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New York Transit Workers Vote to Authorize Strike ICELAND KR200 · NEW ZEALAND $3.00 · SWEDEN KR15 · UK £1.00 · U.S. $1.50 I.ESSDNS FROM REVDUJTIDNARY HISTORY 'Marianas in Combat': women and the Cuban Revolution THE -PAGES6-7 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 66/NO. 48 DECEMBER 23, 2002 New York transit workers Washington releases vote to authorize strike plans for BY STU SINGER • • AND OLGA RODRIGUEZ NEW YORK-More than 10,000 work­ reservtsts tn ers on the New York City bus and subway system, members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU), met here in two separate shift waronlraq meetings and voted overwhelmingly to au- BY BRIAN WILLIAMS Putting in place the front-line and backup forces for an invasion of Iraq, Washington Support transit has released plans for an increased mobili­ zation ofNational Guard and Reserve troops. workers' fight Up to 10,000 such forces will be imme­ diately activated for "security duty" in the SEEPAGE 15 1'0!>('['"1"·. ~ United States and abroad. With an order to . L·\\1\IS invade, that number would increase to more thorize a strike after their contract expires than a quarter of a million troops stationed December 15. at airports, train stations, power plants, fac­ The December 7 meeting was marked by tories, and military bases. the determination of the transit workers to The number is in addition to the more than defend their working conditions, benefits, ealth Benef1t~ 2\P CLASS 50,000 reservists already mobilized through­ and wages in face of the offensive by the out the United States. The plans include wealthy rulers against the working people coastline patrols by Navy and Coast Guard Continued on Page 5 Participants in October------· 30 transit workers' rally state their demands in contract fight Reserve forces. Fighter jets will be scrambled over U.S. cities. In the big-business media Washington presents its assault plans as close to com­ plete. In a December 8 New York Times ar­ Staffs of 'Perspectiva Mundial' and the ticle, military officials said they will "soon have enough heavy tanks, warships, aircraft, bombs and troops" in the region "to begin 'Militant' fight INS effort to exclude editor an attack ... sometime in January." The report Roger Calero arrested at Houston airport on return from assignment abroad Continued on Page 2 BY MICHAEL ITALIE tiona! border, the INS is seeking to "ex­ Calero, 33, has lived in the United States On the evening of December 3, Roger clude" Calero-deny him entry into the since 1985, when his family moved here Venezuela: Calero, Militant staff writer and associate United States and deport him to Nicaragua. from Nicaragua and he was a high school­ editor of Perspectiva Mundial, a Spanish­ To do this, immigration officials aim to re­ age youth, and has been a permanent U.S. language news magazine published in New voke his permanent resident status. Continued on Page 9 mass protest York, was detained by immigration agents at Houston Intercontinental Airport on his return from a reporting assignment abroad. opposes After holding him for several hours at the Inside an INS jail in Houston airport, Immigration and Naturalization Ser­ vice (INS) officials told him they were de­ BY ROGER CALERO from El Salvador, who has been living in bosses' strike nying him entry to the United States and HOUSTON PROCESSING CENTER, this country since 1974, was arrested at the locked him up in an immigration prison. Texas-The impact of the U.S. govern­ airport five months ago as he was returning BY ARGIRIS MALAPANIS Calero, a 12-year permanent resident, now ment's increasingly brutal attacks on work­ from a visit to his family there. MIAMI-Some 400,000 peasants, work­ faces exclusion from this country by the ers' rights is felt here by more than 500 The INS detained Garcia when he got off ers, students and others converged in INS. workers of many different nationalities who a Continental Airlines flight from San Sal­ Caracas December 7 to protest a six-day­ Calero was on his way home from a re­ are locked up here at any given time. Most vador. They said the record of a misde­ old bosses' strike and other provocations porting assignment in Mexico, covering an here face the threat of exclusion or deporta­ meanor case going back to 1987 showed up aimed at overthrowing the government of tion with few if any rights to judicial review in the computer. Garcia had passed through President Hugo Chavez. Marching past or legal representation. this same airport a year ago with no prob­ Miraflores, the presidential palace, they de­ Among those detained at this jail is this lems. He has been a legal resident since the manded the government take firm measures Join the fight to reporter. I was arrested December 3 at Hous­ U.S. government granted him that status against the pro-imperialist