1985 Narita Airport Riot video

[RedHal]

Oh those docile Japanese communists:p

1985 Narita protest/riot by the Japanese Revolutionary Communist League in protest of the construction of the Narita airport that forcibly evicted local farmers:thumbup:. Nice to know that Japanese communists aren't all a bunch of social democrats *Japanese communist party*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJoFM8ynyMQ

[Raúl Duke]

Actually, their parliamentary tactics are social democratic (when I checked their site and stuff, info); but I suppose what they do "in the streets" (and the people involved with that) is/was radical to some degree.

[rouchambeau]

How did the protest work out for them?

[RedDawn]

Way cool, thanks. This is more like a mini-war than a riot. Holy shit.


How did the protest work out for them?

The early 1980s saw clashes with yet another rival leftist group, the Japanese section of Fourth International (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International), due to disagreements over the struggle against the construction and expansion of Narita Airport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narita_Airport). This culminated in 1984 when members of Chūkaku-ha attacked Fourth International activists in their homes, seriously injuring two of them.
It was around this time that the group started to change their focus of activity from orchestrating demonstrations and riots to more underground, terrorist activities. The Narita Airport struggle also saw the last riot organised by Chūkaku-ha, when several thousand demonstrators, armed with logs, steel pipes, rocks and molotov cocktails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktails), clashed with riot police at Sanrizuka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanrizuka) near the airport on 20th October 1985.
On 19th September 1984, Chūkaku-ha's armed wing, the People's Revolutionary Army, attacked the Tokyo headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_%28Japan%29) using a flamethrower mounted on a lorry, causing extensive damage but no casualties. In its statement, the People's Revolutionary Army said that the attack was part of the airport struggle.
Chūkaku-ha's anti-Narita Airport activities continued as a campaign of intimidation against officials and industry figures related to the airport's expansion, with a series of arson and firebomb attacks, some of which were fatal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukaku-ha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narita_International_Airport#Construction

[RedHal]

Like all communists parties, there are a lot of splits, so I'm sure some chose the parliamentary road, and others stayed underground. It's almost impossible to follow what's going with the communist movement in Japan.

[Andropov]

The Japanese dont do things half assed.

[Red_Dialectics]

That's INTENSE. Where were the red flags though?

[which doctor]

Aren't a lot of Japanese Communists Stalinists?

[Hiero]

Aren't a lot of Japanese Communists Stalinists?
And?

[Saorsa]

aren't a lot of japanese communists stalinists?

arrrgh omg run f0r the hillz we all gunna dieeee

[gla22]

awesome video.

[Red Flag Rising]

Ah, violence.