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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org June 3, 2010 Vol. 52, no. 21 50¢ Resistance grows to racist Arizona law Youth, immigrants, indigenous lead marches, sit-ins, boycotts More on this struggle 6-7

Paul Teitelbaum eignty and Indigenous culture being waged by the U.S. Tucson, Ariz. Department of Homeland Security. Fightback grows The Tohono O’odham Nation is located in south- Momentum is growing for the national march to stop ern Arizona and extends into Mexico. For centuries the Solidarity from Texas SB 1070 to be held May 29 in Phoenix. The march will O’odham people have lived on and walked this land, long demand the repeal of SB 1070, Arizona’s “Show me before there even was a U.S. or Mexico or a border of any your papers” law, and an end to racist immigrant-bash- type. DHS decided to extend the border wall separating Mexican-Irish connections ing and the blaming of immigrants for economic and Mexico from the U.S. through O’odham land, effectively social problems which in reality result from the capital- cutting the nation in half. Additionally, the three roads port as activists across the country plot out a strategy for ist economic crisis. on the U.S. side that provide access to the nation all have galvanizing all those affected and their supporters into The march to the state Capitol and rally will be fol- checkpoints and federal agents swarm the area. The mili- a unified, militant movement that can defeat SB 1070 lowed up on May 30 with community forums and strat- tarization of Indigenous lands and the intrusion and ha- and the entire racist, anti-immigrant, right-wing agenda egy sessions on building a fightback movement against rassment by federal agents has become intolerable. which produced SB 1070. the racist offensive. In the wake of Arizona’s SB 1070, at Courageous actions like these are going to continue. Teitelbaum is a coordinator of the Tucson May 1st least 10 other states are now poised to introduce similar Calls for “Freedom Summer Arizona” are attracting sup- Coalition for Immigrant and Worker Rights. laws. SB 1070’s passage by the state Legislature in late April unleashed an endless storm of protest and re- CApitALiSM, sistance. The “Boycott Arizona!” campaign continues U.S. SOCIAL to grow and the Arizona bosses have already felt the Nativeactivists RACiSM and impact. Gov. Jan Brewer is scrambling to “change Ari- FORUM zona’s image” and has created a task force charged with inArizonaoccupy responding to the boycott. (azcentral.com, May 13) tHE StAtE 3 The Arizona Diamondbacks, whose owners are ma- ediToRial 10 jor contributors to the coffers of those who pushed this borderpatrol law, are met with protests in every city they visit. In- 7 tense pressure continues to mount as demands are be- ing made on Major League baseball to move the 2011 All-Star game out of Phoenix. In the streets of Tucson protests continue. With the passage of anti-ethnic studies law HB 2281, student protesters continue to hold demonstrations and sit-ins demanding the right to learn their own history. On May 17 a group of openly undocumented students staged a sit-in at Sen. John McCain’s office to demand passage of the DREAM Act, a stalled congressional proposal that would offer legalization for some undocumented youth. The students defiantly announced their status as un- documented and refused to leave McCain’s office until he pushed for passage of the DREAM Act. The students were arrested and risk deportation, but their action sparked similar actions by students in California, New York and other places. On May 21, Indigenous activists from the Tohono O’odham Nation occupied the Tucson Border Patrol headquarters located on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The activists chained themselves to structures in the Border Patrol office and disrupted operations there as they brought attention to the continuing war against Native peoples and the disregard for national sover- Subscribe to Workers World Eight weeks trial $4 One year $25

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Repression, cutbacks wrack Detroit  in the U.S. By Abayomi Azikiwe Resistance grows to racist Arizona law ...... 1 Editor, Pan-African News Wire Repression, cutbacks wrack Detroit ...... 2 Detroit U.S. Social Forum meets in Detroit June 22-26...... 3 Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was killed by a De- Two choices for UAW — class struggle or suicide, part 2.....4 troit police special unit team that raided her home on Newark, N.J.: ‘Housing is a right!’ ...... 5 May 16, was eulogized on May 22 at Second Ebenezer Stop police brutality against high school students ...... 5 Church on the city’s east side. The city remains shocked Workers picket CUNY Research Foundation ...... 5 and angered over the shooting and subsequent efforts by Mayor Dave Bing’s administration and the police to shift On the picket line ...... 5 responsibility for the unprovoked killing to the recent Fightback grows against Arizona’s anti-immigrant law...... 6 rash in violence that has hit Detroit. Houston students support Arizona struggle...... 6 Mayor Bing and Police Chief Warren Evans, who were ‘San Patricio’ honors Irish-Mexican solidarity ...... 6 both criticized by the corporate-owned media for not responding quickly to the death of Aiyana Jones, have Indigenous activists occupy Border Patrol...... 7 urged the public not to “reach conclusions” about the kill- Texas schoolbooks to teach racism, capitalism ...... 8 ing until all the facts are available. The mayor then ac- cused attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who is representing the  around the world family of Aiyana Jones in two civil lawsuits that were filed A Cuban reader responds...... 4 just a few days after her death, of only being concerned Aiyana Jones. African peoples challenge imperialism, part 2...... 8 about money and not about revealing what really hap- Class struggle breaks out in Thailand...... 8 pened at the home where the deadly police raid occurred. “You can’t hide behind a press release. In a case like With the Detroit police facing intense criticism and this one, lawyers will restrict what you can say, but that UPR students resolute as strike enters second month ...... 9 scrutiny, the administration and Wayne County Pros- doesn’t stop you from doing the right thing by making a Interview with Honduran resistance leader ...... 9 ecutor Kym Worthy have turned over the investigation verbal statement, and reaching out to the family.” S. Korea, U.S. maneuvers threaten war on DPRK ...... 10 into the killing of Aiyana Jones to the Michigan State Cora Mitchell, whose son was killed in April 2009 by Anger, protests grow along with misery in Haiti ...... 11 Police. On May 20 state police showed up at the Jones’ the neighboring suburban Warren police, said the De- family home seeking to search the premises for evidence troit Coalition Against Police Brutality was doing the job Solidarity from Panama...... 11 related to the raid on May 16. of the city administration by working with the Jones’ When the family refused to cooperate and allow the family. “Why is Ron Scott [of DCAPB] here doing War-  editorials state cops to enter the home, they returned with a search ren Evans’ job? He should be here. Mayor Bing should be The unraveling of capitalism...... 10 warrant and a locksmith and proceeded to comb the resi- here. They should be apologizing to this family.” (Detroit dence for clues related to the killing of Aiyana. This was News, May 19)  Noticias en español tantamount to a second raid and raised tensions even U.S. Rep. John Conyers from Detroit has requested UPR: Represión despierta solidaridad ...... 12 further between the community and the law enforce- that the Justice Department conduct an investigation ment agencies. into the killing of Aiyana Jones. Conyers said, “It is When it was announced that the Rev. Al Sharpton of imperative that we take all possible steps to calm the New York would deliver the eulogy at the memorial ser- situation, reassure the community that their safety is a Workers World vice for Aiyana, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, national priority, and lessen the chance of future blood- 55 West 17 Street who is a Republican candidate for governor, launched shed.” (Mlive.com, May 21) New York, N.Y. 10011 an attack and asked rhetorically, “Where was [Sharp- Nonetheless, Gov. Jennifer Granholm repudiated Phone: (212) 627-2994 ton] last week when Detroit police officer Brian Huff was Conyers’ call by saying that the state police are more Fax: (212) 675-7869 killed?” Huff was killed on May 3 when police raided a than qualified to handle the present situation. Granholm E-mail: [email protected] vacant home in the same neighborhood where Jones’ claimed, “Clearly an investigation could reveal changes Web: www.workers.org home is located. that need to be made to ensure it never happens again, Vol. 52, No. 20 • June 3, 2010 Four other officers were wounded in the May 3 shoot- and that’s what the Michigan State Police are going to Closing date: May 25, 2010 ing along with a suspect, Jason Gibson, 25. Gibson, who undertake.” has been charged in the shooting of the police officers, Editor: Deirdre Griswold had a preliminary examination on murder and assault cops rewarded Technical Editor: Lal Roohk charges on May 24. Just two days after the raid that resulted in the death Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, In response to the attack by Cox on Sharpton, the Rev. of Aiyana Jones, the Detroit City Council voted 5-3, with Leslie Feinberg, Kris Hamel, Monica Moorehead, Horace Sheffield III, president of the Michigan chapter one abstention, to adopt a new ordinance allowing cops Gary Wilson of the National Action Network, headed by Sharpton, to work additional jobs providing security to private West Coast Editor: John Parker stated, “I think it’s disturbing, disgusting and unaccept- businesses. This ordinance was passed despite warnings Contributing Editors: Abayomi Azikiwe, able for [Cox] to forsake his law enforcement role for his from the DCAPB that such a measure would raise the Greg Butterfield, Jaimeson Champion, G. Dunkel, public pandering trying to get elected to another office level of legal claims against the city government, which Fred Goldstein, Teresa Gutierrez, Larry Hales, role.” (Detroit Free Press, May 21) would be financially responsible in the event that law- David Hoskins, Berta Joubert-Ceci, Cheryl LaBash, In fact, the entire apparatus of the power structure in- suits charging police misconduct, brutality and wrongful Milt Neidenberg, Bryan G. Pfeifer, Betsey Piette, cluding the city administration, the police, the prosecu- deaths were settled against the administration. Minnie Bruce Pratt, Gloria Rubac tor’s office, the state police, the attorney general and the At a City Council public hearing on May 18 where the Technical Staff: Sue Davis, Shelley Ettinger, governor have been hostile and defensive in regard to ordinance was passed, the bulk of the discussion prior to Bob McCubbin, Maggie Vascassenno criticism surrounding the raid and the subsequent inves- the vote was conducted by top police officials and council Mundo Obrero: Carl Glenn, Teresa Gutierrez, tigation into the death of Aiyana Jones. members, two of whom were former law enforcement of- Berta Joubert-Ceci, Donna Lazarus, Michael Martínez, A corporate-oriented consulting firm has questioned ficials. When the DCAPB spoke during the public com- Carlos Vargas the city administration’s handling of the political situa- ment section, each member was given only one minute to tion surrounding the killing of Jones. According to the address the council on their opposition to the ordinance. 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‘Capitalism is killing us’ U.S. Social Forum meets in Detroit June 22-26

