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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 59, No. 13 March 30, 2017 $1 Unite on May Day Stop war on migrants

By Teresa Gutierrez

This article was edited from a talk given at the March 18 special forum of Workers World Party in New York City in honor of International Working Women’s Month. I have had a Google alert for immigration news for years. I have never been so heartbroken and over- whelmed from the news as I am now. Somewhere in every neighborhood and barrio, a mi- grant is living in fear. Pregnant women are preparing to have their babies at home so they won’t go to the hos- pital. Parents are not sending their children to school. Children do not want to go to school. Services that cater to immigrants are seeing a sharp decline. Migrants are missing doctor appointments. Demonstrators chained Lawyers are receiving more requests to have appoint- ments by phone. themselves together Jan. 26 You can go to court on a traffic violation or to the De- and blocked traffic in front of partment of Homeland Security for your regular check- the Immigration and Customs in and get detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Enforcement (ICE) headquarters You can speak at a press conference and get picked up in San Francisco. by “la migra” (Latinx slang for ICE), which happened to PHOTO: REYNA MALDONADO a Dreamer recently. The nation saw the video made by the 13-year-old daughter of Rómulo Avelica-González of ICE agents Midwest socialist conference rocks picking him up as he dropped her off at school in Los WW PHOTO Angeles. All that time, she was sobbing. The Midwest Conference for Liberation and As teachers console their students, they also have to Socialism, hosted by Workers World Party and ask, “Have you talked to your parents? Do you have pow- the Wayne State University chapter of Students er of attorney?” for a Democratic Society, took place March 24-26 Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly had to admit in Detroit. that Trump’s policies were creating such a fearful cli- The gathering drew mostly militant young mate that more Muslims were seeking refuge in Canada revolutionaries from many states who want to than ever. Video shows migrants trekking to wooded ar- not only overturn Trump, but the entire capitalist eas to cross into Canada “illegally,” grabbing their pass- system he represents. Look for more coverage in ports from the hands of ICE agents as they victoriously future issues of Workers World. jump into Canada. This morning there was a notice that DHS is auditing a bakery with many Brandworkers, giving them eight days to come up with proof of status or be fired. [Brand- Outage outrage in Detroit 2 workers are members of an organization of retail and food workers “dedicated to protecting and advancing their rights.”] Fascists f*cked in Philly 3 Factory or home raids are a possibility, with criminal charges of “identity theft.” No place is safe. Millions are living right now in abject fear, with the Anti-healthcare bill: DOA 4 anxiety of not knowing what will happen to them. I will not say they are cowering, because this is a brave and heroic community just by the nature of their getting to Sister Warriors of Revolution 6 this country. Things have horribly changed since Jan. 20. Not just Continued on page 10 Ramona Africa speaks on Mumia 7

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Detroit’s lights out: Who’s to blame  In the U.S. By Kris Balderas-Hamel Unite on May Day: Stop war on migrants ...... 1 Roseville, Mich. Detroit’s lights out: Who’s to blame ...... 2 Philly self-defense routs fascist rally ...... 3 March 14 — I’m waiting and hoping that today is the day power is restored to our neighborhood and we can Santander Bank owes reparations to Puerto Rican people 3 leave this awful motel. It’s been seven days and six nights. Mass protest kills the anti-health-care bill ...... 4 In the meantime, I’m trying to put it all into perspective. Ida Gibbs Hunt and the Pan-African Movement . . . . . 5 I’m very grateful a work check came through right be- Commentary African-American women pilots making history . . . . . 5 fore the outage. I’m grateful we were able to evacuate to Cuban women meet in NYC ...... 5 a motel. I’m grateful my bird is OK, and that my spouse like Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. They have ‘Love was in the air’ tribute to warrior sisters ...... 6 and I have retained some semblance of sanity during this lost everything. trying time, although there have been a lot of tears, too, I am wealthy as sh-t compared to them, and my in- Mona, Pam & Monica: Harriet’s granddaughters . . . . . 6 mostly on my part. come is pretty low. Ramona Africa speaks on Mumia Abu-Jamal ...... 7 I’m grateful the home we love hasn’t been broken into The day of the massive windstorm, Wednesday, HB2 one year later: The struggle grows and continues . . 7 and we can eventually go home. I’m grateful that we have March 8, was International Working Women’s Day and David Rockefeller: The working-class truth ...... 8 vehicles, not just one, but two. my spouse’s birthday. The explosions I heard when the Cuba Solidarity conference pushes actions ...... 9 I think of the Detroiters, the majority Black, many power went out were the transformers, DTE workers told Rasmea Odeh forced to accept plea agreement . . . . .11 very poor and oppressed, who could not escape. I think us. The company says it was the high winds of up to 75 of those people with babies and young children, and the miles per hour that caused the outage to over 800,000  Around the world elderly, and I wonder if there is a death toll because of this customers in southeastern Michigan, affecting millions U.S. war crimes escalate in Syria, Iraq ...... 9 power outage. I know that in the communities people are of people. Cops deny assassination attempt on Aristide ...... 11 looking out for each other, helping each other, doing what Freezing temperatures added to the crisis people faced. human beings naturally do when there is a catastrophe of  Editorial DTE and media are to blame any kind. Why is Colin Kaepernick unemployed? ...... 10 I think of how my mental health has been stretched But the outage wasn’t just caused by the wind. The to the limit and all the discomfort and misery of being outage was caused by the utility’s refusal to upgrade and  Noticias en Español confined to a small room. The smallest thing can be an modernize its equipment, by its refusal to have under- Trump ataca en casa y en el exterior ...... 12 occasion to burst into tears and fantasize about militant ground wiring — even though the customers, of course, actions at DTE Energy Co. headquarters and doing what would be the ones paying for it — and by its refusal to has to be done. Thankfully those episodes don’t last for reverse layoffs and hire more workers. If ever there was a long — except for the militant actions part. need for work and workers, here it is! I think of the 245 million people around the world who But we don’t live in a planned society that even consid- are migrants, who are displaced from their homes or are ers such possibilities. The owners of these companies see refugees. Many have nothing but the clothes on their no profits in upgrading power lines and equipment. They back. They are far from home, having fled U.S.-backed think: Why invest profits [money they stole from work- or U.S.-funded weapons of mass destruction and the rav- ers] in upgrades when we may have to wait years for a aged conditions these caused. payoff? And what they really want is a high value on this I think about those who have died on the high seas or year’s bottom line. survived to enter a hostile country, a racist place with no After six full days, DTE Energy claims it has restored Workers World welcome. They have come from places where electric- power to all but a few thousand people (most of them in 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. ity and the entire infrastructures have been destroyed Detroit). Workers and those who came from other states New York, NY 10011 thanks to U.S. imperialism and its NATO partners. Places Continued on page 4 Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 59, No. 13 • March 30, 2017 Closing date: March 28 2017 Editor: Deirdre Griswold Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, Kris Balderas-Hamel, Monica Moorehead, Minnie Bruce Who we are & what we’re fighting for Pratt; Web Editor Gary Wilson Hate capitalism? Workers World Party fights for a ­degrading people because of their nationality, sexual or Production & Design Editors: Coordinator Lal Roohk; ­socialist society — where the wealth is socially owned gender identity or disabilities — all are tools the ruling Andy Katz, Cheryl LaBash class uses to keep us apart. They ruthlessly super-ex- and production is planned to satisfy human need. This Copyediting and Proofreading: Sue Davis, outmoded capitalist system is dragging down workers’ ploit some in order to better exploit us all. WWP builds Bob McCubbin living standards while throwing millions out of their unity among all workers while supporting the right jobs. If you’re young, you know they’re stealing your of self-determination. Fighting oppression is a work- Contributing Editors: Abayomi Azikiwe, Greg Butterfield, G. Dunkel, K. Durkin, future. And capitalism is threatening the entire planet ing-class issue, which is confirmed by the many labor Fred Goldstein, Martha Grevatt, Teresa Gutierrez, struggles led today by people of color, immigrants and with its unplanned, profit-driven stranglehold over the Berta Joubert-Ceci, Terri Kay, Cheryl LaBash, means of production. women. Milt Neidenberg, John Parker, Bryan G. 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By Alaina Pell MAGA rally. Organizers of the #Disrupt- Black bloc activists, occupying areas in activists. In response, the bloc split and Philadelphia MAGA action had called for people to preparation to block the march, took to dispersed. bring “noisemakers, instruments, mega- the streets to celebrate. They marched the Back at City Hall, the heavily deplet- What a few devout Trumpers hoped phones” and other tools to drown out the MAGA-planned route up Market Street, ed MAGA force was escorted by police, would be a strong Philadelphia debut of racist rally — a goal which protesters suc- chanting, “Whose march, our march! seen chatting with the Trump racists. But public support for their president back- ceeded in meeting. Whose city, our city!”; “F*ck Trump, F*ck the MAGA marchers continued to be ha- fired when multiple forces, notably a In addition to noise disruption, a prima- Pence, organize for self-defense!”; and rassed by an equal force of counterpro- large “black bloc” waving Antifa (Anti- ry Antifa goal was to impede and entirely “When Philadelphia is under attack, what testers intent on “making fascists feel un- fascist) and communist flags, mobilized block the Trumpers’ intended march, from do we do? Stand up, fight back!” They welcome in Philadelphia.” In the end, the to confront a racist “Make America Great Independence Hall to the Philadelphia Art were met with cheers and raised power MAGA march was ordered to disperse Again” rally on March 25. Museum and back, where the racists in- fists from people all along the route. two hours earlier than scheduled. The MAGA march, announced months tended to spread fear and normalize a fas- As the anti-Trump march rounded While the ultimate goal of the #Dis- ago, was organized by Trump supporters cist presence. #DisruptMAGA stated: “Let City Hall and headed up Franklin Park- ruptMAGA action was to prevent the from counties outside Philadelphia and our rage send a message to all those who way, organizers heard that some neo-Na- MAGA march from occurring, the action area police. Members of the neo-Nazi think the election of Trump means that we zis had not disbursed and had started reached a level of success higher than group American Vanguard were expect- will lie down and die, and to all those un- marching toward the Art Museum. Yet many had dared hope. ed. A crowd of around 400 people was sure how to best stand against Trump and again Antifa prepared to block them. In addition to confining the march to predicted, but turnout of MAGA support- his minions.” When police tried to kettle the Antifa less than half its original strength and ers was 150 at its height. The anti-Trump demonstrators main- marchers, the bloc was joined by rough- route, public support for militant oppo- The fascist rally was met with opposi- tained a constant stream of anti-fascist ly 300 youth on bikes who were turn- sition to a fascist presence was unprece- tion from the moment it began, with more chants and noise, as they lined the side- ing onto the parkway. The young riders dented in Philadelphia. counterprotesters than MAGA attendees. walks with signs held high. As the black cheered the marchers as they crossed When shown the choice between the A strong crowd, including people bloc surrounded the pro-Trump rally, through police lines with fists raised, right and the left, the masses overwhelm- from LGBTQ+ communities, pro-immi- other demonstrators, some of whom shouting “F*ck the police!” As a result ingly supported the left — from centrists grant activists and women wearing pink had harassed masked neo-fascists in the the bloc was able to safely reach Families to the people who encountered the march “pussy” hats, surpassed the Trumper past, enthusiastically cheered the bloc, against Fascism, a support event they along the route, from the Philly kids on numbers. When the MAGA rally began, with some joining it. had initiated on the parkway. bikes to families gathered to protest with the large black bloc surrounded the rally When the MAGA rally tried to march, Near the Art Museum, anti-fascist pro- their children. site, intent on disrupting the MAGA rally half of the group backed out due to the testers observed police buses, military Should the Trumpers and their and preventing the spread of its message. militant Antifa presence. Police told police and vans marked “Marine Unit” neo-Nazi allies return to Philadelphia in Anti-Trump forces grew to around those remaining, including American filling the area. They were warned that the coming months, they are sure to be 200 protesters with flags, road flares Vanguard members in skull masks, that police, who had halted the 50 remaining met by an even larger force. They now and smoke bombs. They took the streets their march permit was revoked and the pro-Trump marchers at City Hall, were know the people of Philadelphia will nev- around Independence Hall, circling the event was cancelled. possibly about to mass-arrest the bloc er welcome their presence.

