JCP Chair Shii encourages union leaders to fight mass layoffs using existing laws

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo emphasized the importance of invoking the current laws in fighting mass layoffs without waiting for the Worker Dispatch Law to be revised.

Radical change is required to get out of Japan’s minus growth of 12.7%

The government should immediately stop the business community from arrogantly throwing people’s livelihoods and the country’s economy into a vicious circle. The need is for the government to thoroughly amend the worn-out policy of making money from exports or foreign demand at the expense of the household economy.

In no sense was postal services privatization a ‘reform’: JCP Koike

On an NHK “Sunday Debate” program aired on February 15, Japanese Communist Party Policy Commission Chair Koike Akira criticized the government in connection with discord within the cabinet over the issue of the privatization of the postal services.