KYOJI NISHI, one of the founders of the Revolutionary Communist League, Japanese section of Fourth died of cancer. Nishi joined the Japanese Communist Party when reconstructed after the Second World War.
Programme After World War II Japanese CP grew rapidly: it was the only party which had never capitulated to support for the Emperor during the war.
Rut 9 crisis in the CP started in 1956, after the invasion the Hungary. I Nishi opened up a strughas gle inside the CP around the draft of the new party programme.
He wrote an article Programme, the revolutionary road to socialism Stalinism. 1958 Nishi, and the leadership of the CP students' organisation were expelled from the party: the From that point on, he was consistentiv a leading member of the Japanese Trotskyist movement. student struggles, It became impossible to run these two tactics simultaneously.
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against entryism in the PCI, and the section went into crisis. Most of the youth organisation went into Maoist tions. of Centrists The result of the crisis of 1969 was the building of three large centrist organisations in defending Italy — Avanguardia Operiaia, Il Manifesto, and the largest of them, Lotta organisations built themselves to the stage where they could mobilise tens of thousands. on the - streets, each papers and a membership of over 10,000.
But in 1976, they each went