者）　　インターナショナル 歌詞(song)
１１･９全国労働者総決起集会　スローガン　(slogan)
２００３年１１･９アピール (appeal)

基調提起　(Keynote Speech)

プログラム(program)

チョレ　ノドンジャ
鉄の　　労働者

ミンジュノジョ　キッパラレ　ワソモヨ　ムンチセ
民主労総　　　　 旗の下　　　集まり　　団結しよう

ペアッキン　ウリ　ピッタムル　トゥジェンウロ　トゥェチャジュセ
奪われた　　我が 血と汗を　　闘争で　　　　　取り戻そう

カンチョルガットゥン　ヘバンウィジ　ワソモヨ　チッキセ
鋼鉄のような　　　　　解放意志　　 来たりて　守ろう

トゥジェンソゲ　サライッスムル　オンモムロ　ヌッキョボセ
闘争の中で　　　生きていることを　全身で　　　感じよう

※繰り返し　　タンギョルマニ　サルキリヨ　ノドンジャガ　サルキリヨ
　　　　　　　団結だけが　　　生きる道　　労働者が　 　生きる道

ネ　　ハルル　　サラド　　インガンダプケ　サルゴシプタ
一日を　生きるなら　　　　人間らしく　 生きたい

アア　ミンジュノジョ　ウリエサラン　トゥジェンウロ　イルンサラン
ああ　民主労総　　　　われらの愛　　闘争で　　　　　築いた愛

タンギョルトゥジェン　ウリエムギ
団結闘争　　　　　　　われらの武器

ノワナ　　　　ノワナ　　チョレノドンジャ
あなたと私　あなたと私　鉄の労働者

起て　飢えたるものよ　今ぞ日は近し
さめよ　我がはらから　暁は来ぬ
暴虐の鎖断つ日　旗は血に燃えて
海をへだてつわれら　かいな結びゆく
　いざ戦わん　いざ　ふるい起ていざ
　あぁインターナショナル　われらがもの
　いざ戦わん　いざ　ふるい起ていざ
　あぁインターナショナル　われらがもの

★全労働者の団結で、倒産・解雇・賃下げ・不安定雇用化と労働法制・社会保障制度の解体攻撃をはね返そう！

　Let’s repel bankruptcy / discharge / wage cut / unstable employment / dismantling of labor legislation and social security system by solidarity of all workers!

★全労働者の団結で、「有事立法を完成させない、発動させない、従わない」闘いをつくりあげよう！ イラクへの自衛隊派兵と北朝鮮への侵略戦争を阻止しよう！

　Let’s make up a struggle− “No completion of, No invocation of, No obedience to Emergency　Legislation”! 　Let’s stop dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq and stop the war of aggression on North Korea!

★全労働者の団結で、国労臨大弾圧を粉砕し、国鉄1047名闘争に勝利しよう！

Let’s smash repression on KOKURO(the National Railway Workers' Union) members and let’s win the struggle of fired 1047 KOKURO workers by solidarity of all workers!

★全労働者の団結で、団結権破壊を目的とした労働運動への治安弾圧を粉砕し、共謀罪新設を阻止しよう！

　Let’s smash the police oppression to labor movement intended to destroy the right of organization and stop legislation of the Law against Conspiracy by solidarity of all workers!

★日・米・韓労働者の国境を越えた連帯と共同闘争を発展させよう！

　Let’s develop cross-border solidarity and joint struggle of workers of Japan / United States / South Korea!

★全労働者の団結で、戦争遂行と改憲の小泉反動内閣を打倒しよう！

　Down with “war-waging, the Constitution revising” Koizumi reactionary cabinet by solidarity of all the workers!

