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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! MAY 17, 2007 VOL. 49, NO. 19 50¢ MayMay 1717 isis FreeFree MumiaMumia Time!Time! The challenge: racist police terror must not win!

IMMIGRANTS ON THE MARCH Protests condemn LAPD terror Houston hunger strike Michigan & ‘Minutemen’ Milwaukee interview 2-3

SUPREME COURT v WOMEN Abortion rights under attack 5

Havana Conference supports CUBAN 5 11

BUSH & SARKOZY Rightist becomes president of France 8

CUBA battles CENTERFOLD Resistingting the death penaltypenalty anti-gay bigotry 10 Prison targets Muslims Panthers salute Mumia WOMEN’S Support the MOVE 9! INTERNATIONAL Meets in Latin America 9 By Larry Holmes and Monica Moorehead The government has always had two Family and Friends of Mumia have worked plans for Mumia: plan A to execute him tirelessly with many others to hold togeth- Abu-Jamal’s struggle and plan B to relegate him to life in prison er the world movement to free Mumia. MUMIA for freedom finally without parole. The government’s hope Another reason that Mumia will never has another day in court. That day is Thurs- was that 9/11 would help them carry out be just a memory is Mumia himself. Mumia SUBSCRIBE TO day, May 17, at 9:30 a.m. in the U.S. Third plan B, and maybe even plan A. has never forgotten the world. Even from Circuit Court of Appeals at 6th and Market The police, the judges, the politicians his tiny death-row prison cell in a remote WORKERS WORLD Streets in downtown Philadelphia. and the super-rich people whose inter- area near the Pennsylvania/West Virginia 4 weeks trial subscription $1 This is a rare event. ests they serve hoped that in a climate of border, Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to It has been almost six years since war and repression against immigrants, write and speak on the important issues of One year subscription: $25 Mumia’s struggle for freedom has had a against youths of color, against women, the day such as on Don Imus, the Virginia day in court. The last one was Aug. 17, against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans Tech killings, immigrant rights, Katrina, Name ______2001. That was only weeks before Bush people, and against civil liberties, people Iraq, Cuba, Africa and Venezuela. His Address ______and the capitalist ruling class here start- would be too busy fi ghting an avalanche most recent book, “We Want Freedom,” ed using 9/11 as an excuse to invade and of attacks to keep the movement to free is a loving, passionate tribute to the Black City/State/Zip ______occupy fi rst Afghanistan and then Iraq, Mumia alive. Panther Party, which he joined as a youth and open up a new phase of U.S. impe- But the world has not forgotten about in Philadelphia. Phone______email______rialism’s endless war against the people Mumia. One of the principal reasons that It seems that no matter how hard the Workers World Newspaper of the world, including those here at Mumia remains on our mind is that free- government tries to murder, demonize or 55 W. 17 St. NY, NY 10011 home, most notably now the survivors of dom fi ghters like Pam Africa and Julia bury Mumia, they cannot silence the “voice 212-627-2994 www.workers.org Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Wright from International Concerned Continued on page 7 Page 2 May 17, 2007 www.workers.org Immigrant organizer demands ‘Fair legalization & worker protection’ In the U.S. Christine Neumann-Ortiz, director of the Milwaukee- And an end to the raids because I think the whole May 17 is Free Mumia Time! ...... 1 based Voces de la Frontera, spoke with Workers agenda behind the raids is an attempt to disorganize and Immigrant organizer interview ...... 2 World reporter Bryan G. Pfeifer at the “A Day Without intimidate. It’s also been part of the agenda and effort to Latinos” Statewide Civil Rights March and Boycott, really disintegrate the Latino family structure, which has San Francisco 8 shackled in court ...... 2 May 1, in Milwaukee, Wis. been a source of strength for these families. … And the Protests denounce police terror ...... 3 Voces de la Frontera, a member of the Wisconsin raids tear families apart. They’re [the government] doing Young hunger strikers demand immigrant rights ...... 3 this in very violent ways: sending in automatic weapons, Legalization Coalition, was the main organizer of the MSU students protest racist ‘minuteman’ ...... 3 march and rally of over 80,000, one of the largest pro- coming into peoples homes, coming into their workplace, Mumia: ‘Viva May Day’ ...... 3 gressive events in state history and one of the largest treating them as if they were mass murderers. … So I actions in the U.S. for May Day 2007. May Day 2006 think people are making a statement today that we’re not The Flint sit-down strike ...... 4 in Milwaukee drew 70,000. going to be intimidated. We’re not going to be driven into Con Edison and the subways: greed kills ...... 4 the shadows. We expect respect. Building support for Mumia ...... 5 Workers World: Why are you marching today? WW: What do you see as a connection between the Supreme Court sides with anti-woman ideologues . . . . . 5 Christine Neumann-Ortiz: immigrant rights movement and the anti-war move- PURE statement in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal ...... 6 We’re marching as part as a national ment and why does Voces de la Frontera work to Prison offi cials discriminate against Muslim prisoners . . . 6 day of action for more comprehen- unite these two struggles? sive immigration reform. Activities to support the MOVE 9! ...... 6 CNO: Because you see the same companies benefi t- WW: What has been the response Racism, resistance & the death penalty ...... 7 ing off militarization abroad that are benefi ting from in the Latin@ community, labor and the criminalization of the immigrant community Around the world other community organizations to and the militarization of the border. Boeing, GE, this march and rally? Workers promise ‘war’ if auto giants close...... 4 Halliburton. The very same companies who’ve been French elect rightist to attack workers’ rights ...... 8 CNO: It’s been phenomenal. It’s very exposed for corporate corruption in the war that Pakistan movement grows to confront dictatorship . . . . 8 comparable to May 1 last year. So it’s now 70 percent of the American public recognizes as an illegitimate war are the very same companies Women’s International meets in Latin America ...... 9 again one of the largest marches in Christine Neumann-Ortiz Wisconsin’s history. that stand to gain and are gaining from this attack Lavender and red, part 97 ...... 10 on immigrants. And it really serves this function. Havana conference mobilizes solidarity for Cuban 5 . . . 11 WW: What are the demands of this march and rally and And part of the other reason we felt it was important where are you going from here? Workers Day celebrated worldwide ...... 11 [to unite the immigrant and anti-war movement] was CNO: The most fundamental demand is fair legalization, because these issues were being pitted against each other by which we mean fi xing our immigration system in a way when we were talking to elected offi cials. ... When you Editorials that is going to lead to a path of earned citizenship for consider that $467 billion has been spent on the Iraq war Iraq war comes home ...... 10 people who are already in this country. And something this year alone and then immigrants are being used as the that is going to maintain strong workers’ rights protec- scapegoat for all of the economic problems. Noticias En Español tions for people within the country or for any immigrant The other critical point that I think is never really talk- Por que Wolfowitz está bajo fuego? ...... 12 in this country regardless of immigration status. ed about enough is the fact that the undocumented work- We want strong worker protections and benefi ts for all ers, young men 18 to 25, are required, like U.S. citizens, to Mensaje de Mumia para el 1º de Mayo ...... 12 workers. And we want increased visas to address the tre- enroll in the Selective Service for an emergency draft. So mendous backlog in family visas, so families can be united you have to wonder if the whole justifi cation for denying and not have to be concerned about whether they’re not them citizenship is that they’re a national security threat Workers World going to see their husbands or wives or children again. yet that same government forces, requires legally with 55 West 17 Street And then of course an end to the dastardly policy of just a threat of incarceration, undocumented young men to New York, N.Y. 10011 militarizing more and more of the border which is caus- enroll in an emergency draft to fi ght and die for this coun- Phone: (212) 627-2994 ing more people to die. try. So that’s the kind of hypocrisy in the system. Fax: (212) 675-7869 E-mail: [email protected] San Francisco 8 shackled in court Web: www.workers.org Vol. 49, No. 19 • May 17, 2007 Closing date: May 9, 2007 By V. Edwards on bail, which is now set at $3 mil- San Francisco lion for each defendant. 