Santander Bank owes reparations

WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE to Puerto Rican people Philadelphia: March 16 protest against Santander Bank’s By Berta Joubert-Ceci lack of employment. The island Puerto role in Puerto Rico’s Rican population is decreasing while U.S. extreme fiscal crisis. Santander Bank of Spain is deeply billionaires move there to take advantage implicated in the current Puerto Rican of tax-exempt laws. Puerto Rico is be- economic crisis. On March 16, several coming a paradise for the U.S. rich, and activists from the Philadelphia-Camden the native population will become their Boricua Committee picketed the bank’s servants. (U.S. Census Bureau 2009-10, Erie Street branch in Philadelphia to Department of Agriculture) hold Santander accountable. Protesters To “fix” the lack of payment [of debt] by handed out fliers with the following key the Puerto Rican government, the U.S. points on “Why Santander Bank owes Congress enacted the PROMESA law to reparations to the Puerto Rican people?” impose a fiscal control board to act as a (Some points below from the activists’ collection agency to pay bondholders. information sheet were lightly edited.) This board met March 13 to discus a fis- Why can’t Puerto Rico fix the cal plan for Puerto Rico. The resulting problem? As a “territory” of the U.S., austerity plan will be the destruction of Puerto Rico is actually a colony with abso- Puerto Rico and its people. Among the lutely no sovereignty in any aspect — polit- measures are a 20 percent reduction in ical, social, economic or trade. Therefore, workdays, a 10 percent reduction in pen- it cannot restructure its debt! Everything sions, cuts to the public University of the Puerto Rican government dictates can Puerto Rico’s budget, cuts to health care, nyurl.com/lx7kq9s) people who defended independence for be dismissed by the U.S. Congress. school closings, etc. Puerto Rico’s economy has been devel- Puerto Rico and [tried to] make people Current situation in Puerto Rico: Complicity of banks like Santand- oped to satisfy U.S. corporations’ inter- believe that Puerto Rico can survive only Puerto Rico is immersed in the worst er: Two of the fiscal control board ests. The only status that can help Puerto with the “protection” of the U.S. But facts economic and social crisis in its history. members were not only executives of Rico become sovereign and build its fu- are there to see: After a century of U.S. There is a “public” debt of over $73 billion Santander Bank, but also presidents of ture on behalf of its people is as an in- intervention and occupation, Puerto Rico that the government cannot pay because the Development Bank of Puerto Rico, dependent republic. That is why the U.S. is worse off than ever and its people are of a stagnant economy. Most of this ille- the entity that manages the government’s has always persecuted and repressed the in deep poverty! gitimate debt has been caused by munic- budget and bonds. These men, Carlos M. ipal bonds that ambitious bondholders, Garcia and José Ramón González, “built MARXISM, REPARATIONS & the Black Freedom Struggle like hedge fund firms from Wall Street, Santander Securities, the bank’s munic- An anthology of writings from Workers World newspaper. Edited by Monica Moorehead. bought because the resulting huge prof- ipal bond business, which established Racism, National Oppression & Self-Determination Larry Holmes its (sometimes more than 700 percent of itself as a leading bond underwriter co- Black Labor from Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery Sam Marcy original value) were triple tax-exempt. inciding with the growth in Puerto Ri- Black Youth: Repression & Resistance LeiLani Dowell Now these wealthy vultures want to get can public debt. This business brought The Struggle for Socialism Is Key Monica Moorehead their promised profits by squeezing the in substantial fee income for the bank. Domestic Workers United Demand Passage of a Bill of Rights working people of Puerto Rico, where ... GDB [the Government Development Imani Henry poverty and hunger have increased be- Bank of Puerto Rico] became increasing- Black & Brown Unity: A Pillar of Struggle for Human Rights cause of the debt crisis. ly reliant on questionable financial engi- & Global Justice! Saladin Muhammad On the island, 58 percent of children neering techniques. … Santander helped Harriet Tubman, Woman Warrior Mumia Abu-Jamal below the age of 18 live in poverty, and the Commonwealth [of Puerto Rico, i.e., Racism & Poverty in the Delta Larry Hales one out of every four people suffers from the government] issue risky debt deals Haiti Needs Reparations, Not Sanctions Pat Chin BARRON SAHU GRAPHIC: hunger or food insecurity. An average of that relied on controversial features. Alabama’s Black Belt: Legacy of Slavery, Sharecropping & Segregation Consuela Lee 3,000 people — mostly youth — migrate These generated more fee income for Are Conditions Ripe Again Today? Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion John Parker every month to the U.S. because of the Santander’s underwriting business.” (ti- Available at Amazon and other bookstores. Page 4 March 30, 2017 workers.org Mass protest kills the anti-health-care bill

By Kathy Durkin Washington, D.C., and from federal subsidies for low-in- We did it. Resistance works. People come workers to purchase across the country fought back against a insurance. Officials in 19 draconian health care bill and stopped Republican-led states still its passage. Through town hall meetings, refuse to expand Medicaid. creative street protests, social media, bill- The ACA also mandated board ads, petitions, phone, email and that private insurers cover letter writing campaigns, and more, peo- essential health benefits. ple rebuffed the right wing’s attempt to Every plan must include undercut medical insurance for millions. certain services, including There was a countrywide rebellion maternity and newborn against the “take from the poor and give care, emergency services, to the rich” Trump/Ryan/Price “health substance abuse treatment care” bill. and mammograms. A mood of fightback swept the country. Enter House ­Speaker Paul In front of the White House, 24 people Ryan in 2017. He, Trump were arrested doing civil disobedience and Tom Price, secretary on March 23, representing the 24 million of Health and Human Ser- who would lose insurance under the ad- vices, hurried to get the ter- ministration’s bill. Marches and rallies rible American Health Care took place in Washington that day as part Act passed, before its costs of a national day of action by grassroots and ­effects were analyzed organizations and several labor unions. by the Congressional Bud- Community and immigrant rights get Office. But they weren’t PHOTO: BLUE TEXAS groups sent people from several states. fast enough. Students, health care workers and people The CBO said the law would offer bil- This bill was so unpopular that a The outcome is a victory for women, with disabilities demonstrated. Protests lions of dollars in tax cuts to health insur- March 23 Quinnipiac University poll said workers, seniors, low-income and Black, went on in 40 other cities, many outside ers, pharmaceutical companies, investors it had only a 17 percent approval rating, Brown and all oppressed communities. offices of right-wing House members. and others, reaching nearly $1 trillion in and that one in seven U.S. residents said People around the country said a re- Two days earlier, 300 people held a die- 10 years. The bill would have eliminated it would cause them to lose coverage. sounding “No!” to defunding Planned in outside multimillionaire Rep. Darrell taxes that pay for subsidies for low-in- Parenthood, to tax cuts for billionaires Issa’s office in Vista, Calif. come workers. (aarp.org, March 10) ‘Kill the bill’ while 24 million would lose health insur- The AARP (formerly known as the The Trump/Ryan/Price proposal was Speaker Ryan pulled the bill on March ance, and to rolling back hard-won gains. American Association of Retired Per- really an anti-health-care bill. With it, 24, just before the House of Represen- The Affordable Care Act is still a capi- sons) also had actions in Washing- the CBO said, 14 million people would tatives was to vote, as there were not talist program whereby millions of people ton. National Nurses United organized lose insurance in the first year, and a to- sufficient votes for passage. Trump had are required to purchase health insurance against the proposed bill. Women’s ad- tal of 24 million would lose coverage by wanted the vote that day. Trying to win, on the market, although many low-in- vocacy and pro-choice organizations, 2026. Medicaid would lose $880 billion the White House even promised the ul- come workers receive federal subsidies to such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL over 10 years. traright House “Freedom Caucus” (for- do so. However, 9.1 percent of the popu- Pro-Choice America and UltraViolet all- The AHCA was a declaration of war on merly the Tea Party) to scrap the ACA’s lation still does not have insurance. (NY out mobilized. Consumers, including workers, low-income and oppressed peo- essential health benefits mandate, in- Times, Sept. 15) Some insurers charge seniors, community and civil liberties ple, women and seniors. cluding coverage for maternity care and premiums and deductibles that are too organizations, physicians, hospitals and Seniors would have been penalized mammograms. A room full of male of- high for many consumers. Moreover, fed- many more forces took action. since the AHCA would allow insurance ficials was ready to sacrifice women’s eral subsidies are jeopardized by a pend- companies to charge them up to five health care! Even then, the ultraconser- ing lawsuit brought by reactionaries. Bonanza for the rich, times as much for premiums as younger vatives were not appeased. disaster for millions people. AARP said a 64-year-old earning The Freedom Caucus opposed the bill ‘Medicare for all’ The right wing has sought to overturn $15,000 a year might pay annual pre- because it didn’t go far enough to destroy The slogan “Medicare for all” is being the Affordable Care Act since the day it miums of $8,400. The bill would have every aspect of the ACA. Many Republi- raised again by the progressuve move- was signed on March 23, 2010. Politicians weakened Medicare and shifted costs of can House members and all Democrats ment pushing for a single-payer health and right-wing media have slammed Medicaid to the states, thus endangering wouldn’t vote for it because they saw insurance program. This would be much “Obamacare” every day since then. Pres- every recipient. (NY Times, March 10) the mass mobilizing and felt the pres- easier and actually less costly to admin- ident Donald Trump declared war on the This anti-woman bill would have de- sure from protesters demanding, “Kill ister and could potentially cover every- law and swore throughout his election funded Planned Parenthood, which re- the bill!” Some politicians anticipated one in the U.S. The program would need campaign to “repeal and replace” it. ceives $500 million a year in federal long-lasting consequences if they voted some tweaks and additions, but it would Due to the ACA, over 20 million people funds to provide essential preventive, for it; their constituents would never for- be an improvement over the system of now have health insurance, many from screening and contraceptive services to get. Those whose states had expanded exorbitant for-profit health care and Medicaid expansion in 31 states and millions of women. Medicaid were hard-pressed to vote for it. pharmaceuticals. This is worth fighting for and is possible under capitalism. The fight for health care shows that the capitalist system needs to be re- placed. Health care is a human right! It should be provided for everyone, not Detroit’s lights out: Who’s to blame based on ability to pay and maximiz- ing profits. Socialist Cuba ensures that medical care, including medications, is Continued from page 2 ter pipes froze and burst, who had to pay some poor people to contribute so that accessible to all of its people. No one is have done a great job under difficult con- for housing and other food will receive a other poor people can receive those con- denied for lack of funds. ditions. Line workers, however, told us maximum of $25 for their inconvenience. tributions from DTE and then give them The fight is not over, but people are there are no plans to fix the outage on our That’s only if their power was out a full back to DTE. This disgusting display of emboldened by this win. Neil Gorsuch, a street. The lines are fixed, but the trans- five days. Everyone else can fend without corporate welfare is broadcast annually big business ally, is Trump’s nominee for formers still don’t work. that $25. on radio. Supreme Court justice. HHS head Tom The corporate-owned media have re- DTE Energy is known to be a racist This is Detroit, an oppressed city in the Price, who has jurisdiction over Medi- gurgitated DTE’s press releases, lying to company. Many workers have sued their richest country, destroyed by racism and care and Medicaid, has had a career of the people about when their power will employer because of the hostile work en- avarice — of the banks, of the corpora- cutting both programs. He detests the be restored. Not one reporter we contact- vironment, where they had to put up with tions, of a capitalist system that does not ACA and vehemently opposes many in- ed has had the guts to challenge this utili- heinous, racist acts or symbols, as well as give a damn who lives or dies. In fact, this surance benefits, including access to free ty giant, although one courageous worker acts of sexism and age discrimination. rapacious system would like to extermi- contraceptives for women through Med- at a TV station gave us an inside number The company is also anti-poor to the nate the entire working class, especially icaid and all private plans. Both Gorsuch to humans at DTE. core, though every year the bosses claim Black people, who are the fiercest fight- and Price must be opposed. to care about poor people who cannot pay ers because they have faced the fiercest This administration is out to roll back Racism and rip-offs their utility bills. But people can’t make oppression in a society built on genocide our rights. Tax reform and Trump’s The DTE corporate behemoth, which a choice to keep one utility, because DTE and slavery. pro-business, inhumane budget are on provides both electrical and natural gas has combined gas and electricity ser- DTE Energy must be forced to pay rep- the horizon. Everyone must remain vig- power, had gross earnings of $1.93 billion vices. arations to all the people who were most ilant and ready to protest any attacks on in 2016; its net income was $866 million. Each winter DTE runs a charity fund- affected by the company’s latest outage. essential government programs. The rul- However, customers who lost refriger- raiser for itself called THAW — The Heat Balderas-Hamel was able to return ing class’s every blow must be opposed by ators and freezers full of food, whose wa- And Warmth fund. The bosses want home the night of March 14. a united fightback. workers.org March 30, 2017 Page 5