opposition and ton Intercontinental Airport as I returned through the 1986 general amnesty. their coup plans. free Roger Calero! home from a reporting assignment abroad "We are paying a second time for some­ The same day thousands of protesters for the Spanish-language magazine thing we did in the past," said Garcia. "We marched in an affluent section of eastern SEEPAGE 15 Perspectiva Mundial and the labor and so­ obtained legal papers and now they put us Caracas in a quieter demonstration, demand­ cialist newsweekly the Militant. in jail." ing Chavez's resignation. Fedecamaras, the Every night we are joined by dozens of After his conviction on the misdemeanor Continued on Page 3 international student conference sponsored workers of all nationalities brought here by Continued on Page 5 by the Continental Organization of Latin the federal Border Patrol after they are ar­ American and Caribbean Students, and the rested attempting to cross the border. And largest annual Latin American bookfair, every night they pull many others out of the Also Inside: both held simultaneously in Guadalajara. prison dormitories to put them on a plane He had traveled to Mexico after reporting or a bus-handcuffed and shackled-to be Guantanamo prisoners on a conference in Havana, Cuba, on the sent to their countries of origin or, in the challenge detentions 3 Free Trade Area of the Americas, attended case of those born in Mexico, dumped on by trade unionists and other delegates from the other side of the border. Frame-up unravels in Latin America, the United States, and Located just a few minutes from Hous­ New York 'jogger' rape case I 0 Canada. ton Intercontinental Airport, the "Houston After learning of his arrest, Calero's col­ Processing Center"-the official name of Rising percentage of workers leagues at Penpectiva Mundial and other the jail used by the Immigration and Natu­ in U.S. lack health coverage I 0 supporters of his rights announced the ralization Service (INS)-is also where the launching of a public campaign to demand immigration cops bring legal residents ar­ South African mining that the INS release the journalist and drop rested at the airport on their arrival from bosses resist increased its exclusion proceedings against him. abroad when they decide to arrest them on black ownership I I "We are fighting this government denial the basis of a previous conviction on their of my right to work as a journalist in this records. country," Calero said in a phone interview In the first few days since I've been in­ Algerian refugees in Montreal from the Houston Processing Center, as the carcerated here, I've had the opportunity to force government INS prison is called. meet several fellow workers and hear their Roger Calero, associate to hold off deportations 13 Treating the airport point of entry and the stories. Many are similar to my own. Perspectiva Mundial and staff writer for immigration prison as part of the interna- Manuel Garcia, 63, a carpenter originally the Militant. Washington calls up Large demonstrations in Iran reservists to prepare support Palestinian struggle for war on Iraq Continued from front page Washington's invasion plan also includes described a "constant hum of military prepa­ placing tens of thousands of infantry and rations" throughout the Gulf. Special Forces troops in Turkey, ready to The preparations include ongoing exer­ drive into Iraq over its northern border, tar­ cises in Kuwait that simulate an invasion; a geting oil fields located in the regions in Qatar-based "command and control" exer­ which the Kurdish people and their politi­ cise involving 1,000 "planners" flown in cal organizations predominate. from the Central Command headquarters in The Bush administration has also asked Florida; the daily delivery of armaments, the Turkish government to prepare to dis­ along with the equipment needed to unload patch a large force of its own into northern them, from tugboats to forklifts; and the Iraq. "If we're going to have significant drawing up of blueprints for strikes by spe­ ground forces in the north, this is the coun­ cial operations forces. try they have to come through. There is no The military mobilizations on home soil other option," said Wolfowitz. and in the Arab-Persian Gulf region have To date the Turkish government-which proceeded alongside the intrusive "inspec­ has already faced one 10,000-strong dem­ tions" carried out by United Nations teams onstration in Istanbul against its backing for on Iraqi government facilities and industrial the U.S. plans-has balked at these de­ Hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Tehran and other Iranian cities Novem­ and scientific sites. mands. "It may be difficult to see tens of ber 29 to support Palestinian self-determination and condemn the Israeli and U.S.
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