Student Union - Gakuseirengoukai

Japanese: 学生連合会 - がくせいれんごうかい

...The Builders' League also carried out propaganda activities among local youth (especially in rural areas). On November 7, 1922, the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the first nationwide underground organization in Japan, the Student Union (Gakuren), was formed by social ideological groups from universities and technical colleges across the country. Led by the Shinjinkai, the Gakuren worked to popularize social sciences, and in September 1924 it held its first national convention, changing its name to the Student Social Science Union (Gakuren) (by November it had 53 schools and 1,600 members)....

From the Student Union Incident

...The first case of suppression of student movements under the application of the Peace Preservation Law occurred in 1925-26. On November 7, 1922, the fifth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the Student Union was formed centered around the Tokyo University Newcomers Association, and in September 1924 it was renamed the Student Social Science Union. The Union held its second conference at Kyoto University in July 1925, and adopted a thesis that its members should take Marxism as their guiding spirit and engage in educational movements for the liberation of the proletarian movement as part of the movement. It also decided to revise the rules to make the Union a national centralized organization, and to create a curriculum to educate members from the standpoint of Marxism-Leninism. ...

From the Newcomers Club

...In the same month, he established a branch in the Kameido factory district of Tokyo, centered on Masanosuke Watanabe, who would become a Communist Party leader, and opened branches all over the country. In particular, he worked hard as a campaign organizer nationwide to organize students at universities and technical colleges around the country with new ideas, and was at the center of the formation of the Student Union in November 1947, leading the student movement in Japan. At the beginning, he supported Yoshino's theory of democracy, but with the rise of socialism in intellectual circles in the 1920s, he became an important communicator and practitioner of that idea. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Student Union" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また，建設者同盟は地方青年(とくに農村)への宣伝活動も行った。　1922年11月7日，ロシア革命記念日に全国の大学･高専の社会思想団体による日本最初の全国的地下組織〈学生連合会〉(学連)が結成された。学連は新人会を盟主として社会科学の普及に努め，24年9月には第1回全国大会を開き，その名称を〈学生社会科学連合会〉(学連)と改めた(11月には53校，会員1600名)。…

【学連事件】より

…1925‐26年に起こった最初の治安維持法適用の学生運動弾圧事件。1922年11月7日，ロシア革命5周年記念の日に東大新人会を中心に学生連合会が結成され，24年9月には学生社会科学連合会と改称した。学連は，25年7月，京大で第2回大会を開催し，会員はマルクス主義を指導精神とし無産階級運動の一翼としてその解放のために教育運動に従事するという主旨のテーゼを採択し，連合体を全国的集権組織にする規約改正，会員をマルクス=レーニン主義の立場で教育する教程作成などを決定した。…

【新人会】より

…同月には東京亀戸の工場地帯に入り共産党指導者となる渡辺政之輔を中心とする分会を設立したのをはじめ，全国各地に支部を設けた。とくに全国の遊説オルグで各地の大学，高専での新思想による学生の組織化に力をつくし，22年11月の学生連合会結成の中心となって日本の学生運動を指導した。発足当初は吉野の民本主義論を奉じたが，20年代に入って思想界における社会主義の台頭に伴い，その重要な伝達者，実践者となった。…

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