Ida Gibbs Hunt and the Pan-African Movement

By Abayomi Azikiwe Women’s International League for Peace movement, seeing a direct link between Editor, Pan-African News Wire and Freedom and the Red Cross.” ending imperialist war and the national This biography continues: “[Hunt] liberation of colonial territories and Afri- The Pan-African Congress in Paris in wrote and gave speeches in support of can Americans. Funding for the Pan-Af- 1919 saw participation by African-Amer- peace, women’s suffrage and civil rights rican movement was then largely carried ican women, including Addie Waites for African Americans. ... [She] was out by the International Women’s Circle Hunton and Ida Gibbs Hunt, who delivered the assistant secretary for the Second for Peace and Foreign Relations, which a paper there. (See workers.org, March 25, Pan-African Congress in Paris in 1919. Hunton was involved in. for article on Addie Waites Hunton.) She delivered a paper entitled ‘The “Co- Du Bois acknowledged in 1955 in In the U.S., it was also the activities of Ida Gibbs was born on Nov. 16, 1862, in loured” Races and the League of Na- “Pan-Africanism: A Mission in My Life,” such women as Mamie Till Mobley, Rosa Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She tions’ at the Third Pan-African Congress that “American Negro women revived the Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, Ella Baker, Di- later attended and completed her college in London in 1923 and co-chaired the Congress idea and a fourth Pan-African ane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima education in 1884, earning a bachelor’s Conference’s Executive Committee with Congress was held in New York [in 1927].” Clark, Gloria Richardson and many others and a master’s degree from Oberlin Col- W.E.B. Du Bois.” Thirteen countries were represented, in- who provided the social impetus for the lege in Ohio. She became an instructor at Hunt promoted her ideas internation- cluding from Africa the Gold Coast, Si- re-emergence of the Civil Rights and Black the M Street High School (now called the ally, and published many articles and erra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. Mass Power struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Dunbar High School) in Washington, D.C., reviews on cultural issues. She remained participation at several venues was esti- Since the 1960s and 1970s, conscious- and then retired after marrying career active in social justice organizations in mated at 5,000 people. ness about the essential role of women in diplomat William Henry Hunt in 1904. the U.S. Ida Gibbs Hunt died in Washing- popular movements and intellectual cul- Although she traveled with her spouse ton, D.C., on Dec. 19, 1957. Women at forefront of struggles ture has grown immensely. on his diplomatic assignments, Gibbs The year 1919, when the second in Africa, U.S. This review of women’s philosophical Hunt continued her activism in the ar- Pan-African Congress was held, was a Women played an instrumental role in and political contributions to the organi- eas of civil rights, women’s affairs and tumultuous year for race relations in the the formation of the Pan-African move- zational origins of Pan-Africanism from Pan-Africanism. The Black Past website U.S. Race riots occurred; the largest and ment from the late 19th century through the 1890s through the 1920s provides a notes: “In 1905, she joined a handful of most deadly took place in Chicago. Afri- the national liberation struggles of the glimpse of their significance. Much more black women in founding the first Young can-American troops who had served in middle-to-late-20th century. In Ghana, work is needed by scholars, journalists Women’s Christian Association for Afri- France were not about to suffer the same South Africa, Egypt, Guinea, Algeria, and activists to uncover and expose this can Americans in Washington, D.C. She indignities as their ancestors. Out of the Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, important history to wider audiences — participated in the Niagara Movement, 1919 events came a plethora of political, Zimbabwe and other states. Women were including emerging generations of rev- The Femmes de France, the Bethel Lit- cultural and literary outpourings, popu- at the forefront of the independence ef- olutionaries in Western industrialized erary Society, the National Association larly known as the Harlem Renaissance. forts in the areas of mass mobilization, countries and the broader world. for the Advancement of Colored People, By 1923, Addie Waites Hunton was fo- political education, armed struggle and See related articles at workers.org in the Washington Welfare Association, the cusing her attention on the world peace national reconstruction. the “Women’s Liberation” section. African-American women pilots making history

By Dolores Cox tion, no flight school in the U.S. would growing up, she says, but for as long as she worked with the Detroit Aviation Career accept her. can remember she’s been fascinated by Education Academy. She also served as In the field of aviation, Bessie Coleman Coleman moved to France where she airplanes. She studied flying while attend- director of the academy. She states, “I feel was a pioneer. In 1921, she was the first completed her flight training and earned ing Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. I have a great sense of responsibility to African-American woman to obtain a pi- her pilot’s license. She also gained fur- Upon graduating, she became a flight in- be a positive role model; that there were lot’s license — an international one — and ther flying experience in Holland and structor for Kent State’s aviation program. so few women in this profession, and too fly a plane. Germany. She specialized in stunt fly- Johnson and Dawn Cook, an Afri- many women who still don’t think of it as a Coleman was born in 1892 in Atlanta, ing and parachute jumps and performed can-American First Officer pilot for Delta career option.” (Huffington Post, March 2) Texas, to sharecroppers whose parents ­aerial tricks. Airlines, made history on Feb. 26 after Johnson adds, “When I was hired by had been enslaved. She was one of 13 Coleman bought an old plane, and organizing a historic flight together. The Northwest Airlines, there were 12 Afri- children. The family lived in a one-room while on a trial flight with the mechanic two women piloted a Delta Airlines flight can-American women airline pilots in cabin. When Coleman was two years old, pilot, the plane dived and Coleman fell out from Detroit to Las Vegas. Delta celebrat- the country at the major airlines, and they moved to Waxahachie, Texas. Sev- of the cockpit before it crashed. She died ed Johnson during Black History Month I knew all of their names. ... One of the eral years later, the father, who was also April 30, 1926, at age 34, and received and honored both women during Wom- most rewarding parts of my career has of Native ancestry, left and moved to an recognition as a hero after her death. en’s History Month. been sharing my passion for aviation and Oklahoma reservation to obtain the civil In 1997, Stephanie Johnson made his- Johnson encourages young children exposing young people to the opportuni- rights that were denied to Blacks and Na- tory by becoming the first Black wom- to consider a career in aviation and has ties in the field.” tive peoples in Texas. an pilot for Northwest Airlines. Twenty In 1915, at age 23, Coleman moved to years later, in 2016, she became the first Chicago, where she began listening to Black woman captain for Delta Airlines. and reading stories of World War I pilots. Johnson says she was encouraged by a Cuban women meet in NYC This sparked her interest in aviation. But high school teacher to follow her dream because of racial and gender discrimina- of flying. There were no pilots in her life Below, Maritzel González-Quevedo BOSTON

The International Working Women’s Coalition hosted a reception and political WW PHOTOS: BRENDA RYAN discussion with two Cuban women rev- olutionaries at the Solidarity Center in New York City on March 21. Left, Alicia The honored guests were Alicia Cam- Campos pos Pérez, coordinator of the Interna- Pérez tional Democratic Federation of Women (FDIM), and Maritzel González-Queve- do, an official for Foreign Affairs in the Both speakers discussed the contribu- Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). tions that women have made throughout The FMC, which was founded by the Latin America and the Caribbean — and

WW PHOTO: ED CHILDS late Vilma Espín in 1960, immediately especially under socialism in Cuba — in ‘Together We Rise! Global Women’s Fightback vs. Trumpism’ was the unify- following the victory of the Cuban rev- the struggle to further advance the liber- ing theme of a powerful and uplifting International Working Women and Trans Women’s olution, is a member of the FDIM, an ation of women from the yoke of imperi- Celebration held by the Boston Branch of Workers World Party and the Women’s Fightback alliance of left-political women’s organi- alism and capitalism. Network on March 24. zations working for women’s liberation. — Report by Monica Moorehead Page 6 March 30, 2017 workers.org ‘Love was in the air’ By Betsey Piette 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Ramona Africa Esperanza Martell (with microphone) introduces surprised and awed the room with three revolutionary Warrior Sisters (left to right) — International Working Wom- his baritone acappella song. Gwen Ramona Africa, Pam Africa and Monica Moorehead. en’s Month was celebrated Phila- Debrow, New York City activist for former U.S. political prisoner, delphia style on March 24 with a Mumia, and Basimah Mohammed special event honoring three Black Bey from the UNIA, followed suit. women activist leaders — Pam Af- Death row exoneree Ronald speaks on Mumia Abu-Jamal rica, Ramona Africa and Monica Kitchen, a member of the Chicago Moorehead. The “Tribute to War- Death Row 10, also addressed the rior Sisters of the Revolution” was crowd. held before a packed multigener- ational gathering at the historic Church of the Advocate. From start to finish, the event was a heartfelt celebration of the contributions to the struggle that the three women have made, and the respect people hold for them. Cheryl Wright, who WW PHOTOS: JOE PIETTE has worked with all three over the years doing solidarity work for political prisoner A TRIBUTE to Among the speakers were several Mumia Abu-Jamal, younger Black women activists who spoke chaired the program. of being inspired by the three women and As one event orga- WARRIOR SISTERS their leadership in the struggle for libera- nizer commented, tion. Shesheena Bray, with the Campaign “Love was in the air!” to Bring Mumia Home, and Jasmine The formal pro- of the Peakes-Miles, from Philadelphia REAL gram began with a Justice, shared the mike to give their short video of the three speaking to many tributes. New York community activist rallies over the years in support of polit- REVOLUTION Esperanza Martell and Erica Mines, from ical prisoners, including Mumia and the Philadelphia’s REAL Justice, led the pre- MOVE 9. The video was prepared by Sue sentation of gifts to the three honorees. Harris of the Peoples Video Network. Acknowledging there would be no The program included an inspiring mu- Vocal performer Taina Asili, with La month to celebrate without women sical tribute from acappella vocalist Dom- Banda Rebelde, sent a special musical who “gave birth to the world,” Mumia inique London, including a song by Nina tribute via a taped recording. Asili came ­addressed each of the honorees on their He concluded, “Who says revolution- Simone. The audience was captivated by into her own political activism through entrance into activism and the historic ary women don’t rock the world? Women an energetic and moving cultural perfor- work with Pam and Ramona Africa. events that formed and radicalized them. build the world. They surely got a right to mance by the world renowned Univer- A highlight of the program was a re- He outlined Ramona and Pam’s contribu- rock it!” (See full statement on this page.) sal African Dance and Drum Ensemble, corded audio message from Mumia tions to the MOVE struggle, and Monica’s Several featured performers chose to whose members range from very young Abu-Jamal comparing Ramona, Pam and leadership role in Workers World Party give their tributes, not through talks, but toddlers to seasoned adults. MOVE Orga- Monica to the legendary Harriet Tubman, and the party’s contribution to organizing songs. Lamont Lilly, Moorehead’s vice nization youth closed the event with their one of history’s greatest freedom fighters. movements of resistance. presidential running mate in WWP’s performance groups RAW and LIFE.

