The Bund-Led Zengakurin's Victories in the 1960s Security Treaty Protests

The Japanese Communist Party's aborted revolution in particular stirred a lot of students over to the side of the Bund. By the late 50s this faction dominated the Zengakurin and established it as a force independent of the Communist Party. But like so many other left-wing organizations, its victories proved hollow and short-lasting at best. The protests had stopped Prime Minister Kishi from making a whole PR stunt of it but they did not stop the treaty itself,. which was, for the leftists, the whole point.