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From Mumia Abu-Jamal on death row Protests denounce police terror Viva against immigrant march May By John Parker is not a witch hunt. This is not a feeling of Los Angeles having to ‘hang ‘em high’….Not a single Day! Metro offi cer at this time has been suspend- The following transcript is from an audio In reaction to growing anger over life- ed. There is no rush to judgment by me.” message played at May Day rallies around the threatening police brutality against wom- The video clearly shows exactly what hap- country. Go to prisonradio.org to hear more en, men and children, a police commission pened and who was responsible for the cop commentaries by Mumia. hearing was held May 8 at LAPD head- riot, from the commanding offi cers down to On the move! Long Live John Africa. There quarters downtown, starting at 2 p.m. By the club-swinging, shotgun-toting cops. It are only two peoples living on the land we 4 p.m. many people were still waiting to belies the early police excuses that the police call America who weren’t immigrants—the speak. Most of them called for the fi ring of attack was a response to “anarchists.” Indigenous, so-called Indians—and African Americans who were dragged here in chains Police Chief William Bratton. According to the police, about 30—down TV camera operator beaten by Los Angeles and terror. Outside the hearing, loud and militant police. from their May 5 estimate of 100—youth Every other person immigrated here or chants could be heard from in front of are to blame for provoking the cops. But his ancestors did from Europe, from China, police headquarters. Chanters were call- at City Hall. Anger against this police ter- instead of isolating these individuals, who from India, from Ireland and yes, from Mexico. ing the police pigs, lackeys and terrorists. ror has been spreading as the video of the the cops claim were throwing bottles at Truth be told, America was a land of Spanish The tone of this demonstration was angry incident is shown almost daily on major them, the police pushed the youths into settlement long before it became English and and militant. television networks. the park a considerable distance until they there’s the rub. Cop Watch, a group that videotapes The video shows indiscriminate mili- were forced into the demonstration. The The brouhaha over immigration today is police on the streets, organized the action. tary-style and humiliating attacks against cops then began their racist riot. mostly a fear of the browning of America. At MacArthur Park during the May Day a crowd in a park that contained many Lawsuits have been fi led and immigrant Imagine that. The people who originally lived in what’s now California, New Mexico, Arizona, demonstration for immigrant rights, Cop children. Victims of the assault also rights movement organizers are strategiz- Texas, Colorado, easily a third of what’s now Watch members had been assaulted by included celebrity journalists from the ing as to the next action. Many—including known as the United States, are to be seen as police trying to terrorize the crowd. Spanish-language news media. leaders of the March 25th Coalition, permanent outsiders, invaders even, because A Cop Watch organizer addressed the People are also angry at Mayor Antonio whose march of almost 100,000 earlier on of their brown skins, their Spanish speech, rally, saying: “When the police come to Villaraigosa, who was quick to show his May 1 was temporarily disrupted by police their Catholicism, and their unremitting us with clubs we need to meet them with support for Chief Bratton despite this rac- interference—believe the attack was a con- hunger for land and labor. clubs, when they come to us with shot- ist police assault. On May 7 Villaraigosa scious decision made by top city and per- On this May Day, a day sanctifi ed for labor, guns we need to meet them with shotguns, implied that his decision over whether haps state offi cials to attempt to squash how can we turn our backs on some of the when they come to us with a marshmal- to renew Bratton’s contract would not be the immigrant rights movement and the hardest-working people in America? Don’t low we need to beat the hell out of them swayed by these events. rebirth of May Day as a workers’ holiday alienate them; organize them. Bring them into the farm workers’ union. Draft them into a with a marshmallow.” Bratton’s contract is due for renewal here in the U.S. national carpenters’ union. After all, ain’t they Cops had beat and clubbed people and this year. It is expected to be approved, For this and many other reasons, it is workers? Celebrate May Day by building work- then shot 240 rounds of rubber bullets although the only action Bratton has taken vital that solidarity for the immigrant ers’ movements. On the move! Viva May Day! against a very peaceful demonstration to discipline the cops has been to reassign struggle from the progressive and anti- From death row, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal. soon after the May 1 Boycott action held two offi cers. Bratton told the media, “This war movement continue to grow. BOOKS BY MUMIA Young hunger strikers demand immigrant rights We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black By Gloria Rubac Panther Party is an important history of Houston the founding of the Philadelphia Black Over a dozen activists in Houston’s Panther Party. Latino community began a six-day hun- Mumia, known to ger strike on May Day, called by the the world as a wrongly Coalition in Defense of Immigrants. Each convicted political pris- oner held for 25 years day the fasters sat outside for eight hours in Pennsylvania's death in front of a different location, including row, is exacting and the headquarters of both major electoral luminous in his history parties, the offi ce of U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey and analysis of the Black liberation struggle. Hutchison (R-Texas), and in two popular South End Press, 2004, Paperback: 320pp, community parks. All Things Censored, is Mumia Abu- Each day members of the coalition as Jamal’s major release with more than 75 writ- well as other organizations and activists ings, composed by Mumia with the cartridge came out to support the strike. On the last of a ball point pen — in his death row cell. day, the crowd in Moody Park was treat- He writes on the ironies that abound within ed to hours of Indigenous dances from the U.S. prison system, the consequences of those ironies for us all, and his own case. Mexico. The performers were in strikingly Mumia’s composure, colorful Native clothing and headdresses PHOTO: LIANA LOPEZ humor, and connection adorned with long pheasant feathers, con- Hunger strikers at Burnet Bayland Park. to the living world sidered sacred by Indigenous people. around him represents Six youths fasted for the full six days together in condemnation of our society’s coverage was generated in Houston for an irrefutable victory over the “corrections” and others participated for a day or two shameful treatment of immigrants and immigrant rights and against the raids, system that has for in solidarity. In the initial press state- its unwillingness to protect their funda- particularly in El Día, Houston’s daily two decades sought to ment, the coalition stated, “We are coming mental human rights and dignity.” News Spanish-language paper. isolate and silence him. Seven Stories Press, 2000, Soft Cover, MSU students protest racist ‘minuteman’ 334 p.p., Photos, Art “They want me to die By Cheryl LaBash supporters told the story of how Latin@ ist meeting, although students called out alone—silently.” Detroit and other students of color were singled to them as they were removed from the —Mumia Abu-Jamal out for repression. “I was one of the fi rst room and arrested. Live from Death Row Wherever racist anti-immigrant people asked to leave, and I was one of Students are demanding that the uni- is a collection of prison versity drop the charges and instead take so-called “minuteman” Chris Simcox the last to exit,” said Margo Cotter, who is writings—an account appears, student protests erupt. When white. “I don’t know if it would have been action against the racist anti-immigrant of the brutalities and Simcox appeared at Michigan State different had I been a person of color, but and anti-LGBT organizers on campus. humiliations of prison University on April 19, though, the school the only logical answer to that in my mind All events are documented on YouTube life. It is also a indict- administration and campus police worked is ‘yes.’” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT84sMU ment of racism and political bias in the U.S. Campus cops climbed over white pro- wNu0&mode=related&search=) hand in hand with Simcox and racist stu- judicial systemand the the death penalty. dent organizations like Young Americans testors to attack people of color, taking In an escalation of repression against “A tough, true, timely book. You cannot read for Freedom to brutalize Latin@ students their cues from the right-wing students Latin@ activists, police raided an off- it and remain unmoved.” —E.L. Doctorow and suppress anti-racist protest, arrest- who pointed out Latinos for arrest. The campus home two weeks after the MSU A rare and courageous voice speaking from a ing fi ve students. Two are charged with fi rst person ushered out by the police was arrests. place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard. “ —Alice Walker felonies. a Muslim woman who sat quietly in the Last fall a coalition of student groups Avon Books, 1996, Paperback, 188pp On April 20, holding a large banner, meeting, had no sign and didn’t chant. including LGBT campus organizations “Ningún ser humano es illegal! No human University administration offi cials looked forced the university to cancel a racist The books above are available at being is illegal” Latin@ students and their on approvingly and stayed inside the rac- anti-immigrant “game.” www.leftbooks.com Page 4 May 17, 2007 www.workers.org

The Flint sit-down strike Workers confronted state repression