　私たちは時代の大きな転換点にたっています。｢テロ根絶｣の名のもとに､戦争が｢正義｣とされ､むきだしの帝国主義政策が世界を覆う恐るべき状況が生み出されています。イラクでは民衆の激しい怒りの声を呼び起こしながら今も虐殺と破壊が続いています。
　小泉政権は､有事関連三法の制定をもって再び戦争への道をふみだしました。そして､ブッシュに50億ドルの｢戦費｣の支出を約束し､未だ戦争状態のイラクに自衛隊を派兵しようとしています｡北朝鮮への洪水のような排外主義が組織され､次の戦争が準備されています。しかも､民主党や連合が有事立法に賛成するなど､多くの勢力が挙国一致主義に転落しています。
　小泉政権と財界は､戦後労働法制の解体や､大規模な民営化攻撃をおし進め､労働者をリストラ･倒産･解雇･賃下げと 不安定雇用化の嵐のなかにたたき込もうとしています。また､社会保障制度の解体攻撃が激しく進められています。１月に発表された日本経団連･奥田の新ビジョンは､国家と資本が生きのびるために､労働者への全面攻撃を宣言し､労働組合の屈服と変質をあけすけに要求しています。攻撃の矛先は団結権の破壊･抹殺に向けられています。団結権が危機に瀕し､憲法28条と労働組合法そのものに手がかけられようとしています。
　また､相次ぐ刑事弾圧や民事仮処分､損害賠償請求など､団結権･争議権の行使を犯罪視する闘う労働運動への攻撃がエスカレートし､共謀罪の新設など治安弾圧立法が次々に制定されようとしています。
　全ての労働者の権利､労働運動の未来をかけて闘われてきた､国鉄1047名の解雇撤回闘争が正念場を迎えています。臨時大会で闘いの継続を訴えた国労の仲間たちが長期投獄を強いられ､9月の国労大会では闘争団員22名への統制処分が強行され､そして何とそれを強行した者たちが 国労を集団脱退して自らの手で闘いを潰そうとしています。
　しかし､世界の労働者は今､団結し､連帯して新しい時代を見いだす力をとり戻そうとしています。｢グローバル化｣と称して全世界に戦争と貧困･大失業を強制する帝国主義の支配に抗し､労働者･民衆のストライキやデモが､燎原を焼き尽くす炎のように燃え上がっています。また日本でも､ナショナルセンターの枠､制動をのりこえて結集したこの間の有事立法反対闘争や､本集会が日･米･韓労働者の国際連帯集会として画期的な成功を収めたように､新たな闘いが確実に始まっています。一方､資本との一体化を深める連合は、｢足元から崩壊しかねない切迫した事態に直面している｣と自ら報告しています。怒りの声は充ち､労働運動の復権に向けた好機が到来しています。
　韓国民主労総は､ストライキに対するたび重なる損害賠償や組合･個人資産の差し押え､膨大な解雇､逮捕･拘束など､｢軍事独裁時代を凌駕する｣という盧武鉉政権の苛烈な弾圧に抗し、相次ぐ仲間の焚死をのりこえて11月12日にゼネストを構え､本日ソウルで10万人労働者大会を開催して､今まさに総力戦を挑んでいます。ILWUを先頭としたアメリカの労働者は､タフト･ハートレイ法の発動や､4･7オークランド弾圧にたち向かい､戦争と抑圧､民営化に抗してブッシュ政権を震えあがらせる闘いを展開しています。本日､われわれは日･米･韓労働者の固い連帯の絆を誓いました。その共同した闘いこそが､ブッシュ-小泉による北朝鮮侵略戦争を止める現実的な力です。また日本政府が､日韓自由貿易協定締結に向けて､韓国政府に労働法制改悪を要求していることなど､国際連帯闘争は急務の課題です。
　闘う労働者の思いはひとつです。労働者の団結した闘いこそが生活と権利を守り､戦争を止め､我慢のならない社会の在り方を変える力です。労働者が真に社会の主人公となる差別と貧困のない社会をめざして大同団結しよう｡分断と個別撃破を許さず､不一致点を留保し､一致点を広げ､あらゆる壁をのりこえて､闘う統一戦線を創りだそう。全労働者の団結で､戦争遂行と改憲の小泉反動内閣を打倒しよう。日･米･韓労働者の国境を越えた連帯と共同闘争を発展させ、闘う労働組合の全国ネットワークを創りあげよう。本集会を出発点に､イラク自衛隊派兵阻止､04春闘に向けて直ちに闘いを開始しよう！

２００３年１１月９日

　たたかう労働組合の全国ネットワークをつくろう！
　大失業と戦争にたち向かう労働者の国際的団結を！
　１１･９ 全国労働者総決起集会

November 9, 2003 Appeal

1) We are facing a great turning point of the times. War is justified in the name of ‘liquidating terrorism’ and naked imperialist policy is prevailing in the whole world. In Iraq massacre and destruction is going on, provoking intense indignation of people there.