Transcribed from the March 22 taped message from Mumia Abu-Jamal Mona, Pam & Monica: “from inside Prison Nation,” recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of prisonradio.org. The audio tape of Mumia’s talk can be accessed at tinyurl.com/lxvkdqw.

Harriet’s granddaughters became her brothers and sis- and her comrades have been there, join- Mumia Abu-Jamal ters, her family. They respect- ing with and giving voice to movements March, we are told, is Women’s Histo- ary, Ramona Africa, MOVE member. ed her fighting spirit so much that seek to build new worlds. ry Month. We are here to celebrate the But that wasn’t all. As she came closer that MOVE’s founder John Africa named Monica comes from a long line of re- lives of several revolutionary women, but to MOVE, and the teachings of John Af- her Minister of Confrontation. sistance to racism and repression. She also to recognize a simple, undeniable rica, and as she worked for the freedom She attended court hearings and was was born in Jim-Crow-era Alabama, the truth: Without women, there would be of MOVE members, she didn’t know that constantly faced with threats of violence granddaughter of school teachers and no months to celebrate, for women gave the government was planning what they by cops for her MOVE advocacy. In defense daughter of two college professors. As a birth to the world. considered MOVE’s “final solution.” of others, she’s had her teeth knocked out, high school student and member of the Harriet Tubman was one of the On May 13, 1985, she found out. The her leg broken. But she kept on scrapping. school band, she caused a ruckus by re- greatest freedom fighters in history, for world found out, when city, state and fed- She isn’t just a fighter. When she speaks, fusing to play “Dixie.” As a young wom- she brought forth hundreds of souls from eral government agencies conspired to she sets crowds on fire. She is a master or- an, she was a supporter of the Prisoner the prison house of slavery, bringing bomb MOVE from a helicopter. ganizer. She gets them Ona Move! Solidarity Committee and sold copies of them north over the dreaded Mason-Dix- When the fire had eaten its full, elev- For the young generation of activists, the Black Panther newspaper. Her par- on Line. And after the passage of the Fu- en men, women and children were ei- such as Black Lives Matter, she is known ents were part of the Montgomery Bus gitive Slave Act, bringing them to the far ther shot or burned to death. Their dogs respectfully and affectionately as “Mama Boycott, led by Rev. Martin Luther King. north of Canada. were killed. An entire city block looked Pam.” She is a mother, grandmother and Monica remembers her mother, a bril- I say that these three women — Mona, like Dresden, the eastern German city great-grandmother. And like Harriet liant musician, being thrown out of a Pam and Monica — are like Harriet for bombed in World War II. Tubman, her mind, her soul, her fist are whites-only bathroom by cops. they all fight for freedom almost every Mona, burned badly on her arms, was stuck on freedom. From a youth of resistance to a life of day, against great odds. And they keep on one of two survivors of the firebombing in Monica Moorehead is a leading resistance, that’s the story of Monica pushing — no matter what. West Philadelphia. She was also the only member of Workers World Party, a na- Moorehead. She is an editor of the revo- Ramona Africa was a young college person ever imprisoned for “riot.” tional Marxist collective. Karl Marx and lutionary weekly, Workers World. She has student, trying to “learn the law” at Tem- It’s fitting that she never believed in the Frederick Engels, authors of the “Com- co-authored and edited several books, in- ple University. She was invited to come to law that she once studied. munist Manifesto,” wrote, “The Com- cluding “Marxism, Reparations and the City Hall, to actually see what went on in She believed in revolution. She believes munists everywhere support every revo- Black Freedom Struggle” and the reprint a MOVE trial. She was wholly unprepared in it today. lutionary movement against the existing of “A Voice from Harper’s Ferry” by Black for what she saw, for nothing she’d read Pam Africa was a light-hearted party social and political order of things.” revolutionary Osborne Anderson, who in law books could explain the naked bru- girl until she met MOVE. They were neigh- It is a dictum that Monica, and her accompanied John Brown on his raid on tality of the law that she saw practiced in bors of hers. She wasn’t really into them — comrades, take to heart. They work with a federal armory to arm Black slaves. In City Hall courtrooms. until she saw them attacked by police. She a wide range of people, trying to organize 2000, she helped organize a historic Free She witnessed a railroading of MOVE followed her heart and warmed to them. them into movements of resistance. From Mumia rally at Madison Square Garden, men and women, and it turned her away The closer she got, the more she found repression against labor unions to a new and in 2016 she ran for U.S. president on from her chosen profession of lawyer. In herself targeted and threatened. wave of women’s movements; from the the Workers World ticket. short, what she saw MOVE members ex- She would not ignore what she saw. She scourge of mass incarceration, from the Who says revolutionary women don’t perience in pre-trial hearings and at trial couldn’t! She didn’t run away. She moved cancer of police repression against Black rock the world? repulsed her. Indeed, it radicalized her. closer to MOVE and to John Africa. and Latino America, to the state terrorism Women build the world. They surely She entered court as a mild-mannered Pam Africa — guided by her powerful encapsulated in the racist death penalty; got a right to rock it! college student. What she saw and heard heart and the power of her love for MOVE from imperial wars in Iraq to the drug Harriet’s granddaughters — Mona Af- turned her into a committed revolution- people — became a MOVE person. MOVE wars against innocents abroad, Monica rica, Pam Africa and Monica Moorehead. workers.org March 30, 2017 Page 7 PART 1 Ramona Africa former U.S. political prisoner, speaks on Mumia Abu-Jamal By Lamont Lilly Mumia always covered these issues of LL: What happened on Dec. 9, 1981? concern. When he heard about the MOVE That particular evening is what led to Former U.S. political prisoner Ramo- organization and began covering our Mumia’s incarceration. Can you give us na Africa is the Minister of Communica- demonstrations and court cases, Mumia some details on that? tion for the MOVE Organization and a would actually come to the prison and in- RA: Mumia was working at night, and Philadelphia-based organizer with the terview MOVE members right there. on this particular night he was letting International Concerned Family and Mumia’s the only journalist that con- a fare off at 13th and Locust streets. He Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. She is sistently and accurately reported on happened to see police lights circling. also the only living survivor of the 1985 MOVE — the truth, I mean. And because Being a journalist, he wanted to see what MOVE bombing, when the FBI and Phil- he was telling the truth about MOVE and was going on. He went over to where the adelphia police dropped two C-4 bombs exposing what the system was doing, not police vehicle was and saw this white cop on her organization’s home, killing 11 only to MOVE, but to poor people, people beating this Black man. He went over a people. Read along as we discuss the case of color, and even poor whites, he earned little closer to see about the brother, and of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the conditions of the scorn of the Philadelphia police de- to see if he could stop the cop from beat- PHOTO: DOMINIQUE DIPRIMA U.S. prisons and Donald Trump. partment and [Mayor] Frank Rizzo. (See ing this man. Lamont Lilly: Ramona, thank you for tinyurl.com/ly3w5b6) He earned the Mumia then realized that the man who they had — as in Mumia Abu-Jamal — sharing your time with me today. Current scorn of city officials. He lost jobs. was being beaten by the cop was his own who was right there in their grasp, they U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia used to work for National Pub- brother, Billy. So, Mumia tried to intervene didn’t look for anything else and didn’t is an international symbol of people’s lic Radio. He worked for a local radio sta- and ended up being shot by the cop. Short- want to hear anything else. This was their resistance. His writing and journalism tion here in Philadelphia called WBAF. ly after that, someone shot the cop. Of opportunity to get Mumia Abu-Jamal have traveled worldwide. Not only was He worked for the Philadelphia Tribune, course, they’re saying that Mumia did it — [former Black Panther], which the Phila- he a founding member of the Philadel- the first Black publication in this coun- but the conflicts here are unquestionable. delphia police department wanted to do phia chapter of the Black Panther Party, try, I believe. But he ended up becoming They said Officer Daniel Faulkner was for a long time. Mumia was also an early supporter of the a freelance journalist because the people shot with a .44-caliber gun. That’s what People should know that a man named MOVE organization. (See “We Want Free- he was working for were trying to make they said. Mumia was licensed to carry Arnold Beverly came forward and con- dom: A Life in the Black Panther Party,” him compromise and tell the system’s a gun because he had been robbed twice fessed to shooting Daniel Faulkner. He by Mumia Abu-Jamal) What does Mumia story, and not the truth. Mumia would while driving his cab. He was driving gave a whole résumé about other cops mean to MOVE? What does he mean to not compromise. He refused. He ended the night shift, but Mumia’s gun was a who had been killed and everything. The the city of Philadelphia? up becoming a freelance journalist and .38-caliber. Witnesses said that the per- courts said he wasn’t credible. But how Ramona Africa: Mumia began his jour- driving a cab part time to supplement his son who shot the cop ran down the street could they know that? They never let him nalistic career writing for the Black Pan- income and take care of his family. That’s and down this alleyway. Mumia was shot come into court and testify. They said he ther Party newspaper at 14 or 15 years how he happened to be at 13th and Locust sitting on the curb. Shot! He didn’t run “wasn’t credible” and never even enter- old. When it came to issues of the people, streets on Dec. 9, 1981. anywhere. But when they realized who tained his confession.

HB2 one year later The struggle grows and continues March 24, 2016: Protests erupt against ’Hate Bill 2’ in Raleigh, N.C. Queer and trans organizers of color take the street and chain themselves together in resistance. WW PHOTO

community members fought to ensure that the story being told about HB2 wasn’t just about bathrooms but went deeper. HB2 was a classic divide-and-conquer strategy to isolate trans people, as if trans people were not also people of color, low- By L.T. Pham and gender nonconforming children and mitted civil disobedience were arrested. wage workers, women or sexual violence Durham, N.C. youth, and to scapegoat trans women and It was only the beginning. survivors. We had an obligation to each other trans people for rape by passing NC other to tell the full story. One year ago on March 23, the North HB 2. House Bill 2 bars city and county What we won The fight continues Carolina General Assembly called a spe- governments from raising their munici- McCrory came under fire from many. cial session to fast track HB2, a bill that pal minimum wage, as well as prohibits The National Basketball Association relo- McCrory’s special session came after would be called the “most anti-trans bill” anti-discrimination policies that account cated its All-Star Game. PayPal released the Charlotte City Council passed an an- in the country. It was moved through for gender identity, expression, and sex- a statement boycotting North Carolina. ti-discrimination ordinance that would committee hearings and both House and ual orientation. Lawmakers were given The Department of Justice threatened to have protected trans people accessing Senate votes in less than 12 hours. only five minutes to review the bill and it withdraw federal funding from the state public facilities. McCrory and the Char- The resistance that followed, led by passed within a 12-hour period without a if the General Assembly did not move to lotte mayor engaged in a political circus Black and Brown trans and queer youth, single trans person of color being allowed repeal the law. that didn’t actually address the harm students and communities across the state, to speak. The actions of these corporations and caused by HB2. They got the Charlotte will go down in history. Within a day, over “This bill reinforces the school-to-pris- bourgeois government entities, while City Council to repeal its anti-discrimina- 1,000 people from across the state rallied on pipeline that trans and gender non- somewhat superficial and full of contra- tion ordinance in “exchange” for a repeal at then-Governor Pat McCrory’s mansion conforming students of color already face dictions, reflected the tremendous power of HB2. To no surprise, that didn’t happen in Raleigh to shame him and all the politi- by making their choice of toilet grounds exerted by trans and queer people of col- and now there are no legal ordinances to cians who dared to come after the human- for suspension or arrest. or coming together with others to protest protect trans people in Charlotte. ity and livelihood of trans people. “This bill rolls back decades of hard- heinous acts of the state. United Electrical Workers Local 150, Trans and queer people of color called won progress, and will harm our whole We were able to galvanize thousands the union representing public service for our own People’s Special Session to state. It undermines municipal democrat- of people into action. Demonstrations, workers in North Carolina, continues to lift up the communities threatened by ic control, advancements in anti-discrim- student occupations, forums and commu- bring attention to the attacks on workers HB2 and address other pressing issues, ination policy, and further prohibits wage nity trainings sprung up across the state. embedded in HB2. Recently, the union including health care, jobs and safety increases. This is a direct assault on work- People from Fayetteville to Boone rose up organized a rally at the state Capitol de- from police brutality. The NC Queer and ing families and particularly working to protest the bigoted law. Thousands con- manding the state overturn HB2 and re- Trans People of Color Coalition said in a women of color who are most likely to be vened again at the state Capitol on April store labor rights in the cities. statement: paid poverty wages. LGBTQ folks of color 25, demanding the full repeal of HB2. In last November’s election, McCrory “The General Assembly and Gover- are workers, and we are worth more!” While the scapegoating of trans peo- was ousted as governor and replaced by nor McCrory chose to criminalize trans Five trans and queer people who com- ple was glaringly obvious, organizers and Continued on page 8 Page 8 March 30, 2017 workers.org David Rockefeller: The working-class truth

