SHISŌ-UNDŌ No.1048 January 1, 2020
Contents
Page 1
Workplaces are the main struggle field of the class struggles
Let us scatter “the work reform”, we need “a reform of the way of workers’ struggles”!
Standing Steering Committee, Activist Group Shisō-Undō
Page 2-3
Essay
We will NOT let go “the seized tail”!
To put an end to the politics of the Abe government which plows to amendment tothe Constitution in the confusion of abusing power for his constituency
KIMURA Makoto (Association of thinking the problems of Moritomo Gakuen,Member of Toyonaka City Council in Ōsaka)
EssayFor “discussions” of road to reconstruct the labor movement in JapanI describe a part of my opinion
NIHEI Hisakatsu (Former chairperson, the Japanese National Railways Struggle
United Front Conference)
Status of the International Affairs in 2020
Process of Hong Kong situation and the difficult road to go forward
After the 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections and passing “The Hong Kong
Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019”
There are false claims looking the same between Hong Kong and Okinawa in JapanŌSAKA HidetoTopics
Rally to protest the deployment of Ospreys
NAKAMURA Yohihiko
We will solve it within this year! 650 workers gathered to the JAL head office Siege
ActionTOMODA Yukie
Unfair judgment of the suit against the local government by the residents to claim“the illegality of dispatching Riot Police of Metropolitan Police Department to Okinawa”
SAITŌ Kōtarō
The impermissible disposal of the installation time update of the Korean memorial
stele in “Gunma no Mori Park (Gunma’s Forest Park)”
KURABAYASHI Makoto (Secretary, Association to defend the Korean mourning stele)
Reports from HOWS
November 30, Saturday
Condition of the working class of modern Japan (Lecturer = KAMAKURA Takao)
December 7, Saturday
What kind of region is the South East Asia (Lecturer = NAKAHARA Michiko)December 18, WednesdayŌkubo Glass Branch of National Union of General Workers Tokyo Tobu called forstrike against the industrial accident (Lecture = SUDA Mitsuteru)
Page 4Essay
Flaming up of the Shuri Castle and Henoko
MEDORUMA Shun (Writer)
Lecture in Tokyo
Environmental destruction derived by the U.S. military bases in Okinawa
IKEHARA Hideaki (General secretary of Association of Anti-war Landowner atOkinawa, Member of Okinawa City Council)
KIJIMA Tadashi
Final report of the court struggles of the three people, YAMASHIRO Hiroji, INABA
Hiroshi, SOEDA Mitsuaki
Valuable record which deepens understanding for the struggles of Henoko, Okinawa
NAKAMURA Yoshihiko (Resident of Chiba Prefecture)
Page 5
Unfair sales of Japan Post Insurance, intervention to NHK, power harassment --Let us raise voices against the privatization and the wandering of Japan Post
TSUCHIDA Hiroki
HOWS lecture “AWAZU Kiyoshi’s works – Seeing the image works by AWAZU Kiyoshi”
on January 12 (Lecture = AWAZU Ken (Designer))
KANAYAMA Akiko
Presence of the arms strategy of Japan seeing in the arms fair DSEI Japan 2019 at
Makuhari Messe
Arms fair and Osprey are “false”
YOSHIZAWA Hiroshi (Activist against the military bases)
Page 6
Labor movement which took place at the Sano Highway Service Area
Struggled by the strike, “Association to Support Keisei Foods Labor Union” organizedin December
MIYAGAWA Toshikaz (Former General Secretary, Keisei Electric Railway Union)
Worker’s report
We must NOT isolate Branch of the Ready-mixed Concrete in the Kansai Area of theJapan Construction and Transport Industry Workers' Solidarity Union
Problems of Branch of the Ready-mixed Concrete in the Kansai Area ask “thereflection” of their own activities
TAKANASHI Akiyoshi (Action Kanagawa for the joint actions)
Worker’s report
We protest against passing the “revised” Special Measures Act Concerning Salaries ofEducational Staff of Public Compulsory Education Schools
Workers at the workplaces want the staff capacity increase and applying Labor
Standards Act
HORIKAWA Hisashi (Teacher, public high school in Chiba Prefecture)Page 7
Participating in Awa Sea Great Action on December 12 from the preparation
66 canoes, too, participated and the solidarity was confirmed connecting the land andthe seaŌDATE Mayumi
Osaka Rally Celebrating the 102th Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution
heldHistorical view of today was criticized concerning the German-Soviet War
KIDA Seiya
Headlight column
The status of women in 2020
Movement activities guide
Page 8
How we watch the situation of the Korean Peninsula (4)Which is responsible for the aggravated relation?
