Japan - August 4, 2023
From Japan, solidarity of the revolutionary Marxists of the JRCL-RMF with the struggle of the workers and people of Peru
MESSAGE FOR PERU
Workers, peasants and youths of Peru who are fighting against the Boluarte coup d'etat regime, whose hands are stained with the blood of Peruvian people! We revolutionary and militant workers and youths in Japan are sending our fixed resolve to stand in solidarity with you all.
In July, in a massive demonstration that took place in the Third Takeover of Lima, the Boluarte regime hailed a brutal crackdown on protesters, arresting and incarcerating quite a number of youths who were taking the lead in the demonstration. Boiling with rage, we denounce this outrage! Since the beginning of this year, Peruvian people have been persistently protesting against Dina Boluarte and her backers who had resorted to a coup to set up a government. Upon these mounting protests by Peruvian workers and the masses, the bloodthirsty regime has been delivering merciless attacks: it has taken the lives of more than 70 people, has inflicted innumerable casualties on the part of dissident fighters, and has imprisoned many militants. We strongly protest against all these brutalities perpetrated by the ultra-reactionary regime!
In its message to the International Antiwar Assembly held on August 6th, the FLTI issued a call to protest together against this repression. In response to this call, we Japanese workers and students have renewed our resolve to fight in solidarity with you all who are fighting courageously against the Boluarte regime.
The Japanese government led by neo-fascist Fumio Kishida was relieved at the emergence of a pro-American government in Peru through the coup. Kishida is not only giving a boost to Japanese monopoly capitalists' making inroads into the Peruvian market; he is also scheming to commit stronger military cooperation with Peru. This must not be allowed! The US administration is making frantic attempts to mobilize this Kishida-led Japanese government and other US-obedient power holders in the world, thereby trying to somehow contain Xi Jinping-led China, now figured as America's 'arch-enemy'. Joe Biden, head of the declining imperialist state of America, is bent on building a military encircling net against China (and Russia) in the regions of Asia and the Pacific, thus further reinforcing and expanding US military bases in this area. This is particularly so in Japan, which is located on a front line against China. A huge, new US base is being constructed forcibly in Okinawa despite fierce opposition movements, while the Japanese forces, integrated with the US forces, are being beefed up at a furious speed. In opposition to all these, we revolutionary and militant workers and students in Japan are advancing antiwar, anti-base and anti-military alliance struggles with all our might, while criticizing official opposition leaderships, including the Japanese Communist Party, for totally abandoning struggles. Comrades, fight together with us!
Comrades fighting in Peru, in Latin America and in Africa! Here, we have one more thing to call on you.
Even at this very moment, missiles and drones launched by Putin's army are indiscriminately killing Ukrainian people. This war, started by Putin with intentions to annihilate the state, together with the nation, of Ukraine and incorporate it whole into Great Russia, must in no way be allowed. The working people of Ukraine are fighting as a single body. Let us stand up in solidarity with these combating people of Ukraine and create antiwar struggles to crush 'Putin's war'!
It is said that even in South America, there are some self-styled leftists who, of all things, heap abuses on the toiling Ukrainian people by saying that 'the Ukrainian nation is waging a war against Russia as proxy for NATO'. This is nothing other than to justify Putin the aggressor!
As workers, we definitely stand by the side of Ukrainian toiling people who are suffering Putin-led Russia's aggression and suppression, by the side of those who are enraged by the barbarities and fighting against them.
Crush Putin's war!
Comrades, let us fight together!
Sachiko Kihara
Revolutionary Communist League of Japan - Revolutionary Marxist Faction (JRCL-RMF)
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