JCP sends message to Mexican Party of Democratic Revolution

The Japanese Communist Party Central Committee sent a message to Mexico's Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD) on the occasion of its 8th National Congress. Kanda Yonezo, deputy director of the JCP International Bureau, who attended the congress, delivered the message to the PRD leadership.

The JCP message said:

We wish you a major success in the PRD 8th Congress. We hope that it will help overcome various difficulties to end politics that imposes hardships on the Mexican people, promote people-first policies, and make good preparations for a victory in the 2006 Mexican presidential election to follow a major PRD advance in last year's general election.

In Latin American countries today, popular opposition to the U.S.-imposed neo-liberal policy is increasing. In spite of pressure from the U.S. Bush administration, the majority of the region's governments have refused to support the Iraq War. Thus, public opinion in opposition to U.S. political and economic domination is growing extensively. We are looking with great interest at the calls for political change, which finds its expression in the establishment of new governments that give people's living conditions top priority and refuse to be dictated by the United States. All this makes us even more interested to see the PRD achieve further advances in its struggle.

The U.S. war of aggression and the ensuing unjustifiable military occupation have exacerbated the Iraqi situation. In dealing with the present major question of what the 21st century world should be like, we are making every effort to establish an international order for peace based on the United Nations Charter and to reject the imposition of an international order of war and oppression that would give the United States freedom to act unilaterally. It is a struggle against the preemptive attack strategy, the overthrow of foreign governments by using military force, the occupation of foreign territory, and the imposition of regime change. On the question of economic "globalization" affecting the whole world, we are calling for a just and democratic international economic order to replace the present order that gives top priority to the pursuit of profits by multinational corporations and international finance capital mainly of the United States.

At the JCP 23rd Congress in January, which your representative also attended, we adopted a new JCP Program. In the tumultuous 21st century world, it gives a contemporary view of a future society of socialism/communism while making it clear that the immediate task for change in capitalist Japan is to carry out a democratic revolution that would put an end to Japan's subordination to the United States and the tyrannical rule by large corporations and business circles. It also sets out a democratic policy program to be carried out in political, economic, and diplomatic fields, including the realization of a non-aligned and neutral Japan by breaking away from the Japan-U.S. military alliance, establishing democratic control of large corporations, and promoting the protection and improvement of people's livelihoods.

We are glad that the JCP-PRD relations have been established through participation in each other's party congresses and discussions. We hope that cooperation and solidarity will be further developed between our two parties in tackling common challenges, including the establishment of an international order for peace and of a just and democratic international economic order. (end)