By Stephen Millies eight-story Rockefeller mansion in Man- hattan. It was torn down to make way The capitalist media proclaimed billion- for the Museum of Modern Art sculpture aire banker David Rockefeller, who died garden, which was nurtured by David’s March 20, to be a “great philanthropist.” mother, Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller. None of the obituaries mentioned this rich Meanwhile. Nelson Rockefeller had Di- monster croaked one day before the 57th ego Rivera’s classic mural commissioned anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre. for Rockefeller Center destroyed in 1934 At least 69 South Africans protesting because it showed Marx, Engels and the the apartheid government’s pass laws leaders of the Russian Revolution. were murdered by police on March 21, Yet John Birch Society members be- 1960, in Sharpeville Township. Capital- lieve the Rockefellers are communists. ist investors, fearing a revolution, began The Museum of Modern Art naturally fea- pulling their money out. tured the great communist painter Pablo Already the vice chair of Chase Man- Picasso, whose painting of the fascist hattan Bank, David Rockefeller came to bombing of Guernica during the Spanish apartheid’s rescue by arranging emergen- Civil War was long displayed there. cy loans. The “great philanthropist” gave Actually the Rockefellers aren’t even apartheid rule another 30+ years. liberal. David Rockefeller supported the Rockefeller power also helped crush reactionary Manhattan Institute that de- Sharpeville massacre, South Africa, 1960. African freedom in the Democratic Re- fends killings by police. public of Congo. President Eisenhower U.S. dollar floats upon almost $1 trillion Westchester County during Watergate. Some bigots even claim the Rockefel- ordered the assassination of Patrice Lu- in world oil exports, nearly all traded So it’s no accident that Trump’s Secre- lers are Jewish, which isn’t true. John D. mumba, the country’s democratically in dollars. The Koch brothers can only tary of State is the former CEO of Exxon- Rockefeller was a Baptist, and John D. elected leader. (“King Leopold’s Ghost” dream of having Rockefeller power. Mobil, Rex Tillerson. Rockefeller Jr. founded New York’s Riv- by Adam Hochschild) The State Department has been virtu- erside Church. Lumumba was overthrown on Sept. 14, ally owned by the Rockefellers. Former Unmasking the myths The Rockefellers are today the biggest 1960, less than three months after Con- Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans While David Rockefeller ran Chase name in New York area real estate. David go’s independence. He was tortured and Hughes fought for Rockefeller oil inter- Manhattan, nicknamed the “oil bank,” his Rockefeller called for constructing the then shot on Jan. 17, 1961. His body was ests against Great Britain as Secretary of older brother Nelson was governor of New World Trade Center back in 1948. thrown in an acid vat owned by Union State in the early 1920s before being put York and later U.S. vice president. Nelson The family’s Chase Manhattan merged Minière, the Belgian mining giant that on the Supreme Court as Chief Justice. Rockefeller paved the way for imprison- with Morgan Guaranty to form J.P. Mor- exploited Congo’s tremendous mineral John Foster Dulles was managing ing over 2 million poor people with his gan Chase, the world’s most powerful wealth. The Rockefellers owned a chunk partner of the Rockefellers’ favorite law drug laws. His state police massacred the bank with over $2 trillion in assets. of Union Minière. (“The Assassination of firm — Sullivan & Cromwell — before be- Attica prison inmates on Sept. 13, 1971. All Rockefeller wealth is from the sur- Lumumba” by Ludo De Witte) coming Eisenhower’s Secretary of State Massacres and museums are Rocke- plus value produced by workers all over during the Cold War. John’s brother Allen feller specialties. David Rockefeller was the world. “Surplus value” is that part of Rockefeller diplomacy Dulles was the CIA director who put the born in 1915, the same year Rockefeller the value produced by the working class David Rockefeller was the last sur- Shah back in power as Iran’s dictator via gunmen killed five striking workers at the that’s stolen by the boss class — common- viving grandchild of the world’s first bil- the spy agency’s “Operation Ajax.” Standard Oil refinery in Bayonne, N.J. ly called profit. lionaire, John D. Rockefeller. The family Dean Rusk was the Rockefeller Foun- The year before, dozens of family Founded with this surplus value, Rocke- made its colossal fortune off the Stan- dation’s president before promoting the members of coal miners striking against feller University is one of the largest med- dard Oil trust whose descendants include Vietnam War as Secretary of State in the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and ical research centers. But socialist Cuba Exxon Mobil and Chevron. 1960s. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Iron were killed by National Guard and has a lower infant mortality rate than Big Oil runs the U.S. government, and transferred secret State Department files company thugs in the Ludlow Massacre. capitalist United States, whose health care the Pentagon is its protection agency. The to the 6-square-mile Rockefeller estate in David Rockefeller grew up in the system is all about making profits.

HB2 one year later The struggle grows and continues Continued from page 7 Now the Trump administration has re- struggle and resistance, forged by the consciousness; recognizing that hundreds Democrat Roy Cooper, who promised a voked the section in Title IX safeguard- Civil Rights and Student Sit-In move- of thousands of people are being pushed full repeal of HB2. While the repeal has ing trans students from discrimination. ments, the environmental justice move- into action like never before; supporting not yet happened, McCrory’s loss in the The reality for many trans youth, under ment along the coast of North Caroli- the leadership of the most oppressed; not gubernatorial race shows the power of any administration, has been grim and na and the massive Charlotte Uprising relegating the struggle against sexism, trans and queer people to influence the full of harassment and violence. against police and state violence in 2016. racism, homophobia or transphobia to political landscape. The resistance to HB2 So far in 2017, nearly 10 trans women “As goes the South, so goes the country” secondary status, while also remember- exposed the deeply rooted bigotries of Mc- have been murdered by vigilantes — the remains true, whether it’s to the reaction- ing that there are only two sides in this Crory and his General Assembly whose majority being Black trans women who ary right or the revolutionary left. struggle — the multinational, revolution- reactionary anti-trans, anti-worker and experience disproportionate rates of Second, LGBTQ people are on the ary working class against the ruling class. anti-poor policies date back to before HB2. homelessness, joblessness and violence frontlines of every struggle in the U.S. Our side is the working class. None of from the state and its extrajudicial bodies. This did not start or end with HB2. the contradictions within our class are ir- Trump can’t change things; only we can While Trump presents new challeng- During the Charlotte Uprising and reconcilable; we must struggle to unite our The struggle against HB2 began as rac- es for our movement, the position from the Black Lives Matter movement, trans class across identity, geography and expe- ist, misogynist Donald Trump was vying which he governs and the conditions that and queer people led the demonstrations rience. We cannot be idle while the ruling with warmonger Hillary Clinton to be- gave rise to him are not new. We should that won the release of the video footage class attempts to paint different sectors come commander in chief. This makes rapidly respond to the attacks under this showing the police shooting of Keith L. of the working class as each other’s ene- both the passage of HB2 and the resistance new administration while never forget- Scott and continued the jail and legal mies. If we do not take responsibility for that followed all the more significant. ting that capitalist democracy could not support for hundreds of freedom fighters our class, reactionary and opportunistic protect trans students or Black trans facing state repression. forces like the Democratic and Republican women; capitalist democracy provided It was trans and queer people who ini- parties will attempt to divert its revolu- no protection from the HB2 bill; capital- tiated the first North Carolina solidarity tionary potential into yet another election ist democracy has allowed the bourgeoi- caravans to Standing Rock to protest the cycle, and the workers and oppressed peo- In Defense of CUBA sie to take advantage of contradictions pipeline. Now, as immigrants across the ple will be sold out yet again for the benefit By Leslie Feinberg within the working class to further its country face raids and checkpoints, trans and interests of the rich. profits and political power. and queer people are taking urgent action Many more HB2s are on the horizon. Rainbow Solidarity documents ­revolutionary That said, capitalism is crumbling in- to organize a radical response that throws We must believe that we will win and Cuba’s inspiring trajectory of progress to- ternally. The actions of the Trump ad- no one under the bus. The leadership of fight accordingly. Across our movement, wards liberation of sexualities, genders and ministration show that the profit-hungry trans and queer people must not be un- workers and oppressed people need each sexes. This ground-breaking book reveals how the Cuban Revolution has grappled with ruling class will use extreme and bigoted derestimated, nor should the attempts of other now more than ever. Our sights the pre-revolutionary legacy of 450 years measures to win over desperate workers LGBTQ organizers to build across identi- should be set on unity, solidarity and re- of persecution and ex­ ploitation of homo- whose economic insecurity makes them ties within our class be taken lightly. jection of bourgeois politics that divert sexuality. Rainbow Solidarity answers the vulnerable to reactionary demagogy. As repressive attacks intensify against our movement from naming capitalism demonization of the 1959 Cuban Revolution Black people, immigrants, Muslims, as the real enemy to us all. by Washington and the CIA, Wall Street Building our class struggle LGBTQ people, women, and other work- Black trans women matter! Protect and ­Hollywood by demonstrating that the Many tremendous lessons have ers and oppressed people, we have a duty trans youth! Black Lives Matter! Indig- ­process of solving these problems is the emerged since HB2 was passed in North as organizers and revolutionaries to in- enous sovereignty now! Stop the ICE forward motion of the revolution. Carolina. First and foremost, the South tervene in meaningful ways: meeting our raids! End the attacks on Muslims! Fight Available at major booksellers online will continue to live up to its legacy of class where it is and pushing to elevate its for revolutionary socialism! workers.org March 30, 2017 Page 9 U.S. war crimes escalate in Syria, Iraq

