SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1052 May 1, 2020
Contents
Page 1
Report from Miyakojima in Okinawa
Deployment the missile unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force under the crisis of theinfluence of COVID-19
Lives in the isolated island are ignored
SHIMIZU Hayako (General Secretary, Liaison Council of People inMiyakojima against the missile unit base)
Report from Henoko in Okinawa
Human rights of Okinawans excluded even in COVID-19 pandemic
We continue the efforts and the ingenuity to act at Henoko
MEDORUMA Shun (Writer)
Page 2-3
Report to the 4th National Steering Committee Meeting of the 50th year of Activist
Group Shisō-Undō
How we struggle against the ruling class who plans the situation under Martial Law
using “the crisis of COVID-19”
HIRONO Shōzō (Chairperson, Standing Steering Committee,Activist Group Shisō-Undō)
Page 4100th May Day in Japan under the Corona Disaster
Efforts to the 91th Hibiya May Day
NAKAHARA Junko (Former general secretary of Fuji Seihan Branch,
Tokyo Union of National Union of General Workers)
Struggle against the pandemic of COVID-19
Crisis of the medical collapse brought by the neoliberalism
Struggles of the working people are the key to overcome the crisis
OKAMOTO Shigeki

Tanka poems
The dark circle 2
KABE Yōsuke
Page 5
Let us struggle against the reactionary attack using the crisis of COVID-19
Huge restructuring in Japan Post?
We oppose to sacrifice the workers for “the unfair sales of Japan Post Insurance”
TSUCHIDA Hiroki (Former postal worker)
Becoming the major military power in “the exceptional situation”
YOSHIZAWA Hiroshi (Activist against the military bases)
DO NOT allow dumping the radioactive contaminated water from the nuclear power
plant into the Ocean!
NIHEI Kazuo (Miharucho in Fukushima Prefecture resident)Liaison Conference “NO” to breakdown of the Constitution: Against Amendment toArticle 96 held the rally with panel discussion
How we should struggle under COVID-19
KIRA Hiroshi (Local government worker)
Page 6-7
Essay
Criticizing “the Declaration of State Emergency” aimed to introduce the State
Emergency Right into the ConstitutionKŌKETSU Atsushi (Specially-appointed professor, Meiji University)
Essay“Argument for amendment to the Constitution fishing in troubled waters” using
COVID-19
IIJIMA Shigeaki (Professor, Nagoya Gakuin University)
Worker’s reportFrom the workplaces of the labor and the life under“the Declaration of a State
Emergency”<Language school>
The clamor of COVID-19 in the Japanese language school
KITAYAMA Hisashi (Japanese language teacher)<Medical workplace>
What we DO NOT know in working
KAWASHIMA Chisako (Nursing worker)
International solidarity
Solidarity from the bottom to overcome COVID-19
KITAGAWA Takeshi (Democratic Workers Solidarity between Japan andthe Republic of Korea)<Tokyo high school>
How to struggle with the Declaration of State Emergency
FUSHIMI Tadashi (Worker of the Tokyo high school, Metropolitan Area Network of thesiege of Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education)<JR>
Offenses and defenses of the problems of COVID-19 in JR
KOBAYASHI Haruhiko (Former member of Kokuro (National Railway Workers' Union))
Page 8Infection was prevented by the complete measures being fastest in the world
Democratic People's Republic of Korea struggles against COVID-19 in the unity of allsociety and people
Lee Tongi (Journalist)
Installation of the “telework” moves forward under “the crisis of COVID-19”
MIYAGAWA Toshikazu (Former General Secretary, Keisei Electric Railway Union)
Headlight column
Days of the life in COVID-19 pandemic

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Solidarity Yes – Blockade NO.
We demand the immediate lifting of the criminal U.S. blockade on Cuba
Joint declaration of Communist and Workers’ Parties
We denounce the U.S. blockade on the Republic of Cuba
Solidarity message to the people of Cuba, including the Cuban healthcare
professionals who struggle COVID-19 worldwide with the spirit of the internationalism
National Steering Committee of Activist Group Shisō-Undō
Workers in the world struggle for the right and saving the lives under the Corona
Disaster!
OKIE Kazuhiro
Message from the ambassador of Nicaragua to Activist Group Shisō-Undō
Rodrigo Cornel Kinloch (Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua)
Page 10
Report from the member of the reconstruction committee of the destructed area of theEastern Japan Great Earthquake (25)
Why DO NOT the mass media write about the darkness of COVID-19 and
EVENT201?
KINNO Masaharu (Private business)
Really, the reverse victorious judgement by Tokyo High Court about not standing up
for “Kimigayo anthem” in 2009
Tokyo Metropolis petitioned for the acceptance of the final appeal
NEZU Kimiko (Former teacher)
About the struggles of the canoe team at Henoko
What does cutting the mooring rope of the canoe means
SASAKI Tatsuo
New publication
Appearance of Henoko, Okinawa – now
TOYOSATO Tomoyuki’s photo eye
Page 11“Orphans of the War who have been hidden up” (Written by KANEDA Mari)
Being tossed away like “trash”
OKANO Nahomi“Brecht’s poetry – Shooting the era flexibly and sharply” (Written by NAITŌ Yōko)
Unwavering flexibility – Through Brecht’s poems
AKIBA Yūichi (Professor Emeritus, Waseda University)“What is the colonial education? Questions to the contemporary Japan” (Written bySANO Michio)
Suffering that being deprived of the sovereignty
HIRONO Kayano“Police told me to leave the labor union, but what about that? (Although there isArticle 28 of the Constitution against …)” (Written by the Solidarity Union etc.)

TANUMA Hisao“Journey to the Second Sino-Japanese War – History of the offense and the history ofthe damage” (Written by MIYAUCHI Yōko)
TOBITA Yūichi (Chief Director, Kobe Student Youth Center)
Page 12
Japan is declining to the cultural underdeveloped country under the Corona Disaster
Reactionary government threatens the fine art and the culture
HINATSU Tsuyuhiko (Art critic)
Piercing Reproach column
About the satire – Daumier
From the readers postcards
Reading the articles about the problems of COVID-19 in the previous issue
Is this a problems of science?
ANZAI Satoshi (Tokyo resident)
Simulation by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
NAKANO Tetsuaki (Former high school teacher)
Sheep skin is being peeled off
YAMASHITA Isao (Tokyo resident)
From editorial office
Supplement page 1
April 7 World Health Day
We demand free and public health for all
George Mavrikos (General secretary, WFTU)
Supplement page 2
Practices of Wuhan in China against COVID-19
Existence of the self-governing organization “Shaku (Residential area)” that
supported the difficult strugglesŌSAKA Hideto
Cuban healthcare professionals are providing the services in 60 countries
The Republic of Cuba is struggling against COVID-19 under the U.S. blockade
Information of the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Japan (April 16, 2020)