SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1053 June 1, 2020
Contents
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Overthrowing the Abe administration is the way to solve the Corona problems
NIHEI Hisakatsu (Joint representative, Liaison Conference “NO to breakdown of theConstitution: Against Amendment to Article 96”)
From the speech of the emergency street action on May 15
DO NOT allow the “profits at any price”!
MURAKAMI Rieko
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1st half fiscal 2020 HOWS (Hongō Workers School) lectures started
Principal Kim Yu-seop enthusiastically explained the significance and the ideas of“Uri-hakkyo (Our (Korean residents’) schools)
Editorial office
Liaison Conference “NO to breakdown of the Constitution: Against Amendment toArticle 96” held the emergency street action
Let us continue the protest movements to be creative and ingenious
TOMODA Yukie
Foreign workers losing their jobs under the Corona DisasterToo much “Japanese Risks”
IBUSUKI Shōichi (Lawyer)
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Summer 2020 appeal for fundLet us get up to remove “the risks of ABE”!
Let us raise voices not restrained by the Corona Disaster!
Standing Steering Committee, Activist Group Shisō-Undō
How the trade unions should stand against the Corona Crisis
Greater Tokyo Privately-owned Taxi Co-operative Society won the dispute by thestruggles!
SUDA Mitsuteru (General Secretary, National Union of General Workers Tokyo Tobu)
Illustration report
How the freelancers can survive under the Corona Crisis
HIROHAMA Ayako
Page 4-5
Comic tanka poems
Songs of Corona--Twelve “Kyōka (Comic tanaka poems)” selected for SNS under the PandemicDepression
AZATO Migeru
Worker’s report
From the workplaces of the labor and the life under the Corona Crisis<Stage>How could the stage performance be supported?
SUGIURA Hisayuki (Playwriter)<Supermarket>
I convinced that “the workers are the heroes of the society”
OKAMOTO Chiyomi (Part-time worker)
Topics“Association against exclusion of Korean schools from the free tuition system inŌsaka” resumed the Tuesday Action
YOKOMICHI Akiko
Asking the return to Japan of Okinawa on May 15--We DO NOT allow making Okinawa the military fortressesŌDATE Mayumi
Report from HOWS
May 16, Saturday
40 years from May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement in 1980, and the generalelection of the Republic of Korea since
Lectured by Lee Young-Chae
We appeal against dumping the tritium-contaminated water into the Ocean
Signature Campaign against the dumping is spreading
Please join to sign!
TSUNODA Masashi (Representative, Peace Forum in Fukushima Prefecture)
Basics to face the radioactive contamination (23)What occurred 9 years ago at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (7)IMANAKA Tetsuji (Researcher, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear
Science, of Kyoto University)
Save the lives of two officers of Branch of the Ready-mixed Concrete in the Kansai
Area of the Japan Construction and Transport Industry Workers' Solidarity Union fromthe Corona infection
Urgent action in front of Kyoto District Court from May 18INAMURA Mamoru (Voluntary Association to unite Branch of the Ready-mixed
Concrete in the Kansai area, Shiga Prefecture)
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Why does the government advance the amendment of the Plant Variety Protection andSeed Act?
There are the intellectual property strategy and the prospect of the seeds control
AMAGASA Keisuke (Journalist and representative of Citizen's Biotechnology
Information Center)
Situation of the employment and the direction of our struggles
Following “Labor Movement Review” of the April 1 issue
TSUCHIDA Hiroki
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Letter from the Republic of Cuba (3)Cuba’s Coronavirus response, “Blockade” by the U.S. and military invasion

MIYAMOTO Makiko (Resident in Havana in the Republic of Cuba)
International brief note - Now in the world〈Venezuela〉Armed invasion was prevented by the civic-military union
Editorial office〈Cuba〉The U.S. included Cuba on the list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism” again〈Britain〉Transport workers struggle amid many deaths by the Coronavirus
Editorial office
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Essay“DO NOT read between the lines!”