By Deirdre Griswold generals. It says the White House will and hard-line Qaida-linked jihadists” pated in the invasion of Libya, have made dispense with “micro-managing” mili- seized an industrial area on the outskirts the entire region a living hell. Millions The Democrats in Congress and much tary operations. This translates to esca- of Damascus, the Syrian capital. (NY have become refugees, and not a day goes of the capitalist media have made a big lating U.S. war. Times, March 22) by without more atrocities. show of their opposition to President On March 21, some 400 U.S. Marines For example, on March 17, a Saudi mil- Trump’s reactionary domestic agenda. Spreading carnage in Syria and Army Rangers, backed by artillery itary helicopter opened fire on a boat full But they are noticeably quiet when it The results have already proven dead- and attack helicopters, began a major op- of Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen, comes to his moves to shower even more ly, especially in Syria, which has been eration to take the city of Raqqa, which killing more than 30 migrants, including money on the Pentagon while ramping battling a combination of forces intent on has been under the control of the Islamic children. The Saudi military, using U.S. up U.S. military intervention, especially “regime change.” The U.S. has promoted State group (IS). “It was the first time that warplanes and electronic guidance, has in the already war-torn countries of the and armed what it calls the “rebels,” in the United States had carried out an air been carrying out a devastating war since Middle East and North Africa. an ill-concealed effort to pull down the assault in Syria in its campaign against 2015 in Yemen, one of the poorest coun- Trump’s proposed budget, which would independent Syrian government and re- the Islamic State, and the mission, which tries in the world. slash funding for almost all essential gov- place it with a weak puppet state, as it did began Tuesday, reflected the leeway the The government of Iraq has charged that ernment programs, from environmental in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Trump administration has given its com- U.S. airstrikes on the city of Mosul killed protection to the National Institutes for On March 17, Israel, which receives manders to carry out operations without as many as 200 people in mid-March. “If Health, would raise the money going to $3.1 billion from the U.S. each year, prolonged review in Washington,” wrote confirmed, the series of airstrikes would the military by another $54 billion an- bombed a Syrian military site near Pal- the March 23 New York Times. “As the rank among the highest civilian death nually, for a total of $639 billion. Trump myra, despite having professed neutrali- operation unfolded, Syrian state televi- tolls in an American air mission since the also announced that he will nominate a ty in the war against Syria. sion and local residents asserted that at United States went to war in Iraq in 2003,” Boeing executive, Patrick M. Shanahan, On the same day, U.S. planes unleashed least 30 Syrian civilians were killed in an wrote Tim Arango and Helene Cooper. for deputy secretary of defense. “a barrage of missiles and bombs” on a airstrike that hit a school where they had (NY Times, March 25) Leading “defense” stocks have already mosque in the Syrian village of Al Jinah taken shelter.” These monstrous war crimes have risen by 20 percent this year, anticipat- in Aleppo Province. (New York Times, The U.S. is in Syria totally illegally, enraged many, many people, especial- ing the juicy contracts to be coming their March 18) The Syrian Observatory for under the false pretense of fighting “ter- ly those who identify with the countries way. It’s “Christmas-come-early,” wrote Human Rights said that 49 people were rorism,” even as it collaborates through under attack and their religion. It is the one investment firm. (profitconfidential. killed in the attack, which came right a secret CIA program with groups it has warmakers in Washington, London and com) The chief financial analyst for mon- after evening prayers. The Pentagon admitted are terrorist. The Syrian gov- Paris who bear the responsibility for any eymorning.com says that “war and ter- claimed the victims were al-Qaida op- ernment has not asked Washington for desperate acts of retaliation that follow. rorism” are “all growth industries.” eratives, but local people hotly disputed help in dealing with IS. On the contrary, The best way to prevent future trag- At the same time, the Trump admin- that. it wants the U.S. out so it can restore edies is to wage a vigorous, unrelenting istration is brushing aside much of the On March 19, just two days after the peace and sovereignty to the country. campaign to end these horrible wars and authority that the elected civilian gov- U.S. bombed the mosque, fighters de- The U.S. and its allies, like Saudi Ara- make the profiteers pay reparations for ernment is supposed to exercise over the scribed as “a mix of Islamist rebel groups bia and the NATO powers that partici- their crimes. Cuba Solidarity conference pushes actions

WW PHOTOS: BRENDA RYAN By Cheryl LaBash Sandra Ramirez, ICAP Andrés Gómez, right New York

Supporters of revolutionary Cuba gathered at Fordham University Law School here on the weekend of March 24- 26 to demand an end to all U.S. econom- ic, financial and travel sanctions against the socialist island. The National Conference for the Full Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations also demanded, through plenaries and Rafael Cancel Miranda, left Gerardo Hernandez workshops, that the U.S. get out of Guan- PHOTO: JON FLANDERS PHOTO VIA YANELA GONZALEZ FACEBOOK tanamo, an illegally occupied part of Juanita Young Cuba where the Pentagon imprisons and tortures its opponents, and stop all re- gime change programs against Cuba. In opening remarks, Ike Nahem from the New York/New Jersey CubaSi! Co- alition called for a moment of silence to honor people’s lawyer Lynne Stewart and Cuba’s historic leader Fidel Castro, who both died recently. Standing ovations greeted two heroes Yanela González, ICAP at the conference: Puerto Rican indepen- PHOTO: JON FLANDERS dence fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda and WW PHOTO: BRENDA RYAN PHOTO VIA YANELA GONZALEZ FACEBOOK Andres Gomez from the Antonio Maceo Ambassador Anayansi Rodríguez Saturday plenary listens to Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka. Brigade. Gomez has organized support for the Cuban revolution in Miami, a and author of “Biografía de un cimarrón” where unity prevails. Those who respect promotion of regime change programs stronghold of often violent counterrev- (“Biography of a Runaway Slave”). A del- the right of self-determination of the Cu- aimed to promote subversive actions in olutionaries. Underscoring the interna- egation from the Federation of Cuban ban Revolution, respect our people and Cuba.” tional scope of the conference, Canadian Women and the Women’s International our sovereignty, should be welcome in Ramirez spoke of the Days of Action Network on Cuba co-chair Isaac Saney Democratic Federation participated in the solidarity network. The diversity of Against the Blockade to take place in and other Canadians participated. plenary discussions and workshops. sectors, background, ages and cities is Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11-16, empha- Featured speakers included many Unfortunately, representatives of the a way to strengthen the movement and sizing that while the U.S. blockade is the well-known Cubans. Anayansi Rodrí- Union of Young Communists and the Cu- open possibilities of reaching areas that main obstacle to Cuba’s development, it guez Camejo, Cuba’s ambassador to the ban Workers Central Union had received have had almost no contact with Cuba.” also has consequences for people in the United Nations, led the delegation from their U.S. visas too late to attend. She stressed that the campaign to U.S. lift the blockade must be focused inside Radio, television, print media and the Cuban U.N. Mission in New York. ‘What more can we do?’ Representatives from the North Amer- the United States because that is who social networks like Facebook, Twitter, ican department of the Cuban Institute In the opening plenary Sandra has imposed the blockade. “Cuba has Youtube and blogs can counter the me- for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Ramirez of ICAP summarized the tasks not imposed any blockade or restriction dia campaign against Cuba and, she add- included its director, Sandra Ramirez, before the conference in two questions: policies on any country in the world,” ed, “should attract young people to this and Yanela González. “Why is this meeting so important?” and she added. “We should multiply the de- movement, because their fresh ideas will A special participant from Cuba was “What more can we do in solidarity with mand to return to Cuba the territory il- help us multiply the experience you all Miguel Barnet, a revered writer on the Cuba?” legally occupied by the U.S. Naval Base have accumulated. But we should speak history of race in Cuba, president/found- Ramirez emphasized the importance in Guantanamo, to denounce the illegal their language and use their codes on er of Cuba’s Union of Writers and Artists, of “an inclusive solidarity movement radio transmissions to Cuba and end the Continued on page 11 Page 10 March 30, 2017 workers.org

Why is Colin Kaepernick unemployed?

Super Bowl LI occurred less than two and wrath, especially among NFL own- MAD Fishy To Me, Stinks To The High captured on video, will hang over the rest months ago on Feb. 5 and already there ers. While lesser talented quarterbacks Heavens... What Crime Has Colin Com- of his life, and some team will happily is much talk in the sports world about have already been reassigned, Kaeper- mitted? Look At The QB’s Of All 32 take him at a discounted price in the 2017 which quarterbacks are available for nick hasn’t received one offer as of now. Teams. This Is Some Straight Up She- NFL draft.” (March 27) the upcoming 2017-18 National Football Many prominent people are asking: Has nanigans, Subterfuge, Skullduggery And then there is Johnny Manziel, League season. One of those quarter- Kaepernick been labeled a “distraction” And BS.” (March 13) the former Cleveland Browns quarter- backs is Colin Kaepernick, who recently because of his political stance or because The Undefeated, an online sports back, a known abuser of women as well opted out of his contract with the San he was on a poor football team? ESPN magazine, printed an article from as drugs and alcohol. Manziel is now be- Francisco 49ers to become a free agent. It is no secret that some of the NFL Bomani Jones, a Black ESPN commen- ing considered as the backup for the New Kaepernick, who is African-American, owners, many of whom are billionaires, tator, titled “Colin Kaepernick is called ­Orleans Saints lead quarterback, Drew took a heroic stance last season when he have expressed political hostility toward a distraction, but from what?” Jones Brees, who openly criticized Kaepernick protested during the playing of the na- Kaepernick and view him as a social pa- states in defense of Kaepernick, “But let’s for his protest. tional anthem to bring worldwide atten- riah. Some are outright Trump support- stop pretending teams are that afraid of Kaepernick has stated that he will tion to police brutality and other forms of ers like Robert Kraft, the owner of the ‘distractions.’ Don’t forget the New York end his protest for the upcoming season. U.S. racist oppression. Kaepernick also New England Patriots. Giants, one of the ‘classy’ organizations, This, however, does not matter to those stated that there was no fundamental Filmmaker Spike Lee, an avid sports held on to a kicker [Josh Brown] em- influential bosses who neither forgive nor difference between Trump and Clinton fan, stated on his Instagram account af- broiled in controversy after abusing his forget athletes like Kaepernick whose ac- when it came to the elections. ter having lunch with Kaepernick, “How wife until the story got too big to ignore. tions they know will continue to resonate His action of taking a knee drew Is It That There Are 32 NFL Teams And [University of Oklahoma’s] Joe Mixon’s within growing movements for many both admiration among other athletes Kap Is Still A Free Agent? WTF. Smells incidence of violence against a woman, years to come.