By Bryan G. Pfeifer Focus on struggle, solidarity such group is the revolutionary, socialist- ries and mass unemployment, empty lots Detroit “It’s impressive how many unions have oriented Fight Imperialism, Stand To- and no grocery stores near many neigh- picked up on the activities at the USSF. gether or FIST. (See fistyouth.wordpress. borhoods while people starve, vacant and Momentum is growing internationally Because of the economic and social crisis com.) foreclosed homes while people are living for the United States Social Forum to be we’re in it’s important that labor step up “FIST will be co-hosting a workshop in the streets, schools being closed and held June 22-26 in Detroit. Tens of thou- and fight back. Being part of mass move- along with the International Concerned underfunded as students struggle to get sands of progressive activists are expect- ments is a better strategy for labor than Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal a quality education. All these contradic- ed to attend. simply relying on politicians. Right now on building a new youth organization in tions provide a ripe situation and point to According to the USSF website, the jobs and unemployment are critical to defense of Mumia. An entire decade of socialism as the real way forward.” days-long event is a movement-building what’s going on and will be a major focus youth has grown up without mass con- Workers World Party will also be con- process. “It is not a conference but it is of labor at the USSF. Labor needs to push sciousness about the implications of Mu- ducting a workshop and joining in dem- a space to come up with the peoples’ so- hard on elected officials to create more mia’s case, and we are organizing to coun- onstrations at the USSF. lutions to the economic and ecological jobs,” said Reggie McGhee, USSF Detroit teract that and expose the roots of racism, “Workers World Party will be shar- crisis. The USSF is [an] important step Labor Committee co-chair. the role of the police, police brutality and ing the expertise of our members from in our struggle to build a powerful multi- The Labor Committee will be joining repression of groups fighting for national around the country in fighting foreclo- racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, the USSF’s Faith and Spirituality Com- liberation,” Dante Strobino, a FIST leader sures, budget cuts, racism and war, and diverse, inclusive, internationalist move- mittee and the Moratorium NOW! Coali- from North Carolina, told Workers World. urging others to join us in the fight for a ment that transforms this country and tion to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and FIST will also be working with many of socialist future, which is the only solution changes history.” (www.ussf2010.org) Utility Shutoffs for a protest at Chase the organizers who planned the success- to all the deep problems we face. Every- Adele Nieves, communications coordi- Bank on June 25 in downtown Detroit. ful March 4 National Day of Action to De- one knows that capitalism is killing us. nator for the USSF, told Workers World Chase is being targeted for its funding of fend Public Education to host a workshop We need to unite the working class and that over 1,000 workshops are scheduled R.J. Reynolds through loans and other for another national day of action to be oppressed to overthrow it and replace it and numerous demonstrations are being means. Reynolds is currently waging war held tentatively on Oct. 7 and to intensify with a system that’s about people’s needs, planned. Cultural contributions will be a on the Farm Labor Organizing Committee student resistance to budget cuts and the not profits for the rich,” said Kris Hamel central focus, with artists such as Dead because of its attempt to unionize tobacco capitalist crisis. of WWP’s Detroit branch. Prez scheduled to perform. There will workers in North Carolina. Another focus Detroit FIST, MECAWI, Moratorium Raising the banner of socialism also be a tent city, tables for literature, of the Chase protest is to demand that the NOW! and Workers World Party will grassroots food vendors, people’s move- bank agree to a two-year moratorium on Added Strobino: “We see the USSF as have an open office for activists June ment assemblies and much more, includ- all mortgage foreclosures. a crucial moment to meet young people 21-26 at 5920 Second Avenue in Detroit ing various art venues where progressive The Moratorium NOW! Coalition, the in motion and introduce them to social- from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. USSF participants and revolutionary artists such as Antonio Michigan Emergency Committee Against ism and to raise fundamental questions are invited to drop by for an evening cof- Guerrero of the Cuban Five will have their War and Injustice and the Bail Out the that challenge the entire foundation of fee house, political discussion, cultural work displayed. The opening march on People Movement are also sponsoring our current capitalist system that has events and more. Visit www.moratorium- June 22 will have organizational contin- fightback workshops during the USSF. wrecked so many people’s lives. Detroit mi.org or call 313-887-4344. gents from all over the world. Youth and students are a central com- is the perfect place to do that with the For more information on the USSF, The USSF grew out of the World Social ponent of the USSF and many of their destructive nature of capitalism exposed go to www.ussf2010.org or call toll free: Forum; the first USSF was held in Atlanta organizations will be participating. One before everyone’s eyes: abandoned facto- 1-877-515-8773. in 2007. Detroit was chosen as the site for the 2010 USSF because it is consid- ered ground zero of the current capital- ist economic crisis with record levels of foreclosures, evictions, utility shutoffs, Repression, cutbacks wrack detroit unemployment and police terror. Detroit also has a long history of progressive and Continued from page 2 $316 million budget deficit. forcement have continued. On May 21, a revolutionary struggle, which the organi- One argument advanced by the DCAPB In the initial budget proposal submit- state police officer shot and wounded a zations participating in the USSF are in- was to point out that typically civil ser- ted by Mayor Bing, some $101 million man on the city’s east side after a high- tent on building on to bring a better world vants are not allowed to hold secondary in cuts had been requested. These cuts speed chase through a residential area. into birth. jobs or operate private businesses while would bring about further layoffs and re- According to the Detroit News, “More A wide range of labor-focused groups, employed by the City of Detroit. Also duction in city services. than 30 officers, including members of including unions, coalitions, federations most workers have had overtime cut even However, one day after the City Council Detroit’s gang squad, and at least a dozen and workers’ centers such as the Metro though there is a backlog of tasks needed voted to grant secondary employment to police vehicles converged on the scene of Detroit AFL-CIO, the Restaurant Op- to provide adequate city services. cops, another $31.8 million in cuts were the shooting.” (May 22) portunities Center, AFSCME Council 25, At the same time, nonunion employees placed in the budget by the same legis- UAW Region 1A and South Eastern Michi- have had 10-percent wage cuts imposed lative body. These cuts would take place Repression continues gan Jobs With Justice, have been working on them while unionized workers have even within the police department, which This is in the same area where young for months to build labor’s presence at the been fighting the same pay reductions has by far the largest allocation of city Aiyana Jones was killed on May 16. The USSF. Approximately 70 labor-themed through demonstrations and court ac- funds. Approximately 42 percent of the shooting of the young man took place workshops on a wide variety of topics will tions. In addition, hundreds of city work- city budget goes to the police department. after he had exited the vehicle that had be held, and labor will have a large pres- ers have been laid off due to cuts ostensi- In the days following these develop- crashed into a large tree. ence at the opening march on June 22. bly designed to trim the city’s purported ments, the repressive actions of law en- More than 100 people from the commu- nity came out into the streets and protested the police actions. A neighborhood leader A Voice from MarxisM, reparations was taken into custody after objecting to Harper’s & the Black Freedom struggle the shooting and the reported jovial atmo- sphere among the police after the incident. Ferry 1859 An anthology of writings from Workers World newspaper. At least two area ministers were asked Edited by Monica Moorehead. Includes: By osborne P. by Detroit Police Chief Evans to enter the anderson, Racism, National oppression & Self-determination neighborhood to calm down the crowd a Black freedom larry_holmes_ because of fears of possible civil unrest. fighter. Prefaces Black labor from chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery by Mumia Abu- Sam_marcy On May 23, the DCAPB held a com- Jamal, Monica Black Youth: Repression & Resistance leilani_dowell munity meeting at St. Peter’s Episcopal Moorehead and The Struggle for Socialism is Key monica_moorehead Church. The DCAPB announced that it Vince Copeland Black & Brown Unity: a Pillar of Struggle for would step up its activities aimed at end- on the ‘Unfinished human Rights & Global Justice! Saladin_muhammad ing police brutality by calling for a mass Revolution.’ alabama’s Black Belt: legacy of Slavery, demonstration on May 27 outside the A unique book from the raid on Harper’s Ferry Sharecropping and Segregation Consuela_lee_ Board of Police Commissioners meeting by Osborne P. Anderson, the only Black com- harriet Tubman, Woman Warrior mumia_Abu-Jamal held at police headquarters. batant to survive the raid. His account of this The DCAPB is calling for justice in the turning point in the struggle against slavery— are conditions Ripe again Today? 40th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion police killing of Aiyana Jones and the im- an armed attack by Black and white volunteers CovEr_illuStrAtioN_:_SAhu_BArroN John_Parker mediate compliance and enforcement of on a citadel of the South—refutes those who Books available at try to minimize the role of African-American Racism and Poverty in the delta larry_hales the federal consent decrees involving po- people in fighting for their freedom. haiti Needs Reparations, Not Sanctions Pat_Chin www.Leftbooks.com lice misconduct and brutality. Page_4_ June_3,_2010_ workers.org Two choices for UAW — class struggle or suicide Profits whet appetite for lower wages

