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2013 November 13 - 19 [JCP]

JCP Secretariat member talks about JCP struggles at meeting in China

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat member Tagawa Minoru talked about various JCP struggles at an international meeting (Nov.7-8) in Beijing held to discuss the world’s progressive movements and outlook for socialism under the present international financial crisis.

Tagawa, who is also a JCP International Committee member, explained that the world economic crisis has been severely affecting the general public in Japan because of policies imposed by Japanese financial circles and the government which follows U.S. dictates.

Tagawa said that the JCP made a remarkable achievement in the July Upper House election following the business community’s failure to create a “two-conservative-party structure” and promote “third pole parties”. Joint struggles with a wide range of people on a single issue like opposition to nuclear energy, to U.S. military presence in Japan, or to Japan’s participation in the TPP free-trade accord also contributed to the JCP advances achieved in the election, he added.

He explained that the JCP has a history of fighting against the hegemony of the former Soviet Union, and that the JCP Program proclaims that a future socialist or communist Japan will have neither a party that gives guidance to domestic affairs nor a state-designated philosophy and instead will explore ways for the further development of democracy and freedom.

A Communist Party of China-affiliated research center and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation co-hosted this international meeting. CPC executives, Chinese scholars, and eleven party representatives and scholars from Europe, South America and North America, and Asia participated and discussed issues of global financial speculation, problems of multinational corporations, and China’s economy and social policy.