Class Struggle and Technological Innovation in Japan since 1945
Muto IchiyoIIRE Notebook for Study and Research no. 5 (48 pp. €2.75, £2, $3.25)
In the 1980s, free enterprise ideologues often presented Japan as a model of social harmony and economic dynamism. The essays included in this Notebook describe the real situation of postwar Japanese workers and unravel the mechanisms of the apparent Japanese consensus, in many cases akin to authoritarian suppression of independent thinking. Moto Ichiyo explains how the strategic choices made by the labour movement in the 1950s and '60s laid the basis for the later rightward shift. In the framework of a Marxist analysis, he deals in original and dialectical fashion with the changing relations between the US and Japan, the links between the Liberal Democratic Party and the masses, and the effects of Japanese-style rationalization (gorika) on workers' power on the shop floor.
Moto Ichiyo is a collaborator of the English-language periodical AMPO: Japan-Asia Quarterly. As both participant in and witness of the rise, decline and crisis of the Japanese New Left, he has written many articles about the situation in Japan: the politics of the regime, various popular struggles and the labour movement.
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- The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution,
Leon Trotsky, Daniel Bensaïd, John Riddell. - Fascism and the far right in Europe,
Piers Mostyn, Alf Filer, Dave Rosenburg. - Dangerous relationships, Marriage and divorces between Marxism and feminism, Cinzia Arruzza, Penelope Duggan.
- Palestine in Crisis,
Camile Dagher, Cinzia Nachira, Roland Rance. - Returns of Marxism,
Sara Farris, Joost Kircz. - The thought of Leon Trotsky,
Denise Avenas, Michael Löwy, Jean-Michel Krivine. - Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory (Third Edition),
Ernest Mandel, Özlem Onaran, Raphie de Santos.
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- Women and the crisis
- China in transition
- Struggles of Indigeneous People in Latin America
- Ernest Mandel's Argent et le pouvoir (in French)
- Ecology and socialism
- Daniel Bensaïd.
The Chinese Revolution
I: The Second Chinese Revolution and the shaping of the Maoist Outlook
II: The Maoist Project Tested in the Struggle for Power
Pierre Rousset
IIRE Notebook for Study and Research no. 2 (32 pp. €1.75, £1.50, $2.25) & no. 3 (48 pp. €2.75, £2, $3.25)
The Chinese revolution of 1949 was one of the most important experiences in the history of twentieth-century national liberation movements. It triggered wide-ranging debates among, and often inside, revolutionary currents around the world. The Chinese regime's turn towards the market since the death of Mao Zedong make it all the more important to understand the revolution's distinctive origins and strange destiny. The first part of Pierre Rousset's study deals with the 1920s: the second Chinese revolution of 1925-27, its lessons, the evolution of the Communist movement, the emergence of Maoism and the beginning of the antagonism that developed between the Chinese CP leadership under Mao and the Soviet leadership under Stalin. The second part examines the 1930s and '40s: the anti-Japanese united front, the revolutionary strategy pursued during the third Chinese revolution, and the foundations of the regime established
in 1949. Rousset invites readers to join in collective reflection on the historical constraints that revolutions face and the means of coping with them.
Pierre Rousset was born in 1946. He has been active on the French left since the 1960s and participated in many solidarity campaigns with national liberation struggles, particularly with Indochina and other Southeast Asian countries. He has produced several studies on Vietnam, in-cluding two books, Le Parti communiste vietnamien (1975) and Nationalisme et Communisme au Vietnam (1978), and the essay 'The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Com-munism' in The Stalinist Legacy (1984). He has travelled extensively in East Asia and regularly contributes articles on the region to several periodicals. He is an IIRE Fellow and former director.
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