By Martha Grevatt Ford reported a third-quarter profit of and consulting firm IHS Global Insight in threatened to drive down the hourly rate more than $1 billion. The company’s prof- suburban Detroit.” (Cleveland Plain Deal- for production workers to $12 or lower It was front-page news. General Mo- its for 2009 came to $2.7 billion and were er, May 17) and all but eliminate pensions and ben- tors, for the first time in three years, $2.1 billion for the first quarter this year. efits — and to close more than 20 plants. posted a profit — and no small profit. In Even Chrysler has improved its cash Two-tier: a menace to all labor Fearful for their future, the majority of January, February and March combined position dramatically, posting marginal In 1983 a new phrase was added to the the higher seniority workers took retire- GM raked in $865 million. first-quarter losses, and then only after lexicon of collective bargaining: “two- ment buyout packages. Media analysts are quick to cite the taxes and interest payments were deduct- tier.” That year American Airlines and Will struggle ignite over high profits, drop in interest payments to GM’s lend- ed from “operating profit.” two unions, the Air Line Pilots Associa- low wages? ers. Since cleaning out much of its debt in Prior to GM’s announcement, former tion and the Transport Workers Union, a government-orchestrated “quick rinse” White House “car czar” Stephen Rattner ratified a contract allowing the company By 2007 bottom tier workers were the bankruptcy, the company’s quarterly in- hinted that GM would have positive news. to cap wages of new hires at a rate much majority at Delphi and voted for a one- terest obligation has fallen from $1.2 bil- Rattner hailed the work of the Auto Task lower than what then-current employees tier contract that raised their pay but lion to $337 million. Force in crafting the deal that allowed made. Within three years all but two air- eliminated the higher pay scale. Later You would think this was the prime auto companies to reap profits when the lines — two whose overall pay scale was that year UAW members at Ford, GM and reason for GM’s speedy turnaround. No seasonally adjusted annualized rate of below average — had gotten workers to Chrysler agreed to their first two-tier con- mention is made of the huge concessions car sales hovers around just 10 million agree to the two-tier structure. By then 10 tract — although a sizable minority voted — made while labor productivity soared per year — compared to over 16 million percent of all union contracts — with the no. In 2008, after a hard, three-month and GM closed plants and cut the work- before the recession. Before, the decrease next big wave occurring in the grocery in- strike, American Axle workers making the force by more than half — from in sales income and increase in dustry — had this major concession. higher rate took pay cuts in the range of the United Auto Workers. Yet Part 2 cash incentives generated a neg- Two-tier pay was a big win for the boss- $10 per hour. it is by driving down the cost of ative cash flow. es, who for the first time in decades saw Two-tier wages — which have dragged labor power that profits — including the This capitalist milestone was only average labor costs go down. For the labor all wages down — have created what segment gobbled up by the banks and reached by paying workers less while in- movement, however, it is a poison pill that would once have been an oxymoron: other bondholders — are increased. creasing the hours of work. has dragged down the overall union pay low-wage autoworkers. Their numbers GM cried poverty in 2005 and again in It should be expected that the UAW scale and has sown division among work- will increase as the Detroit Three replace 2007, and during last year’s Chapter 13 would insist, at a minimum, on getting ers making unequal wages for identical workers who, uncertain of their future or bankruptcy threatened Chapter 7 liquida- back everything workers gave up prior to work. All too often, union leaders have be- unable to relocate after a plant closing, tion. Each time, GM was able to squeeze the GM and Chrysler bankruptcy. “When come the salespeople for concessions such have taken incentive packages designed huge wage and benefit cuts from UAW there’s equality of sacrifice, there’s got to as two-tier, advancing them as necessary to get them to quit or retire. workers. Break time was shortened and be equality of gain,” stressed Bob King, to keep a company or an industry “com- Many of these new hires will be young a paid holiday was taken away. The give- who is expected to replace Gettelfinger petitive.” and many will be workers of color and backs, especially the most recent contract at the UAW convention in June. “We For members of the UAW, who are com- women workers. As profits rise, anger modifications, represent a huge transfer just want to make sure when things turn memorating the union’s 75th anniversary among all workers will grow as the spread of wealth from labor to capital. around we share in the upside,” he said this year, the dual pay rate virus began in- of substandard wages combines with line Similar contract changes were ob- during a speech to executives and ana- fecting their contracts in the 1990s. speedups and demands for more work. tained during the Chrysler bankruptcy, lysts. (New York Times, May 12) In 1998 — after a six-and-a-half-year If the capitalist economy shows signs of which was portrayed as a dress rehearsal There is no “equality of sacrifice” under dispute that included two long strikes, even a temporary recovery and thousands for GM. They went beyond concessions at capitalism. Over the past three decades prolonged slowdown campaigns, spon- are hired, economic confidence could Ford, which did not undergo bankruptcy. autoworkers have made concessions in taneous walkouts and numerous charges spawn a rebellious attitude in the plants, Last fall workers at Ford voted down the every single contract. Yet even when prof- of unfair labor practices — workers at the especially with young workers. GM/Chrysler pattern, which took away its take a beating, executives collect mil- world’s largest construction equipment The UAW needs to undergo a radical the right to strike when the current con- lions in salaries, bonuses, stock options manufacturer, Caterpillar, accepted a six- change, or its numbers will continue to tract expires in 2011, by a 4-to-1 margin. and other perks. In good years and bad, year contract with a permanent two-tier plummet and workers will see the union UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and untold billions in interest and “servicing” pay scale. Previous UAW contracts only as irrelevant or unnecessary. Business Vice President for Ford Bob King pitched fees have filled the coffers of JPMorgan had a “graduated” two-tier system that unionism must go. The militant tradi- the concessions as necessary to make Ford Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citibank and gave new hires top rate eventually. Twelve tion of the sit-downs of the 1930s and the competitive. The day after the “no” vote, their cohorts — no concessions there! years later Caterpillar has become a one- lengthy, valiant strikes of the following Thus far the companies have offered tier company where attrition — the sepa- decades must be revived. the workers nothing in the way of grati- ration by retirement, death, discharge or In 2007 the United Food and Com- tude for their sacrifices. On the contrary, voluntary quitting of higher paid employ- mercial Workers won a contract with the restored liquidity of the Detroit Three ees — and concessions have brought ev- California grocers that raised wages for A Cuban reader has only whetted their appetites for a eryone’s pay down to the lowest level. lower-paid workers and ended two-tier. deeper plunge in the price of labor power. The setback at Caterpillar had a domi- Storeowners were not eager to suffer a re- For the UAW, one of the most humili- no effect. In 1999 Ford and General Mo- peat of the grocery strike of 2005. responds ating concessions of 2009 was the freez- tors spun off their parts divisions, creat- King’s comments, however weak or ing of wages of all future employees, ing two new but dependent companies, misplaced, open up the possibility of a re- WW writer Martha Grevatt received other than skilled trades, at $14 per hour Visteon and Delphi. Later, with the co- vived class struggle in auto. High on the the following letter from a reader in until 2015. This is only 1.25 times the fed- operation of the UAW leadership, those agenda at the UAW Convention in June Cuba after the recent publication eral poverty rate for a family of four. Now companies were able to get workers to in Detroit ought to be this basic demand: of Part 1 of “Two Choices for UAW.” that the “traditional” UAW workforce has swallow two-tier. The same happened at “Equal pay for equal work — union wages Dear Martha Grevatt, been cut to the bone, it is expected that American Axle, an earlier GM spinoff. At for all.” thousands of workers will be hired at the all three companies new hires’ pay was Martha Grevatt has worked 22 years My name is Ildefonso Gustavo Díaz below-union-scale wage. “That’s where frozen at around $16.50 an hour. for Chrysler in Twinsburg, Ohio. Sandoval. I work as a teacher of English the big economic gains would come, said In 2005, after the company declared Her plant will close in July. E-mail and I teach it as a foreign language in a Aaron Bragman, an analyst with research bankruptcy, Delphi boss Steve Miller [email protected]. faculty of medical sciences in Artemisa, La Habana, Cuba. I subscribe to the Workers World “Patriarchal prejudice serves capitalism newspaper and I receive it every month. LOW-WAGE in two ways: it keeps the whole working I would like you to know that I have class divided, and it holds down wages read your article entitled “Two choices CAPITALISM for women and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, for UAW: Class struggle or suicide,” pub- What the new globalized and transgender workers. Low-Wage lished on April 29 on page 2. high-tech imperialism Capitalism shows the necessity and the I strongly agree with you and I say great potential for solidarity among all the means for the class struggle low-wage workers of the world.” that the union cannot be divided by any in the u.S. prejudice, any ideological position, by MarthaGrevatt anything against the workers. I am sure An easy-to-read analysis of the roots Nat’l Executive Officer, Pride At Work, AFL-CIO, UAW Local 122 you will celebrate the 75th anniversary of of the current global economic crisis, the UAW in 2011 with new victories and its implications for workers and op- “ We need to get this book into the hands better achievements, in an atmosphere of pressed peoples, and the strategy of every worker. It clearly explains the solidarity … for your cause. needed for future struggle. capital ist economic threat to our jobs, our A better world is possible! World_view_Forum_paperback,_336_pages_ pensions and our homes. But, even more Faithfully yours, The author is available for importantly, it shows us how we can fight Ildefonso lectures & interviews. back and win!” Teacher DavidSole, President, UAW Cuba Available at Leftbooks.com or in bookstores around the country Local 2334, Detroit, Michigan workers.org June 3, 2010 Page 5 On the Picket Line Newark, N.J.. by Sue davis TwinsCitiesnursesvotetostrike ‘Housing is a right!’ Amid chants of “Safe patient care!” 90 percent of Twin Cities nurses voting May 19 rejected the contract offered by 14 hospi- tals. The nurses say the hospitals are using the economy as an excuse to make cuts that would hurt patients. If a new contract cannot be negotiated by June 1, the 12,000-plus members of the Minnesota Nurses Association, which is part of National Nurses United, will strike. The nurses elected to go out for one day to show, according to MNA President Linda Hamilton, they were “serious about standing up for patient safety” while minimiz- ing “the impact on our patients.” If forced to strike, it would be the largest nursing walkout in U.S. history. The largest previous nursing strike also occurred in Minnesota in 1984 when more than 6,000 Twins Cities registered nurses walked out for 38 days. (AFL-CIO blog, May 20) NationalNursesWeek‘onthemove’ National Nurses Week kicked off May 11 in Washington, D.C., with an informational picket by nurses at the Washington Hos- pital Center, whose contract expired at midnight May 10. The nurses, represented by Nurses United of the National Capital Area, are demanding better staffing levels and challenging the The People’s Organization for Speakers advocated the take- bailout of the people and to assert hospital’s efforts to roll back wages and change working condi- Progress, along with other com- over of abandoned apartment housing as a basic human right. tions. Nurses in D.C. for the National Nurses United legislative munity and political organiza- buildings by the growing number Since September 2008, the U.S. conference joined the picket line before staging their “Improving tions, held a rally and march on of homeless people who are either government has forked over tril- the quality of care” demonstration on Capitol Hill on May 12. May 22 to demand an end to evic- jobless or have no livable income. lions of dollars in taxpayer money (Union City, online daily newsletter of the Metro Washington tions and foreclosures throughout Related issues such as police bru- to bail out some of the world’s Council AFL-CIO, May 10-12) On May 20, 1,300 RNs at the Uni- New Jersey. The protest was held tality — which is rampant in the largest banks like BofA, Citi and versity of Chicago Medical Center voted to become the newest in the majority African-American oppressed communities — were other Wall Street institutions at members of NNU, which is the largest nurses’ union in the U.S. city of Newark, which has the also raised. the expense of the workers and (AFL-CIO blog, May 21) largest population in the state and The protesters marched to a the poor. one of the highest poverty rates in branch of Bank of America in — Report and photo by Women’sbiassuitagainstWal-Mart the U.S. downtown Newark to demand a Monica Moorehead The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco voted April 26 to affirm that class-action status be awarded to the suit Stop police brutality brought by more than one million women employees charging Wal-Mart with gender discrimination. The suit is one of the larg- est class-action lawsuits in U.S. history. Rather than ’fess up and against high school students pay up, the billion-dollar global retailer and largest U.S. em- ployer announced that it would appeal the ruling to the Supreme By Caleb T. Maupin Cleveland’s News Channel 5, dents, community activists and Court. (Wall Street Journal, April 27) Cleveland while her daughters sat on either other victims of police terror. side of her, their faces bruised and The protest campaign to fight the WomenwinlawsuitagainstNovartis Anger exists in Cleveland scarred from the brutal police at- unjust charges against the young against the routine brutal prac- tack. She said how horrified she women needs your help. Please call On May 17 a jury decided that Novartis Pharmaceuticals will tices of the police department. was by what had happened to her the Cleveland Prosecutor’s Office have to pay 12 former female sales representatives compensatory Over 11,500 people have watched daughters, and how if she had at 216-664-4850 and demand that damages of $3.36 million for pain, suffering and loss of employ- the YouTube video of cops attack- treated her daughters in that way charges against DeAsia Bronaugh ment. More than 5,600 other female sales employees can apply ing DeAsia Bronaugh and Destiny she would quickly have lost cus- and Destiny Bronaugh be dropped in coming months for similar damages, which could exceed Bronaugh, two African-American tody of them and would have been and that the truancy fines against $200 million. Calling this “a huge victory for working women,” high school students and sisters, charged with child abuse. the 12 students who walked out plaintiff Holly J. Waters testified that she was fired when she as they participated in a peaceful Outcry throughout the commu- of school in a peaceful protest be was seven months pregnant for being pregnant. The May 18 New student walkout at Collinwood nity over this police attack on stu- waived as well. York Times reported, “Other women testified they were subject High School against mass school dents of color continues. A com- More actions on behalf of the to hostile remarks, especially concerning pregnancy, and unfairly closings and cutbacks. munity meeting was held at the Bronaugh sisters and the other passed over for promotion in what they described as a sexist The Bail Out the People Move- Collinwood Branch Library, and youth wrongfully arrested are cur- atmosphere controlled by male district managers.” ment was able to mobilize thou- it drew a number of college stu- rently being planned. sands of people to send e-mails DefendunionrightsinMexico and make phone calls to local After the San Francisco Labor Council met with a delegation elected officials, Cleveland School Workers picket cUNY from the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas to learn about their District officials and the Cleveland struggle to maintain their 44,000-member union after govern- Police Department to express out- ment repression was used to break their general strike, it passed rage at the police attack and de- Research Foundation a resolution on May 10 calling on all affiliated unions and com- mand the charges brought against munity organizations to picket the Mexican Consulate on May 14 the Bronaugh sisters be dropped Dozens of protesters rallied on NewYorkCity. to protest this repression. and that they not face school dis- May 24 outside the City Univer- As the resolution noted, the attacks on SME “mirror similar ciplinary action. sity of N.Y. Research Foundation assaults on our pay and working conditions, like forced pay With e-mails and phone calls headquarters in midtown Man- cuts on city workers in San Francisco, S.F. electronic workplace coming in from all across the hattan to demand that Profession- raids, the S.F. building trades struggle for work, union busting at country as well as internationally, al Staff Congress members at the Boron, Ca., and attempts to divide us like race hatred in Arizona. Collinwood High School has halt- New York City Tech, LaGuardia … Standing in solidarity with SME is an act of resistance to our ed the process of expelling Seth Community College and Gradu- own struggles and part of our own fightback.” Barlekamp, leader of the student ate Center Research Foundations On May 20, while Mexican President Felipe Calderón was walkout. He and his mother were receive a fair first contract. being wined and dined at the White House, union members informed that no further disci- More than 80 percent of R.F. directors meeting on the 8th floor and labor rights activists picketed the Mexican Embassy in plinary action would be taken by workers have voted for represen- and delivered petitions signed by Washington, D.C., to condemn Calderón’s repression of labor the school against him or any of tation by the PSC. RF-CUNY has 700 people to R.F. President Rich- unions. Members of the Steelworkers union singled out Los the dozen students who walked offered salary increases of only ard Rothbard. Facing camera in Mineros, whose members have been on strike for almost three out of school on May 13. 1.5 percent while demanding that photo, LaGuardia unionist Mau- years at the Cananea mine in northwestern Mexico over health While this victory is important, workers immediately increase the rice Pinzon tells union members and safety violations. the two young women still face contribution to their health insur- about the delegation’s foray into Calderón is threatening to send federal troops to take over criminal charges of assault on a ance premium from 11 percent to the board meeting. the mine and break the strike. Demonstrators chanted, “Unions police officer, aggravated disor- 19 percent. The PSC represents 20,000 full- united will never be defeated!” and waved signs reading, “Hands derly conduct, truancy and resist- During the protest, PSC First and part-time faculty and other off Los Mineros” and “Respect workers’ rights.” Manny Armenta, ing arrest. Vice President Steve London and staff at the City University colleges. subdistrict director for USW District 12, told Union City, “There Tina Bronaugh, mother of the two members of the union bargain- — Report and photo by is no need for bloodshed and we will not stand for it.” (May 21) two brutalized sisters, spoke with ing teams went to the R.F. board of John Catalinotto Page_6_ June_3,_2010_ workers.org