2) The Koizumi administration has stepped into a renewed path to war by the legislation of three Emergency Laws. Actually, the Japanese government has promised the Bush administration to offer 5 billion dollars for war expenditure and is planning to send the Self Defense Forces to Iraq where war still continues. Organized Chauvinist propaganda against the North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is flooding the Japanese society and the next war is in preparation. In this situation a lot of political and social powers are joining into a front of national unity with the Democratic Party as well as the RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation) supporting the Emergency Laws.

3) The Koizumi administration and corporate leaders are now attempting to dismantle the postwar labor legislation and to go through a large scale privatization of public corporations, thrusting working class into a stormy situation of restructuring, bankruptcy, dismissal, wage cut and unstable employment. Besides, social security system is going to be violently broken up. In ‘A New Vision of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations’ (‘Okuda Vision’) published in January 2003, an all-out war was declared, openly demanding labor unions to surrender and transform themselves for the survival of the state and capital. Their attack is focused upon destruction and liquidation of the right of association. Actually the right of association is in danger and Article 28 of the Constitution as well as the Trade Union Law itself are coming under attack.

4) Militant labor movement is put under escalating attack by means of criminal punishment, civil injunction, claim for damages etc., thereby exercise of the right of association and right of strike being regarded as criminal acts. Besides, repressive legislation is going to be systematically carried on such as legislation of the Law against Conspiracy.

5) The struggle of the fired 1047 National Railway workers for withdrawal of their dismissal is reaching a decisive stage. The right of all the workers and future of labor movement depend upon this struggle.
Members of KOKURO, who appealed on the Extraordinary Convention of the Union in May, 2002 to continue the struggle, have been arrested by police and forced to long-term detention. The Convention of KOKURO last September forcibly decided to take a disciplinary measure against 22 members of the KOKURO Tosodan (Fighting Corps of dismissed workers). Immediately after the Convention, however, those union officers who imposed the decision, ran away from KOKURO to destroy the Union by their own hands through disruptive group activity.

6) Workers all over the world are now fighting to take back a power to create a new age through international unity and solidarity. Strikes and demonstrations of workers and people are spreading like wildfire throughout the world against the rule of imperialism which imposes war, poverty, and mass unemployment upon the world in the name of ‘globalization’. In Japan also we are witnessing a steady step forward of a new struggle, as has been illustrated by the recent struggle against the Emergency Laws, which developed overcoming hindrances and barriers between different national centers of labor and by an epoch-making success of this international solidarity rally of Japanese, US and Korean workers. On the other side, the RENGO, which is deepening its adherence to capital, confesses that it faces a critical situation of collapse from the basis. Anger is flaming up ; time has come to rehabilitate labor movement.

7) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) is now waging an all-out struggle: today a workers’ rally is being held with hundred thousand participants to prepare for a general strike on November 12th, opposing severe repression of Roh Moo-Hyun administration, even surpassing the late military dictatorship in its brutality, such as repeated claim for damages, seizure of the property/wage of unionists for every industrial action, mass dismissal, arrests and detention etc., which caused successive self-immolation (self-burning) of fellow workers. US workers headed by International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have been developing a powerful struggle against war, repression and privatization in defiance of invoking of Taft-Hartley Act; the Bush administration is trembling at their struggle. Today we have pledged to build up a strong bond of solidarity of Japanese, US and Korean workers. Internationally unified struggle is the very power to prevent aggressive war drive of Bush and Koizumi administrations on North Korea. Another urgent task of internationally unified struggle is to stop Japanese government’s imposition on the South Korean government to revise the labor laws as a condition for the conclusion of Japan-South Korean Free Trade Agreement.

8) Fighting workers are one in their common aspiration. Struggle of united labor is the sole power to defend lives and rights of workers, to stop the war and to change this unbearable society. Let us unite to achieve a society in which the workers become true masters of the society and neither discrimination nor poverty remains. Let us create a fighting united front, not allowing division and isolation, putting aside internal differences, consolidating common stand and overcoming every obstacle.

　Defeat war driving and Constitution revising Koizumi administration by the unity of all the workers! Let us advance cross-border solidarity and unified struggle of Japan, US and Korean workers and create a nation-wide network of fighting labor unions! Let us start for the struggle against dispatch of the Self Defense Forces to Irak and for the 2004 Spring Labor Offensive!

