The moment when the side door opens is just sublime
No idea what triggered justification for this raid, but I love the nonchalant door opening like "dude, you could just knock, we're not hiding anything." and just making them all take their temperature before being allowed in to raid along with Japanese police not being murderous psychopaths about it and orderly going along with it.
It really is strange. They don’t even really register as cops in my brain.
It's still a total fucked system with something like a 99.9% conviction rate. If you're arrested you're fucked, and japanese prison is no cake walk, and you're never working a normal job for the rest of your life
A true low-energy raid — also the guy just measuring temperatures (totally get it) seems like a bit in some absurd comedy.
In America, the pigs would have opened fire and he'd be dead before he hit the ground.
In America the pigs would have started shooting at a building on the other side of town without even bothering to knock first.
The Japanese New Left was pretty wild back in the day and I highly recommend reading about them.
They are cool but man they went wild on adventurism. This org seems to be a remnant of that.
Weird that they have "Police" on the back of their vest.
Is that for tourists/English migrant benefit or is it some kind of symbolic solidarity with American police?
Makes sense, 'police' is also similar in a lot of different languages so it would help out a variety of tourists even if they don't speak English.
Huh, so they actually are an "ultra-left" org, as the term is often used in leftist circles: Anti ML (and usually pro mass org & anti vanguard) Marxists. Started as derogatory, but the edges kinda got rounded off.
I thought it was just being used as a synonym for "far left."
Damn, fuckin pigs are even going after the leftcoms now, leave my friends alone hogs 😡
I mean, unlike armchair leftcoms we all know and love Japanese ones seem to have a penchant for direct action.
Ultra-left, as least as like Lenin used it, is the inability to ground analysis/praxis in the forms of working class struggle as they actually exist. An example Lenin uses in LWC is refusing to work in trade unions with objectively reactionary leadership, even when the working class is, in reality, actively turning towards those trade unions as avenues for struggle. The idea is that even if those unions, or bourgeois elections, are objectively not sufficient to achieve the goal of winning power for the working class, you still have to orient to those forms of struggle as they actually exist, to dispel illusions and put demands on leadership rather than wholesale refusing to engage.
"We can (and must) begin to build socialism, not with abstract human material, or with human material specially prepared by us, but with the human material bequeathed to us by capitalism."
is this the group? I like reading their English blurb, yeah describing them as ultra-left is correct, they hate the USSR, CCP, but they do some good such as demonstrations against the US bases in Japan and bashing the succdem turn in the Japanese Communist Party.
http://www.jrcl.org/english/e-top.htm
Reminds me of the scene in Snatch when they try to rob the bookies and the alarm is going off and they think they are locked in kicking the shit out of the door. Then the door swings open in the other direction and the getaway driver is like wtf?
That's like that famous video of FBI agent hopping over a gate and the gate opens right after he is on the other side.