Unite on May Day: Stop war on migrants

Continued from page 1 civil offense. How do you lose 10,000 children? You Climate change creates forced migra- for undocumented workers, but for all Being forced to use false Social Security don’t! This is orchestrated by human tion. Let us not leave this demonstration workers. numbers to work is treated like a criminal traffickers in complicity with law en- in the hands of the liberals, who put a If ever there was a need for a glob- conviction. But the image is that migrants forcement. break on the struggle, who apologize for al women’s fightback it is now! Cis and are going around raping and murdering. If they had been 10,000 white children the capitalists or who settle, like they are trans women must work to elevate our This is Trump’s Willie Horton. — not Syrian or African or Middle East- settling for the Paris climate treaty. Let struggle and escalate the movement a This chilling terror over the migrant ern kids — there would be a worldwide us take class politics to this event. We hundredfold. community is big business for the prison-­ outcry demanding they be found. Now must settle no more! industrial complex. the only cry is from all those mothers and Two days later is May Day. Let us re- Racism and big business Two companies that have rightfully fathers who will never see their children member that it was immigrants, pri- in war on migrants earned the hatred of the anti-mass- in- again. marily from Mexico and Latin America, The Trump cabal is working 24/7 to carceration movement, ­CoreCivic (for- Trump’s entire presidential campaign who revived May Day in 2006. That was shape policy in their image, push it far merly Corrections Corporation of Amer- was predicated on law and order. Build- a great development for the workers and to the right and undo all the gains that ica) and GEO Group, operate for-profit ing that “pinche” (f*cking) wall and ban- oppressed, because this is a day that is workers and the oppressed have made. prisons and immigration detention cen- ning Muslims are the cornerstones of his clearly our day and a demonstration that Social Security, health care and environ- ters in many states and for the federal administration. Both are racist, hateful represents the interests of all who toil mental legislation are all on the chopping government. and anti-worker. and not those who exploit. block. We must fight to keep what we won Between October 2015 and September Trump’s number one goal is to divide It must be dominated politically by — and demand more. 2016, over 350,000 undocumented peo- the working class. Unity is most urgent anti-capitalist forces and genuine revolu- Under the Democratic administration ple were detained — a number that will to fight back against the growing assaults tionaries. of Barack Obama, over 2.5 million work- dramatically rise. on all people. Our weapons right now are leaflets ers were deported, more than under any As the New York Times states: “The The Trump administration’s wildly and social media to get the word out other U.S. president. worse the news for immigrants, the bet- ramped-up war drive threatens people about May Day 2017. We must organize Trump’s policies, however, are on ste- ter for the two companies. When a mem- around the world — more than either to support the April 1 action in support of roids. His unholy alliance with white su- ber of the Trump administration issues a Reagan or Bush. It is a diversion away the Black Lives Matter movement in New premacists, extreme racists and reaction- memo or executive order, gives a speech from the struggle for working-class unity. York and go to hospitals, schools, work- aries has unleashed terror. or tweets about the crackdown on immi- Trump’s budget proposal deeply slash- places and communities to get people out One goal is to drive migrant workers grants, shares of the two companies rise: es every federal agency or program that for May Day. further underground, to live in the shad- Since the election, CoreCivic’s stock price serves workers and the poor, from Meals May Day is a work day for those who ows, more and more susceptible to su- has climbed 120 percent, and Geo’s has on Wheels to winter heating aid to job have jobs. And we are urging one and all per-exploitation. gained 80 percent.” (March 10) training — all to pay for a whopping 10 not to shop, go to school or work. The Trump cabal has waved a red flag This war on migrants is profitable. And percent increase in the Pentagon. We must send the message: Immi- in front of ICE, an already angry bull, and it is worldwide. Meanwhile, Trump has already sent grants are not alone. We have their back. incited them to go after migrant workers more ground troops to Syria. This week We say no to war abroad. We demand with a hatred of the oppressed and a de- ‘Unity is most urgent’ the U.S. carried out a murderous bomb- health care, housing and education. It is sire to “make America great again” — in The United Nations Refugee Agency ing of a mosque that killed dozens. And the workers and oppressed who created other words, make America white. reported in 2016 that the deaths of refu- Trump’s secretary of state, oil baron Rex the wealth, and we want it back! As racist police occupy and terrorize gees and migrants crossing the Mediter- Tillerson, threatened war on the Demo- May Day 2017 must be a battle cry Black people and other communities of ranean Sea hit a record high. According cratic People’s Republic of Korea. against the far right! The lives of all color, ICE agents are boldly and viciously to the U.N., almost 4,000 lives have been So what do we do in the face of this cri- workers and oppressed depend on this! carrying out roundups of undocumented lost. But advocates believe that as many sis? What do we do as imperialist plun- All power to the migrants! All power and even documented workers. as 20,000 people have died at sea in the ders continue unabated and in stereo? to cis and trans women! All power to the The Latinx, Asian, Arab, Caribbean, last two decades! We have to do a lot. I will raise just two workers! African and Muslim communities are Many of the dead are from Eritrea, actions. under siege! Libya, Tunisia and Somalia, and an in- The Trump administration is waging The extra oppression of anti-Black- creasing number are from Syria as a re- war on the most vulnerable. But make no ness also hits the immigrant community. sult of ongoing U.S. intervention there. mistake: Its casualties are everyone who The Black Alliance for Just Immigration The only ones to blame for this mass is not of the 1%! Everyone who is not rich, states: “Black immigrants are much more tidal wave of migration are U.S. and Brit- white and a member of the elite ruling likely than nationals from other regions ish imperialism, which has created the class is being targeted. to be deported due to a criminal convic- conditions for people to leave their home- tion.” (stateofblackimmigrants.com) lands. Until imperialist policies are over- Fight for the working class on May Day Trump loves to paint a picture that they turned, workers will be forced to migrate. In a war, you must call out the troops. are going after hardened criminals, as if In January 2016, Europol, the Europe- And the next battle, to fight for the lives immigrants are the most violent of all. an Union’s criminal intelligence agency, of the class we love so much, is May Day. That is a boldface lie. ICE is treating the reported that at least 10,000 unaccom- But I also want to bring your attention civil violation of being in the U.S. without panied child refugees had disappeared in to the climate march set for Washington, papers as a felony criminal offense. It is a Europe. D.C., on April 29. workers.org March 30, 2017 Page 11

Rasmea Odeh forced to accept plea agreement

By Ava Lipatti Odeh spent 10 years in an Israeli prison. added to the original terms, increasing the plea bargain agreement. After migrating to the United States, the severity of the case. Although Odeh’s case is now coming to Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh became involved in the Palestinian, Given these new indictments and that a close, she leaves a legacy as a Palestin- Odeh has been fighting the courts for Arab and Muslim communities in Chica- white-supremacist Jeff Sessions is now ian freedom fighter and Chicago activist. three and a half years. Her battle against go. However, in 2013 she was arrested U.S. attorney general, the prospects for a She has become a symbol of resistance, U.S. state repression is coming to a close. by Department of Homeland Security fair trial are unlikely. Facing 18 months between her support of the Black Lives As a college student, Rasmea Odeh was officials because she did not disclose the or more of imprisonment, and potentially Matter movement and her call for a glob- “convicted” by an Israeli military court for 1969 conviction on her immigration doc- indefinite detention by Immigration and al strike on International Working Wom- alleged involvement in bombings in 1969. uments. Customs Enforcement, Odeh has decided en’s Day. Odeh’s conviction was due to a false con- Throughout Odeh’s legal battle, the to accept a plea deal. She will plead guilty Odeh’s case exposes the oppression fession she was forced to make after being conviction was included as evidence, yet to “unlawful procurement of naturaliza- and corruption of both the U.S. and Is- subjected to 25 days of physical, psycho- the use of torture and Odeh’s subsequent tion.” Although she will not have to serve raeli governments. As countries built logical and sexual torture at the hands of development of post-traumatic stress any more time in ICE detention, she will on stolen land, both U.S. and Israeli Israeli military officers. The Israeli tribu- disorder were not allowed. However, the lose her U.S. citizenship and be forced to settler-colonialism must continue to be nal prosecutors and judges are military movement led by Odeh and her defense leave the country. fought on all fronts. officers rather than civilians, whose con- team was able to force a retrial. For that, A date will soon be set for a hearing Free, free Palestine! Hands Off Ras- viction rate for Palestinians is 99 percent. indictments of “terrorist activity” were with Judge Gershwin Drain to consider mea Odeh! Cops deny assassination attempt on Aristide

By G. Dunkel that the cops fired real bullets directly at forced into exile on Feb. 29, 2004, by Haiti the crowd in order to disperse them. U.S. and French mercenaries backed The Haitian cops claim, according to “The motorcade came under fire, and by imperialist interests. Aristide was Jean Alix Pierre-Louis, a vice commis- this is tantamount to an assassination granted asylum in the Central African sioner of police, they were just respond- attempt,” said Mario Joseph, one of Aris- Republic two months later until his re- ing to the chaos that erupted March 20 in tide’s lawyers. There are bullet holes in turn to Haiti in March 2011, thanks to Port-au-Prince when a substantial crowd Aristide’s car and blood was on a head- worldwide protests inspired by the Hai- of Lavalas supporters of former Haitian light and the hood. tians’ mass protests in the streets. President Jean Bertrand Aristide met a Haïti-Liberté reports: “A widely diffused Today Haiti remains the poorest coun- small group from the Bald-Headed Hai- video of the confrontation, however, clear- try in the Western Hemisphere due to tian Party (PTKH) of current President ly shows the police shooting with leveled the deepening super-exploitation of its Jovenel Moïse. weapons. There are no images of Aristide’s people and its resources mainly by U.S., Pierre-Louis charged that there was retinue firing or even carrying weapons.” French and Canadian corporations. rock throwing and use of firearms from the (March 20) Aristide was returning home These rich capitalist countries are using supporters of both Aristide and the PTKH. after testifying as a witness in an investi- the ongoing United Nations occupation of Former President Aristide’s car Another police official, Prenel Duval, ad- gation of a money laundering case. troops as a cover for their oppression of after attack. mitted to the web service Haiti Hollywood While president of Haiti, Aristide was the Haitian masses. Cuba Solidarity conference pushes actions

Continued from page 9 will be back in Puerto Rico on May 17 and “To have one party, the Cuban Com- against resolutions calling for an end to social networks. They are eager to know hope to have him in Cuba soon.” munist Party, is a historic decision,” she the blockade, but abstained for the first more about Cuba.” Ambassador Rodriguez stressed “the said, preceded by “the Cuban Revolution- time in 2016. Ramirez expressed solidarity with sovereign right of the Cuban people to ary Party formed by our national hero The closing plenary featured a video Black Lives Matter and the fight for the self-determination. It is a right respect- Jose Marti, who realized that the only message from Gerardo Hernández, a for- rights of immigrants and Latinx people ed by the Charter of Human Rights and way for Cuba to achieve independence mer political prisoner in the U.S. who was here in the U.S., as well as “the struggle of international law. Part of that is our right was to unite all the forces fighting for freed on Dec. 17, 2014, at the time diplo- the Puerto Rican people, because we con- to preserve our prosperous and sustain- liberation. The Cuban people have been matic relations were restored. Hernán- sider that the Puerto Rican people should able socialist country. We are a social- united and led by our Communist Party. dez, who had been serving two life terms be independent and free. Cuba celebrates ist country and we will continue to be a ... The member states of the United Na- plus 15 years, said he is now free in Cuba the moment when Oscar [Lopez Rivera] ­socialist country. tions say very clearly there is no unique through “the power of solidarity.” model of democracy; each country has Wayne Smith, a former chief of mis- the sovereign right to determine its po- sion at the U.S. Interests Section in Ha- litical, economic and social model. Cuba vana from 1979 to 1982, sent a message has decided to have a socialist model on the importance of the conference “to Trump ataca en with internationalism and solidarity.” help discourage any thought on the part casa y en el exterior Rodriguez dispelled the illusion that of the new administration to move back having diplomatic relations with the U.S. in the opposite direction.” Continúa de página 12 Hace unos días el canciller mexicano means normalized relations. She pointed A Saturday night rally to fight the ganistán, general John W. Nicholson Jr., Luis Videgaray estaba en Washington. out that the U.S. still restricts travel to blockade of Cuba featured Rafael Cancel declaró recientemente al Congreso que Tracy Wilkinson, del Los Angeles Times, Cuba and that the blockade is still in place. Miranda and Andres Gomez. Drumming, podría usar “unos cuantos miles de tro- preguntó al portavoz del estado, Mark An important second plenary panel dance and jazz cultural contributions cel- pas más “ para romper el “estancamiento” Toner, cuáles eran los planes para su visi- featured Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and ebrated the day’s work and discussion. en el país. (New York Times, 9 de febrero) ta. Toner, un reconocido oficial de servicio Marietta Ulacia, executive director of the Juanita Young, whose son Malcolm Fer- Estos desarrollos representan un gran internacional, aparentemente no tenía ni Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance. The day after guson was killed by New York City police paso adelante en la autoridad política idea de que un dignatario clave estaba in- the conference, Baraka led a delegation in 2000, shared her impressions of a visit del alto mando militar bajo la adminis- cluso en la ciudad”. (Vox, 10 de marzo) El from his city to Cuba. to Cuba last year at the invitation of the tración Trump. canciller se reunió con Kushner. Federation of Cuban Women. This Afri- Solidarity actions for Cuba Por el contrario, Rex Tillerson, el jefe Sin duda, aunque el Departamento de can-American mother’s warm feelings del Departamento de Estado, ha sido Estado ejerce el llamado “poder blando” The final plenary supported ongoing toward Cuba mirrored those of the spe- mantenido fuera de las reuniones con del imperialismo estadounidense, es un projects, including the IFCO/Pastors for cial panel featuring Newark Mayor Ras los jefes de Estado por Trump, Bannon vicioso enemigo de los pueblos del mun- Peace caravan across the U.S. in April Baraka and Marietta Ulacia. y Kushner (yerno de Trump). Tillerson do. Ingenia cambios de régimen, se invo- and its challenge to the travel ban in Live streaming of the event by videog- no ha tenido ninguna aparición conjunta lucra en todo tipo de subversión contra July; the 28th Venceremos Brigade trav- raphers and streamers from the Peoples con Trump. Sus solicitudes de ayudantes los gobiernos progresistas y utiliza or- el challenge; and the newly established Video Network and the All-African Peo- han sido rechazadas. Ninguna prensa ganizaciones no gubernamentales para RESPECT organization that promotes ples Revolutionary Party are available at será permitida en su avión en un próximo promover las “revoluciones del color”. ethical travel to Cuba. The plenary also youtu.be/qOZjYJOadMY (first plenary); viaje a Japón, Corea del Sur y China. Y el Sin embargo, el cambio hacia el poder adopted a call for united action against youtu.be/TEK4Z04D84A (Cuban Am- presupuesto del Departamento de Estado militar abierto en el gobierno bajo Trump the blockade on the 17th of each month bassador to U.N. answers question on se reducirá en un 37 por ciento, mientras es un movimiento amenazador que am- and coordinated actions in the days Palestine, economic situation and block- que el Pentágono recibirá un aumento de pliará la guerra y la intervención imperi- leading up to the United Nations vote ade); youtu.be/Zm-R4xneMsg (evening 54 mil millones de dólares. alistas. next fall. For decades the U.S. had voted rally). Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