Let us create a nation-wide network of fighting labor unions!
For international labor solidarity against a large-scale unemployment and war!
November 9th All Workers’ Rally for General Offensive

大失業と戦争にたち向かう労働者の国際的団結をつくりだそう
　６回目を迎えた本集会は、米韓の闘う労働組合の仲間をお招きし、大失業と戦争にたち向かう労働者の国際的団結、労働運動の再生を呼びかけて成功裏にかちとられています。
　韓国ソウルでも、今、非正規職撤廃・国民年金改悪中止・使用者の対抗権阻止の三大要求をかかげた民主労総の10万人全国労働者大会が開催され、12日のゼネスト突入が宣言されています。アメリカではブッシュの組合つぶし、タフトハートレイ法や民営化攻撃との闘い、パトリオットアクト２(新愛国法)制定阻止の闘いが果敢に闘われています。この重要な時期に本集会にはるばる駆けつけて下さった米韓の仲間に、心から感謝と敬意を表します。
　関西地区生コン支部はこの４月から韓国・民主労総にふたりの執行委員を派遣しており、本日、民主労総の労働者大会に30名を派遣し、港合同からも中村副委員長が参加しています。動労千葉は国際連帯委員会を設置しました。私たちは米韓を始め世界の闘う労働者とともに、職場・地域・産別から労働者の団結と闘いを粘り強く作りだしながら、闘う労働組合の全国ネットワークを発展させていく決意です。

自衛隊のイラク派兵を阻止しよう

　イラク軍事占領における米軍の死者は 140人を超えました。イラク民衆の激しい反撃が、米軍を泥沼に引きずり込んでいます。米軍内には厭戦気分が蔓延し、自殺や脱走が頻発し、本国では兵士の家族が反戦デモの先頭にたっています。9〜10月、イラク占領やめろ！の闘いが再び地球を駆けめぐりました。労働者民衆の中にこそ、石油と中東−世界支配のための侵略戦争を止める力があります。
　小泉政権は、この戦場に1000人規模の自衛隊を派兵し、5500億円の戦費を支出しようとしています。米英に継ぐ大規模な参戦です。絶対に許せません。イスラム人民は激しくこれを弾劾し、日本の労働者に闘いを呼びかけています。陸海空港湾労組20団体とともに、イラク派兵を許さない、有事立法を完成させない、発動させない、従わない闘いを大きく作り出そう。そして小泉政権が｢核・拉致問題｣を口実にして、北朝鮮への差別と蔑視、恐怖と敵意を煽りながら軍事重圧を強めていることに反撃していこう。憲法９条改憲を絶対に阻止しよう。

戦争と一体の大資本攻勢

　世界中に飢えと失業と貧富の差をまきちらし、搾取と収奪を欲しいままにしてきた巨大資本の利益のために戦争が行なわれています。同時に政府・財界は猛烈な資本攻勢、社会保障切捨て攻撃をかけています。資本が生きのびるためには、あらゆる犠牲を労働者・民衆と中小零細企業に転嫁するということです。
　95年日経連は、国際競争にうちかつために９割の労働者を不安定雇用にするという方針をうち出しました。これを相次ぐ労働法制改悪と企業法制改悪によって推進し、膨大な失業者・不安定雇用労働者を生みだしました。この背後には、国鉄分割・民営化攻撃を契機とした総評解散−連合の結成、労働運動の屈服と弱体化がありました。
　03年冒頭には、日本経団連は奥田ビジョン、労働政策委員会報告を出し「労働組合に対しては、既得権益を擁護する活動の是正を求める」と、労働組合のさらなる屈服と変質を迫っています。
　こうして労基法に解雇ルールを盛り込む大改悪をはじめ、労働者派遣法･職安法･雇用保険法改悪など戦後労働法制の解体、企業法制･倒産法制の改悪･再編、公務員制度改革などを次々と強行し、官民を問わぬリストラ･倒産･解雇･終身雇用制解体と不安定雇用化･賃下げの嵐の中に労働者を叩き込んでいます。年金･医療･福祉など、社会保障制度の解体攻撃も激しく進められ、大増税がもくろまれています。

