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November Elections Will Bring No Relief from Crisis - • AUSTRALIA $2.00 • BARBADOS $2.00 • BELGIUM BF60 • CANADA $2.00 • FRANCE FF10 • ICELAND Kr150 • NEW ZEALAND $2.50 • SWEDEN Kr10 • UK £1.00 • U.S. $1 .50 INSIDE Vote for the Socialist Workers candidates THE See list, - Page &-9 A SOC I A L IS T N E WSWEE K LY P U BLI S H E D IN T HE I N T E R EST S OF WO R KI N G PEOP L E VOL. 56/NO. 40 November 6. 1992 Miners and November elections will supporters protest pit bring no relief from crisis Vote for the socialist alternative in 1992 closures in BY DEREK BRACEY Many working people are looking to the U.S. elections in hope of some relief from I Britain the devastating effects of the social crisis created by the depression that we are in, said BY ROBERT HIGLEY James Warren, Socialist Workers candidate Tens of thousands of miners, their fami­ for U.S. president in an interview. "But that lies, and other trade unionists and supporters is because they haven't begun to see the arrived in London October 21 for a demon­ place of their own actions, the struggles of stration called by the National Union of workers that are our only way forward." Mineworkers (NUM) to protest the planned Looking at the three big-business candi­ closure of 31 pits, which would throw dates, George Bush, William Clinton, and 30,000 coal miners out of work. Ross Perot, working people do not see any March organizers said that the crowd saviors, the socialist candidate said. Many numbered 200,000. Trains were hired from are planning to vote for someone other than Sunderland in the northeast and from Barns­ Bush, however, most for Clinton in the ley and Doncaster in South Yorkshire. About hopes that change is better than no change. 800 miners and their supporters came from Perot, on the other hand, is getting most Grimethorpe, a mining village where the of his support from those in the middle class local colliery is threatened with closure. who are in a state of panic, said Warren. Kellingley, a pit not yet threatened with They are looking for a saviour, and they closure, sent seven coaches. really believe that Perot can be the one. Militant/Dave Wulp This protest also had the participation of "In my discussions with workers as I Militant/Salm Kolis miners from the Union of Democratic Min­ campaign," Warren said, "This question of James Warren, Socialist Workers presi­ Estelle DeBates, Socialist Workers vice­ ers (UDM). The UDM was set up with the Continued on Page 9 dential candidate presidential candidate support of the coal bosses to help break the 1984-85 miners' strike. Two hundred miners attended from Silverhill, a pit where Roy Lynk, a leader of the UDM, had staged an Cubans determined to resist as new underground sit-in. The previous week a demonstration of 5,000 people took place in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, organized by wives of miners in both the NUM and UDM. U.S. law tightens economic embargo Among the hundreds of union signs pres­ ent at the October 21 action were banners BY MARTIN KOPPEL George Bush signed the bill, known after its Union until this year. lt is currently suffer­ from British Aerospace workers, who are AND MARY-ALICE WATERS sponsor, Congressman Robert Torricelli, ing from a severe oil shortage. threatened with factory closings; car work­ HAVANA, Cuba- The new law aimed October 23. Castro added that Washington even tries ers at the Ford plant in London; and rail at tightening the U.S. trade embargo against "I know this law will affect me. I have a to disrupt "every effort by Cuba to form workers from across the country. At one Cuba has been met here with widespread young daughter, but I'm not going to let joint enterprises with capitalist companies,'' point during the day, some 50 nurses indignation among working people, as well myself be humiliated. We are all going to thus bringing much needed investments into marched through the subways around Hyde as determination not to submit to Washing­ resist it,'' said Xiomara Pozo, a shoe factory the country. Continued on Page 12 ton 's latest aggressive moves. President worker, when interviewed by the Cuban The Granma editorial noted that Bush daily Granma. signed the bill in Miami "surrounded by A weekend of political activities Dozens of demonstrations against the Torricelli bill, including one by thousands NOVEMBER 7 - 8 New York City of students at the University of Havana, • Bush signs bill-page 6 have taken place across the island in recent PUBLIC FORUM weeks, following the U.S. Congress's ap- • Cuba's foreign minister proval of the measure. speaks at UN-page 11 HOW THE 1992 ELECTIONS HID THE REAL The day after the law was signed, people POLITICAL ISSUES AND PREPARED in the streets of Havana were angrily dis­ • Editorial-page 14 cussing what a front-page Granma editorial DEEPENING AGGRESSION BY WASHINGTON on October 24 described as a "new Platt servile Cubans without a country, in the Amendment." Hear Jack Barnes, context of the U.S. election campaign." National Secretary, Socialist Workers Party This is a reference to the U.S.