By Martha Grevatt The context for his initiatives and imagi- Little Steel Strike. Eighteen pickets were Martin Dies from Colorado began hear- native legislation was an insurgent work- gunned down, including 10 who died in ings of the House Special Committee on In today’s political climate, many union ing class. The working class was beginning Chicago during the infamous Memorial Un-American Activities, denouncing the activists are focused on 2008 and “taking to assert itself in an unprecedented way, Day Massacre. sit-down strike as Communist-led. Four back” the White House for the Democratic and was entirely in accord with the revolu- During the Flint strike itself, the days of testimony attacked even Michigan Party, cleaving to the premise that the tionary working-class struggles in Europe. unarmed workers faced a military alliance Gov. Frank Murphy for “treasonable Democrats are the party of the working Roosevelt’s politics refl ected the need to of General Motors (GM), the city adminis- action” in failing to enforce the above- class. deal with the urgency of the economic sit- tration, the judges, the police, the National mentioned injunction. Others more critical of the current uation and the militancy Guard and armed vigi- Murphy is one whom sit-down histori- Democratic Party leadership, who want of the workers.” lantes whom the city ans generally portray in a favorable light, to take “their” party back, clamor for a The National Recovery manager had deputized. calling him a “peacemaker” or even a return to the New Deal “democracy” under Act, the cornerstone of During the Jan. 11 “Battle “man of principle.” The governor played Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was president New Deal politics, could of the Running Bulls,” the key role of mediator in this historic from 1933 to 1945. not by itself hold back retreating cops managed showdown between labor and capital. It However, a closer look at the role of the violence of the capi- to shoot and wound 14 was undeniable that Murphy was under the state during the Flint sit-down strike talist state against the strikers and supporters. tremendous and confl icting pressures: on and the whole labor upsurge of the 1930s working class. Scores of LABOR. Union leaders Bob the one hand from the insurgent work- shows a different picture. striking workers were Travis, Victor and ers’ movement that had just elected him Unquestionably, the Roosevelt adminis- murdered by police or by HISTORY. Roy Reuther, Henry and on the other from “the lawful own- tration enacted a huge number of bold pro- extra-legal goon squads while the police Kraus and three oth- ers” of industry and their money-fearing gressive measures, but as Workers World looked on. Untold numbers were beaten, ers were arrested subordinates in Washington. His personal Party founder Sam Marcy pointed out in a shot at, wounded, arrested and fi red, and and charged with unlawful assembly and sympathies may well have been with the 1995 article in Workers World newspaper, even their young children were terrorized. malicious destruction of property, charges workers. Yet by February Murphy was “Roosevelt was able to do this based on the The worst violence occurred in 1937, the which were later dropped. A Feb. 2 injunc- finally prepared to order the National virtual breakdown of the capitalist system. year of the sit-down victory, during the tion not only demanded the eviction of Guard to evict the strikers from the plants the strikers inside the plants but banned they had occupied since December 1936. peaceful picketing outside. He had secretly shared with Congress of EUROPE. GM strikers in Anderson, Ind., had to Industrial Organizations (CIO) head John conduct their struggle in a total police L. Lewis a letter to that effect. state atmosphere. The “Citizens League” There was no order to fi re. On Feb. 9 Workers promise ‘war’ of 300 local businessmen told organizer Lewis informed the governor “that when Hugh Thompson to “get out of Anderson, you issue that order I shall enter one of and do it now, while it is still safe.” A Jan. those plants with my own people … and if auto giants close 25 union meeting had to be canceled after the militia will have the pleasure of shoot- League threats. Later that night GM fore- ing me out of the plants.” Earlier, Murphy By Martha Grevatt rejects that “if.” men beat up union supporters, and a had received a telegram from the strikers Meanwhile a one-week strike at GM’s pro-company mob laid siege to the union informing him that they would disregard The struggle continues to save 1,600 Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium, has been hall. Thompson, 13 other adults and a an injunction ordering them out by Feb. Delphi workers’ jobs in Cádiz, Spain. Since extended to protest GM’s threatened job four-year-old were escorted out by police 3. “We fully expect that if a violent effort the announced plant closing earlier this cuts. GM workers across Europe held and sheriffs and taken to jail, from where is made to oust us, many of us will be year, there has been no let up in the mili- a one-day strike in solidarity with their Thompson fl ed the town. killed,” the telegram read. “If this result tancy in streets throughout the Andalucía Belgian sisters and brothers. A nation- Union leaders were beaten up and driv- follows from the attempt to eject us, you region. There have been huge protests, a wide autoworkers’ strike in Germany was en from Saginaw, Mich., in a similar fash- are the one who must be held responsible sit-down and a general strike April 18 in averted at the last minute when Porsche, ion, with GM foremen again recognized for our deaths.” It was not the strength of 14 cities. Delphi unions took part in the Bosch, and DaimlerChrysler agreed to among the goons who attacked them. Murphy’s supposedly tortured conscience huge May Day protests across Spain. On at worker demands. Short strikes were also Where were the Democratic friends of but the strength of the determined work- least three occasions, most recently May 7, held at the Volkswagen plant in Skoda, labor? Why could they not take legal action ers, personifi ed in Lewis’s defi ance, that workers have blocked roads with burning Czech Republic, to protest job cuts there. against govern ment agents who were vio- stayed the hand of the capitalist state and barricades. While not yet widespread, sit-down lating First Amendment rights? Is it not brought GM to the bargaining table. The workers are singing “No Nos strikes are happening here and there—in ille gal for government to deny a group of Praise belongs not to the peacemak- Moverán”—the Spanish translation of Canada, Australia and Spain. On April 18 people their constitutional rights? ers who only mediate the conditions of the old labor standard, “We Shall Not Be at an electronics plant in Southern Wales, Later, when the sit-down wave sub- exploitation, nor to the politicians who Moved.” They chant “Si Delphi cierra, 130 Solectron employees, all slated to lose sided, only a handful of Democrats in make concessions in the heat of battle. It guerra, guerra, guerra.” (If Delphi closes, their jobs, sat down to protest a visit by Congress opposed a 1938 bill making the belongs to those courageous workers who war, war, war) However, the most popu- European Union Vice President Thomas sit-down tactic illegal—a bill that Roosevelt put their lives on the line for the better- lar banner slogan, “Delphi is not closing,” Schraeder. signed. That same year, Democratic Rep. ment of their class. Con Edison and the subways: greed kills

By G. Dunkel plained to the Public Service Commission another sign of this lack of maintenance. didn’t work. They had to go outside and New York (PSC). But Con Ed bosses obviously feel no across the street to a fare booth that was “You wouldn’t want a limousine driver to shame. Con Ed just fi led a petition with still staffed to ask central control to turn Con Edison is leading a determined respond to a fi re until the Fire Department the PSC on May 4 for a rate increase that off the power. campaign that critics say will bilk and could get there any more than you would would bring in an additional $1.2 billion The subsequent investigation revealed endanger its customers, and overload and want a limo driver to respond to a Con a year. Residential rates would go up by that 70 emergency switches in the system underpay its workers. Edison emergency,” said John Duffy, vice 17 percent a year and commercial rates by don’t work and weren’t marked. After stray voltage from Con Edison president of Local 1-2. 10.6 percent. Now they are marked and the Transit killed a woman who fell on a metal utility- The PSC ignored the union’s Con Edison is not the only large institu- Authority, which runs the New York City hole cover while walking her dog in 2004, complaints. tion in New York that ignores safety and subways, has promised to fix them as the company agreed to spend $10 mil- While Con Edison ducked the ques- maintenance. The past two weeks saw two “soon as possible.” lion to detect stray voltage on the streets tion, some reporters checked the limou- subway track workers killed. The TA is hinting that the workers of New York City to settle the lawsuit her sine companies and estimated that about At one incident, when track workers involved in these tragedies were taking family brought. 1,000 drivers got an 8-hour shift doing tried to turn off power to the third rail, shortcuts. One of the survivors, speak- However, the fi rst four months of this Con Edison’s “public warning” duty at they found the emergency switch didn’t ing at the funeral of his co-worker, made year, according to a Con Edison spokes- $150 a shift. work. They ran to the other end of the plat- it clear that they were doing exactly what person, nearly 2,000 hot spots were The PSC has been currently forced to form and pulled that emergency switch. It they were told to do. identifi ed, twice the rate of last year. The conduct hearings on why Con Edison took workforce at Con Edison is so depleted 10 days to restore service last summer to Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle that there is no way workers can get repair 150,000 customers in northwest Queens A new book from World View Forum crews to many of these spots in a timely during a heat wave. The union’s position The following sections present an outline of the contents • Black liberation fashion. on the cause of the power outage is that & the working-class struggle • The material basis for reparations in the U.S. So the company began hiring livery Con Edison basically is not maintain- • Brief overview of racist oppression & heroic resistance • What Hurricane Katrina drivers to park near the hot spots and to ing its distribution network to the level it exposed to the world • Africa: A battleground against colonialism and for put up cones and warning signs. When the should. sovereignty • Justice for the Caribbean • A salute to women revolutionaries. Utility Workers Union of America Local The thousands of extremely dangerous • Why fi ght-back is inevitable • Black labor and class solidarity 1-2 noticed what was going on, it com- hot spots throughout New York City are Order online from Leftbooks.com www.workers.org May 17, 2007 Page 5

