‘Conspiracy bill is unconstitutional!’ ‘We’ll never give up!’ ～The fight against the bill continues

  A great number of citizens gathered in front of the Diet Building and sat in all night from June 14 to 15 after the news broke out that the ruling coalition was to force the conspiracy bill in the parliamentary session that night. “The members of Liberal Democratic Party hooted and jeered fiercely, but those scenes were never showed on TV,” one demonstrator said. “We should not be discouraged or withered even if the bill passes,” KAITO Yuichi, a lawyer, addressed the protesters at a rally, “Let us keep fighting against this evil law.” KOIKE Akira from the Japan Communist Party said, “There has never been a voting so unfair and terrible in the past! We will never give up!”  ITOKAZU Keiko from the parliamentary group Wind of Okinawa, who took the ox-walking tactic to protest the voting, said, “I am filled with anger and grief.”  FUKUSHIMA Mizuho from the Social Democratic Party and two other lawmakers also ox-walked, but their votes were counted as invalid because of the time they took to cast the vote, which was over two minutes. “(They ignored) how significant these three votes were!” she said, expressing her outrage. The joint struggle between citizens and opposition parties against the bill will continue.  (By MIYUKI Emi) 

  *Photo: The votes of the lawmakers who ox-walked were counted as invalid. (The woman in pink is FUKUSHIMA Mizuho) Youtube

 共謀罪は違憲！ 国会前徹夜の座り込み～ 「あきらめないたたかい」はつづく

 
6月14日から15日朝、与党による共謀罪法案「強行 採決迫る」の緊急事態を受け、議員会館前にはたくさんの市民が集 い、徹夜の座り込みが続いた。傍聴した人の話では、「自民党の ヤジがひどいが、テレビではそれは一切消されている」とのことだ った。海渡雄一弁護士は「共謀罪が通っても萎縮せず、この悪法と たたかっていきましょう！」と呼びかけた。日本共産党・小池晃 さんは「こんなひどい採決はない！今後もあきらめない」と語っ た。牛歩をした沖縄の風・糸数慶子さんは「嘆きと怒りでいっぱ いだ」と。また社民党・福島みずほさんは「牛歩をした3人の議員 （森裕子・又市征治・福島みずほ）が投票したにもかかわらず、2 分の制限時間を過ぎたとして投票無効とされた。この3票がどれほ ど価値があるものか！」と怒りを露わにした。今後も市民と野党 の共闘、「あきらめないたたかい」はつづく。（見雪恵美）

湯本報告&動 画　＊写真＝牛歩議員の投票が 無効とされた（ピンクは福島みずほ氏）

Ready-mixed Concrete workers wage strikes against the War Bill

Zennikken Solidarity Union, a construction industry union led by KIKUCHI Susumu with a membership of 3,000, carried through strikes all around Japan to demand the withdrawal of the cabinet of the Prime Minister ABE Shinzo as well as the scrapping of the “War Bill” on September 11, 2015. The strikes were waged in approximately 30 ready-mixed concrete facilites, such as the Kanto region in which Tokyo, Japan’s capital is located, Shizuoka, and the Kansai region. In addition, working people in nine prefectures joined the action by demonstrating and collecting signatures at major railway stations. FUKUSHIMA Mizuho, the deputy head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, came to the Hommoku Pier in Yokohama City to support the striking workers. At a concrete works in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, delegations of the South Korean Construction Workers Union also joined the strike. In the Kansai area, six concrete workers unions – the JFT (Japan Federation of Transport Workers Unions), the UA Zensen (Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers' Unions), the Osaka Local of Zenkowan (All Japan Dockworkers Union), the Kansai Local of Kenkoro (All Japan Construction, Transport and General Workers' Union), the Kinki Asso (pumping) Union, and the Kansai Concrete Local of Zennikken Solidarity Union, jointly carried out a street action in front of Osaka Railway Station beyond the framework of trade union national centers. (KOYANO Takeshi, Secretary General of Zennikken)

生コン労働者が立ち上がる！～戦争法案反対で全国統一ストライキ

全日建（全日本建設運輸連帯労働組合・菊池進委員長 3千人）は9月11日、戦争法案の廃案、安倍内閣の退陣を求める全国統一ストライキ行動を実施しました。関東、静岡（写真）、関西のセメント出荷基地や生コン工場など30カ所ほどの拠点職場が始業時から2時間の時限スト。ほかにも一斉休暇や残業拒否などでターミナル駅での街宣・署名活動をおこなうなど、合計9都府県の職場が統一行動に参加しました。横浜の本牧埠頭にあるセメント出荷基地のスト現場には、社民党副党首の福島みずほ議員が激励にかけつけ、静岡県富士市の生コン工場にはおりから来日中の韓国建設労組の代表団もストに参加。関西では生コン関連6労組交通労連生コン産労、ＵＡ、全港湾大阪支部、建交労関西支部、近畿圧送労組、全日建関生支部）が、ナショナルセンターの枠をこえて大阪駅頭で共同の街頭宣伝をおこないました。（全日建書記長・小谷野毅） 

First anti-nuke action in 2015

The first anti-nuke Friday action of this year was held in front of the Office of the Prime Minister on January 9, 2015. 300 tons of high-level radioactive materials are still flowing to the Pacific Ocean and spreading to the atmosphere from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant every day. The Abe Administration, which is unable to stop the flow, pretends that the disaster has been contained and tries to restart nuclear power plants in Japan in defiance of public opinion. Many of the participants in the action are elders despite the winter cold, who show strong determination to abolish the plants for the future generations. FUKUSHIMA Mizuho, an upper house member and the senior vice president of the opposition Social Democratic Party, said, “Nobody can take responsibility for damage caused by an accident of a nuclear power plant or war. That’s because I say No Nukes! No War!” (Shinya)

寒さに負けず「再稼働反対」の声上げる～ことし最初の官邸前行動

１月９日、新年になって初めての首相官邸前抗議行動が行われた。年が代わっても、福島第一原発から高レベル放射性物質が毎日３００トンも海に流れ、大気中にも飛散しつづけている。それを止めることも出来ないまま安倍政権は、事故や被害は収束したかのように原発の再稼働を進めようとしている。この日も沢山の人たちが官邸前、国会周辺で「川内原発再稼働反対」「高浜原発再稼働反対」と抗議の声を上げた。毎回毎回駆けつけ声を上げている人たちに高齢者を多く見かける。防寒対策をしっかりして疲れを見せないその姿から、子や孫に原発を遺してはいけないという強い思いと意志が伝わってきた。「原発も戦争も、その被害に誰も責任を負えない。だから脱原発！戦争反対！」という福島瑞穂社民党副党首に、みな寒さに震えながら大きな拍手を送っていた。（shinya）