‘May Day showed revival of class struggle’ Fightback grows against Arizona’s anti-immigrant law

Following are excerpts from a talk At least 78 percent of the increase in given by Teresa Gutierrez, co-coordi- deaths along the entire Southwest border nator of the May 1 Coalition for Worker from 1990 to 2003 took place in southern and Immigrant Rights and a Workers Arizona. World Party secretariat member, at a But there is something else going on be- May 22 WWP forum in New York City. sides racism and reaction. Imperialist plunder of natural resourc- And that is the resistance of a huge and es and the attempt to colonize an entire vital sector of our class, the resistance par- nation and its people is the sum of the his- ticularly of young people, who in this peri- tory between the U.S. and Mexico. od on this struggle in defense of immigrant And today, not only do Mexicans and rights, are setting the tone and leading the other immigrants have to seriously en- way. danger themselves, even die to cross that And resistance is the only way to look at border, Mexicans living on this side of the the massive May Day demonstrations that border cannot even study that history. took place this year around the country. So many of the gains that we made in Once again May Day became a symbol of the struggle of the 1960s in particular, like a sector of the working class in this country that of the right to learn our history as op- that is flexing its class muscles. No matter pressed people, are being eroded before the form it may have taken, no matter what our very eyes. the demands, May Day showed a revival of But the right to study Chicano, Black, the class struggle in this country. Native American, women’s or lesbian/ Despite the repression, despite the at- gay/bisexual and transgender history is tacks, workers are fighting back. This strug- not a right that was handed to us. It was gle has not gone away. It has not waned. a right that we won with our struggle, a It is also a sign of things to come. May WW_Photo:_moNiCA_moorEhEAd right we wrested from the ruling class. Day has been forever revived in this coun- Workers World Party leaders Larry Hales, Teresa Gutierrez and Larry Holmes were panelists try. And sooner or later, more and more And one we will not give up. Many young at a May 22 forum on “Fighting racism and fascism in a global capitalist crisis: A socialist and U.S.-born workers will embrace the signifi- people sacrificed and even died for those working class perspective.” Go to www.workers.org to hear the podcasted talks. ethnic studies. cance of May Day and make it their own The Binational Migration Institute “These policies include a quintupling The funnel effect is an important con- as well. at the University of Arizona’s Mexican of border-enforcement expenditures and cept to remember. It is one explanation The immigrant movement must under- American Studies and Research Center a militarization of the border with new of what is behind SB 1070 and the rise of stand and understand this deeply, that the issued a study two years ago on the thou- barriers, fortified checkpoints, high-tech reaction in Arizona. The U.S. government struggle for legalization cannot advance, sands of border-crossing deaths in the forms of surveillance and thousands of under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, much less win, unless this happens. U.S. It showed an unprecedented increase additional Border Patrol agents stationed as well as Barack Obama now, purposely Until the working class — all its sec- in the number of deaths in the deserts and along the U.S.-Mexico border.” and intentionally have “funneled” migra- tors — rises up and fights back in a general mountains of southern Arizona, with ex- The study reports that “migrants are in- tion to one of the most dangerous and struggle against the ruling class, the right posure (including heat stroke, dehydra- creasingly funneled into the most isolated conservative areas in the country. wing will continue to set the agenda. tion, and hyperthermia) being the leading and desolate terrain of the Arizona-Sono- The fence built along this part of the The struggle for jobs and housing and cause of these deaths. ra desert border, resulting in the recovery border cost at least $176 million to con- education must become ever more fused The increase in deaths “is a direct con- of more and more skeletal remains. This struct — money that could have gone to with the immigrant struggle. The struggle sequence of the government’s ‘prevention ‘Funnel Effect,’ as the Institute terms it, hospitals or schools. The fence includes a for Black liberation must become ever through deterrence’ immigration-control occurs when traditional, less dangerous, 76-mile reservation border as well as pri- more fused with the struggle for Latino/a policies that intensified in the mid-1990s. crossing points are sealed.” vately owned land along the Texas-Mexico liberation. border. It was modeled after Israel’s racist colonial apartheid wall. The Department StudentssupportArizonastruggle of Homeland Security waived at least 40 environmental and cultural preservation ‘San Patricio’ honors Irish-Mexican solidarity. laws in order to build it. HouSToN. The fence is eagerly supported by Arizo- na senator, Russell Pearce — best known Music review for his “accidental” e-mailing of neo-Nazi By Bryan G. Pfeifer propaganda — and Sen. John McCain. This funneling effort did not decrease In an outstanding contribution to the the number of migrants crossing into the music of the world’s peoples, the renowned U.S. Irish artists, The Chieftains, have produced Response to arizona’s racist policy: a stunning new compact disc entitled “San resistance Patricio.” It is a tribute and a history les- son, set to music. The new strategy closed off major ur- The CD’s theme of solidarity is as timely ban points of migration in Texas and today as it was more than 150 years ago California and funneled hundreds of when the San Patricio Battalion joined thousands of migrants through southern with the Mexican people to fight U.S. ex- Arizona’s remote and notoriously deadly pansionism. deserts and mountains. The CD features Ry Cooder and many The study also raised that an exponen- Irish, Mexican and other artists of varying tial increase in the number of recovered nationalities, including Lila Downs, Los bodies occurred from 1990 to 2005. Folkoristas, Los Cenzontles, Carlos Núñez, Photo:_WWW.doSCENtAvoS.NEt During the “pre-funnel effect” years Moya Brennan, L.A. Juvenil, Chavela Var- Immigrant students and their supporters in Houston held a press conference and (1990-1999), the medical examiner’s of- gas and Liam Neeson. The music deploys a demonstration outside the federal building in solidarity with students arrested four fice handled, on average, the bodies of ap- vast array of traditional and contemporary days earlier in Arizona. Organized by FIEL, Familias Inmigrantes y Estudiantes en la proximately 14 border crossers per year. Mexican and Irish instruments, with lyr- Lucha, they demanded Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison support the DREAM [“Devel- In stark contrast, during the funnel effect ics sung in English and Spanish and with opment, Relief and Education for Alien Minors”] Act. years (2000-2005), on average, 160 bod- recordings gathered in Dublin, New York Wearing caps and gowns and carrying their college diplomas, the students protested ies were sent to the medical examiner’s City, Mexico, Los Angeles and Spain. the unfairness of earning a college degree in the U.S. but not being allowed to work. On office each year. From rousing sessions to ballads to the May 17, four students held a sit-in inside the Tucson, Ariz., office of Sen. John McCain There was a significant decrease in the “March to Battle” (Across The Rio Grande) to pressure him to back the DREAM Act, which would grant permanent citizenship to number of recovered bodies of border by Banda de Gaitas del Batallón de San undocumented workers’ children if they completed two years of college. crossers from northern Mexico and a sig- Patricio, the spirit of the San Patricios and Escalating their tactics, the student activists in Arizona risked deportation to Mexico nificant increase in the number of such their Mexican compatriots comes through. and Iran. Three of the Arizona students were turned over to Immigration and Customs decedents from central and southern Linda Ronstadt sings “A la orilla de un pal- Enforcement after all of them spent the night in jail. Mexico. — Gloria Rubac mar” in Spanish. workers.org June 3, 2010 Page 7

