ABSTRACT
The violent clash pitted the Red Army/Sekigun, which in its first public demonstration as an independent organization attacked its former comrades in the “Second Bund,” whom they had broken from just a few weeks earlier. Miyamoto’s “national communist” turn to a “Japanese road to socialism” through the ballot box marked the JCP’s embrace of “lovable socialism.” More important, the JCP was clearly its own party and not a satrapy of either Moscow or Beijing. The JCP continued to enrage the ultra-radical New Left sects if only by its mere existence. The sects were especially irate at the JCP line that Japan was a semi-colony of the United States and that a popular democratic front was needed and that would include elements of the dreaded bourgeoise, the same policy the JCP followed during the anti-Ampo struggle.
