SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1100 May 1, 2024
Contents
Page 1At the 138th Anniversary of the International May Day
Let us construct militant labor unions and unite in struggle
Workers and people will reject to participate in the wars
KIRA Hiroshi (Local government worker)
Page 2-3
Worker’s reports at May Day: Rising for the spring labor offensive in 2024 and thestruggles against wars, for peace from the workplaces
Report about the spring labor offensive in 2024 by the Postal Industry Workers Union
Strikes train us, workers
FUNAYAMA Yoshinari (Headquarters of the Kinki District of the Postal Industry
Workers Union)
To the victory of the struggles at the workplaces through the united actions of thespring labor offensive
Let us organize the unorganized workers and improve the working and living
conditions
NAKAMURA Masaru (Chairperson of Executive Committee of the Tokyo Union ofNational Union of General Workers)
ReportThe Tokyo Tobu All-Out Action for Workers' and Human Rights, and the unitedaction of ZENRŌ (All Workers) Union of National Union of General Workers
Editorial office
There aren’t enough teachers
We are overwhelmingly weak
FUJIWARA Akira (School worker in Kanagawa Prefecture)
May Day against wars on May 1
Call for the action in front of the embassy of Israel
Executive Committee of the Trade Unions Actions Against Wars
Reading the reports of the HOWS lectures of the labor movement
MIZUMACHI Masaomi (Branch of the Newspaper Transportation of ZENRŌ )Page 4
War mobilization in contemporary Japan and Yasukuni Shrine
Reading the “opinion” of a former naval general who became the chief priest ofYasukuni shrine
NAKANISHI Shintarō (Professor Emeritus, Yokohama City University)
Report from Okinawa“The will of the people” move mountains
Abandonment of the maintenance base plan for the military drills of the GroundSelf-Defense Forces in Uruma City
Kim Chi-Myeong (Association to Record the WWII battles in Okinawa and the forcedlabor of Koreans who were taken by Japanese militarism / Henoko canoe team)Page 5
DO NOT turn the Ryukyu Archipelago into a battlefield again!
“Ishigaki Island Now”... Yokohama Rally held on April 5
TAKANASHI Akiyoshi (Representative of the Association to connect between
Shimagurumi (All Okinawans’) Conference and Kanagawa)What was Prime Minister KISHIDA’s visit to the U.S.?
Reinforcing to form a encirclement around China / Declaration of “Japan is a Military
Imperialist Country”
TAKAI Hiroyuki (Steering committee member of “No more battles in Okinawa, EhimeAssociation”
Call for the 10th Rally against amendment to the Constitution on May 3
Page 6“System to train and work” is fraud
Realize the fair and just society for the immigrants!
SASAKI Shirō (Zentoitsu (All United) Workers Union)
Growing the anxiety of the prefectural citizens on resuming the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Nuclear Power Plant
Let us stop “the consent of the hometown” by the governor by the all prefecturalmovement
HONMA Tamotsu (Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Citizens network)Page 7
Background of the health hazard case of “Beni-Koji” of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical
Deregulation with ignored safety at the root of the problems
AMAGASA Keisuke (Journalist)
Exploitation reinforcement to women is the cause of the declining birth rate
A cat’s paw of the capital in the mask of “the gender equality theorist”
YONEMARU Kasane
Headlight column
Housework or Hell: The only choice for surviving to the end of the life
Page 8-9
About the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research ”Hyper-Imperialism: A
Dangerous Decadent New Stage”
Analyzing the dangerous war strategy of the imperialism and its structural
background
ONO Toshiaki
International brief note - Now in the world< U.S. > Tech workers of Google to struggle solidarity with PalestineŌMURA Saiichi<Britain> 3 weapons factories were blockaded and halted the production
Editorial office<Portugal> 50th anniversary of the “Carnation Revolution”
NAKANO Tetsuaki

Page 10PoemAnger
Mahmoud Darwish“Revolution in Palestine” (Written by AZUMA Shōhei, Expanded edition) waspublishedThis book is worth reading for the people who learn about the issues and aim tosolidarityŌYAMA Ayumu“DO NOT give up for a half century: As an organizer of Sōhyō (The General Council ofTrade Unions of Japan) for 60 years” (Written by INAMURA Mamoru)
For the younger generations who will lead the movements in the future
Editorial office“Hold on the amendment to the Constitution just a minute! -- The Commission on theConstitution now” (Edited by Peace Forum and written by IIJIMA Shigeaki et al.,Hachigatsusyokan, March 2024)
Practical book on the movements against amendment to the Constitution
Editorial officeBook guide“Introduction to the Constitution: Linking the laws, history and society” (Written bySHIMIZU Masahiko)
Movement activities guide
Page 11
PoemWandering
Salem Jubran
Starting lectures of 1st half fiscal 2024 HOWS (Hongō Workers School)
Knowing Palestine today: The tragedy, resistance and solidarity
Is there still hope for tomorrow for Palestine?
Seeing the Exhibition of “Seven painters in Gaza Strip”
MATSUOKA Keiichi
Page 12From the readers postcards
Seeing“The war which was NOT taught: The Philippines”
IJŪIN Takashi (Student, Meiji University)
Reading“the 10th anniversary of passing: The Writer ŌNISHI Kyojin”
MAKIKO Yoshimaru (Coterie of literature magazine “Torso”)
Piercing Reproach column“Soldiers in combat” and songs of the solders
Film review“Oppenheimer” (Directed by Christopher Nolan)Is the development of the atomic bombs an “original sin” of the physicists?
INO Shigeo
From the editorial office