TUCSON. Indigenous activists occupy Border Patrol Editor’s note: The following statement colors to unite with O’odham, to stand in was released on May 22 by the O’odham solidarity for human rights and to see the Solidarity Across Borders Collective and next generation take a stand.” other Native activists after carrying out At approximately 4 o’clock the peace- an occupation May 21 at the U.S. Border ful resisters negotiated the conditions Patrol headquarters in Arizona. More in- of their release on their terms. Their re- formation on this struggle can be found quests to consult with Tohono O’odham at www.oodhamsolidarity.blogspot.com. elders to negotiate terms of release were denied by Tucson Police. The protesters At approximately 1 p.m. on May 21, decided to unlock and were cited for two more than a dozen people occupied the misdemeanors each of trespassing and Tucson Headquarters of the U.S. Border disorderly conduct. Patrol to draw attention to impacts of The resisters were released just outside border militarization in Indigenous Com- the premises to join supporters where munities. Six people, including Alex Soto, they gathered in traditional prayer and a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation rallied against border militarization for _Photo:_o’odhAm_SolidArity_ACroSS_BordErS_CollECtivE and a volunteer with the group O’odham another hour. Community members, in- Banner reads: “Stop the militarization of Indigenous lands.” Solidarity Across Borders, locked them- cluding members of the Pasqual Yaqui, selves together for up to three and a half Tohono O’odham and Dine’ Nations re- lonial border,” stated one of the peaceful formist agendas to further their suffering. hours. “Indigenous voices have been ig- acted emotionally when two Wackenhut resisters. “We commit to honoring the We will continue our actions of peaceful nored. In our action today we say NO Corp. buses left the Border Patrol com- prayers and call for support of the people resistance for human dignity and respect MORE!” said Soto. pound filled with undocumented people. most impacted by border militarization, for all peoples.” Banners were hung, including one The detainees responded with returning the Indigenous Peoples whose lands we The action also denounced SB 1070 placed over the reception window that the symbol of resistance — a raised fist. are on and migrants who seek a better life and HB 2281 as racist laws that are a part read, “Stop Militarization of Indigenous “This is just one action of many that for their families. We cannot allow gov- of an ongoing system of genocidal policies Lands Now,” traditional songs were sung makes visible the invisible crimes against ernment agencies, border patrol, Immi- against Indigenous Peoples and migrant and the group chanted, “Border militari- humanity that occur every day on the co- gration and Customs Enforcement or re- communities. zation destroys Indigenous communities!” and “No raids, no deportations! No SB 1070, no racist laws!” Approximately 30 Border Patrol agents Texas schoolbooks to teach flooded the lobby of the headquarters and scrambled to react. Roads to the head- quarters and adjacent air force base were racism, capitalism shut down. Tucson City Police were even- tually called and began preparing an ex- Following are excerpts from a talk ies curriculum. Discussions ranged from tion of Ted Kennedy and César Chávez traction of the peaceful resisters. by Teresa Gutierrez, Workers World whether President Ronald Reagan should in favor of new entries on the National A diverse crowd of up to 70 people contributing editor and co-coordinator get more attention (yes); whether hip-hop Rifle Association and Phyllis Schlafly, quickly gathered outside the Border Pa- of the May 1 Coalition for Worker and should be included as part of lessons on an anti-gay and anti-feminist crusader. trol headquarters to support those locked Immigrant Rights, at a May 22 Workers culture (no); and whether Confederate State standards will mandate that lessons down inside. Ofelia Rivas of O’odham World Party forum in New York City. president Jefferson Davis’ inaugural ad- include causes and key organizations of Voices Against The Wall, an elder in sup- The Texas State Board of Education be- dress should be studied alongside Abra- the conservative movement, including port of the action stated, “It was a histori- gan a campaign a few months ago of pro- ham Lincoln’s (yes). the Contract with America, the Heritage cal and powerful moment for people of all posed revisions to the Texas social stud- This could all result in removing men- Foundation and the Moral Majority. On May 21 the right-wing changes were approved as the State Board of Education voted 9-5 for the curriculum that will shape ‘San Patricio’ honors Irish-Mexican solidarity. history books for Texas public schools. Black and Latino/a members of the board Fighting U.S. ‘Manifest destiny,’ treated and maligned as unwelcome and cans and San Patricios learned each oth- were angry and rightly so, as they said the building solidarity untrustworthy and asked to fight in a war er’s languages, shared their cultures, and changes “glorify white America’s role in In the CD’s liner notes, Chieftain leader few understood, it is not so difficult to developed close bonds. Though the U.S. history” while avoiding the issues of rac- Paddy Moloney tells the story of the San imagine their motivation.” oppressors defeated them militarily, they ism. U.S. “imperialism” changed to “expan- Patricio Battalion: “[It] is a little dis- The Irish San Patricios, who were anti- could not bury their contributions. Their sionism,” and all references to “capitalism” cussed … footnote in the great panorama colonialist, due to British imperialism’s legacy continues through oral, cultural have been replaced with “free enterprise,” of American Westward Expansion. Dur- actions in their homeland and in the Irish and other traditions. A statue in Mexico which is mentioned more than 80 times. ing the Mexican-American War of 1846- diaspora, identified with the Mexicans, City honors the San Patricios. The partisan board has amended or wa- 48, Captain John Riley and a small battal- Native Americans and former enslaved tered down the teaching of the Civil Rights ion of soldiers abandoned their pasts and peoples of African descent who were Spirit of resistance today movement, the U.S. relationship with the futures in the burgeoning [U.S.] and fol- fighting a fast-growing expansionist U.S. That spirit of resistance is seen today United Nations and hundreds of other lowed their conscience … across the Rio Solidarity had developed among many of among artists who contributed to “San items. Among other things, the standards Grande to fight side by side with the Mexi- these groupings, as they resisted the U.S. Patricio.” Just after the CD was released, state that students must “discuss alterna- can army under the command of General aim of expanding slavery into Mexican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law tives regarding long-term entitlements Antonio López de Santa Ana. Reviled … as territory in the late 1840s. the racist anti-immigrant SB 1070. Since such as Social Security and Medicare, giv- traitors and deserters, they have largely Moloney concludes: “After distin- then, Ronstadt, a longtime Arizona resi- en the decreasing worker to retiree ratio.” been forgotten in the retelling of history. guishing themselves for skill and bravery dent whose grandfather was Mexican, Don McLeroy explained that institutions “But to generations of Mexicans and in many hard-fought battles, the battal- and many other artists are speaking out, like the U.N. undermine U.S. sovereignty. Irish,” Moloney explains, “they are re- ion [made] their last stand at the fort of joining marches, contributing funds and Among the changes, students would be membered to this day as heroes who Churubusco alongside their embattled publicly opposing the racist attacks in Ar- required to learn about the “unintended fought bravely against an unjust and thin- Mexican compatriots. Knowing their fate izona and elsewhere. An artists’ boycott consequences” of Title IX, affirmative ac- ly veiled war of aggression. While the San would be sealed in defeat, they fought on of Arizona is growing. tion, and the Great Society. Patricios were comprised of the displaced, against the inevitable, some say captured Carrying on the San Patricios’ legacy, The board proposed referring to the the downtrodden … from many nations, only after their ammunition had been the CD’s artists are showing, through slave trade as the Atlantic triangular trade, runaway slaves among them, the major- exhausted, refusing to surrender. In a concerted action, that working-class and but that did not prevail. Students will also ity were … Irishmen recently arrived in final show of patriotic disdain, many of oppressed peoples have more in common now learn that the Civil War’s emphasis America. Driven from their homeland af- the surviving San Patricios were uncer- with each other than with their oppres- was over states’ rights, with less emphasis ter years of oppressive occupation and the emoniously separated from the Mexican sors and can only bring about a better on slavery. … Irish Potato Famine, pressed into mili- regulars, court-martialed for treason and world by uniting, building solidarity and There are four million children in the tary service by poverty and circumstance, made to pay the final price on the gal- fighting back. Texas public school system, making it the they often found themselves obliged to lows. A select few were branded on both For information on “San Patricio,” second-largest market for textbooks in the serve under officers [in the U.S.] with the cheeks with the letter ‘D’ for deserter and which also has great Mexican and Irish country. As a result, changes to the Tex- same English and Protestant leanings left to their fate.” dance music, go to www.thechieftains. as curriculum are likely to impact other they had suffered under at home. Mis- During their time together, the Mexi- com. states as well. Page_8_ June_3,_2010_ workers.org

47 years after liberation African peoples, impelled by global economic crisis, challenge imperialism By Abayomi Azikiwe supervised national elections where force the dominance of the industrial- ular. Many African-American leaders are Editor, Pan-African News Wire the ruling National Congress Party won ized states over the waterways of one of demanding the implementation of a jobs overwhelmingly in conjunction with the the most lucrative shipping lanes in the program to employ the millions who are This is Part 2 of an article on the southern-based SPLM. A national refer- world. unemployed and without housing and status of African peoples 47 years after endum is scheduled for 2011 on the fu- In the Caribbean, the efforts of Cari- healthcare. the declaration of Africa Liberation Day. ture of the southern region of the country. com are being undermined by the role of Nonetheless, the only real solution Part 1 appeared in last week’s Workers Despite the holding of these elections, the U.S. imperialism in the region. Nonethe- available to African people, the oppressed World. Western imperialists are still calling for less, the people of Cuba have continued and all working people is the struggle the arrest of the president by the Interna- along a socialist path, setting an example for socialism as an economic and social In various states throughout Africa tional Criminal Court. for underdeveloped and post-colonial system that would provide jobs, educa- there are challenges to imperial- Sudanese President Omar Hus- states. tion, housing, healthcare, equal rights ism and its devastating impact on PArT 2. sein al-Bashir has negotiated sev- Cuba has not only raised the standard for women, youth and all people within national economies. Zimbabwe eral peace agreements with the of living of the people on the island but human society. The developments of the has over the last decade redistributed rebel groups operating in Darfur, where has provided tremendous development last three years show clearly that world land to African people that was stolen in the imperialists have attempted to uti- and medical assistance to other fraternal capitalism provides no solution for the the initial colonial onslaught of the late lize a conflict that grew out of the legacy nations throughout Latin America, Africa immense majority of humanity who are 19th century. of British colonialism in order to under- and even people from oppressed commu- suffering from increasing poverty and The country’s ruling ZANU-PF party mine the sovereignty of the oil-producing nities inside the United States. Through- political repression. has created a national unity government central African state. out Latin America, the movement to- Kwame Nkrumah wrote in 1963 that, with the opposition in an attempt to less- One of the principal areas of interfer- wards greater independence from U.S. “If, therefore, we are to fulfill our pledge en the efforts of the West to destabilize ence for U.S. imperialism is the Horn of imperialism is gaining strength. to the people and achieve the program this independent state. Nevertheless, Africa, where successive administrations In the U.S. itself the mass sentiment set out above [African unity], socialism the imperialist states have refused to lift have attempted to direct the internal af- against racism and economic exploitation is our only alternative. For socialism as- sanctions against Zimbabwe which is still fairs of the region. The flotilla of warships is intensifying with growing anger being sumes the public ownership of the means having a negative impact on the social de- off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf directed toward the banks that have dev- of production, the land and its resources, velopment of the country. of Aden and the Indian Ocean, ostensibly astated the cities and the African-Ameri- and the use of those means in fulfillment Sudan in April held internationally to fight “piracy,” are only there to rein- can and Latino/a communities in partic- of the people’s needs.” After army assaults central Bangkok Class struggle breaks out in Thailand By John Catalinotto cal leadership do the opposing sides have? win the election. to use whatever arms they have at hand to What position does U.S. imperialism The masses of urban and rural poor defend themselves, their movement and Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva take? How would a revolutionary leader- came out in force and with enormous de- their demands. kept one promise. The military-backed ship behave in a similar situation? termination to back the UDD’s call. Many Revolutionaries would also explore the Thai regime unleashed tanks and soldiers in the end were ready to risk their lives in possibilities of reaching out to the rank- against thousands of “Red Shirts” occu- class character of “democracy” movement the struggle against the dictatorship. They and-file soldiers and the junior officers of pying a posh business district of central There is no doubt that the Abhisit re- were taking a role in determining their the Thai armed forces, over one million Bangkok to clear the area of thousands of gime, installed by a military coup in 2006, fate. According to all reports, the vast ma- strong, who are part volunteer and part anti-dictatorship demonstrators. By May represents the wealthy elite of Thailand jority of the Red Shirts’ ranks were work- conscript. There was evidence that these 20, the army had killed another 57 pro- and the top officer corps of the military. It ers and farmers. ranks — many of whom come from Red testers in its offensive, more than 80 in also represents the interests of imperial- Shirt strongholds — were unhappy about U.S. imperialism in Thailand total since March, and wounded 1,800. ist investors from the U.S., the European being used against their class sisters and Leaders of the opposition Red Shirts, Union, Japan — the source for 7,000 en- The U.S. has been the dominant foreign brothers. Just before ordering the final also called the National United Front terprises operating in Thailand — and re- political power in Thailand since World assault, the army killed the one general for Democracy Against Dictatorship, or gional capitalist powers like Taiwan and War II. The Pentagon has been especially who had gone over to the Red Shirts. UDD, surrendered to the regime on May Singapore. close to the Thai military, using Thailand Mass armed struggle and the possible 19 and pleaded with the demonstrators The UDD, too, has been tied to big capi- as its main airbase during the war against collapse of the state power could open the to disperse before the obviously superior tal. Most of its leaders have thrown their the Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian peo- door to an outcome far beyond just mov- firepower of the army. But thousands of support behind former Prime Minister ples. ing from an Abhisit to a Thaksin govern- the protesters defied their nominal lead- Thaksin Shinawatra, a multibillionaire Washington’s silence after the mass ment. It could raise the possibility of a ers and set fire to luxury shopping malls, entrepreneur. Party leaders are from the slaughter shows that the U.S. ruling class social revolution that would change the the stock exchange, government build- educated and more privileged sectors. much prefers a stable dictatorship in relations between rich and poor and be- ings, pro-military media centers and Both sides defended capitalism and pri- Thailand to an unstable situation with the tween Thailand and world imperialism. banks. vate property and were willing to protect masses in movement. Since May 20, the army has pushed After tanks pushed rubber-tire barri- the interests of imperialist investors. As with Honduras after last summer’s most in the mass movement — those not cades aside, some protesters began set- While Thaksin was prime minister, military coup and the rigged November killed or wounded or singled out for ar- ting up new barricades. They fought run- however, his government passed reforms election, Washington has made no com- rest — out of Bangkok. Many returned to ning battles with soldiers before being reducing rural poverty and offering nearly plaints about the brutal Abhisit regime. their home areas in the North and North- finally driven out of the capital. free health care to the poorest urban and Nor has there been much protest from east. Some reports indicate that activists Some experienced observers of Thai- rural Thais. pro-imperialist “human rights” organiza- in this movement are looking for political land say they are surprised, even stunned, Improvements for the poor drew popu- tions that are so vocal against Iran or so- leadership different from the UDD and by the willingness of ordinary Thais to lar support for Thaksin from farmers and cialist Cuba. Thaksin, although he remains a popular fight the way the Red Shirts did. “It has workers, especially in the Northeast. They While the UDD leaders in Thailand political figure for the masses. surprised everybody. It is highly disturb- aroused even greater hostility among have surrendered, the people have fought In an interview with Al-Jazeera aired ing,” says Richard Doner, associate pro- more privileged Thais. The latter worked on, both in the streets and politically. on May 22, a Thai political activist in fessor of political science at Emory Uni- with the top military officers to overthrow “We have been poor for hundreds of Chiang Mai, a Red Shirt stronghold, said versity and an expert on Southeast Asia. Thaksin in 2006. They mobilized against years, even thousands of years, and they that many of the Red Shirt members were “Nobody would have expected this two his party in the 2007 elections and, are living in fancy resorts and mansions,” looking for new leadership and would weeks ago.” (PBS Newshour, May 19) with the help of the courts, made sure it said Srirasa Reungrat, a woman from Chi- participate in an underground struggle Few analysts agree with Prime Minis- couldn’t form a government. ang Rai in Thailand’s north, standing at against the Abhisit regime. Pictures on ter Abhisit that order had been restored Frustrated by these anti-democratic the back of a temple in Bangkok on May the wall of the political office were of as of May 20. They believe instead that maneuvers, the UDD called its rank-and- 20. “They have been doing this to us for Thaksin, the late Indian leader Mahatma the battle for Bangkok was only the first file supporters into central Bangkok in a long time.” (New York Times, May 20) Gandhi and the late revolutionary com- clash in a long struggle yet to unfold. March, demanding the Abhisit govern- A revolutionary leadership in a situa- munist Che Guevara. The questions that Marxist observ- ment resign and call new elections. It tion like that would have the responsibili- Ending her report, the Al-Jazeera jour- ers ask about Thailand at this point are: apparently believed that mass pressure ty of standing with the masses in struggle, nalist said that immediately following the What is the class character of the govern- could wring concessions from the govern- physically if possible, certainly politically. interview this organizer went underground. ment and of the opposition? What politi- ment and that the opposition could then It would support the right of the masses In Thailand, the struggle continues. workers.org June 3, 2010 Page 9

