Tariq All, a member of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, recentiy concluded an extensive tour of Japan organised by the Japanese Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL - Japanese section of the Fourth International). Comrade All spoke at public meetines in ten major cities on the 'Class Struggle in Europe', Revolutionary perspectives in South Asia' and the 'Politics of the Fourth International". The meeting in Tokyo drew 1200 mili tants, one of the largest meetings ever held by the JRCL The meeting revealed the important growth which the Ja panese section has experienced in recent years, in particular the increasing number of young workers which it has attracted to its ranks. At a public meeting of 400 in the important industrial centre of Sendai (in northern Japan) for instance, well over 250 were young workers. This reflected the influence of the JRCL in the local rail way workers" and postal workers" unions where it is the only revolutionary force inside the working class. In these public sector trade unions strikes are banned and every unofficial strike therefore tends to be posed as a confrontation against the government.
SANRIZUKA The most important national struggle supported the JRCL have constructed a large tower in by the entire extreme left is the struggle agains! the construction of a new infernational airport at Sanrizuka, 25 miles outside Tokyo. The strugale of the loca peasants, whuch began in 1967, still continues unabated and though the runways have been constructed in Area 1, the Important Area 2 is still occupied by the pesThe murder oi a Barcelona building worker by sants under the leadership of the militant Peasants" League and the active participation of some of the revolutionary groups. Amongs these the JRCL is in the forefront. It has won the confidence of the peasant leaders and its permanent defenoe guard of ten militants lives in Sanrizuka in its own hurriedly constructed headquarters, and works on the land together with the peasants. It is a sign of the prestige of the JRCL in thin zone that severai peasant leaders attended Tariq Ali's public meeting in Tokyo. Their leader who spoke at the meeting paid unstinted tributes to the JRCL and the Fourth International and explained how the struggle had radicalised the peasants living in Sanrizuka.
In return Turiq All promised that the sections of the Fourth International would 'internationalise the struggle against this so-called international air port', wilich the Japanese government is constructing essentially to Argentina While President Campora dines with Franco in Madrid, the Peronist regime is srapping up its campaign of repression against the revolutionary forces in Argentina. It was the old fox Peron himeett, due to return to Buenos Aires next Wednesday, who launched the watchword "Get the Trotskvistsl".
The witch-hunt is directed primarily against the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), Ied by the Argentinian section of the Fourth International - the only one of the armed groupings which is struggling to expose the Campora government and its pact with the military dictators. The Paronist Security Command has begun to carry out its threats of violence military, lagal and political. He warned the conforuncs that the NATO armies, which had at first faced the forces of the Warsaw Pact, warn now baing turned also to face the growing army of revolution within thair own stato boundaries. The techniques being developes in the North of Ireland would be applied on a Euro. poen seale; it was necessary to bearn from the irish #ruggle both the nature of these mathods and how to fight them.
The demonstration on Thandsy, 14 June, was preced ed by a march from the German and British Emoas. sies, organised by a united froet of the revolutionery Seft. A speaker from the German KPD dena unend the repression againit that orgenistion by the Germen Govermant, and Bob Purdie spoke again, outside the British Embasry. The largest contingent on this demonstration came from the comrades of the HINDULOO TOOENSTOO TRO UTEC section of the Fourth International, supported by the Revolutioners Marxisters Forbund, the Swadish section. The main demonstration, which marched to the NATO conference hall, was 8,000 strong. The counter conference and the demonstration made a big impeet in Denmark, and some newspepers gaus thom aqual ooverage with the NATO Counsil itseif.