A history of the workers' struggles in Kamagasaki, Japan

Hi,

We have published an article which we received recently on the history of the workers' struggles in Kamagasaki, Japan, with a short introduction from ourselves. The article describes the emergence and decline of the squatters' and day-workers' movements which have marked the life of several Japanese cities - more particularly Osaka in this case - since the collapse of the Japanese economic "bubble" at the beginning of the 1990s, to the present day.
Here's the link
http://en.internationalism.org/icconline/2007/kamagasaki

Maybe this would make for a good discussion, especially on the question of riots and the struggles of the unemployed, and the importance of appreciating whether or not they are on a proletarian terrain.

Beltov.