団結権を根本にすえ、労働運動・大衆運動への弾圧をはね返して闘おう

　資本攻勢の根幹に据えられているのが団結権破壊の攻撃であり、労働運動への刑事弾圧、さらには共謀罪制定など、治安弾圧法の強化です。労働者の崇高かつ根幹にすわる権利である団結権が危機に瀕しています。
　国鉄闘争が正念場を迎えています。国鉄闘争は全ての労働者の権利、労働運動の未来に重大な影響を及ぼす闘いです。4党合意−3党声明とそれに屈した国労本部による国労闘争団22名への権利停止処分、5･27国労臨大闘争弾圧など、1047名闘争解体に向けた激しい攻撃がかけられています。
　当たり前の労働組合活動や倒産争議に対し、団結権・争議権行使を｢犯罪｣にでっち上げる弾圧がかけられています。国労臨大闘争弾圧での１年をこえる長期拘留をはじめ、関西地区生コン支部、争議団連絡会議、関西合同労組、全金本山労組、港合同サンコー分会、部落解放同盟全国連寝屋川支部への弾圧など、常軌を逸した刑事弾圧が相次ぎ、民事仮処分、損害賠償などの手法を使った争議つぶしも常套手段として定着、拡大しています。
　解雇や弾圧に対しては何をさておいても闘う−これが労働運動の大原則です。今こそ原点に立ちかえる必要があります。関西においては｢弾圧を許さず闘う｣との一点で労働組合・大衆団体が一致団結して10/2集会をかちとり、刑事弾圧の全被告奪還、団結権思想の再構築、労働運動の再生に向けて反撃を開始しました。
　団結権破壊攻撃は労働組合法改悪案の国会上程にまでゆきつこうとしています。不当労働行為救済機関である労働委員会が本来の機能と役割を果たせていない現状を口実にして、労働委員会制度そのものを実質的に変質・解体しようとする攻撃です。審議の迅速化の名による労働委員会の民事裁判化、和解の法制化による原状回復主義の否定、個別的労使関係における紛争処理機関化などです。労組法改悪を絶対に阻止しよう。

三労組を先頭に職場・地域・産別から立ち上がろう

　関西地区生コン支部は産別での労働者の組織化と業者の組織化を進め、セメント独占の支配する生コン業界において、生活と権利、雇用を確保してきました。春闘においては府下全事業所でのストをもって要求を実現し、組合つぶしとの争議を数多く闘っています。動労千葉は今春、80時間のストを打ち抜き、外注化を阻止し、現在、ストを構えて拠点事業所の廃止を阻止する闘いを準備しています。港合同は相次ぐ倒産攻撃にひるむことなく、破産法に労働法を対置し、使用者概念拡大の闘いと職場占拠で倒産・解雇の責任を追及し、倒産争議を勝利させ、あるいは組織破壊攻撃と闘ってきました。
　官民、ナショナルセンターを問わず、職場・地域において一から団結をつくりだそう。未組織の職場に労働組合を結成しよう。非正規職労働者を組織しよう。リストラ･解雇･倒産攻撃に対する労働者の怒り、要求は渦巻いています。必要なのはそれを受けとめ、団結と闘いに組織していくことです。たとえ少数であっても、団結権を貫いて闘えば必ず勝利の展望は切り開かれます。

真の闘う統一戦線と国際連帯をつくりだそう

　闘う勢力を分断し、個別撃破しながら、団結権を根こそぎ破壊していく敵の攻撃に対し、今こそ真に闘う統一戦線をつくり出していくことが重要です。かつてはアカ攻撃、今日的には｢過激派｣キャンペーンが敵の手法として使われています。
労働組合の大前提は思想信条の自由であり、大原則は資本･権力･敵との関係を明確にして、組織的団結を強めながら、これと闘うことです。労働者の利害はひとつです。連合･全労連･全労協など、ナショナルセンターや上部団体の違いにこだわらず、労働運動の大原則のもとに一致し、大同団結しよう。互いの組織・運動を尊重しあいながら、不一致点は留保し、一致点を拡大してゆくことによって真の闘う統一戦線を作り出そう。
　闘う労働者の思いはひとつです。戦争と資本攻勢に怒り、差別と貧困のない社会、労働者が真の主人公となる世界を求めて闘うことです。国内における闘う統一戦線を実現し、国際的団結を打ち固めよう。反グローバリズムの闘い、イラク反戦の闘いは、国境を越えた労働者の共同闘争の中にこそ、この崇高な目的を達成する唯一の道があることを示しています。
　大失業と戦争にたち向かう労働者の闘いと国際的団結を発展させよう！
　日米韓労働者の国際連帯万歳！

　２００３年11月９日

　たたかう労働組合の全国ネットワークをつくろう！
　大失業と戦争にたち向かう労働者の国際的団結を！
　１１・９全国労働者総決起集会

All Workers' Rally for General Offensive of November 9

Keynote Speech

Make international solidarity of workers against large-scale unemployment and war!

