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2017 April 19 - 25 TOP3 [LABOR]

JCP announces May Day slogans

The Japanese Communist Party announced the party’s slogans for the 88th May Day in the April 25 issue of Akahata.

For better working conditions

- Build a society where everyone can have a decent quality of life with an eight-hour work day!
- Put an end to excessively long working hours!
- Realize ‘equal pay for equal job’ rules and equal treatment for all workers!
- Let us win a minimum wage of 1,500 yen per hour everywhere!
- Utilize large corporations’ internal reserves for a drastic wage hike, job creation, and healthy development of the Japanese economy and society!

On politics

- Abolish the war laws (the national security legislation) and restore constitutionalism!
- Foil ‘anti-conspiracy’ bill that violates constitutional right to freedom of thought and conscience!
- Government must retract Cabinet approval for the Imperial Rescript on Education!
- Change the government turning Japan into a war-fighting nation to one making best use of the Constitution!
- Government must make all-out efforts to bring the Fukushima nuclear disaster under control!
- No to the reactivation of offline NPPs and create a ‘zero-nuclear power Japan’!

On economic policies

- Government must cancel the planned consumption tax increase to 10%!
- Cut military spending and use tax revenues for social welfare and support for the younger generation and for childrearing!
- Increase public support for smaller businesses, agriculture, fishery, and forestry to revitalize local economies!
- Establish just, fair trade and investment rules that protect Japan’s economic and food sovereignty and people’s livelihoods!
- Eliminate social inequalities and poverty!

On Japan-US military alliance and diplomacy

- Abrogate the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and create a Japan free of U.S. bases!
- Conclude a friendship treaty with the U.S. on an equal footing!
- Denuclearize North Korea by peaceful diplomacy based on Article 9 of the Constitution, not by military responses subservient to the U.S.!
- Build a regional community for peace in Northeast Asia!

On nuclear weapons

- Realize an international treaty banning nuclear weapons!
- Promote the international signature campaign in support of the Appeal of the Hibakusha for the elimination of nuclear weapons!
- Get out from under the U.S. nuclear umbrella and create a nonnuclear Japan!

Let us further strengthen collaboration between opposition parties and concerned citizens and establish a coalition government of opposition parties!
Let us achieve a victory in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election and a major advance of the JCP in the coming general election!