Building support for Mumia ‘Don’t let them kill an innocent man’ By Betsey Piette was deported in 1927. leave a big stack right here on the counter.” to learn that they are available on line Philadelphia “The newsletter provides facts about At a nearby beauty salon on 52nd Street, through www.prisonradio.org. Mumia’s case, but it also covers a lot more customers got out of their chairs to get With less than two weeks before Abu- Hot off the presses and fl ying off the issues including the war, police brutality, papers, excited to hear that Abu-Jamal’s Jamal’s critical hearing on four appeals of shelves! With the bold banner headline the elections, and it has articles in Span- case was fi nally going to be heard in the his 1982 conviction, getting out informa- “Don’t let them kill an innocent man,” ish.” Africa noted: “It makes the point that U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, but angry tion on his case and letting people know a new four-page newsletter, designed all these struggles are really one. People that the state has never released him from about the May 17 hearings is the number- to raise awareness about Mumia Abu- especially liked the ‘Peoples’ Ballot’ mail-in death row. one priority. The Fraternal Order of Police Jamal’s 25-year-long struggle to win coupon where they could check off ‘I vote Further down the street at the corner of has been on a neo-fascistic rampage try- freedom from Pennsylvania’s death row, for a NEW TRIAL for Mumia Abu-Jamal’. Baltimore and 52nd, one man told of grow- ing to silence support for Abu-Jamal as is being enthusiastically received all over “When I went to visit Mumia at SCI- ing up listening to Abu-Jamal’s radio com- the court date draws closer. Just like Bush Philadelphia. Green I handed them out to family mem- mentaries. He’d already given away his administration cover-ups around the war “I never had people take papers like bers of other death row prisoners on the fi rst copy of the newsletter to his father so in Iraq, the FOP is trying to stop the truth this before,” sister Pam Africa from Inter- bus who all wanted more copies to take he took another, and then took a stack that about Abu-Jamal from getting out. national Concerned Family and Friends of back home.” he started handing out on the spot. When the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Mumia Abu-Jamal told Workers World. Thanks to the volunteer efforts of just When an elderly African-American man reviews the case it will decide whether “You go into a place and put down a stack a few individuals, over 15,000 copies of with limited vision received the paper and Mumia Abu-Jamal gets a new trial, life in of papers. Before you get home, people are the newsletter were given out in New York learned what it was about he asked the vol- prison without parole, or execution. The calling asking for more!” City and Philadelphia in less than a week. unteer to repeat the details of Abu-Jamal’s whole world is watching how the Third Africa reported that the newslet- Now calls are coming in from other cities upcoming hearing on May 17 at 9 am at Circuit will rule. ter is particularly popular at the North asking for the papers. the federal courthouse at 6th and Market We must let them know where we stand: Philadelphia offi ce of the Universal Negro Throughout Philadelphia wherever Streets several times so he could remem- Only Mumia’s release or a new trial is Improvement Association, where they papers have been dropped off, at laun- ber it. “I’ll be there!” he promised. acceptable! Go to www.millions4mumia. were excited to see that it includes an dromats, barber shops, delis, beauty par- At Market and 11th Streets in Center org to download the “Don’t Let Them Kill article on UNIA founder Marcus Garvey lors, pizza or Chinese take-out shops, the City, one man out shopping with his chil- an Innocent Man” newspaper, the May 17 focused around the struggle for immigrant response has been the same. One west Philly dren took a paper and commented that leafl et and poster. To buy New York bus rights. The Honorable Marcus Garvey was pizza shop owner told a volunteer, “You he wished he could still hear Abu-Jamal’s tickets to go to Philadelphia on May 17, an immigrant worker from Jamaica who know the cops won’t like this, but you can radio commentaries. He was thrilled call 212-633-6646. The whip of reaction Supreme Court sides with anti-woman ideologues

By Kris Hamel being called a “free-for-all” with the expec- tation that dozens of states will introduce The April 18 U.S. Supreme Court deci- and pass restrictions on women’s right to sion restricting women’s right to abor- abortion. One or more of these laws will tion will go down in history as a landmark then be reviewed by the high court, which reactionary ruling, with far-reaching con- is now postured to overturn Roe. sequences for reproductive rights and The majority opinion written by Ken- women’s rights in general. The court’s fi ve nedy is a highly reactionary political docu- to four ruling in Gonzalez vs. Carhart et ment that adopts and embraces the lan- al. is a vicious attack meant to signal that guage of anti-choice rhetoric and unprov- women’s right to choose abortion may be en, unscientifi c notions regarding women overturned by the high court altogether in and abortion. In the 39-page decision, the the not too distant future. (www.supreme- term “mother,” ostensibly meant to indi- courtus.gov/opinions) cate a pregnant woman, is used 23 times. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Jus- Female anatomical terms are used over 36 tices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Anto- times; “baby” or “infant” is used 11 times, nin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy—who and the word “kill” 28 times. wrote the decision—in overturning three Even the words “love” and “moral” are rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the included in the decision—for example: second, eighth, and ninth federal judicial WWPHOTO: JOHN CATALINOTTO “Respect for human life fi nds an ultimate circuits, which had found the “Partial- Hundreds of thousands of women defend abortion rights, Washington, D.C., April 2004. expression in the bond of love the mother Birth Abortion Ban Act” unconstitutional has for her child. The Act recognizes this for failing to protect women’s health. longer allowed a role in women’s and doc- guage also puts a cloud of doubt on proce- reality as well. Whether to have an abor- The grossly misnamed federal law tor’ decisions on the best type of post-fi rst- dures used for fi rst-trimester abortions as tion requires a diffi cult and painful moral was passed by Congress and signed by trimester abortion procedure for a par- well. Anti-choice advocates have uniformly decision … While we fi nd no reliable data President George W. Bush in 2003, but was ticular patient. Decades of legislative and expressed glee that laws introducing more to measure the phenomenon, it seems never enforced because of legal challenges judicial rulings guided by the principle of abortion restrictions without regard to a unexceptionable to conclude some wom- led by Planned Parenthood Federation safeguarding women’s health have been pregnant woman’s health or the stage of en come to regret their choice to abort of America, the American Civil Liberties tossed aside with the stroke of a pen, with fetal development will now be passed and the infant life they once created and sus- Union, the National Abortion Federation the justices providing no cogent reason in legally upheld. tained.” (550 U.S. 2007, at 28-29) and the Center for Reproductive Rights. their decision. The Supreme Court stated in its decision The decision accepts the unproven and The Supreme Court, in upholding the While many people erroneously believe that the 2003 federal law “… appl[ies] both unscientific idea touted by right-wing 2003 federal ban, essentially ruled as ille- that only women who are too “lazy,” “self- pre-viability and post-viability because … anti-choice ideologues that choosing gal certain procedures used in post-fi rst- ish,” “irresponsible” or “intellectually a fetus is a living organism while within abortion somehow “hurts women” and trimester abortions, procedures referred to diminished” could “put off” having abor- the womb, whether or not it is viable out- women must be protected from regretting by physicians and the medical community tions in the fi rst trimester, nothing could side the womb.” (550 U.S. 2007, at 17) their decisions. But there is no reputable as dilation and extraction (D&X) or intact be further from the truth. The federal