End the Invasion in Ukraine Immediately!
Let’s Stop the Escalation to Global and Nuclear War with All Our Might!
On
February 24, the Russian Putin regime launched a large-scale military
invasion of Ukraine under the pretext of “protection the population in
eastern Ukraine.” We strongly denounce this genocidal war of aggression.
Since
the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO, led by U.S. and European
imperialism, has introduced neoliberal measures in Eastern Europe and
expanded its military encirclement of Russia. Finally, it has led the
Putin regime to a desperate military invasion of Ukraine.
However,
the Ukrainian people have launched strong resistance against this
invasion, while the Russian people are fighting against the Putin regime
throughout the country.
Meanwhile, the working class and
people of the world, on whom the capitalists shifted all the burden of
the pandemic under the depression, are taking to the street in
solidarity with the fighting people of Ukraine and Russia.
This
worldwide upsurge of struggles, combined with mounting anger against
various neoliberal measures such as privatization, unemployment, growing
inequality and poverty, dismantling of health care and social security,
is leading to a struggle for the transformation and overthrow of their
own imperialist governments, which are rushing to war.
The
invasion of Ukraine will undoubtedly accelerate the ongoing US,
Japanese and European imperialists’ scheme toward war of aggression
against China. Japanese imperialism, seeing this situation as linking to
the “Taiwan contingency”, has clearly embarked on the road to
aggressive war.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, exploiting the
Putin’s nuclear threat, called for “nuclear sharing” with the U.S.,
deploying US nukes throughout Japan. Current Defense Minister Nobuo
Kishi, Abe’s younger brother, declared that Japan will maintain a force
capable of “bombing enemy bases with Self-Defense Force aircrafts.” And
current PM Fumio Kishida is pushing ahead with plans to convert Okinawa
and the entire Nansei Islands into sortie bases and deploy
intermediate-range missiles; thus, he is violently destroying the
Constitution, which stipulates “renunciation of war and war potential.”
In
workplaces of Japan Rail Companies, the management intends to render
the knowledge, skills, and experiences which frontline workers have
acquired through their own work unimportant, by eliminating all job
titles, “merging” operations, and turning workers into
“jacks-of-all-trades and master-of-none.” This unprecedented assault
will undoubtedly spread to all workplaces. Such has been imperialism’s
usual means to smash workers’ unity, atomizing them, and to mobilize
them for a war of aggression.
We, Doro-Chiba and other unions and
workers, will fight head on against this assault with strikes in the
2022 Spring Labor Offensive.
The prospect of ending the
war and overthrowing imperialism, criminal warmonger, lies in the
international solidarity of the working class without borders.
Let’s
fight, in line with the struggle for the revival of the class struggle
labor movement, to stop the war drive of our own government with a clear
recognition that “war of aggression abroad” is one and the same with
“class war at home.”
End the Invasion in Ukraine Immediately!
Let’s Stop the Escalation to Global and Nuclear War with All Our Might!
March 7, 2022
National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba (Doro-Chiba)
International Labor Solidarity Committee of Doro-Chiba