We are now successfully holding this 6th annual labor rally, inviting militant unions from the U.S.A. and Korea, to strengthen international solidarity and to achieve revival of labor movement. Now in Seoul, Korea, KCTU (Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) holds 100,000 Workers' National Rally with three demands: abolition of irregular employment, suspension of retrogressive revision of national pension, inhibition of counteraction right of employers. And KCTU declared to wage general strike on Nov. 12. In the U.S.A. workers are struggling against repression on labor unions, Taft-Harley Act, and privatization. They are unflinchingly fighting to stop legislation of Patriot Act II. We would like to express our gratitude and respect to our friends from the US and Korea, who are joining in this rally a long way at this important moment.
KAN-NAMA (Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers Kansai Area Branch) has been dispatching 2 executive members to KCTU since April. Today its 30 members are participating in the rally of KCTU. Mr. Nakamura, vice- president of MINATO-GODO (Metal and Machinery Workers Union in Osaka), also takes part in the rally. DORO-CHIBA has established an International Solidarity Committee. We are determined to make a national network of militant labor unions, persistently creating solidarity and struggle of workers from workplaces, communities and industries, together with workers in the US, Korea and the rest of the world.

Stop dispatch of the SDF to Iraq!

In occupied Iraq, the body count on the US side amounts now over 140. Counterattack by Iraqi people is dragging US troops into the mud. War weariness spreads in US troops. Many soldiers there commit suicide and desert. Families of soldiers are in the forefront of anti-war demonstrations at home. In September and October, the struggle against occupation of Iraq went round the globe again. Only the workers and people have a force to stop aggressive war for oil, domination of the Middle East and the world rule.
The Koizumi administration intends to dispatch nearly thousand soldiers of the SDF to this battlefield and pays 5.5 billion dollars for war expenditure. This makes Japan third largest belligerent country next to the US and the UK. We shall not allow it! Muslim people denounce it and call for struggle of Japanese workers. Let us rise up for struggle with 20 Land, Sea, Air and Port labor unions organizations against the dispatch of SDF to Iraq, the completion, invocation of and obeying Emergency Legislation. Agitating discrimination, disdain, fear and hostility to North Korea on the pretext of "nuclear development and kidnapping", Koizumi administration is intensifying military pressure on North Korea. Let's stand against this war policy. Stop the revision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution!

Large-Scale Capitalist Offensive Combined with War

Wars are carried out for interests of giant capitals that bump up hunger, unemployment and gap between the rich and the poor all over the world, and pursue greedy exploitation and deprivation. At the same time, the government and financial circles attack workers; capitalist offensive and destruction of social security are rampant. For survival of capital, they shift every burden on workers, people and medium and small enterprises.
In 1995, Japan Federation of Economic Organization (JFEO) published a policy to bring ninety percent of workers into unstable employment in order to win out in international competition. This policy has been carried out through the revision of labor legislation and the revision of company legislation and it has brought about enormous amount of unemployment and irregular workers. Precondition of this process was the dissolution of SOHYO (General Council of Trade Unions of Japan) and establishment of RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation) and capitulation and weakening of labor unions through division and privation of the National Railways.
At the beginning of 2003, Nippon Keidanren(Japan Business Federation) published Okuda Vision, and Report of Labor Policy Committee of Nippon Keidanren. This report says, "we demand labor unions' actions to defend vested interests be corrected", and forces labor unions to surrender and degenerate.
Thus extremely retrogressive revision of Labor Standard Law -- insertion of rule of dismissal -- and revisions of Worker Dispatching Business Law, Employment Security Law, Unemployment Insurance Law etc., -- dismantlement of post-war Labor Legislation -- and revision and restructuring of company legislation, and public service system have been forced through. Both in public and private sectors, it throws workers into storm of restructuring, bankruptcy, dismissal and irregular employment. The national pension, the medical services and welfare systems have been violently destroyed, and enormous tax increase is in preparation.

Building on the right of association, fight back repression on labor movement and mass movement!

