From the article of 'Petrel'
No.626 / April 20, 1997

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The advancing of politics to "the Taisei Yokusankai" (the Supporting Association of the Administration)

The members of the Diet of 90 percent has agreed with 
the revision of the Special Measures Law
It is exactly the time when the working class counterattacks!

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The Special Measures Law was revised by the agreement of the members of the Diet of 90 percent, and the base site in Okinawa became to be secured "lawfully" regardless of the landowner's opposing. First of all, we will have to describe the word of �gCongratulations" for you the bourgeois. However, you must not forget the thing that you had changed the definition of "lawful principle" completely, nay, that you had abandoned "the lawful principle" itself by the act. Because you made the "Precedent" that we can easily stand up on the "lawful" standpoint if changes the law whenever we seems to be driven in to a illegal situation and become inconvenient. The working class will never forget this.
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It was exposed that the members of the Diet --- not only the members of the Diet of the bourgeois party, but also the members of the Diet of the petty bourgeois party (to say nothing of the Shamin Party, that is, the SDP, whom we already hesitate to call as "betrayer") --- can not resist at all when the authorities shout that it is the problem affecting to the continuance of the country, the problem of the self-defense of the country, that they act easily "like the Taisei Yokusankai" (the Supporting Association of the Administration) at such time.

Actually, is not it abnormal that the members of the Diet of 90 percent agree in the situation that the Liberal-Democratic Party having the powers is only the small-number government party in the Diet?

Moreover, the discussion is hardly done in the Diet as for this bill. The reason "for accomplishing the obligation in the agreement" of the government was left receiving neither the criticism nor the examination and there were neither any counteroffensive nor criticizing for the Hashimoto's posture named "the marine corps reduction should not be said now."

There must naturally exist a criticism in case of the racialist and the nationalist, moreover the liberal and the social democrat can also have made the marine corps reduction to the problem naturally from the standpoint of reducing the pressure to Okinawa of the U.S.Army base. The base reduction has not necessarily no possibility seeing from the present, international situation.

Nevertheless, all the political parties followed to the Hashimoto regime, consequently, to the militarism power and the reactionary power of the United States, and degenerated into its flatterer.

Such situation of the political party and the members of the Diet ware so nasty as Nonaka, the representative of the chief secretary of the Liberal-Democratic Party, who was the managing staff of the government, should have shouted, "It is the Taisei Yokusankai (the Supporting Association of the Administration)." His speech was the following one, though it was deleted from the minutes of the Diet.

"May not this law result in trampling down Okinawa with soldier's boots! We who have lived in the old and painful ages want to ask you so that the discussion of the Diet does not become like the Taisei Yokusankai."

"The Taisei Yokusankai" is the military supporting system, "Totalitarianism" system immediately connecting with the preparing of war, which came into the world by the following and the temporizing of all powers --- including political parties and labor unions --- to the military authorities inclining to fascism and militarism before the World War II.

Nonaka warned how "dangerous" the disappearing of criticizing power was, and how "unhappy" age came when the political parties and the politicians abandon own belief and sidle up and temporize to powers as "being Reeled by the long."

Though Kajiyama who was the managing staff of the Liberal-Democratic Party similarly refuted this speech of Nonaka as "It is not such age now. (Where are the military?)" However, the system where there does not exist any straight discussion at all in the Diet, the opposition party and the government party combine, and approve "the Problem bill" cheaply, is nothing except the Taisei Yokusankai exactly.

Having deleted the speech of Nonaka from the minutes of the Diet in a hurry because of "Technology logic" frankly exposes in itself "the Taisei Yokusankai" situation of the present Diet.

The political parties and the politicians now are actually becoming to be as "the Taisei Yokusankai" rapidly. They might not be conscious of it, and might be indulged in self defense as
it is different from the situation before war, nevertheless, though it is just in the different shape (in the shape adaptable to the rule of the monopolistic capital now) the inclining to "the Taisei Yokusankai" --- the bourgeois and reactionary integration, "unification" --- is advancing and deepening rapidly.

However, just such situation exactly offers one condition where the truly class, revolutionary movement of the working class develops and blazes up.

When all power is converged and integrated in the reactionary, the working class knows neither any road nor the fighting method except expecting of the actually class party and concentrating there.

The age of the politics inclining to "the Taisei Yokusankai" is exactly the age when the power of the revolutionary socialism infiltrates into the working class, and we must do so. Let's confirm that just the age when the social, class and political contradiction intensifies also the age at the same time when the serious, decisive exercise of the worker develops.