University of Puerto Rico Students resolute as strike enters second month By Berta Joubert-Ceci sities’ while the Public Accountants Asso- so much popular ciation recommended that the system be support that the One month of striking has only encour- dismembered and opened to privatization whole shopping aged the resolve of the students from the piece by piece.” (NCM-SJ-4-30-10) center seemed like University of Puerto Rico to defend at Wall Street no longer needs a U.S. a massive rally. all cost public education for the masses. agency to be directly involved, since the Music students Their energy and creativity seem to thrive Fortuño administration and the Board of from several UPR on confronting the intransigent position Trustees are doing the bankers’ bidding. campuses tried to of the university’s Board of Trustees. Their Many on the 13-member board directly go to the Capitol on May 19 to demand that to continue the strike in the face of more determination has grown following the represent the banking, real estate and the tuition waiver for music students not be police violence. stepped-up police repression unleashed construction interests, including the for- eliminated — one of the general demands. These actions have forced the board by pro-statehood Gov. Luis Fortuño. mer vice-president of CitiBank in Puerto Several choruses, marching bands, string back to negotiations. As of May 24, the The students are not alone: Unions, Rico. Their interest is definitely not qual- orchestras, flute players and many other board has only agreed to amend the Cer- social organizations, left political parties ity higher education for the poor. musical groups turned the march into a tification 98, which eliminates the tuition and the population in general have taken Their policies extend the vicious at- street performance after the police pre- waivers for honor, athlete, music and oth- up this struggle as their own. tacks on public education in the U.S. vented them from reaching the legislative er students in special categories. It still And it is their own, because the drastic that have awakened courageous stu- Capitol building. refuses to drop charges against students measures that led to the university strike dents’ struggles, primarily in California On May 20, Fortuño was holding a for participating in the strike. It also re- result from the government’s laws and but spreading to other public campuses $1,000-a-plate benefit dinner at the fuses to open the books, claiming that the decrees affecting many other areas. The around the country. It is the same attack Sheraton Hotel in San Juan. Students, students want a co-government just be- government supposedly imposed them against the poor, be it in the U.S. or in the unions and other supporters went there cause they demand to be part of the policy to combat the severe economic crisis in colony in Puerto Rico. to demand that Fortuño re-establish the decision-making. But another negotiat- the island, but they really benefit only the negotiations broken by the board. But ing meeting is projected for the evening business sector and the wealthy. These UPR students’ response riot police greeted the students with bru- of May 24 following a daytime assembly decrees leave thousands unemployed UPR students are redefining their re- tal repression. where the Mayagüez campus students with no security or benefits. sistance in the most creative way. They Luisa Acevedo, head of the United Food ratified the strike. This government policy follows a long- have erected tent cities occupying the and Commercial Workers union, was hit term attempt by Wall Street to transfer campuses and have effectively shut down in the back, thrown to the floor and pep- Protests to continue more wealth from the workers to the rich. the university. They have also shown they per-sprayed. Several other people were The graduates from Social Studies An article written by journalist Jesús are determined to “take the struggle to the also beaten, including a student who was have called for a demonstration on May Dávila under the heading, “The Univer- spaces where the rich and powerful do not held down on the floor with several police 25. On May 27 the National Coordinating sity Becomes the Perfect Storm,” recalls expect us to go.” (www.prdailysun.com) on top, kicking and hitting him while us- Committee of University Campuses (CO- the UPR strike of 2005: “On that occa- On May 22 more than 200 students, ing a Taser gun to apply electric shocks. NARU) is organizing a march in defense sion,” he writes, “Puerto Rico was under carrying banners and signs, erupted into The following day, 500 people from of education, jobs and life, supporting the fire from U.S. accrediting agencies that the main shopping center in the island, the diverse backgrounds marched to police students’ demands, the repeal of Law 7 claimed it was improper for this Carib- multilevel Plaza Las Americas. Through headquarters to protest the brutal re- — which has been the source of the pres- bean country and U.S. colony since 1898 slogans chanted to the rhythm of plena pression. That same May 21, in an un- ent conflict — and to protest the massive to almost entirely support higher educa- music they stated their demands: “Dia- precedented move, more than 1,000 layoffs. The march will end in front of La tion with public funds. In those years, a logue, negotiation, education, freedom, faculty members from the 11 UPR cam- Fortaleza, the governor’s mansion. On U.S. consulting firm with ties to the De- transparency, democracy and participa- puses called for the dismissal of univer- May 28 there will be a workers’ march to fense Department was contracted under tion.” Riding up and down the escalators, sity President José de la Torre and board protest the hundreds of layoffs that are to the concept of an ‘industry of the univer- they held mini rallies. At the end they had chair Ygri Rivera. The students also voted take effect that day. ‘We are living in a decisive transition period’ Interview with Honduran resistance leader By Berta Joubert-Ceci in Madrid if Lobo was present there. The in our country. It is all happening in the of Llorens since the conflict began. That Spanish government had invited Lobo to framework of the illegal coup.” is why we affirm that the U.S. presence Workers World spoke on May 24 with ratify trade agreements but had to meet “Since Lobo took office,” Ríos said, is real and permanent and that the one an exiled member of the leadership of the with him separately. “eight journalists have been murdered who coordinates at a local level is Hugo National Popular Front of Resistance to Under the Lobo administration there because they were against the coup, and Llorens.” the June 28, 2009, coup that removed has been an increase of human rights vio- the media outlets where they worked Asked what he thought about the cur- the legitimate president, Manuel Zelaya, lations against members of the resistance were also critical of the coup. Lobo is rent visit of Lobo to Colombia, Ríos an- from office. Ríos, who has been living in as well as a rampant and uncontrollable unable to guarantee anyone’s life. He re- swered: “This is very worrisome for us Nicaragua for five months, is one of the general violence in Honduras. Regarding cently said that Zelaya could return, but because that closeness of Lobo with [Pe- 200 Hondurans currently forced into the overall situation, Ríos stressed, “We that he (Lobo) could not be responsible ruvian President] Alan García and [Co- exile by political persecution, including are living in a decisive transition period for his safety. lombian President] Álvaro Uribe and the death threats. Zelaya himself has been where our destiny is being defined.” “In Honduras,” Ríos continued, “the U.S. government confirms our theory that granted residence in the Dominican Re- The Honduran Supreme Court on May one who is really governing is U.S. Am- it is a plan of the imperialists to promote public. 5 had arbitrarily suspended certain judg- bassador Hugo Llorens. He is the one their goal of winning back their power in Although many of these exiles are far es and public defenders from the Judges who in fact set up part of the current gov- the region. Uribe is the Latin American from Honduras, they follow very closely Association for Democracy in San Pedro ernment, practically the majority, and president most tied to constant human the events there and participate as much Sula for defending members of the resis- who is openly moving around from one rights violations and war promotion, and as possible in resistance work. tance and for their open political position end of the country to the other promot- who has recently approved seven U.S. Ríos wanted to make sure from the rejecting the coup. These judges are now ing the Pepe Lobo government. On the military bases close to Venezuela, which start that everyone knew that the Hondu- on a hunger strike that started on May 17. international level a group of lobbyists is is a flagrant aggression against the Boli- ran government is unstable and that the Since then three other judges have joined doing the same, financed by the U.S. and varian process and the rest of the region. coup regime has been unable to consoli- the strike in solidarity. WW asked Ríos to its State Department. “So, Lobo’s closeness to him [Uribe] is a date power. He pointed to the failure of comment on the situation. “So, here our struggle is clearly anti- cause of great concern. Besides, the pres- the current Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo govern- Those on hunger strike “have been imperialist. At this moment, when we ence in Honduras of Colombian paramili- ment to win international recognition, denouncing a precarious situation of talk about reclaiming Honduran institu- taries has been exposed and denounced. despite U.S. attempts to force recognition the justice system, which has been kid- tionalism, it refers to the fact that the one The paramilitaries were contracted by and after Washington re-established all napped by the same oligarchy that pro- who is governing us is the U.S. State De- Defense Minister Óscar Álvarez during U.S. aid to Honduras. Lobo came to office duced the coup d’état,” Ríos said. “At the partment, with Hillary Clinton’s politics. one of his frequent visits to Colombia. So through fraudulent elections held under same time we have another hunger strike Last week the chief of the U.S. Southern we are talking of a possible ‘Colombian- the coup dictatorship last November. by trade unionists from the National Command, Gen. Douglas Fraser, came ization’ of Honduras,” said Ríos. Another recent failure for Lobo was the University protesting the layoff of more to Honduras to meet with the army and Next: The Constitutional Assembly stated refusal of the UNASUR countries than 180 workers. They are part of the Lobo. [Fraser’s] presence clearly shows and the violence against peasants in the to attend the Latin America-Caribbean- massive layoffs that are being carried out the direct supervision of the situation Aguan region. European Union summit held on May 18 now, something that had never occurred in Honduras by Southcom and the role Email: [email protected] Page_10_ June_3,_2010_ workers.org

WORKERS WORLD editorial S. Korea, U.S. maneuvers the unraveling threaten war on DPRK

