workers.org Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! DECEMBER 23, 2004 VOL. 46, NO. 51 50¢ Despite U.S. bombs and napalm Neoliberalismo y resistencia 12 IRAQ RESISTS FREE By Leslie Feinberg MUMIA Even in the face of overwhelming NOW Pentagon firepower and high tech- Black legislators nology, Iraqi resistance is raging. ANGER IN Even after the bloodiest battle of weigh in 2 the war, the siege of Falluja—in which THE RANKS the invaders had complete control of Bring the troops home 6 the air, enormous material supre- macy, forced several hundred thou- sand people to flee their homes and reduced most of the city to rubble— the resistance goes on. As Pentagon ‘DON’T ASK, warplanes continued to pound the city with bombs and missiles on Dec. DON’T TELL’ 12, insurgents fought the Marines in Recruiters booted running battles. off campuses 7 The Pentagon’s resumed bombing Mosul, Iraq, of the city is an admission that tri- Dec.14 CALIF. NATIVE umphal boasts of imperial victory STRUGGLE were premature. Mall built on ancient That same weekend, eight Marines were killed in Anbar Elections a fig leaf province—where Falluja and Ramadi are located. Buried in the business news is a reminder of the stakes for U.S. burial site 3 And insurgents continue to combat U.S. occupation troops finance capital and its imperialist competitors in this war for and Iraqi puppet soldiers in the northwest city of Mosul. On Dec. empire. An International Advisory and Monitoring Board estab- 11, fighters attacked a U.S. military patrol with a car bomb, rifles, lished to oversee Iraq’s plundered wealth complained in a report BASEBALL’S grenade launchers and mortars. on Dec. 14 that a lack of measuring devices is making it difficult Mosul continues to be a locus of resistance. On Nov. 10, two to meter how much oil is being pumped from Iraqi wells. The BOTTOM LINE days after the Pentagon war machine had begun its major audit board is dominated by officials from the International onslaught in Falluja, the insurgency carried out a coordinated It’s not about steroids 5 Monetary Fund and the World Bank. offensive in Mosul. They overran the quisling police forces, forc- All the talk about Jan. 30 elections restoring “stability” ing them to flee, leaving control of the third-largest city in Iraq amounts to a fig leaf on the naked maneuvers to plunder Iraq’s briefly in the hands of the insurgency. wealth. Since then, military strikes against occupation forces in Mosul For example, when the ruling General Council of the World soared during November to about 140 a week, up from an ear- Trade Organization announced Dec. 13 that it would open “mem- TRANSJUSTICE lier high of 30 to 40. And 150 Iraqis who collaborated with the bership” talks, it had to accept an application from the U.S.- occupation have been killed there since Nov. 10. appointed regime of titular prime minister Ayad Allawi, a long- People of color In Baghdad province, two Marines were killed by the resist- time CIA operative. ance on Dec. 13 and at least three others were wounded. group forms 5 One group running in the slated January elections is the The same day a suicide car blast rocked an occupation Green Constitutional Monarchy Movement. Its slate is headed by Sharif Zone checkpoint in Baghdad. And resistance fighters ignited Ali, the cousin of Iraq’s last king, who was killed in the 1958 rev- a blaze near an oil pipeline in northern Iraq, 45 miles south- west of Kirkuk. Continued on page 6 JOBS DOWN, BUT Aerospace profits up 4 Subscribe to Workers World Trial subscription: $2 for 8 weeks One year subscription: $25 Puerto Ricans tell federal court in Boston not to overrule their vote. NAME ADDRESS TIJUANA PUERTO RICO CITY/STATE/ZIP Shaking hands Who decides EMAIL PHONE with Cuban workers election results? Workers World Newspaper 9 8 55 W. 17 St. NY, NY 10011 212-627-2994 www.workers.org read it online Gift shopping online? Check out www. Leftbooks. com for Pam Parker’s new CD 2 Page 2 Dec. 23, 2004 www.workers.org Black legislators support Mumia’s release National Black legislators support Mumia's release . 2 By Monica Moorehead Native people struggle to save shellmounds. 3 Quanell X case ends in people's victory . 3 On Dec. 3, the National Black Caucus of State Prisoner describes Abu Ghraib-type conditions here . 4 Legislators (NBCSL) passed a resolution during its con- Aerospace profits soar as workers are cut . 4 ference in Philadelphia calling for the freedom of African Youth march against sweatshops . 4 American political prisoner and death-row inmate Mumia Baseball owners scapegoat players on steroid issue . 5 Abu-Jamal. This comes on the heels of another important FIST organizes in West Virginia . 5 resolution passed at the NAACP national convention on July 15 that demanded a new trial for Abu-Jamal and con- Trans people of color form political group . 5 demned the racist application of the death penalty by the GI dissent shakes up the Pentagon . 6 criminal justice system. Military recruiters set back on campus. 7 The NAACP convention also took place in Philadelphia, 'Stop the War Week' hits streets and malls . 7 the city where Abu-Jamal was shot and arrested on Dec. Antiwar professor speaks in U.S.. 8 9, 1981, charged with killing a white police officer. Both FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL NOW ! International resolutions were brought about by the efforts of members The state legislators’ resolution reads: and supporters of International Concerned Family and WHEREAS Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 trial in Phila- Iraq resists . 1 Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal to help raise a broader delphia was characterized by illegal suppression of evi- Who will decide Puerto Rico's election results?. 8 awareness of this case and its political significance. dence, police coercion, illegal exclusion of Black jurors, Cuban unionists meet with U.S. & Mexican workers . 9 The sham of a trial that took place in 1982 led to a mur- and grotesquely unfair and unconstitutional rulings by Cuban education is world-class. 9 der conviction and a death sentence for Abu-Jamal. At the judge; and Late 1980s East Germany gay/lesbian clubs. 10 least 29 constitutional violations were carried out during WHEREAS the trial judge, Albert Sabo, has been Struggle vs. apartheid brings LGBT rights . 11 this trial, including the systematic exclusion of Black quoted in a sworn statement to have vowed at the time Philippine revolutionary speaks to the world. 11 jurors by the prosecutor. Abu-Jamal was physically of the trial to help the prosecution ‘fry the n—’; and removed from some of the jury proceedings after being WHEREAS subsequent appellate rulings have bent Editorials denied his right to the legal counsel of his choice. the law out of shape to sustain the guilty verdict of that More than Pinochet. 10 A worldwide movement in support of Abu-Jamal has trial; and What's killing children? . 10 kept him from being legally lynched by the powers that WHEREAS the appellate courts have also refused to be who want to silence his revolutionary voice. Abu- consider strong evidence of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s inno- Noticias En Español Jamal, a former Black Panther, writes eloquent columns cence, most notably a confession by Arnold Beverly to Neoliberalismo y resistencia en América Latina . 12 denouncing war, racism and oppression in his maximum the crime; and security cell in Waynesburg, Pa., while awaiting the out- WHEREAS Mumia Abu-Jamal still is incarcerated on come of state and federal court appeals in efforts to win a Death Row and still faces a death sentence; and new trial. Continued on page 3 WW CALENDAR BALTIMORE. film producers Sally Marr and Peter Dudar. Also, presentations Every Sunday by Marcus Erikson of Vets for NEW PAM PARKER CD RELEASE Workers World Party weekly dis- Peace and John Parker of the cussion and classes on revolution- International Action Center. ary socialism. 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