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JCP May Day slogans published The Japanese Communist Party published its slogans for the 80th May Day in the April 28 issue of Akahata: <For better working conditions> - Stop the layoffs of contingent workers as if they were 'disposables'! - Stop long-working-hours, unpaid overtime work, and wage cuts! - Force large corporations to fulfill their social responsibility for full employment and minimum labor conditions of workers! - Support living conditions of the jobless! - Fully revise the Worker Dispatch Law to ensure decent living conditions for workers! - Establish the national minimum wage system as well as ensure at least 1,000 yen an hour! - End wage disparity between men and women! <On economic policies> - Change Japan's economic policy from one of depending on exports to one driven by domestic demand! - Use tax money to assist the household economy instead of major corporations! - Establish an economy governed by rules! - Let us protect small- and medium-sized businesses and promote the development of regional economies! - Cut military expenditures and use more tax money to improve welfare services! - Foil large-scale consumption tax rate hike! Make food consumption tax-exempt! <On social services> - Change policy to increase expenditures for social welfare services! - Abolish medical insurance system that discriminates against the elderly 75 and older! - Ease shortages of doctors, nurses, and nursing care workers and provide safe and friendly medical and nursing care services! - Establish a minimum pension benefit system! - Maintain public child-care system so that there are no babies on the waiting lists for childcare centers! - Reduce school fees, the highest in the world! - Limit public school class size to30 students per teacher! <On food and environment> - Rebuild Japan's agriculture and fisheries! - Increase Japan's food self-sufficiency rate and ensure food safety! - Make people/environment-friendly society! - Take urgent measures against global warming and preserve world environment! <On peace and diplomacy> - No to revising war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution that will remake Japan as "war-capable nation"! - Establish quality of life where constitutional principles are fully embodied! - Repel anachronistic view glorifying the war of aggression and colonial rule of Japan! - Prioritize diplomatic efforts for Japan's self-reliance and work for world peace! <On nuclear weapons> - Take urgent and concrete measures for nuclear weapons abolition! - Government must recognize hibakusha illnesses as radiation-caused! <On Japan-U.S. military alliance> - Scrap the plan to realign U.S. military bases in Japan! - Don't pay for U.S. Marine Corps 'relocation' from Okinawa to Guam! - Foil 'anti-pirate' bill that will perpetuate Self-Defense Forces dispatches abroad! - Abolish the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty! <On politics> - Nothing can be gained from power-shift between two major parties! - Eliminate money-ridden politics distorting democracy in Japan! - Eliminate plutocratic and corrupt politics! - Ban fund donations by corporations! - End paying unconstitutional public subsidies to political parties! - Eliminate poverty and social gaps! Build a Japan that stands for peace! - Let's ensure that the Japanese Communist Party can achieve its advance in and out the Diet so that it will be the new flag bearer for a truly democratic Japan! - Akahata, April 28, 2009 |
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