Absolutely No to the Division and Privatization of National Railway!
Withdraw Dismissal of 1,047 National Railway Workers!
Let's Organize a Powerful Struggle against Massive Unemployment and Fight
Back Neo-Liberal Offensive and Firing under the Pretext of the Earthquake!

June 5th Rally of National Campaign of National Railway Struggle
June 5th (Sunday), 13:00 p.m.
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コン関連産業のゼネスト／⻘年組合員の不当配転に対しストに⼊っ●霞ヶ関（丸の内線）

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至銀座

ITO Akira: Researcher of Japanese Modern History
IRIE Shiro: President of Independent Trade Union of Standard-Vacuum Oil
UTSUNOMIYA Osamu: President of Ehime Prefectural Workers' Union
OHNO Yoshifumi: Former Director of Aki Labor Standards Supervision Office
OWADA Koji: Secretary General of Metal and Machinery Workers' Union in Osaka
KAMAKURA Takao: Economist, Emeritus Professor of Saitama University
KITAHARA Koji: Secretary General of Sanrizuka-Shibayama United Opposition League against
Airport Construction
Kim Weon Jun: Researcher of History of Korean Labor Movement
Go Yeong Nam: Vice-President of Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers
Kansai Area Branch
SUZUKI Tatsuo: Lead Lawyer of the Trial of Hosei University Oppression
TESHIMA Koichi: Former Secretary-General of Kokuro Kyushu Headquarters
TAKAYAMA Shunkichi: Lawyer, Representative of Society for Constitution and Human Rights inJapan Federation of Bar Associations
NAKAE Masao: Former National Vice-President of National Railway Motive Power UnionNISHIDA Takashi: Former Organizer of Sohyo, President of Tobu General United Union
HAYAMA Takeo: Lead Consulting Lawyer of Doro-Chiba
HANAWA Fujio: Adviser of Setagaya Regional Trade Union Council
MIYASHIRO Morimitsu: Council Member of Kita-Nakagusuku Village of Okinawa Prefecture,
Former Member of Zengunro Makiminato Branch
YAMAMOTO Hiroyuki: Secretary Treasurer of Doro-Chiba Support Committee
YAYAMA Yusaku: Former Member of the House of Representatives
SEINO Kazuhiko: Former President of Fukushima Teachers' Union
Jack Heyman: Former Executive Committee Member of International Longshore & Warehouse
Union Local 10
Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers Kansai Area Branch
32 representatives of confederations and unions affiliated to Korean Confederation of Trade
Unions Seoul Regional Council

国鉄分割・⺠営化に反対し、１０４７名解雇撤回闘争を⽀援する全国運動（国鉄闘争全国運動）〒 260-0017 千葉市中央区要町２－８

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For a Powerful Struggle against Massive Unemployment!
Let's Revitalize Labor Movement!
Rally for a starting point for a new labor movement
It's one year since we have launched a nationwide campaign for national railway struggle
with slogans: "Don't put out the ﬁre of national railway struggle" "Let's organize a labormovement to counter neo-liberal offensives".
While we are fully engaged in developing this fresh movement, East Japan Earthquake andthe nuclear plant disaster which took place on March 11, 2011, has changed the wholesituation fundamentally. The existing labor unions are abandoning all union activities
under the name of "self-restraint" or "political truce". "Four Parties and Four Bodies"
headed by Kokuro (National Railway Workers' Union) leadership, which have committed
in the "political settlement" last year of the struggle of 1,047 dismissed national railwayworkers, issued a declaration, "Considering the quake disaster, we temporally suspend
political effort to solve the employment issue of 1,047 workers".
The reality is, however, we face an urgent need of revitalizing labor movement right now
in this particular moment. National railway struggle has never occupied a more signiﬁcantand decisive position in the whole situation than now. In view of these developments, we,endorsers of the national campaign, have started a serious discussion on the importanttask of the June 5th National Rally to ignite a fresh start of struggle for the future ofworkers and labor movement.
We have conﬁrmed the following points as a result of our discussion:*If we allow further engagement of labor unions in labor-capital collaboration, we will
surely lose all labor rights without limit.
*Labor unions are under siege of capital and the sate power and union bosses still
have no policy to overcome this situation. Opinions are divided between class-struggle
orientation and social-movement viewpoint to reconstruct the life and the society.
*All the disasters after the quake, including tsunami and nuclear plant accident, arecrimes committed by capital and the state. These are the results of neo-liberal agenda
and privatization. We desperately need a clariﬁcation of fundamental strategy of labor
movement to change these prevailing trends.
*Labor movement is responsible for the present situation, in which dissident opinions
are suppressed and unfavorable facts are concealed on the nuclear issue by thegovernment and corporations. Current confusion and disruption of the movement
against nuclear weapon and nuclear plants has been produced by existing labor unions.

*What we need now is to expose the common social and political roots of neo-liberal
offensive, which is the underlying ideology of the Division and Privatization of National
Railway and what caused the whole developments of the East Japan Earthquake andthe nuclear plant disaster. This must be the urgent task of June 5th National Rally, whichconfronts imminent massive unemployment and is expected to present an effective
form and way of struggle to tackle this serious issue.
*In this situation, the guiding logic and policy of our national railway struggle should be
developed under universal viewpoint, or wider perspective of the whole labor and socialmovements.
The surrounding situation of national railway struggle is now undergoing a violent change.
Kokuro is rapidly being co-opted into Rengo (Japanese Confederation of Trade Unions, themajor national trade union center) after the "political settlement" reached last year. An allout capital offensive has been raging over various ﬁelds of Japanese labor scene since pastyear: privatization of the Social Insurance Agency, accompanied by over-all ﬁring of all
employees and selective re-employment thereafter ("JNR model"), designated dischargeof Japan Air Lines (JAL) workers, mass ﬁring of thousand temporary workers of Japan Post,
among others. It has become more and more evident that the fundamental aim of the"political settlement" on April 9th, 2010 of the issue of 1,047 dismissed national railway
workers was to liquidate labor movement as a whole.
Doro-Chiba has blocked outsourcing of JR
In the present situation, leading position of Doro-Chiba, which has been carrying out thestruggle for rail safety and against rationalization and successfully crushed the overall
attempt of outsourcing, and of Kan-Nama (Solidarity Union of Japan Construction andTransport Workers Kansai Area Branch), which waged a powerful industrial action lastyear to shake the domination of the big general contractors, has been gaining greater
signiﬁcance in presenting a future for Japanese militant labor movement.
The crucial task for us now is whether we can establish a strong link with numerous
workers and people who are raising angry voices in utmost difﬁculties in the aftermath of
the huge quake and to offer them a perspective of ﬁghting back. We must take back unityand solidarity of working class and change the whole situation of labor movement.
We heartily call on you all to join us in June 5th National Rally!