Toward an era of the paradigm shift
AWAZU Ken (Art producer)
Essay
I will keep my feet a while with KANDA Kasumi
KANDA Kaori (Kōdanshi (Professional story-teller))Three works wanting to read now (1)“Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage” (Written by Alfred Lansing) / “Tell thetale of the village in the deep mountain in Tōno” (Written by KIKUCHI Teruo) / “DersuUzala” (Written by Vladimir Arsenyev)
TATENO Masahiro (Former professor, Meiji University)“The Spirit of Utopia” (Written by Ernst Bloch) / “Festival of the people who do notobey” (Written by UKAI Satoshi) / “About Lu Xun” (MARUKAWA Tetsushi)
MARUKAWA Tetsushi (Professor of Meiji University, belonging the stage group“Yasennotsuki”)“Michael Kohlhaas” (Written by Heinrich von Kleist) / “Russian question” (Written byKonstantin Simonov) / “Silent Barricade” (Written by Jan Drda)
YAMAGUCHI Tadayoshi (Professor of Nishogakusha University)“History of the world seen by the nomads” (Written by SUGIYAMA Masaaki) / “Buried
King of Na gold seal” (Written by TŌMA Seita) / “Journey from Kamchatka to America”(Written by Georg Wilhelm Steller)
TOMIYAMA Eiko (International Exchange Peace Forum)“Island of Guhin-Dōji” (Written by IIJIMA Kazuichi) / “Capitalism to become happy”(Witten by TABATA Hirokuni) / “Momo” (Written by Michael Ende)
ZAIMA Hidekazu (Lawyer)“George Orwell Works 1-3” (Written by George Orwell) / “National Policy Theory andthe pure socialism” (Written by KITA Ikki) / “The Monster at Our Door: the Global
Threat of Avian Flu” Written by Mike Davis)
NAKANISHI Shintarō (Professor, Kanto Gakuin University)“The Public Prosecutor” (Written by Nikolai Gogol) / “What Is to Be Done?” (Writtenby Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevskii) / “When is the present day coming?” (Written byNikolay Dobrolyubov)
Pyon Jaesu (Literary critic)“Capital. A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1(Lower)” (Written by Karl Marx) /“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” (Written by Max Weber) /“Poetries and wars, KITAHRA Hakushu and the people, “The road” to the total war”
(Written by NAKANO Toshio)
NAKANO Toshio (Researcher of the social thought)“Festival of the people who do not obey – Criticism of the Japanese style celebration ofthe capitalism” (Written by UKAI Satoshi) / “Thinking about the discrimination againstthe women in the Buddhism – Shinran and the gender” (Written by MINAMOTOJunko) / “Thought and theory of Karl Marx” (Written by ITŌ Makoto)
MAEDA Akira (Professor, Tokyo University of Art and Design)“Brueghel” (Written by HIJIKATA Teiich) / “Caricature in the modern age – 7 Europe
caricaturists” (Written by ISHIKO Jun) / “The world of the Daumier’s caricatures”(Edited by KIYASU Akira)
MATSUOKA Keiichi (Publisher “Aribaba Notebook”)
Movement activities guide
Headright column
Getting out from the Corona Disaster
Page 10-11
April Revolution and the working class
Chae MahnSoo (Director, Workers Institute of Social Science)
New publication“The internationalism” (First issue)
Page 12
Historical truth
Reading “Les Misérables”
ŌKI Shōzō
Piercing Reproach column
8-hour day for us“Our country is special” ……
What? Who?
IJICHI Tōzō (Part-time worker of the local government)
From editorial office
Supplement page 1
Joint Statement of Communist and Workers' Parties on the 150th anniversary of thebirth of V.I. Lenin
We honor the great revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin, we are committed to continuing
his work
Supplement page 2-4

HOWS lecture
Meaning of the collapse of the party’s socialist system (1)Based on the examples of Poland and Yugoslavia
IWATA Masayuki (Professor Emeritus, Chiba University)