abor- Advocates of “fetal personhood” are now scientifi c study of any kind that proves dilation and evacuation (D&E). Medical tion ban will especially affect older women, emboldened to push for laws wherein that abortion harms women psychologi- professionals have decried the term “par- who after second-trimester amniocentesis women’s rights will be secondary to the cally or physically. tial birth abortion” as a politically charged may fi nd out they are carrying a dead or rights of fetuses. The court’s language in Carhart has and unscientific term meant to restrict dying fetus or one with severe problems On April 19, the day after the Court’s been universally condemned by women’s- women’s right to exercise medical options such as hydroencephalus. These are the decision, legislators in Michigan and rights advocates as paternalistic and con- that are often the safest and best for them. women most at risk for serious pregnancy Louisiana introduced their own versions descending toward women. Justice Ruth The Court’s decision ominously over- complications, including pre-eclampsia of the “partial birth abortion” ban, with at Bader Ginsberg, the only woman on the turns 34 years of precedent by providing and other severe medical problems. least four other states following suit. court, in the dissent on behalf of herself, no exceptions for the health of women. The ban will also affect younger women Both sides of the “abortion debate” agree John Paul Stevens, David Souter and The court ignored decades of its own legal who because of fear, lack of correct infor- that further restrictions to reproductive Stephen Breyer, wrote: “The Court offers standards by ruling that restrictive mea- mation and fi nances, and the inability to rights will soon proliferate and challenge fl imsy and transparent justifi cations for sures on women’s health are no longer control their life’s circumstances, are not Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court upholding a nationwide ban on intact considered an “undue burden” in outlaw- able to deal with an unwanted pregnancy decision that legalized abortion as part of D&E [without] any exception to safeguard ing certain abortions. until after the fi rst 12 weeks. a woman’s right to medical privacy. a woman’s health. … [T]he Court deprives Medical opinion and expertise are no The law’s vague and unscientifi c lan- The 2008 legislative season is already Continued on page 9 Page 6 May 17, 2007 www.workers.org PURE statement in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal Panthers United for Revolutionary has a true interest in being here today, an are poor. But without you, the people, fi cing so much and just plain ole tired of Education is a group of revolutionary obligation, in fact. we would be powerless. And without our being tired. prisoners on Texas death row. They Comrade Mumia is an ex-Black Panther brother, Mumia, we would be voiceless. So Yes, it is this day—this night, rather— composed the following statement in and our organization, Panthers United for our interest here is clear and direct. that they wait and relish. The night that solidarity with the April 24 rally for Revolutionary Education, is a product of Let us make clear, also, this oh-so- we’re worn down by attrition, the night Mumia in Philadelphia. Go to www. the Panthers. Thus, it is safe to say that shocking truth: Our brother and comrade that we blow out the candles to rest our workers.org/2007/us/mumia-0510/ Mumia is our beginning. Mumia is in the hands of killers! Killers weary minds and bodies. Big ups to all attending the April 24 Living as we do under the most austere who prefer to do their dirty deeds in the But we have bad news for those laying event for Brother Mumia! conditions of prisons, in what is arguably dark and are therefore waiting with the in wait. We won’t ever get that tired! Y’all Of all the gatherings that PURE has the most racist and backward state of patience of a snake for you to grow tired; hear me? I said, WE WON’T EVER GET been encouraged to send greetings of soli- the union, Texas, we are indeed amongst tired of turning out; tired of holding vigil; THAT TIRED! And those that are waiting darity to, this one ranks the highest. PURE the most oppressed and repressed. We tired of being inconvenienced by sacri- will die waiting. We know we don’t have much time and our statement should be short. But let us touch briefl y on why we must not fall Prison offi cials discriminate asleep and why Mumia’s life is in such LETTER great danger. It is often said that Mumia is the most against Muslim prisoners TO THE recognized political prisoner in the United EDITOR States. We have no interest in arguing Following are excerpts from an no problems in the past with Muslims semantics, but Mumia is a POW. This fact April 2007 letter. The writer is the coming together to make congregational must be recognized for a full appreciation brother of Imam Siddique Abdullah prayer, and where it appears this new pro- working on their legal case, etc. of what the brother is facing. Hasan, one of the Lucasville 5 political hibition only seems to be slated toward What is happening right now are the The U.S. government literally declared prisoners in Ohio. Muslim prisoners. same kind of things that caused conditions war on the Black Panther Party. At Smith State Prison (SSP) in Georgia, For example, as many as four prisoners to break down in other prisons where riots Of all the progressive nationalist orga- a memorandum was posted prohibiting are allowed to sit together and interact in have occurred, for example, the riot at nizations, civil-rights groups, and revolu- group gatherings in the common area various activities, i.e., playing cards, watch- the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility tionary formations of the 1960s and 1970s, (dayroom/dormitory), wherein Muslim ing TV, or even to conduct bible study and (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio. the Panthers were declared the number- prisoners would no longer be allowed discuss religious issues—in which some of It was the Warden (Tate) at SOCF who one threat to the country and were target- to enjoy making congregational prayer these gatherings have exceeded over 40 came out with orders to suddenly FORCE ed for annihilation. and are now only allowed to pray in their prisoners at one time—yet prison offi cials Muslim prisoners to take a TB test that The assassinations, the frame-ups, the respective cells. Prior to this memorandum seem not to have any safety and security contained “phenol,” which is prohib- forced exiles, the infi ltrations and agita- being issued, Muslim prisoners were able concerns from such non-Muslim gather- ited to Muslims because it contains alco- tion that had Panthers turning on Panthers to pray in congregation with no problems ings. It seems ironic that men who seek to hol. Alcohol in any form is prohibited to are all recorded in history. To this day ex- occurring and without any major com- pray together would be looked upon as a Muslims. As a result of Warden Tate’s Panthers are still doing prison time, living plaints from prison offi cials. sudden problem and thus denied the right orders, it caused the longest riot in U.S. his- in exile and being rounded up. Why? What However, on Feb. 15, the wardens at SSP to pray in congregation, unless there is a tory to occur on April 13, 1993, where lives makes them different from other groups? announced—in a private meeting with me hidden agenda for this denial. were lost and fi ve men wrongfully accused, The difference is that most liberation and fi ve other Muslim prisoners—that we Denying Muslim prisoners from being convicted and now reside on death row. organizations of those times were mere were prohibited any further congregation- able to come together for this solemn act A grievance was filed on Feb. 20 to irritations to the state because they only al prayers in the common area within the of worship can lead to other problems, i.e., address the situation, citing religious demanded reforms within the constraints dorms. disrupting their cellmate which can lead discrim i nation and the right to exercise of the capitalist state. But the Panthers In support of this prohibition prison offi - to hostility and aggression because there’s religious freedom under the Religious attacked the state itself, subscribing as cials have equated Islamic Congregational very limited space in the cell and when you Land Use and Institutionalized Person they did to Marxism as a revolutionary Prayers (ICP) as “group activities,” which have two men occupying a cell, it doesn’t Act. However, the response received from tool and scientifi c guide for understand- are subject to prohibition on the grounds leave much room to move around. prison offi cials dated March 7 was met ing revolutionary theory and for applying of “institutional safety” and “security.” Not only that, it creates problems for with resistance—a refusal to rescind the revolutionary action. One has to question the reason for this the non-Muslim (living in the cell) to be prohibition. At the time, the government was fi ght- sudden prohibition when there had been disrupted, for they may be sleeping or An appeal was filed and sent to the ing against communism everywhere— Warden, who also denied the grievance, Asia, Africa, the Soviet Union, in its own on March 9. At present, the Warden’s backyard of Central and South America, Activities to support the MOVE 9! response is being appealed as of March 14 and in its own midst, the Panthers here at seeking relief in this matter. home. Following excerpts are from the MOVE ness of this country to all the national and Understanding the nature of prison offi - Mumia left the Panthers because of organization. international