Current capitalist offensive aims basically to destroy the right of association, criminalize labor movement and reinforce repressive laws, such as legislation of the Law against Conspiracy. The right of association, an inalienable right of the working class is in danger.
The struggle of national railways workers face a crucial moment. Their struggle has a great influence on the right of all the workers and on the future of labor movement. The struggle of fired 1047 workers of National Railways is under severe attack: Four-Party Agreement and Three-Party Statement, suspension of membership right of 22 unionists of the KOKURO Tosodan (fighting corps of the dismissed workers) by the KOKUROU(NRU: National Railway Union) officials who surrendered to the political pressure, and police repression on NRU members who sought to carry through militant policy on the occasion of the Extraordinary Convention of NRU in May 2002,etc.
In normal labor union activities and bankruptcy disputes, exercise of right of association and right of strike has been criminalized. Extreme repression by police is being expanded and destruction of labor dispute by means of civil injunction, suing for damages, etc. has become almost usual practice. Recently we have experienced: one year long detention of NRU workers for their activities on the Extraordinary Union Convention, repressions on KAN-NAMA, SODANREN (Coordinating Committee of Struggling Groups), Kansai General Union (Amalgamated Union), Motoyama Branch of Metal Workers Union, Sanko Branch of MINATO-GODO, Neyagawa Branch of National Federation of Buraku Liberation League, to name some.
To fight back immediately and unconditionally dismissal and repression is the fundamental principle of labor union. It is now the very moment to go back to the basics. In Kansai area a rally was held on October 2 to take back all the accused of political repression from detention, to re-establish the thought of right of association and to revive labor movement through united action of labor unions and mass movement organizations on one common point: fight against repression.
Attack on the right of association has gone so far as to present a bill of retrogressive revision of the Labor Union Law to the Diet. It means, in its essence, attempt of distorting and dismantling the Labor Relations Commission system itself on the pretext that the Labor Relations Commissions are actually unable to come up to its expected function and the roll as a remedy agency to deal with unfair labor practice. The aims of the attack are: to transform the Labor Relations Commissions system into an organ of civil trial in the name of rapid procedure; to institutionalize reconciliation and to undermine the principle of restoration to the status quo, to degrade Labor Relations Commition into an organ of settling labor dispute in individual worker-management relations. Let us prevent disimprovement of the Labor Union Law with all of our power!

Rise up for struggle with the three labor unions in the workplaces, communities and industries

KAN-NAMA has been promoting organizing of workers and dealers in their industry and succeeded in securing the life, right and employment in the paste cement industry where the monopolizing enterprises prevail. In the Spring Labor Offensive, KAN-NAMA's demands have been met through strikes on all business sites in Osaka prefecture and many struggles against union busting and dismissal have been carried out.
DORO-CHIBA waged 80 hours' strike in spring and prevented planned outsourcing. Now it is preparing a fresh strike to stop the abolition of a railway yard, the bastion of the union.
MINATO-GODO has been fighting to win dispute on bankruptcy and against union busting. It has resorted to the labor law as opposed to the bankruptcy law in its unflinching struggle against bankruptcy offensive, and accused the companies of their responsibility for bankruptcy and dismissal through expanded interpretation of the concept of employer and through workplace occupation.
Let us build up a fresh unity in workplaces and communities overcoming difference between public and private sectors and labor national centers. Let us form labor unions in non-unionized workplaces. Let us organize irregular workers. Anger and demands of workers against restructuring, dismissal and bankruptcy offensive are boiling up. We are required to cope with this and to organize this into unity and struggle. Even if the number is small, we can open a perspective for victory when we go on fighting, employing the right of unity.

Let's create a real militant united front and international solidarity!

It is important to make a real militant united front now against enemies' attack that would decouple militant force, obliterate individual, break out right of association by the root. In the past red purge, now "extremist" bushing is used as means of enemies.
The basic premise of labor union is freedom of thought and creed. The fundamental principle is to struggle against capital, authorities and enemies, clarifying the relation to them, strengthening the organized solidarity. Interest of workers is one and the same. Putting aside affiliations to the national centers or umbrella organizations, RENGO, ZENROREN or ZENROKYO, we will unite for common purpose under the principle of labor union. Respecting each other's organization and movement, reserving difference and increasing agreement, let's make a real militant united front!
The wish of struggling workers is one and the same. It is to fight, in anger against war and capitalist offensive, for a society without discrimination and poverty, and for a world where workers become masters. Les us build up a militant united front at home; let us consolidate international solidarity. The struggle against globalism and against war on Iraq suggest that only in the joint transnational struggle of workers is a road to this supreme purpose.

Let's advance the struggle of workers and international solidarity against mass unemployment and war!
Long live the international solidarity of workers in Korea, U.S. and Japan!