Lee Jun-Sik (Professor, Korea University)“Cho Kuk’s situation”, discussion about the ideal ways of the society of the Republic ofKorea since "Candlelight" demonstrations (2)It is NOT the big forces’ confrontation between the conservative forces and theprogressive forces
Resistance by the working people for the revolutionary reform of the society
Lee Young-Chae (Associate Professor, Keisen University)
Page 9Arakabu-san (nickname)’s Trial and the direct action to Tokyo Electric PowerTokyo Electric Power refused the requisition sheet obstinately
NAKAMURA Yasuko (Association to support Arakabu-san, Workers’ Union
related to the nuclear power plants)
Voices of the victims of the nuclear power plant accident (25)
Though the word reconstruction is used almost as a matter of course
KOKUBU Tomio (“So-So (Soma and Futaba) Association” of the victims of Fukushima
nuclear power plant accident)International brief note - Now in the world〈France〉1.8 million workers struggled the nationwide action against the Pension
ReformEditorial office〈Colombia〉General strikes were taken against the neoliberalism policies for threetimes
Editorial office〈NATO〉 Statement of the Communist Party of Greece
70 years of NATO is 70 years of the war and the intervention.
Page 10Guidance to film
“The trail of the rainbow – To the future of “April 24”, the seven-colored bridge”(Directed by Park Yeong-I)
History and the mind of “April 24” spreads in the world
KURATA Chieko
Interview
Hearing to SANO Michio (Professor, child education course of Hosen College ofChildhood Education) about the problems of educational policies (1)Cooperation between industry and education and management reinforcement aredeepened at the higher education
Interviewed by MURAKAMI Rieko, KURATA Chieko
Page 11〈Book Review〉“The beginning of the end of the Olympic Games” (Written by TANIGUCHI Gentarō)To create sports for the people
FUJIWARA Akira (Education worker)“The war and the cannibalism – Cases of cannibalism by the Japanese military andthe resistance and the guerrilla struggles of the Philippine people” (Written by SASAKITatsuo)
Responsibility of the Japanese people to be questioned
HIRONO Kayano“Why the Japanese are weak to “the government” – Modern Japan which
FUKUZAWA Yukichi and MARUYAMA Masao weaved” (Written by YASUKAWAJunosuke)
For a handhold to analyze the society depending the Emperor System
IJICHI Syūzō
Booklet published“Literature critic – YUCHI Asao” (Published by YAMAGUCHI Tadayoshi Laboratory,
Literature Department of Nishogakusha University)
YAMAGUCHI Tadayoshi“Now, the human rights of the Korean resident in Japan” (Published by the Committee
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Law Course of Faculty of Politics and Economics
within Korea University)SATŌ Dai (General Secretary, Kopponori (Association for the Development ofKorean Schools and Ethnic Education))
Page 12From the readers postcards
Lecture about ISHIKAWA Takuboku in Hino CityMIYASAKA Shizuo (Tokyo resident)
Seeing the Korean film “The Genkai Sea (Genkai-nada) knows”
HINATSU Tsuyuhiko (Art critic)
Piercing Reproach column
Dumping the radioactive contaminated water of the nuclear power plant into theOcean is dangerous!

Guidance to the film
“Sorry We Missed You” (Directed by Ken Loach, 2019)
Severe quota and breaking up family
OKANO Nahomi
Report of the symposium to celebrate publishing on May 19“The days at the edge of the cliff and senryu, Antiwar senryū anthology – sending “WeDO NOT want wars””
From editorial office
Supplement page 1-2
Tokyo Rally Celebrating the 102th Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution
Messages from the foreign countries
From the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
We put up the flag of the idea of the socialism high in the difficulty, and dosolidarity with the activities to carry out strongly for the peace and the democracy
against the discrimination and the monopolyInternational and Unification Section, Central Office of General Associationof Korean Residents
From the Republic of Korea
At the 102th Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution, to the comrade
workers in Japan
Steering Committee, Korea Labor Social Science Institute
From Greece
Let us make quicker steps towards the elaboration of a unitary strategy against
imperialist aggression and war, for the peoples’ peace, for socialism
International Relations Section, Central Committee of Communist Party of Greece
From the Republic of the Philippines
Socialism wins invariably over the capitalism all over the world
Antonio E. Parris (General Secretary, Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930))
From the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Let us make the opportunity to raise the voices for the better world on this year’s
Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution
Seiko Luis Ishikawa Kobayashi (Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
Supplement page 3-4Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
Our America confronts escalating attacks by imperialism and oligarchies
Resume of the HOWS lecture
Demonstration in Hong Kong and the mainland in China and JapanMARUKAWA Tetsushi (Cultural Design Graduate Course, Department ofPolitical Science and Economics of Meiji University)