Farmer-Labour Party
Farmer-Labour Party | |
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Asanuma Inejiro | |
Founded | 1 December 1925 |
Banned | 1 December 1925 |
Succeeded by | Labour-Farmer Party |
Ideology | Socialism |
Political position | Left-wing |
The Farmer-Labour Party (農民労働党, Nōmin-rōdō-tō) was a short-lived
Preparations
The process to found such a proletarian party had been initiated by the Japan Peasant Union. It sought to gather all parts of the labour movement in the country behind one political party. The preparatory process lasted for several months.[1] In June 1925, the Japan Peasant Union sent out invitations to form the Proletarian Party Preparatory Council. Soon, around 1,000 persons had enlisted in the Preparatory Council. On August 16, 1925, sixteen left-wing groups met, and agreed to form a unified proletarian political party which would include every labour organization with a membership exceeding 100. The Preparatory Council included the rival trade union centres Sodomei and Hyōgikai.[2]
The Platform and Bylaws Research Committee of the Proletarian Party Preparatory Council held its first meeting in September 1925. At the meeting, three draft proposals for party platform were discussed. Two drafts had been authored by rightwing moderates whilst the third (presented by Sano Fumio) represented the communist line. Sano's draft, which emphasized that the party should be built on
Founding
The founding conference of the party was held on December 1, 1925, at the
Ban
However, just two hours after the founding meeting had concluded the leadership elected at the party conference were summoned at the Metropolitan Police Board.
References
- ^ International Labour Office. Industrial Labour in Japan. Japanese economic history, 1930–1960, v. 5. New York: Routledge, 2000. p. 113
- ^ a b c d e Beckmann, George M., and Genji Okubo. The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1969. pp. 96–100