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Por Fred Goldstein millones de personas la habrán perdido. la atención preventiva y primaria. “Casi por Corea del Sur en julio de 2016, pero La OPC también estima que Medicaid 400.000 mujeres perderían el acceso a fue acelerada por fines políticos. Mien- La camarilla autoritaria Trump en la perderá $880 mil millones en 10 años la atención preventiva y hasta 650.000 tras tanto, hay una enorme crisis políti- Casa Blanca - Steve Bannon, Jared Kush- bajo el plan Trump-Ryan-Price.] habrían reducido la atención preventiva ca en Corea del Sur. Meses de masivas ner, Steven Miller y el propio Donald dentro de un año” sin los servicios de PP, manifestaciones han obligado el juicio Trump – están en una carrera final en ... los ricos obtienen cientos de miles de estima la Oficina de Responsabilidad del político y la expulsión de Park Geun-hye, torno a las instituciones del gobierno cap- millones en exenciones fiscales Gobierno. “La investigación ha demostra- la presidente reaccionaria condenada por italista tradicional. Están tratando de dar Según el Centro de Prioridades de Pre- do que cuando las mujeres de bajos in- cargos de corrupción. forma a la política y de forzarla a la dere- supuesto y Políticas: “El proyecto de ley gresos tienen acceso a la anticoncepción Las masas del pueblo surcoreano se cha en todos los frentes sin el aporte del de la Cámara Republicana para derogar gratuita, hay tasas significativamente oponen claramente al despliegue de establecimiento capitalista tradicional. y reemplazar el ACA, eliminaría los im- más bajas de abortos y embarazos no de- THAAD. Esta oposición incluye el prob- Trump y Bannon están usando la te- puestos ACA a las personas ricas y las seados en adolescentes”. (7 de marzo) able reemplazo de Park, el popular cen- oría de conspiración diciendo que el “es- compañías farmacéuticas y de seguros, tro-liberal Moon Jae-in. Moon favorece tado profundo”, refiriéndose a las agen- a través de cuentas de ahorro para la sa- Pentágono jugando con fuego en Asia la reanudación de las conversaciones con cias reguladoras, los principales medios lud. Estos cambios (más otras disposi- Al mismo tiempo que Trump está la RPDC y un retorno a la “política del de comunicación, los fiscales, los tribu- ciones más pequeñas del plan) costarían tratando de destruir el cuidado de la sa- sol” que apunta hacia la reunificación. Así nales, las agencias de espionaje, etc. son $594 mil millones de dólares entre 2017 lud, Washington está jugando con fuego que el Pentágono aprovechó este tiempo saboteadores que conspiran para socavar y 2026, estima el Comité Conjunto sobre en la península coreana mediante dos antes de las nuevas elecciones para insta- a la Casa Blanca. Esto es para despejar el Tributación (JCT). Además, el plan tra- meses de maniobras militares dirigidas lar THAAD. camino a sus ataques a inmigrantes, a la taría de compensar el costo de estas ex- a la República Popular Democrática de atención médica para las masas y al me- enciones impositivas poniendo sobre fin Corea y la República Popular de China. ... y a China dio ambiente, así como facilitar sus des- a la expansión de Medicaid de ACA, re- Los “juegos de guerra” más grandes El potente radar de THAAD también es carados regalos a los bancos, las empre- estructurando radicalmente todo el pro- de la historia incluyen 17.000 tropas es- una amenaza para China porque cuando se sas y al 1% más rico. grama de Medicaid convirtiéndolo en un tadounidenses y 300.000 tropas surcore- apunta a la RPDC no se detiene allí. Puede El gobierno de Trump y el caucus re- tope per cápita y reduciendo dramática- anas, así como equipos estadounidenses ver profundamente a China. El gobierno publicano congresional están planeando mente los subsidios que las familias con avanzados de combate. Washington ha de la República Popular China ha dicho entregar cientos de miles de millones de ingresos bajos o moderados usan para dicho que los ejercicios son estrictamente que si EUA desplegaba THAAD, sería una dólares en recortes de impuestos a los ri- comprar atención médica asequible, así defensivos. Pero los planes están clara- prueba de fuego sobre las relaciones. cos a medida que planean la revocación como otros cambios en la cobertura que mente orientados a “practicar el cambio Ahora que se ha desplegado, el min- de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Precio socavarían la salud y la seguridad finan- de régimen”. istro chino de exteriores Wang Yi, lo ha Asequible (ACA por sus siglas en inglės) ciera de millones de hogares”. Las fuerzas EUA-ROK (Corea del Sur) denunciado como una provocación que aprobada por Obama. Al mismo tiempo, Además, el CPPP afirma que los 400 también llevarán por primera vez el trastornará el “equilibrio estratégico” en Washington está jugando con fuego en contribuyentes de mayor ingreso obten- OPLAN 5015, un plan de guerra clasifi- la región. Wang, al expresar su preocu- Asia, con maniobras de guerra peligrosas drían recortes de impuestos por un pro- cado firmado el año pasado que incluye pación por los ensayos nucleares por parte y con la instalación de un sistema agre- medio de $7 millones cada uno, sumando ataques quirúrgicos contra las instala- de la RPDC, dio a los imperialistas es- sivo de antimisiles desestabilizadores en $7.800 millones al año. Los millonarios ciones de mando y control nucleares y de tadounidenses un claro mensaje de que la Corea del Sur. obtendrían recortes anuales de impues- misiles de Corea del Norte. También pide República Popular China se mantendrá al Bajo el pretexto de derogar y reempla- tos de más de $50,000 en promedio para específicamente que las Fuerzas Espe- lado de la RPDC en cualquier conflicto “in- zar al ACA, la administración Trump 2025. ciales realicen ataques de “decapitación” sistiendo en que China y Corea del Norte está apoyando un plan republicano del para neutralizar a los altos dirigentes de se mantuvieran tan cerca como diente y Congreso para recortar de $300 a $600 Cuidado de salud de la mujer Corea del Norte, según informes de pren- labio” — una expresión famosa usada por mil millones en impuestos para los ri- está en el bloque de carnicero sa. (El Diplomático, 8 de marzo) “Neu- Mao Zedong. (Guardian, 6 de marzo) cos, bajo la deliberadamente mal llama- La atención de salud para las mujeres, tralizar” significa matar. Esta frase fue utilizada por Mao du- da Ley de Cuidado de Salud Americana. especialmente las pobres, está en peligro Washington y el Pentágono justifican rante la Guerra de Corea, cuando 3 mil- Estos cientos de miles de millones de por las disposiciones de recortar los fon- sus juegos de guerra mencionando el lan- lones de voluntarios chinos ayudaron dólares dados a los ricos serán pagados dos de Planned Parenthood. Una de cada zamiento de misiles por parte de la RPDC a repeler a los invasores imperialistas por recortes en la cobertura médica para 5 mujeres estadounidenses ha visitado al mar de Japón. Pero los misiles fueron estadounidenses. Así que el mensaje es los pobres, los ancianos y las mujeres en una clínica de PP para servicios de anti- lanzados en respuesta a las maniobras inequívoco. general, incluyendo aquellos con enfer- conceptivos, exámenes de detección de de guerra. La RPDC está rodeada de es- medades mentales y adicciones. Los es- cáncer, pruebas y tratamiento para en- tados hostiles, entre ellos el imperialis- Se amplía papel de los generales, timados de la cantidad de personas que fermedades de transmisión sexual o ter- ta Japón, la marioneta estadounidense declina el Departamento de Estado van a perder su cobertura oscilan entre 5 minación de embarazo. Y el 78 por ciento de Corea del Sur y el propio ejército es- El despliegue repentino del sistema y 15 millones. de ellas tienen ingresos inferiores al 150 tadounidense, que cuenta con 28.000 de misiles THAAD en medio de una Los republicanos han lanzado su plan por ciento del nivel de pobreza. soldados en Corea del Sur y 54.000 sol- situación militarmente cargada cerca de antes de que la Oficina de Presupuesto Vox reportó: “Los más de $500 mil- dados en Japón, 12 bases estadounidens- China y la RPDC debe verse junto a otros del Congreso pueda evaluar su impacto. lones que PP recibe anualmente del es en Hawái y 5.000 tropas y numerosos acontecimientos menos dramáticos pero Trump y el presidente de la Cámara Paul gobierno federal—los fondos que los aviones en Guam, entre otros lugares de significativos. Ryan temen una evaluación negativa y republicanos en el Congreso ahora quie- la región. Hubo el despliegue de más de 400 Ma- por eso ya han tratado de desacreditar ren quitar—pagan por servicios de salud rines a Siria para fortalecer las fuerzas que a la OPC, denunciándola por “inexacti- como el control de la natalidad o el exam- Sistema antimisiles dirigidos a la RPDC... trataban de capturar la capital del grupo tudes” y “exageraciones”. en del cáncer cervical a personas que no Para sumar a las provocaciones de las EI, Raqqa. Estas fuerzas convencionales podrían costearlo. maniobras de guerra de EUA y Corea se añaden a los cientos de Fuerzas Espe- Mientras millones de personas pierden “La mayoría de los fondos (75 por cien- del Sur, Washington anunció que había ciales que ya están allí. Los Marines es- atención médica bajo el plan republica- to) son en realidad reembolsos de Med- comenzado el despliegue del sistema de tán equipados con helicópteros Apache y no... icaid, el programa de seguro de salud defensa terminal de área de alta altitud obuses M777 capaces de disparar proyec- El Instituto Brookings, un centro de pública de EUA para los pobres. (THAAD) en la base aérea de Osari en tiles de 155mm, entre otras armas. Su de- investigación capitalista, ha tratado de “[El proyecto de ley] amenaza con Corea del Sur. spliegue representa una clara escalada de advertir al público de antemano. Emitió desmantelar todo el mercado de seguros THAAD es una adición relativamente la guerra de EUA en Siria. un informe estimando que 15 millones privados para la cobertura del aborto, no nueva al arsenal de defensa de misiles El Pentágono también ha escalado la de personas o más perderán su atención sólo el financiamiento público para prov- del ejército EUA. Producido por Lock- guerra en Yemen. Anteriormente la guer- médica durante los próximos 10 años. eedores de aborto: Si una mujer quiere heed Martin (y con un precio de más ra la llevaba a cabo Arabia Saudí, con Brookings utilizó métodos y estimados un plan de seguro médico que abarque de mil millones de dólares por sistema), apoyo logístico y material del Pentágo- anteriores de la OPC para su análisis. el aborto, ella (y posiblemente su em- THAAD consta de una batería de misiles no. Recientemente, los comandantes es- [Luego de la publicación de este artícu- pleador) no podrá usar créditos tributar- interceptores lanzados por camiones y tadounidenses en el campo han recibido lo, la OPC emitió su informe donde supera ios para comprarlo bajo este proyecto de un poderoso radar de banda X que puede nueva autorización para realizar incur- con creces los estimados de Brookings. La ley”. (7 de marzo) detectar, rastrear y dirigir amenazas de siones en aldeas y ataques con drones, sin bipartidista OPC estima que 14 millones ThinkProgress señaló que el 60 por misiles entrantes. la aprobación previa de la Casa Blanca. perderán su atención médica para 2018, ciento de la financiación de PP proviene La decisión de desplegar este sistema El comandante estadounidense en Af- dentro de un año. Y para el año 2026, 24 de fondos de Medicaid y Título IX para antimisiles fue hecha en 2013 y acordada Continúa a página 11