SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1051 April 1, 2020
Contents
Page 1COVID-19
Abe administration schemes to concentrate the power on the social turmoil
Let us rise up to protect life, health and the right to work!
OKAMOTO Shigeki
Page 2-6
Let us struggle against the attacks to the workers and people using the “Crisis ofCOVID-19”!
Influence of COVID-19 to the workers appearing through the Intensive Consulting
ServiceLabor unions should struggle without self-restraint!
SUDA Mitsuteru (General Secretary, National Union of General Workers Tokyo Tobu)
Why are the compensation benefits for the freelancers temporary absence from work
to be paid only a half?
DO NOT discriminate against the workers who are forced to endure the bad
condition by the government!
HIROHAMA Ayako
Situation in 2020, COVID-19
DO NOT look on! DO NOT be passive! If you are the workers!
Let us counterattack against the attacks by the government and the monopolist
capital misusing COVID-19
ŌYAMA Ayumu
Worker’s reports
Our attitude to be tested in “the chaos”<Taxi>
We can NOT walk when we are afraid of COVID-19!
SUGAWARA Tsukasa (Self-employed taxi driver)<Education>
Provide people-oriented education based on the facts
FUKUMOTO Yūji (Chairperson of Executive Committee of High School
Teachers Union of Okinawa Prefecture)<Welfare office>Is it NOT a lack of the social scientific calmness?
TAKAI Kazuki (Local government worker, caseworker)<Prefectural high school>
Whom should we struggle against?
FUJIWARA Akira (Educational worker)<Japan Postal Service>
Postal Industry Workers’ Union corrected the mistake “to take the paid days off,first”
TSUCHIDA Hiroki (Former postal worker)

<After-school child day care>
Protect the children’s right to get the educationŌSAKA Hideto (Staff of the after-school child day care)
We are concerned about the exclusion distributing the masks to the Koreankindergartens
We DO NOT allow the so-what attitude by Saitama City government!
SAITO Kiyomi (Network Saitama to realize the institutional compensation for
the foreign and ethnic schools)
Essay
We DO NOT allow to mobilize children for the Torch Relay
Thinking that it would not be possible to mobilize the children to the Olympic/Paralympic Games during the COVID-19 contagion
NEZU Kimiko (Former educational worker)
Story based on a true story
COVID-19
KOBAYASHI Kensaku (Writer)
Movement activities guide
Headlight column
NOT “Ladies’ Day”
Page 7
Labor movement - comment on the current situation
Let us build struggles for wage based on the class thought“Review on the Japanese-style employment” by Keidanren (Japan BusinessFederation) is the same as deterioration of the wage system
KIRA Hiroshi (Local government worker)
Voices of the victims of the nuclear power plant accident (26)
Judgment of the Tokyo High Court on the suit by the refugees of the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant accident (March 12, 2020)
KOKUBU Tomio (“So-So (Soma and Futaba) Association” of the victims of Fukushima
nuclear power plant accident)
Page 8
Report from Okinawa
Targeted sea, Henoko! (2)Theory by the Abe administration to need the new military base is completely
broken up!
Kim Chi-Myeong (Association to Record the WWII battles in Okinawa and the forcedlabor of Koreans who were taken by Japanese militarism)
Page 9How we watch the situation of the Korean Peninsula (5)What the letter of Kim Jong-un (Chairperson of the State Affairs Commission) toMoon Jae-in (President of ROK) means
Lee Jun-Sik (Professor, Korea University)

Experience in mooring canoes to the pier for the first time
Participating in aide to farmers of Wabiai-no-sato in Iejima, Okinawa
ODATE Mayumi
Page 10
Report of the Rally Celebrating the International Women's Day Tokyo, March 7
Rally was held under the increasing pressure of self-restraint
Let us understand the issues of women from the viewpoint of the working class
KOGA Kei
Rally Celebrating the International Women's Day Tokyo
Reports from the sites of struggles
Colonialism continues in Okinawa
YOGI Mutsumi (Kantō block of the Conference of anti-war one-tsubo
landowners at Okinawa)
Education in the Korean schools is the education against wars
Song He-sook (Association of the parents of the Korean kindergartens for the free earlychildhood education and the free care for children)
What is the law suit against children’s exposure to radioactivity?
MIYAGUCHI Takae (The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team)We can NEVER accept the unfair dismissal
KIRA Noriko (Plaintiffs of the suit to withdraw the unfair dismissals ofUnited Airlines)
Page 11
Struggles for tomorrow to protect and expand a seed of hope (3)“Kunarionda (The day is coming)” for me
Main road for self-determination and self-unification of the Korean PeninsulaKang Jong-heon (Representative, Institute for the Problems of the Republic of Korea)
Page 12
Impression of the HOWS lecture “Reading ŌNISHI Kyojin’s “Shinsei Kigeki” (“DivineComedy”)”
Mystery of ŌMAEDA’s exit from the mock death penalty
YAMAMOTO Emiko (HOWS class member)
Piercing Reproach column
Universities as the free jailFateful child
Japanese reading “The Plague”
ITŌ Tatsuya (HOWS class member)
From editorial office
Supplement page 1-3
Messages to March 7 Tokyo Rally Celebrating the International Women’s Day 2020
from foreign countries
From WFTU (The World Federation of Trade Unions)
WFTU solidarity statement with 2020 International Women’s Day, 3.7 Tokyo Rally

The Secretariat of WFTU
From the Republic of Cuba
International Women’s Day is an important date towards the emancipation ofwomen
Miguel Ángel Ramírez Ramos (Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba)
From the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
International Women's Day is an opportunity for women around the world toappeal together
Seiko Luis Ishikawa Kobayashi (Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
From the Republic of the Philippines
Increasing the women’s rights, struggles against the wars and the solidarity withthe people against the imperialism are important
Antonio E. Parris (General Secretary, Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930))
From the Republic of Korea
Women's issues can only be solved by overcoming capitalism
Steering Committee of the Korea Labor Social Science Institute
From the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Let us raise voices against the exclusion of Korean schools from the free tuition
system and let us struggle together!
Korean Democratic Women’s Union in Japan
From the Republic of Korea
Women’s will is powerful and the driving force to change the society. Let us go
forward!
Korea Democratic Women’s Association in Japan
Supplement page 4
The Republic of Cuba and WFTU struggle against COVID-19
Cuba triumphs where capitalism has failed
Nikos Mottas
WFTU statement on the Coronavirus pandemic
No worker must lose his job!