-irnposed 1901 amendment to the Cuban constitution 'This is not only a means to get votes, • Why the •cotturaJ war" and "pooiticaa character" are the real issues in the 1992 elections. that gave Washington the right to intervene however," the editorial stated, "but the con­ • Wtry the October 1987 stock market crash and the October 1962 Cuban !'missile crisis" . militarily in Cuba whenever it deemed nec­ summation of a new political barbarity. In­ are not historical anniVersaries but portents of the future course of world politk:s. essary. The Platt Amendment became a sym­ ternational public opinion has been totally • Wtry the White House and Congress will attempt to implement more of the social program I. ignored by the arrogant and brutal North." of Ross Perot than those of the two major partfes. bol of Cuba's sernicolonial status and dom­ ination by the United States, which ended The editorial pointed out that the fmal • Is the 75th anniversary of the October 1917 Rossian revolution a mirage? Did a revolution wording of the bill-particularly regarding oocur? Has it been defeated? with the victory of the 1959 revolution by Cuban workers and farmers. the sanctions against those trading with Cuba Saturday,. Nov. 7. Progra~ begins 6:30p.m. sharp. The new U.S. attack on Cuba, the edito­ - was watered down slightly, "not due to 31 W. 15th St. (between 5th and 6th avenues), Manhattan rial said, "increases our anti-imperialism, Yankee benevolence but because of the pro­ . forged by more than 100 years of struggle, tests and threats ofcountermeasures by other VOLUNTEERS NEEDED and strengthens the patriotic convictions of nations that are not willing to allow Washing­ I ton to interference in their internal affairs." to help collate and pack a shipment of thousands of volumes of Marx, Engels, and Lenin the revolutionary masses, who are the ma­ collected wol'f(s. These books were rescued from J:!Uiping by a Pathfinder team that traveled jority." Imperialist rivals of the United States to the former Soviet Union. Anybody wishing to help put shoUld come to the Pathfinder It cited a September 4 speech by Cuban such as Britain and Canada, which seek to Bookstore, 19f7th Ave., Manhattan. president Fidel Castro, who described the profit from trade with Cuba, have sharply Saturday, Nov. 7, starting 9:00a.m. lengths to which the U.S. government goes objected to the Torricelli bill. Government to strangle Cuba through the embargo. "It spokespeople have announced they will CELEBRATE does everything possible to prevent us from take measures to block its implementation the transforming of the Charles St. portion of the Pathfinder Building into a modem factory being able to purchase fuel on the interna­ in their respective countries. The bill has for the party.printshop. tional market, and makes an even greater also been widely condemned by govern­ CLASSES AND SOCIAL EVENT effort to ensure that we won't have money ments throughout Latin America, including Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, Call (212) 727-8421 for information and location of events. to buy and pay for the little fuel our country is receiving" with the hard currency from it~ and Venezuela. Sponsored by branches of the Socialist Workers Party 'in Ba~imore, Boston, Greensboro, Morgantown, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsb!Jrgh, and Washington, D. .C. export earnings, Castro explained. Cuba ob­ As a result, "the coercive measures tained the bulk of its oil from the Soviet Continued on Page 10 'lraqgate' revelations deepen White House crisis - page 4 INBRIEf _____________________________ Palestinian- hunger strikers fight Russians have been denied citizenship and for humanitarian conditions reduced to second-class status, even if they were born in the Baltic republics. More than 4,500 Palestinian prisoners, in eight detention centers run by the Israeli Prisoner can' t be forced into san­ Prison Authority, temporarily suspended a ity for death penalty two-week hunger strike in mid-October after the Israeli government agreed to review the The Louisiana Supreme Court decided prisoners • humanitarian requests. Thousands that an incompetent prisoner cannot be of Palestinians participated in street demon­ forced to take drugs that might make him strations in solidarity with the hunger strikers. sane enough to be executed. The ruling Almost every family in the West Bank and blocked the execution of Michael Perry, Gaza has someone inside an Israeli jail.
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