By Deirdre Griswold Seoul. They announced that the South of capitalism Korean government would prohibit all It was a full-court press, concocted by DPRK vessels from entering their territo- apitalism just doesn’t work. A Just as the U.S. military and its pup- the U.S. government and the rightist re- rial waters. They also said that they and recent Pew Research Center poll pets oppress the world’s people from gime in South Korea and eagerly magni- the U.S. Navy would proceed with a mas- Cillustrated this reality when the Iraq to Afghanistan to Somalia, the fied by the corporate media. sive joint “anti-submarine” exercise in the results showed that fewer and fewer police in all their forms oppress the Back on March 26 a South Korean Navy area. people in the U.S. view capitalism in masses at home. For immigrant workers, warship, the Cheonan, sank near the mar- Clearly, U.S. submarines that prowl the a positive light, especially among the particularly if they are undocumented, itime border with the Democratic Peo- seas around Korea would not be the tar- younger generation. Consider the follow- this repression comes in the form of the ple’s Republic of Korea. Of the 104 crew gets of this military move. ing facts: Workers by the tens of millions Immigration and Customs Enforcement members aboard, 46 perished. The Lee regime said it would also ban are being downsized out of their jobs or and its armed border patrols carrying Almost immediately, the government trade with the north and further limit never have had a job to begin with; they out raids and terror in the Southwest and of Lee Myung-bak in the south accused travel there. It would also resume blast- cannot afford health care and nutritious elsewhere. the DPRK of having torpedoed the vessel. ing anti-DPRK propaganda from high- food; they are losing their pensions; and Millions of youth are stopped and An “international” investigation team decibel speakers near the demilitarized they are being foreclosed and evicted out frisked by the cops all over the country was set up. Basically, it was a team com- zone that divides Korea. of their homes, all while global warm- for no other reason than for being Black posed of the U.S., which occupies South The South Korean regime also turned ing and pollution, as the BP oil disaster or Latino/a in a poor neighborhood. In Korea with nearly 30,000 troops, and the down the request by the DPRK’s National reflects, run amok. New York City alone, 55 percent of the Lee regime. Britain and Australia, tight Defense Council to let a team of investiga- Young people in particular are losing 575,000 people stopped by the police U.S. allies, were added to give it a little tors from the north examine the so-called faith in capitalism as public high schools in 2009 were Black. An estimated 25 more cover. This group came up with the evidence that supposedly justifies this are being closed in alarming numbers, percent of the overall New York popula- foregone conclusion that yes, the ship dangerous escalation of tensions on the especially in large urban areas. College tion is Black. had been sunk by a submarine from the Korean peninsula. tuition is out of reach for the vast major- Aiyana Jones, a 7-year-old African- DPRK. Skeptical voices were raised in ity of poor and working-class youth. American girl, was fatally shot by Detroit South Korea, but they were quickly shout- legacy of Korea’s division And what are the alternatives for cops after they threw a grenade into her ed down by the media. The danger of military confrontation young people when education is not an home while she was sleeping with her China later expressed skepticism that a on the Korean peninsula has existed ever option? The economic military draft and grandmother. Two Black high school DPRK submarine had sunk the South Ko- since Korea was divided after World War jail. Studies show that a growing number students and sisters, DeAsia and Des- rean ship, but their skepticism got little II. The U.S. set up a puppet dictatorship of U.S. states are railroading more Black tiny Bronaugh, were protesting against publicity here. in the south that was fiercely hostile to and Latino/a youth to prison, especially school closings in Cleveland when they The DPRK denied any involvement and communist-led forces in the north that, for drug convictions, than are graduating were physically attacked recently by rac- counter-charged that the Lee regime was fighting alongside Soviet troops, had de- them from state universities. In reality, ist police and then arrested. trying to torpedo agreements made some feated Japan’s occupying force at the end a whole generation of young people is Ask any striking worker trying to years ago between the north and the south of the war. being criminalized. stop a scab from crossing the picket line that had improved relations between the Kim Il Sung, the leader of the liberation And since capitalism is a worldwide which side the police are on and they will two. It also announced that it would send army, was a revolutionary. He represent- system that is sustained by making prof- nine times out of 10 answer, not theirs. a team from its National Defense Coun- ed a social movement that encouraged its for a small clique of multimillionaires Police may have unions but workers cil to examine the “evidence” the south the people to overthrow the landlords, and billionaires, it needs a well-oiled they are not. Workers produce a product claimed to have. merchants and petty officials who had repressive apparatus to try to keep the or service that is useful and necessary As an important meeting between Chi- collaborated with Japan during its period workers and oppressed disunited and for the whole of society. The police serve na and the U.S. on security and economic of harsh colonial rule over Korea, which disempowered. This apparatus, also as an armed, repressive force above the issues drew near, the Western news me- lasted from 1910 to 1945. known as the state, includes the main- same laws that exist to keep the workers dia began focusing on how Secretary of It was different in the south, which stream media; all branches of govern- and oppressed down. State Hillary Clinton was rounding up was occupied by U.S. troops at the end of ment including local, state and federal; The same Pew poll showed that more support for U.N. sanctions on the DPRK, the war. There, the U.S. actually rearmed the prisons, jails and courts; the Penta- and more people are viewing socialism and would raise it vigorously in Beijing. Japanese troops under its command in gon and military; and much more. in a less negative way. This encouraging On May 24, the same day that the U.S.- order to keep the revolution from spread- The ruling class controls these repres- shift in thinking within the most power- China meeting was starting, U.N. Secre- ing. It set up a government headed by Ko- sive institutions with bourgeois laws ful imperialist country bodes well for for- tary General Ban Ki-moon, himself a for- reans willing to collaborate with foreign and funds them. It uses them as a buffer warding the class struggle. But thinking mer South Korean foreign minister, came exploiters — be they U.S. or Japanese between themselves — the rich — and must turn into action and organization in out in support of sanctions on the DPRK imperialists. The Syngman Rhee dicta- the masses. the radical process of replacing capital- and said the results of the “international” torship carried out massacres of those The most glaring repressive institu- ism and its rotten class of rich parasites, investigation were not in dispute. who sympathized with the revolutionary tion is the police. From the first day root and branch, with a socialist system The diplomatic maneuvers were ac- movement to liberate all of Korea. that children go to school in the U.S., it that will empower the workers and meet companied by military threats against the As the north developed toward a social- is engrained into their psyche that the all of the needs of the people. DPRK. The same day as Ban Ki-moon’s ist society, the south was brought into the police are there to “protect and serve” Only revolutionary workers’ power can statement, South Korea’s Minister of For- world capitalist economy as a U.S. vassal. the people. But in reality the police as realize a new society that will provide eign Affairs and Trade Yu Myung-hwan, Soviet troops left the north after three an armed body exist to serve and defend jobs, housing, health care and education Minister of National Defense Kim Tae- years, but the U.S. has never ended its oc- the private property and profits of the as rights and bring an end to police and young and Minister of Unification Hyun cupation of the south. capitalist ruling class. state terror once and for all. In-taek held a joint press conference in From 1950 to 1953, when the U.S.

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S. Korea, U.S. maneuvers Four months after Haiti earthquake threaten war on DPRK waged a full-scale war against socialist Anger, protests grow Korea, a million Chinese volunteers came to the aid of their neighbors. Having just won their own long struggle for libera- tion, they fought to prevent the return of along with misery the bad old days of foreign imperialist domination. By G. Dunkel

china and Korea May is the rainy season in Hai- Perhaps the U.S. foreign policy estab- ti and the hundreds of thousands lishment thought this history was forgot- of Haitians still living in tents or ten in China when it sent Hillary Clinton under tarps have to cope with and her entourage to try to intimidate or water and mud flooding their inveigle the Chinese leaders into going sleeping spaces. That many prac- along with the Washington-Seoul cam- tice what they call “domi pand- paign against the DPRK. But a report in eye,” or sleeping while balancing the May 25 New York Times indicates upright, shows how serious the otherwise. problem is. It says that after the U.S.-China talks Haiti survived the devastat- concluded, the U.S. had “made little ing Jan. 12 earthquake due to the progress on winning China’s backing for self-organization and sense of international measures against North community solidarity, which its Korea over the sinking of a South Korean people have in abundance. But warship” and that “there was no immedi- social tensions in Haiti are grow- ate prospect of a United Nations Security ing ever sharper, with the pos- Council resolution condemning the at- sible massive devastation a hur- tack.” China, as one of the five permanent ricane could cause hanging over members of the Security Council, would people like a sword of Damocles. Demonstrators protest against Haiti's President rené Préval and the united nations Stabilization have veto power over such a resolution. While popular anger has been Mission in Haiti (MInuSTAH), May 25. The report also admitted that the Chi- growing against the Préval gov- nese government had “expressed skepti- ernment, which has taken steps to uncon- cism” about the DPRK responsibility for stitutionally extend its mandate, the real about 460 refugee camps in Port-au- quake closed the schools. In early April, the sinking. financial and executive power in Haiti is Prince. Some NGOs, using Google map the government proclaimed that elemen- This was the first time that the U.S. me- held by the Interim Commission for the data, put the number at over 1,000. tary and secondary schools were going to dia had even allowed for the possibility Reconstruction of Haiti, whose French According to Michel Charbonneau, a be opened, even though refugees, people that the story might not be true. initials are CIRH. This commission is Quebec missionary who has lived in Haiti whose homes had been destroyed or This does not mean, however, that chaired by former President Bill Clinton, for 15 years, the commonly accepted es- damaged, were living in many of them or Washington and Seoul are ready to aban- who is the U.N.’s special envoy to Haiti, timate is that it would take 1,000 trucks in their playgrounds. don either their diplomatic or military ef- and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max working 24 hours a day seven days a week Some of the private schools, where tu- forts against the DPRK. Their joint exer- Bellerive. Through this commission and for two years to remove all the debris ition runs over twice the average yearly cises are scheduled to go on. its occupation troops, U.S. imperialism from Port-au-Prince. This work hasn’t yet income of poor people in Haiti, man- In response, the DPRK has announced calls the shots in Haiti. started. Charbonneau also estimated that aged to put some replacement facilities it is severing all ties with the south and is The CIRH seems to be spending most five of every six schools in the capital were together, but most of the public schools banning their ships and planes from the of its time on promoting tourism and con- closed. (Journal du Quebec, May 10) remained closed. north’s air and sea space. It also accused figuring housing so that assembly indus- Foreign governments that have the south of “provocative acts,” including tries can profit, rather than dealing with pledged at least $100 million to Haiti’s ‘We want to go back to school’ the intrusion of dozens of warships into the massive problems facing the Haitian $9.9 billion reconstruction fund have 13 High school students from both its territorial waters from May 14 to 24. people: housing, education, health care, votes on the commission, while Haitian open and closed schools came together Workers in the U.S. need to resist the public services like water, electricity and officials have seven. The World Bank will on April 26 and marched through the barrage of propaganda against the DPRK sanitation, and infrastructure like roads manage the money, while the CIRH will streets of Port-au-Prince, chanting, “We that is a prelude to aggressive acts against to bring food to the cities. approve policies, projects and budgeting. want schools, not money, not food, just that country. They should remember The CIRH will have the ultimate execu- schools.” Their placards read, “We want Massive repairs, cleanup needed how Washington orchestrated a similar tive authority in Haiti, a 21st century ver- to go back to school.” scenario in preparation for the invasion Conditions remain threatening. A few sion of a protectorate. When they reached the Ministry of of Iraq. Today those concocted stories of families have managed to repair their Washington sent in 22,000 troops to Education, a special unit of the Haitian “weapons of mass destruction” have no homes in the capital. The Haitian govern- “provide security” after the earthquake National Police called the CIMO attacked weight, but the war happened anyway, ment got 7,500 of the 45,000 people liv- without seeking permission from anyone. the demonstration with batons and tear with all its horrible consequences. It must ing on the Pétionville golf course to move Significant forces came also from France gas. When they started firing, the stu- not happen again. to a remote relocation center. and Canada. U.N. forces occupying Haiti dents ran away. Some were injured. (Ha- E-mail [email protected] The government claims that there are for the prior six years with 11,000 troops ïti-Liberté, April 28-May 4). had lost most of their command staff Lack of food also creates big problems when the earthquake collapsed their in the camps. Many people get money 0 0 0 building. from abroad, but the price of basic neces- With little shelter or food and few jobs sities is up by more than 15 percent since in Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands the earthquake. UNESCO and WFO do 'Solidarity from Panama' of people — there is no solid estimate of provide vouchers for basic foods but the the number — have left to go back to fam- system is very cumbersome and time- Editor’s note: University of Panama through a progressive medium and de- ily in the areas of the country untouched consuming, especially for women who professor and general secretary of the fender of the workers’ cause like Workers by the earthquake. In the southwest prov- have to fetch the food and cook without Popular Alternative Party, Olmedo World newspaper. ince of Grand’Anse, 200 miles and many having a kitchen. Beluche, received a letter from three Unfortunately, I have to let you know hours drive from Port-au-Prince, mayors Thousands of people demonstrated of his compatriots imprisoned in the that I could find no programs in the Pan- of small towns estimate that their popu- on both May 10 and May 17 demanding U.S. after they read an article by him amanian prison system similar to yours. lations have grown by at least 25 percent that Haitian President René Préval and in Workers World entitled, “The last In Panama, the condition for prisoners’ in the past few months. Schools are on his government resign because they have Yankee invasion: Dec. 20, 1989.” human rights is one of the worst in Latin double session. violated the constitution and are clearly Below is Beluche’s response to them. America. At the most, some Protestant The only doctor in an area where attempting to set up a dictatorship. The and Catholic churches do something. ... 70,000 people live has gone from seeing demonstrations in Port-au-Prince were Panama, May 18 I congratulate you and urge you to go 10 to 12 people a day to more than 100. by far the largest, but other big cities also Dear Compañeros: forward [in] our efforts to create a just Other than some aid from Cuba and Doc- held them. The emerging Coalition of I’d like to take the opportunity to pub- society, without oppression or social ex- tors of the World, this medical center has Popular Organizations — Tet Kole ògani- lish this message in the pages of Work- ploitation. ... I also congratulate Work- gotten no aid. Farmers are worrying that zasyon popilè in Haitian Creole — which ers World in order to send a greeting of ers World for the quality of its articles, they will have to feed their families the consists of community groups, workers friendship and acknowledge the arrival and its commitment to socialism and to seeds they had saved for planting their from the telephone company fired when of your ... letter, which I read with great reach the sectors most excluded from next crop. (La Croix, May 11). it was privatized, and local committees of emotion. I’m pleased that my article U.S. society. Even before the earthquake only about Fanmi Lavalas, called both demonstra- half the students in Port-au-Prince could has been useful for your positive train- Solidarity from Panama, tions. find a place in public schools. The earth- ing program and that it has reached you OlmedoBeluche Mndo obrero ¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los países, uníos! PUERTO RICO: Represión despierta solidaridad con estudiantes huelguistas

t hacer de Puerto Rico un estado más de Por Berta Joubert-Ceci NE los EEUU, tiene una fuerte afiliación al Partido Republicano de Estados Unidos.