tourists that come to see that cials and their need to deny prisoners at agent provocateurs, but never ceased to May 13 marks 22 years since vicious cracked bell. every turn, we are appealing to you—The challenge the politics of national oppres- governmental bombing and murder of The MOVE family is urging you to join Public—to help us in this matter. You may sion, the outgrowth of imperialism, as innocent MOVE family members, includ- us for these two events because they are help us by contacting the following par- well as racism and sexism, the outgrowth ing babies and animals. The root of that programs that are not just for MOVE but ties: Don Jarriel, Warden; Dan Dasher, of capitalism. vicious attack is the government’s attempt are examples that benefi t everybody, and Deputy Warden (in charge of Security) Mumia was then, and is now, a soldier to put an end to our unrelenting fi ght for we mean everybody. and Wayne Johnson, Deputy Warden (in for the people. He is our voice, our great the release of our innocent family mem- Join the MOVE family on May 12 for charge of Care and Treatment) by phon- inspiration. bers, the MOVE 9, who have been in pris- the working session on parole, from 12 ing: (912) 654-5033 or (912) 654-5000. Our esteemed chairman, Howard on for almost 30 years now, since 1978. noon to 5 p.m., at the American Friends [Please ask for the extension of whomever Guidry, explains Mumia best: “From the Our fi ght has never ended. Service Committee, 1501 Cherry Street you wish to speak to.] isolation block of Texas’ most prided plan- The parole date for the MOVE 9 is Aug. in center city Philadelphia. Also join us With your help, we can, at least, get the tation and in spite of all of the artifi cial 8, 2008, and they’re beginning the parole on May 13 for a serious demonstration at attention of these offi cials where they will forces unleashed to erode and mentally process now. For this and many other the liberty bell, from 12 noon to 3 p.m., know WE ARE NOT ALONE. To obtain break us, we wish you all to know that our reasons we are commemorating the May at 5th and Market Streets in center city more explicit details regarding this matter beloved brotha Mumia’s voice, image and 13, 1985, bombing of MOVE people with Philadelphia. please contact me. determination have exemplifi ed the very a working session on the issue of parole For more information, contact us at Abdus-Salam Karim revolutionary torch that has been passed for the MOVE 9 and political prisoners in 215 387-4107 or at [email protected]. (aka Walter Sanders, Jr. #269802) on from our predecessors.” general, and also a demonstration at the Also, view our Web site at www.onamove. Smith State Prison Thank you! Power to the People! liberty bell in center city Philadelphia, to com and check out www.cafepress.com/ P.O. Box 726 Glennville, GA 30427 In solidarity, expose the contradictions and vicious- onamove. Prisonersolidarity.org Muenda, Prime Minister, PURE

Mumia and his son.

He reports on police brutality in Philadelphia. Above, 1985 police fi re- bombing of 16 year-old Mumia joins Black Panther Party. MOVE house. Mumia has international support from trade unions like the San Francisco dockworkers above. www.workers.org May 17, 2007 Page 7 Racism, resistance & the death penalty By Gloria Rubac Because of the issue of innocence, juries whites and used mainly against people of stitutional. In response, Dallas District Houston are less willing to condemn someone to color. Ninety-eight percent of all district Attorney Henry Wade developed a system die. Over a dozen states have halted execu- attorneys in the United States are white, of training prosecutors to excuse people of Hours before he was executed on March tions due to innocence and also the rising and only 1 percent is Black. It is these color, women, Jews and those physically 7, Joseph Nichols told his mother what had evidence that the method of lethal injec- district attorneys who decide whether a disabled. happened to him as the prison prepared tion kills prisoners while they are still con- defendant will face the death penalty. Wade reprimanded a prosecutor in the to move him from death-row housing in scious. The New Jersey legislature had a States that sentence the most people to late 1950s for allowing a Black woman on Livingston, Texas, to the death hearing scheduled for early death also are the states that had the most a jury, telling him, “If you ever put another house in Huntsville. May that could end lead to illegal lynchings in the past, according to n——-r on a jury, you’re fi red.” “They cut off all my clothes and that state ending the death a study released in 2002 by sociologists at An African American, Thomas Miller- stripped me naked. I fi nally got a penalty. Ohio State University. El, was sentenced to death in Dallas in pair of boxers but my feet were In recent years, a num- 1986. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court shackled together, my hand were ber of major newspapers Historically unjust ordered that he be retried because all chained and then another chain have changed their position The one factor that most determines African Americans except for one were bound my feet, went up over my on the death penalty and whether a defendant will be sentenced excluded from his jury. He is now at the shoulders and bound my hands. are now calling for its abo- to death is the race of the person killed. Dallas County Jail awaiting a new trial. This is how our people were lition. In the past month, Even though Black and white people are In Philadelphia, where political pris- brought here from the mother- both the Chicago Tribune murdered in nearly equal numbers, 80 oner Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced land, naked and chained, and this and the Dallas Morning percent of people executed since the death to death, the odds of receiving a death is how I will leave.” Joseph Nichols News reversed their long- penalty was reinstated in 1976 had cases sentence are 38 percent higher in cases in Nichols was executed despite front- standing support for capital punishment. involving white victims. which the defendant is Black. In fact, in page articles in the Houston Chronicle and And the Sentinel of Pennsylvania simply Only 14 white people have ever been Pennsylvania, over 70 percent of those on opinion pieces explaining his innocence. called the death penalty “useless.” executed for the murder of a Black person, death row are African American; this is the On the gurney, with the IV loaded with Amnesty International reported that while 215 Black people have been executed highest proportion in the country. poison, he blasted the prison personnel executions worldwide fell by more than for killing whites. The United States is a little over 225 who had ordered him to shave or be disci- 25 percent last year, down from 2,148 in Conversely, white women represent years old. It was built on land stolen from plined the evening before his execution. 2005 to 1,591 in 2006. Of all known execu- only 0.8 percent of murder victims—yet the Indigenous peoples and Mexico, and More and more in Texas, prisoners are tions that took place in 2006, 91 percent 35 percent of those executed since 1976 on the backs of African slave labor. It not going willingly to their executions, were carried out in six countries: China, were sentenced to die for killing a white became highly industrialized during the but are fi ghting until the end. They are Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and the United woman. last hundred years and today is the leading also actively protesting the conditions of States. The over-all picture of capital punish- imperialist power because it exploits its severe isolation and torture. The DRIVE Over half the world’s countries have ment shows nationality involved at every large working class, a growing proportion Movement, an activist organization on abolished the death penalty in law or in turn. If a white person is murdered, of whom are African American, Latin@, Texas death row, has held several hun- practice. whether the defendants are Black or white, Arab, Asian and Native American. ger strikes in the last year, as have several In the United States, the death penalty they are at least fi ve times more likely to be National oppression and racism is so individuals. is used mainly in the former slave-holding given the death penalty than if a Black per- tightly woven into the fabric of life in this Roy Pippin, who had steadfastly main- states of the old Confederacy. Between 85 son is murdered. country that it colors all aspects of life tained his innocence, was executed on percent and 90 percent of all U.S. execu- African Americans are the least likely to from birth to death, including death at the March 29, after his month-long hunger tions take place in the South. This is no serve on capital juries but the most likely hands of the state. strike exposing the horrifi c conditions on accident. Racism plays such a huge role to be condemned to die. “The movement to abolish the death Texas death row won signifi cant media in the death penalty because it is a direct In Texas, racism in the criminal justice penalty is growing and learning that if exe- attention. outgrowth of the legacy of slavery and system was openly practiced until recent- cutions are to end, we must be a movement In his last statement while on the gur- lynchings. ly. Defense attorneys in Dallas remember of all peoples, particularly those of us who ney, Pippin said: “I charge the people During the last 125 years there have been that until the mid-1980s so-called Black- make up the majority on death row. No of the jury, the trial judge, the prosecu- thousands of illegal, extra-judicial lynch- on-Black murders were known around the