We have just heard with sadness of the death of one s the igading memoers o sho rourus nerna ona in Japan, Yoshio Seki, from a sudden poplaxy on 21 July, 1973. A mombar of the political bureau of the в рапое нечотиполну соттоть воодии, нио secretary of its Kanto (Tokyo and neighbauring areas) committee, his death at the age of 30 isa big blow to the Japanese section and the Fourth International as a whole.
Yoshio Soki joined the Revolutionary Communist 'League in 1963 while he wes a student at Yagamata University, In 1966 the Japanese section split, and shortly afterwards Yoshio Seki moved to Tokyo, where as a newly elected member of the political bureau he played a key role in rebuilding a new centralisad organisation at the tima of the huge perticular, ho made an important contribution to the devalopmant of the concept of the combinec and paranont Asian revalution around which the organisation was rebuitt.
In April 1970, Yoshio Seki moved to Okinawa, where from scratch he fought to build a Trotskyist Basu ameng the Okinawan masses. As a result the Japanese sêction now has a thriving group there, the Okinawar committue of the Revolutionary Communist Leegue In February of this your he returned to Tokyo to strengthen the work of the Kanto organisation, end It was at a colf moating that he collapsed on 19 July. dying two days later.
HIST TH ICIPH TH CIHM CXHUCHOK TOSIRI SEHLE TIRC SETR so learn English in order better to participate in the life of the Fourth International and contribute to the buldino of its soctions in Asis. And it is as an ente nationalist Asian, an Asian permanent revolationist, that he will be remembered.
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