La huelga de los/as estudiantes en la tiNAl iStA. Universidad de Puerto Rico, que cumplió Él ha impuesto la Ley Número 7, supu- estamente para solucionar la grave crisis cuatro semanas el 18 de mayo, se ha con- rrío S_lA vertido en la principal cuestión política y fiscal. Esta ley ordena nuevos impuestos de lucha de clases en la isla desde que la ill A_ BE y al final, despidos masivos. Luego, él im- Bo N gerencia de la UPR intensificó sus tácticas _ puso también la ley de Alianzas Público represivas. Varios sindicatos llamaron li A_A. Privadas, la cual concede el control de los recursos principales de Puerto Rico a ne- a un paro de 24 horas para el día 18 de NAtA __ mayo. Muchos sindicatos y otras orga- gocios privados en una ofensiva masiva nizaciones se están uniendo al llamado. Photo: de privatización, comprometiendo así los Desde el principio, los sindicatos — No se le permitió la entrada a nadie, ni antes, unidos y adelante”. intereses de los/as trabajadores/as. como el sindicato de profesores universi- siquiera a los padres, madres y simpati- La HEEND, el sindicato que representa No hay ninguna institución pública tarios, APPU — y organizaciones sociales zantes que llevaban comida, agua, me- a los/as trabajadores no docentes de la que no haya sido afectada. La atención de y políticas y la comunidad en general, que dicinas y otras necesidades a los/as estu- UPR, inició un paro laboral el 17 de mayo Fortuño está enfocada principalmente en considera a la UPR como un patrimonio diantes dentro del recinto que estaban en cerrando efectivamente al Recinto de esas instituciones que se han enfrentado nacional, han apoyado la huelga estudian- tiendas de campaña. La policía golpeó y se Ciencias Médicas (RCM) y las oficinas de resueltamente a administraciones ante- til. Ahora, poetas, cantantes y artistas se llevó al padre de un estudiante que estaba la Administración Central. La marcha de riores y que representan puntos de vista han unido al llamado. llevando alimentos a su hijo. la HEEND detuvo el tráfico en una de las independientes y nacionalistas. Ejemplos Padres y madres han sido los/as más El estudiantado de la UPR estaba pro- principales avenidas durante la hora punta incluyen el Colegio de Abogados, el Insti- fervientes partidarios de los/as estu- testando por los recortes draconianos de de la mañana. Dijeron que el paro continu- tuto de Cultura Puertorriqueña y la UPR. diantes, yendo al recinto universitario la universidad y las nuevas políticas que ará hasta que la administración universita- Estas tres han sido históricamente cen- ahora que la Junta de Síndicos de la UPR conducirían a la privatización de la princi- ria se reúna con los/as estudiantes. tros importantes que públicamente se han ha ordenado a la policía utilizar tácticas pal universidad pública de la isla. Ellos/as El RCM ha sido el único de los 11 recin- opuesto a la represión y al colonialismo. agresivas. Vienen a demostrar afecto y quieren la derogación de la C98, una orden tos de la UPR que ha permanecido abier- El conocido abogado puertorriqueño apoyo, arriesgándose a que les detengan, que elimina las exenciones de matrícula to. Los/as estudiantes allí realizaron una Salvador Tío dijo a WW/Mundo Obrero desafiando a la policía quien les acosa. Les para estudiantes de honor, atletas y otros/ huelga de solidaridad de 24 horas la se- que la clase adinerada y reaccionaria de lanzan bolsas con alimentos a sus hijos as estudiantes en situaciones especiales, lo mana pasada. A pesar de que apoyan los Puerto Rico ve a la UPR como un centro sobre las cabezas policiales. En los vídeos que perjudica a las personas más pobres objetivos de la huelga, los/as estudiantes de “comunistas y revoltosos”, un “lugar de se pueden ver a los padres y madres dici- de Puerto Rico. Exigieron la transparen- del RCM son responsables de mantener el subversión”, y que su brutal ataque para endo lo orgullosos/as que están de la ac- cia de las operaciones fiscales de la UPR Centro Médico abierto el cual es la insti- privatizar la universidad surge de esta ción de sus hijos/as. y que la junta suspenda el aumento de la tución médica pública más importante en ideología. La semana anterior parecía como si matrícula de los cursos de verano. la isla para los pobres, y por eso decidier- Muchos/as puertorriqueños/as dicen se hubiera llegado a un acuerdo tenta- El 19 de abril el comité estudiantil ne- on no adherirse a una huelga indefinida. que el gobierno tiene como objetivo la tivo. El 8 de mayo, el comité negociador gociador envió al Presidente de la UPR, Desde el exterior, el conocido escritor venta de unidades de la UPR al amigo de estudiantil del recinto de Río Piedras José de la Torre una carta con una lista uruguayo Eduardo Galeano envió un men- Fortuño José Méndez, dueño del Sistema se reunió con la Presidenta de la Junta detallada de las propuestas que podrían saje de solidaridad a los/as estudiantes y Universitario Ana G. Méndez que es una Ygri Rivera para discutir varios puntos evitar la crisis financiera. Después de que una carta al gobernador de Puerto Rico entidad privada y técnica. claves. Sin embargo, antes de que la tinta un paro de 48 horas fracasó en convencer Luis Fortuño. Los/as puertorriqueños/as Norberto Cintrón Fiallo, presidente se secara, la administración de la UPR, a la administración de que negocie, los/ desde todas las partes del mundo pueden de la Coordinadora Caribeña y Latino- citando su propia interpretación de un as estudiantes comenzaron la huelga in- enviar mensajes a una página de Face- americana, sindicalista y líder socialista, acuerdo vagamente escrito, dio la vuelta definida el 23 de abril. book que unos/as estudiantes crearon. dijo a WW/Mundo Obrero que la huelga y suspendió las conversaciones. Los/ Mensajes desde Cuba y de otros países de de la UPR es parte de la lucha de clases la agresión policial despierta as estudiantes habían estado a punto de América Latina han estado circulando por en Puerto Rico durante una época crucial más solidaridad convocar una reunión del cuerpo general el Internet. El Sindicato de Conductores de e histórica en la isla, cuando el gobierno estudiantil para ratificar el acuerdo. Desde el comienzo del aumento en la Autobuses Estudiantiles de Boston envió lealmente sigue las órdenes que impone Según su propia interpretación del acu- represión a partir del 14 de mayo, muchos por fax una carta a Fortuño para condenar Wall Street. erdo, la junta no hizo casi ningún cambio sindicatos y organizaciones están mante- la represión, pidiendo que las demandas Karlo García, coordinador del Capítulo sustancial en su propuesta original, que niendo una presencia de 24 horas frente de los/as estudiantes se escuche. de Río Piedras de la Federación Universi- había sido rechazada por los/as alumnos/ a varias entradas del recinto. La UTIER, taria Pro Independencia, hizo eco de estos las cuestiones políticas detrás de la huelga as, dando lugar a la huelga. el militante sindicato de los/as traba- sentimientos. García habló con WW/MO Ningún/a estudiante había cruzado las jadores/as de la electricidad, instaló una La crisis financiera y económica que es- el 17 de mayo desde el campamento en el líneas de piquete, pero aparentemente la carpa frente a uno de los portones prin- talló en los EEUU desató un tsunami en recinto de Río Piedras mientras limpiaba gerencia esperaba que la “mayoría silen- cipales y está coordinando las donaciones Puerto Rico, reafirmando el viejo refrán: y ordenaba el lugar. Con orgullo describió ciosa” de los/as estudiantes rechazara la de alimentos y suministros. “Cuando EEUU tiene catarro, Puerto Rico las tareas diarias que hacen los/as estu- huelga. El poeta y cantante español Joaquín sufre neumonía”. Como la economía de diantes mientras ocupan el recinto, man- Sin embargo, el 13 de mayo los/as es- Sabina hizo la huelga de los estudiantes Puerto Rico está estrechamente ligada a la teniéndolo libre de basura y en completo tudiantes votaron abrumadoramente para el punto central de su concierto el 15 de de EEUU, como colonia no tiene ningún orden porque “ésta es nuestra universi- continuar la huelga. Al día siguiente, la ge- mayo. Varios artistas puertorriqueños in- recurso independiente. dad y queremos mantenerla limpia”. rencia ordenó a la policía, los cadetes y los vitados al escenario por Sabina se unieron Hay una crisis financiera en la isla y “Estamos luchando para que la edu- escuadrones antidisturbios que reprimi- con el legendario Silverio Pérez, quien in- una crisis política en la administración cación pública no se venda. Esta lucha eran la resistencia de los/as estudiantes. vitó a todos/as los/as artistas a presen- actual. El 14 de mayo el Departamento del ha trascendido a un nivel político; ésta es La junta y el ex director del FBI en Puerto tarse la mañana siguiente frente a la UPR Trabajo reportó que la tasa de desempleo una cuestión de clase. Un sector de la bur- Rico, el superintendente de la Policía José para desafiar a la policía llevando alimen- oficial en Puerto Rico para el mes de abril guesía con su proyecto neoliberal quiere Figueroa Sancha, ordenó a estas fuerzas a tos para los/as estudiantes. era del 16,9 por ciento. Esto es consecuen- vender la universidad, pero la clase tra- que acordonaran el recinto. Ese día, famosos/as artistas de Puerto cia de los despidos masivos, incluyendo el bajadora se niega porque entiende que la Rico, atletas estudiantiles, sindicatos y despido que Fortuño ordenó de más de UPR es patrimonio de la clase trabajadora otras organizaciones políticas y la población 30.000 trabajadores/as en el sector pú- en Puerto Rico y no tolerará su venta ca- Correspondencia sobre artículos en general participaron en un piquete muy blico. El 15 de octubre del año pasado los prichosa a unos pocos”. animado con consignas y canciones grita- Bajo estas condiciones, la lucha de los/ en Workers World/Mundo Obrero sindicatos protestaron el anuncio de los das al ritmo de congas y amplificada por los despidos con una huelga nacional. as estudiantes de la UPR en todos los 11 pueden ser enviadas a: altavoces gigantes “tumbacocos”. Gritaban El Gobernador Fortuño, del Partido recintos se está regando como pólvora. 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