change has ever come willingly. We must tor that cheated to get this conviction. I ings in the United States, primarily in the courthouse as “misdemeanor murder.” fi ght for it. But with unity and struggle we charge each and every one of you with the South, primarily done by whites against Attorney Fred Tinsley reported in 2000, will see the end of this crime called capital murder of an innocent man. All the way Blacks. The majority took place in the late “At one point, with a Black-on-Black mur- punishment,” said Njeri Shakur, a leader to the CCA, Federal Court, 5th Circuit and 1800s and the fi rst half of the 1900s. der, you could get it dismissed if the defen- of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Supreme Court. You will answer to your Today, in the 21st century, it is the era of dant would just pay funeral expenses.” Movement for over a decade. Maker when God has found out that you legal lynchings. The U.S. Supreme Court twice found the The writer is a long-time organizer executed an innocent man. May God have They are still carried out mainly by method of jury selection in Dallas uncon- with the TDPAM. mercy on you. ... Go ahead, Warden, mur- der me. Jesus, take me home.” Last summer, Michael Johnson, anoth- er Texas prisoner who had always main- May 17 is ‘Free Mumia Time’ tained his innocence, slashed his own throat rather than let the state kill him. Continued from page 1 death row. This case was always about a from everywhere who will be assembling Before he bled to death, he wrote on the of the voiceless.” It’s not necessary to meet political frame-up calculated to silence in Philadelphia in front of the federal court wall of his cell in his own blood, “I did not Mumia in order to get a sense of his histor- a powerful voice and crush the struggle on May 17. kill that man.” ical signifi cance for either the Black libera- against police terror. That date is just two days from the anni- In November 2006, after Willie Shan- tion struggle or the ever urgent struggle More than anything else, Mumia’s versary of the birthdays of Malcolm X and non was executed, he was laid in his casket for a new world free of imperialism. struggle is against racist police terror in all Ho Chi Minh. In Malcolm’s honor, let’s dressed as a Black Panther, a refl ection of You can get that from Mumia’s eloquent, its forms. It’s a struggle against the police renew our commitment to free Mumia and his politics. He was a member of Panthers informed and stirring words. Having had terror that executed Sean Bell in Queens, all political prisoners, including Leonard United for Revolutionary Education— the opportunity to meet with Mumia from N.Y., and Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta, as Peltier, the Cuban Five, MOVE 9, Sundiata PURE—a Texas death row organization. time to time over the last 11 years, as the well as the police terror that brutally came Acoli, the Angola 2 and others, by “any Executions in the United States have writers of this article have, only adds great- down on immigrant workers in New York means necessary.” dropped to the lowest levels in 10 years. er depth, appreciation and a richer per- City and especially in Los Angeles on the On May 17, the “means” is mass The number of death sentences and the sonal dimension to what millions already May Day just past. mobilization. population of death row are also decreas- know—and that is that Mumia Abu-Jamal The very idea that Mumia’s May 17 oral Holmes and Moorehead fi rst inter- ing. For the fi rst time ever, the Gallup Poll is dangerous to the system. hearing might open the door to a new viewed Mumia in March 1996 with the has reported that more people favor life He is dangerous because he has all the trial has so enraged the police that they assistance of the late Key Martin, a in prison without parole over the death qualities of a leader who can move people are organizing counter-demonstrations founder of People’s Video Network. Go penalty. to struggle against the evils inherent with- against Mumia support events and threat- to www.workers.org/2007/us/pvn/ to During the 1990s there were about 300 in the capitalist system. ening judges against ruling in favor of a view segments of that video. Go to www. death sentences given each year. Now the Mumia’s case was never about the facts. new trial. millions4mumia.org for more back- number is around 125. Even in Texas, If it had been, Mumia would have never If you love freedom and justice, make ground information on Mumia’s case death sentences are down 65 percent from spent 25 days, much less 25 years, on plans to join the many freedom lovers and to download May 17 literature. 10 years ago. A French activist with In 2003 Paris Ramona Africa, makes Mumia an Suzanne Ross honorary citizen. and Pam Africa. April 2006, a street is named after Mumia in St. Denis, Oscar Collazo, Puerto Rican Independentista An Interview with Mumia France near and actor Ossie Davis are among those who by Monica Moorehead and Nelson Mandela Stadium. Mumia carries supported 2000 Justice for Mumia rally Larry Holmes is available his evidence. in Madison Square Garden. through WW newspaper. WW PHOTOS: LARRY HOLMES & LAL ROOHK Page 8 May 17, 2007 www.workers.org French elect rightist to attack workers’ rights

By G. Dunkel ness, and remove the right to their jobs learned the message of what happened in are a true political catastrophe. For the that a majority of French workers have. October-November 2005.” AC le Feu as fi rst time since the liberation of France A few minutes after the polls were closed, In his book, Sarkozy writes about how well as many other groups and parties on from the Nazis, we will have a leader who Nicolas Sarkozy got a telephone call from his “family didn’t allow [him] to partici- the left are gearing up for the elections to accepts most of the policies of the extreme U.S. President George Bush congratulat- pate in the great demonstration support- parliament which will take place in June. right and the ultraconservative economic ing him on decisively winning the French ing Gen. Charles de Gaulle” after de Gaulle If Sarkozy’s party, the Union for a and social policies of the business commu- presidency with 53 percent of the vote. His managed to overcome the May 1968 Popular Movement (UMP), doesn’t win a nity. ... I urgently call for a mobilization of rival Ségolène Royal got 47 percent. There movement of workers and students that workable majority in the new parliament, all the forces of the left to organize a reply. don’t appear to have been many conscious included an open-ended general strike of he will lose a lot of his ability to force his The Communist Party will not lower its abstentions because nearly 85 percent of 10 million workers. In his speech, Sarkozy program through. The union movement guard.” the registered voters went to the polls. promised to overturn all of the lingering has already warned him against try- Olivier Besancenot of the LCR said “The Sarkozy’s campaign made it clear that gains of May 1968. He also wants to over- ing to use the summer vacation time to populist demagogy used in this campaign he would change France’s foreign policy turn the 2005 vote rejecting the European push for radical changes, by recalling the will now give way to anti-people, repres- in ways that would please the current constitution. boomerang effect that has hit previous sive and anti-democratic measures that administration in the White House. While Sarkozy drew a crowd of 30,000 to governments. will not fail to incite massive protests. he will not engage France in Iraq, which hear this speech at the Place du Concorde, The Socialist Party (PS) is in disarray. The LCR intends from now on to devote he and almost all European leaders see as which was the site of most of the public Some analysts claim that Ségolène Royal’s all its resources to build this social and a dangerously lost cause, he will continue executions of French aristocrats during campaign never presented a clear pro- democratic resistance. It proposes that a to keep French troops in Afghanistan and the French revolution. gram. Instead her program essentially united front of all democratic and social the French navy in Middle East waters. In Paris and most of the large cities of moved from the center to the right and forces be made available to confront the Sarkozy worked the American angle France, small demonstrations protesting her campaign portrayed her as simply ultraconservative and reactionary Sarkozy carefully, going so far as to have his Sarkozy’s election broke out as the news less abrasive and divisive than Sarkozy. program.” campaign books translated into English was announced. According to the prelimi- This latter charge is true since Sarkozy, as Elections in capitalist countries, which and published by Random House as nary police report, 367 cars were burned, interior minister, made racist comments are always infl uenced by the position of “Testimony.” 