Revolutionary Communist League - Kakukyodo

... After the change of direction by the 6th All Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Association, the resentment against the Communist Party, which tried to lead the student movement such as the All Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Association to a line of daily demands and self-care, led to the All Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Association's break with the Communist Party and the birth of the Bund (Communist League) (December 1958). At the 14th Congress in June 1959, the Bund took the lead in the All Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Association from the Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Communist League), which was created by reorganizing the Japanese Trotskyist League, and demonstrated its leadership in the 1960 Security Treaty struggle (see the entry on the Japan-US Security Treaty). 5.8 million people nationwide participated in the unified action, and the Diet struggle reached its peak on June 15th, when a petition demonstration by 110,000 people surrounded the Diet, and Tokyo University student Michiko Kawaba was killed in a clash with police. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the Revolutionary Communist League is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　六全協による方向転換後，全学連などの学生運動を日常要求路線，身の回り主義へと指導しようとした共産党に対する反発は，全学連の共産党からの決別と，ブント(共産主義者同盟)の誕生(1958.12)をもたらすこととなった。ブントは59年6月の第14回大会で，日本トロツキスト連盟の改組によって生まれた革共同(革命的共産主義者同盟)から全学連の主導権を奪い，60年安保闘争(〈日米安全保障条約〉の項目を参照)で主導権を発揮した。全国で580万人が統一行動に参加し，11万人の請願デモが国会を取り巻いて最大の盛上りをみせた6月15日の国会闘争で，東大生樺美智子が警官隊との衝突の中で死亡した。…

※「革共同」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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