We have received the report reproduced
below on police repression in Japan, from a comrade on the spot.
We declare our solidarity with
those workers and students who have been arrested in a brutal wave of repression
that gives the lie to the myth of bourgeois democracy in Japan: the ruling class has revealed its true face in unleashing
the riot police on demonstrators and activists in a particularly violent
manner. One of the most striking aspects of the events in Kamagasaki is that
the workers there were protesting not over bad wages and working conditions but
seem to have been concerned first and foremost with defending their dignity as
workers and human beings: police brutality "brought
over 200 workers to surround the police station and demand that the police
chief come out and apologize".
Over and above this declaration of basic
solidarity, however, we feel it not only necessary but a part of this
expression of solidarity to make some comments on the events described in the
article.