28 cops were injured by missiles (gener- about the youth rebellion in the suburbs. the ruling class and its corporate media, In his acceptance speech, Sarkozy ally bottles and rocks) and there were 270 But Royal’s “Vote for me because I’m not only refl ect the political mood of the vot- made it clear that he plans to continue the people arrested. Because Sarkozy wants to Sarkozy” was not enough to defeat him. ers at a particular moment. In this case attacks on immigrants he began as inte- portray himself as “the president of all the To the left of the PS, both the French the elections put a reactionary in the rior minister, grant big tax breaks to big French people,” the cops downplayed the Communist Party (PCF) and the presidency. But elections aren’t the whole corporations—as Bush did—and attack strength of the reaction, generally from Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) story. Strikes and street protests can chal- the right to strike, until now guaranteed by the poor and working class suburbs. issued calls for struggle and for unity on lenge the new executive. And even those the French constitution. He said he would Mohamed Mechmache, the president the left. workers who voted for Sarkozy may fi nd increase the competitiveness of French of AC le Feu, one of the leading groups to George-Marie Buffet, the candidate of they have to go into the streets or on strike industry, which means he wants to lower grow out of the 2005 revolt of the suburbs, the PCF, said “The election of the head of when his program starts reducing their wages, increase poverty and homeless- issued a statement saying “France has not the UMP and the serious defeat of the left social benefi ts and wages. Movement grows to confront dictatorship By Sara Flounders intimidate the growing opposition has Immediate demonstrations demanded the led to a new series of demonstrations release of Farooq Tariq. In Pakistan U.S.-backed military demanding a return to civilian rule. Despite the arrests and intimidation dictator President General Pervez The opposition to Musharraf is an tens of thousands of supporters thronged Musharraf is confronted by a rising alliance that includes left and progres- roadsides to greet Chief Justice Chaudhry mass movement. Ever since Musharraf sive organizations all the way to con- on May 5. suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar servative religious parties. At this point On May 7, unsuccessful in stopping Mohammed Chaudhry on March 9, the movement is led by lawyers, jour- the demonstration or in intimidating the country has been experiencing nalists, political workers, human rights the opposition, the police released Labor mass protests and legal challenges. workers and students. It is a movement Party’s leader Tariq. President Musharraf removed the drawn mostly from the middle class. chief justice of the Supreme Court of Police forces have battled militant May Day celebrated Pakistan in an effort to intimidate the street demonstrations and raided and In the days before the giant opposition judiciary from raising ransacked political offi ces and opposi- rally, the alliance of left-wing and religious any political challenge PAKISTAN. May 4. Pakistan Labor Party demands tion media. They raided the Islamabad parties joined together to celebrate May in parliamentary elec- release of Farooq Tariq. office of GEO, a popular television Day and especially to express solidarity tions which are expected in September or in Pakistan. Intensifying repression, the news channel, which has aired in-depth with immigrant workers in the U.S. and October. President and General Musharraf deteriorating economy, growing unem- and often critical coverage of the events other countries. is expected to seek another term as presi- ployment and rising infl ation have added following the suspension of Chaudhry. At The event organized by the Labor Party dent, without giving up his role as head to the mass anger. The Bush administra- this station and other TV stations, such as of Pakistan focused attention on the racist of the armed forces. This is illegal under tion has made clear its total support for AAJ and ARY-TV, the regime has blocked attacks on immigrant workers and espe- Pakistan’s constitution. the unpopular dictatorship. transmissions to prevent coverage of ral- cially on the U.S. policies of targeting, The attack on the chief justice was seen After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, U.S. lies and meetings. It has banned maga- detaining and deporting Muslims. They by opposition groups as an outrageous military aid to Pakistan soared to $4.2 bil- zines and newspapers such as the Awami denounced the treatment of six planeloads and unconstitutional attack on the inde- lion, compared to $9.1 million in the three Tehrik Party’s magazine, imposed cur- of Pakistani deportees recently sent back pendence of the judiciary and as political years before the attacks—a 45,000 percent fews and impounded thousands of pub- to Pakistan. preparation for his illegal reelection. increase—boosting Pakistan to the top tier lic transport vehicles to restrict travel to The demonstration raised demands General Musharraf came to power of countries receiving U.S. military fund- demonstrations. concerning the migrant community work- in Pakistan after a right-wing coup in ing, according to the Center for Public Chief Justice Chaudhry’s decision to ing in the Middle East, where millions of 1999, with U.S. assistance. He had him- Integrity. A recent study by the Center travel by car from Islamabad to Lahore workers from Pakistan, India, Philippines, self declared president in 2001. Under for Strategic and International Studies for a political rally was seen as a test of Indonesia, Nepal and Bangladesh face the Musharraf’s military dictatorship, arbi- estimates the total value of all U.S. aid the opposition’s growing strength. Lahore worst conditions. Workers are treated as trary arrests, torture, persecution of polit- to Pakistan since Sept. 11, 2001, includ- is considered Pakistan’s most politically slaves, deprived of all human rights, union ical opponents and extrajudicial killings ing military, economic and development infl uential city. rights and health care. Passports are con- have vastly increased. assistance, at more than $10 billion. The government demanded that fi scated, while workers are paid $120 to In his struggle to consolidate his posi- Since 2001, Musharraf has allowed the Chaudhry travel to Lahore by air or they $170 a month for 12- to 16-hour days of tion and continue his rule, Musharraf U.S. to use Pakistan’s air bases in “anti- threatened that “terrorists” might target work. The Labor Party described condi- accused the chief justice of misusing his terrorism” operations, provided access him. Chaudhry insisted on driving. tions of workers in Qatar where 600,000 powers and originally placed him under to logistics facilities, shared intelligence, As it traveled through towns and cities out of a population of 800,000 are migrant house arrest. The effort to intimidate the illegally detained citizens charged with of central Punjab province on the way to workers without any rights. In Dubai, out chief justice had the opposite effect. After involvement in terrorism, and deployed Lahore, the slow-moving car caravan sev- of a population of 4 million, only 800,000 a storm of protest Justice Chaudhry was 80,000 Pakistani troops on the Afghan eral miles long became the occasion for a are citizens. released, but he is still under investiga- border. This growing U.S. military pres- series of mass rallies against the Musharraf The May Day rally, the struggle for tion. Musharraf is now faced with the ence and growing climate of repression is dictatorship workers rights in Pakistan and the deci- most serious political crisis since he seized deeply unpopular On the eve of Chaudhry’s arrival in sion to raise the struggle for the rights of all power in October 1999. Lahore, the general secretary of the workers show that as the mass movement Musharraf’s close relationship with Opposition to dictatorship grows Pakistan Labor Party, Farooq Tariq, who against the military dictatorship gains U.S. imperialism and the role of the Chief Justice Chaudhry has become was at the forefront of the protest prepara- momentum, the working class will increas- Pakistani military in the war in neigh- a rallying fi gure for the entire political tions, was arrested by police at the Labor ingly come forward with its own demands boring Afghanistan is deeply unpopular opposition in the country. Every effort to Party’s offi ce and taken to secret detention. for economic and political rights. www.workers.org May 17, 2007 Page 9 Women’s International meets in Latin America

By Berta Joubert-Ceci affi liate and move forward the federation, Caracas, Venezuela many representatives spoke at the region- al work session of the Americas. Under the theme “Women of the World: There were Indigenous women from a vital force against neoliberal globaliza- the Bolivian Bartolina Sisa Peasant Union, tion, terrorism and imperialist wars; for Peruvian Indigenous parliamentarians, equality, social and economic justice and young women from Puerto Rico and for peace,” more than 1,000 women rep- Colombian women urging a humanitarian resenting organizations from fi ve conti- exchange of prisoners. Prominent was the nents met in Caracas, Venezuela, from participation of Venezuelan women who, April 9 through 14. They were joined by as the hosts, worked tirelessly to assure thousands of Venezuelan women who the smooth development of the congress hosted the 14th Congress of the Women’s and in their presentations highlighted the International Democratic Federation. important role and advances of women This congress, the WIDF’s fi rst in Latin under the Bolivarian Revolution. America, was of crucial importance in The overall experience was tremendous: coalescing the political line and actions of meeting and sharing with revolutionary anti-imperialist and revolutionary wom- women from all over the world, listen- en who comprise the membership of the ing to their countries’ struggles, and most federation. important, experiencing the overwhelm- The congress was preceded by a two-day ing solidarity among all the attendees and Encounter of Young Women—an attempt their great respect, admiration and grati- to involve younger women more actively tude for Cuban President Fidel Castro and in the federation. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Plenaries and workshops alternated Where else could you hear women with cultural presentations. