JCP announces May Day slogans

Japan Press Weekly

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JCP announces May Day slogans

The Japanese Communist Party announced its slogans for the 79th May Day in Japan as follows:

- Stop the poverty rate from increasing and economic inequalities from widening.

- Revise the Worker Dispatch Law into one of protecting temporary workers’ rights.

- Promote contingent workers to full-time positions; establish a uniform national minimum wage system at an hourly wage of no less than 1,000 yen.

- Eliminate wage gaps between men and women.

- Eradicate unpaid overtime work.

- Set rules for decent working conditions.

- Build a society where young people can live with hope.

- Ensure the minimum standards of living in conformity with Article 25 of the Constitution.

- Abolish the new medical insurance system for the elderly aged 75 and over.

- Solve the shortage of doctors and nurses so that safe and through medical services will be provided.

- Establish a minimum pension benefit system.

- Reduce the world’s highest college tuition fees.

- Abolish the system to squander tax money on the construction of unnecessary roads.

- Put more priority on households than large corporations in economic policies.

- Cut military expenditure and increase budgets for people’s living conditions and welfare programs.

- Do not raise the consumption tax rate.

- Revitalize Japanese agriculture to provide safe food.

- Protect the global environment.

- Stop global warming.

- Get corporations to fulfill their social responsibilities.

- Restrict the overflow of speculative money that has caused the rise in commodity prices.

- Stop the attempt to adversely revise Article 9 of the Constitution and prevent Japan from being turned into a country that wages wars.

- Let the Constitution guide the people’s living.

- Get Japan to change its foreign policy into one of independence and support for peace in opposition to any justification of Japan’s past war of aggression and colonization.

- Stop the illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq.

- Stop the unconstitutional dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq.

- Block the move to create a permanent law to send the SDF abroad.

- No realignment of U.S. bases in Japan.

- Protest against crimes committed by U.S. servicemen.

- Abrogate the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.

- Extend relief for Hibakusha (Atomic bomb survivors) now.

- Abolish nuclear weapons worldwide.

- Rise to struggle to influence government policies.

- Block the move to create a two-party system uncritically serving the U.S. and Japan’s business circles.

- Drastically change Japan’s politics with a Japanese Communist Party advance.

- Akahata, April 27, 2008