No. 898   /  Dec. 15, 2002
(Uploaded Dec. 21)

◇  No Desire to Make a Report to Koizumi
  　   330 “Special Interest” Lawmakers[zokugiin]  Lick Their Chops
         “Structural Reforms” Becomes Emptier and Emptier

◇　Editorial:  The Power of Capital Runs Wild
　　　　 They  Said to Adoput Regardless Some Prohibited Strategy

◇　Series: Looking at the Book “Kokumin no geijutsu” (National Art)
　　　　 More Nonsense From “Tsukuru-Kai” (Group for Textbook Reform) (#5)
                  － Ignoring the Maneuvers to Deify the Emperor and Calling For People to
                                          Believe a Myth

 ◇　Salaries Hit By Huge Reduction
        －Health Care Fees Raised by 6 Percent
          －The Reform Proposal of the Pension System by the Ministry of Health,
                       Labor, and Welfare   

◇　The "Logic" of Defiant Decalaration 
　　　   The Dispatch of the Aegis Ship and Reactionaries 

◇　Regional Reports: Governor Ishihara Targets Workplace Activisms
　　　           Suppressing Time Spent on Workplace Activism      (Tokyo)　

◇　The Agreement of 4 Parties is Disintegrating
          The Collapse of the National Railway Union Bureaucracy
          AThe Failure to Exclude the “Leftwing”

◇　No Care about the Critique to Collusion between the Political and
                                        the Business World
　　　　  The Renewed Donations of Nippon Keidanren

◇　The  “Handmaid”  of Bush and Koizumi
　　　   The JCP’s Self-Satisfied “Negotiations With the Opposition Parties

◇　The Hypocrisy of the “Meritocracy” Revealed
　　　   Though the Lump Sum was Supplied...

◇　The Increasing Use of Part-Time Labor
         The Reality and Prospects for Struggle (Part Two)
            －Promoting the “Fluidity of Labor Power”
            －The Labor Ministry’s “Rules on Equal Treatment”

◇　Book Review:  Depicting the Underside of American Society
         “City of Quartz” by Mike Davis

◇　What Was the Textbook Trial?
　　　   Comments on the Occasion of Saburo Ienaga Death