Re: Reconstruction of JSP

[ikita@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Iwao Kitamura)]

On Mon, 9 Oct 95 08:49:01 GMT Adam wrote:

>
>>
>> On September 21, Social Democratic Party of Japan
>> decided to dissolve herself and form a new democratic
>> liberal party untill the end of October.
>
>Could you explain why they want to do this ?
>
>Many communist parties in Western Europe have renamed themselves
>in the last few years, partly in order to distance themselves
>from Stalinism but also to get away from class politics.
>
>In the UK the Labour Party is trying to relaunch itself as "New
>Labour" , which is part of a massive shift to the right.

The main reason of rightward tendency of JSP comes from unions.
As an ordinary labour party, JSP heads think they can no longer
be alive without support of major unions. Since Rengou was founded
in 1989, the stagnant labor movement has made unions into more right
direction. The present situation is, however, more complicated.
Supporters of PM Murayama came from left and did not want to found
a new party. Because this line could gain "new progressive party"
that includes extreme rights. They choosed to co-operate with "liberal"
consevatives "Sakigake".
But this coalition will not be maintained unless JSP shows them
her entire "bourgeois"-ization. So in the word of founding a new
party, Murayama supporters and Kubo(secretary-general,right) supporters
dream different dreams.

>> In the temporal
>> party conference on that day, delegates from 24 districts
>> proposed an altanative proposition but it was defeated
>> by 108 to 250.
>> Soon after the conference, japanese major newspapers
>> reported that establishing a new party could be postponed
>> because of less support even from right side.
>> However, sooner or later this old socialist party, with which
>> I still fall in love, would die.
>> Many left members (inc. me) have begun to move to re-
>> construct a new socialist party.
>>
>
>What sort of party would this new socialist party be ?
>
>Would it be a Marxist party ?
>Would it believe in reform or in revolution ?

You made a good point. _Probably_ we would succeed in making
a revolutionary programme for the new socialist party years
later. But she is going to start without programme.
We won't set the merkmal of the split in revolutionary or
reform. The merkmal is to keep a working class party or not.

to add, the situation is extremely liquidated.

>
>Adam Rose
>SWP
>Manchester
>UK
>

comradably,
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Iwao Kitamura
a member of theoretical study group
Socialist Association (Japan)
E-mail : ikita@xxxxxxxxxxxx
personal web: http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~ikita/


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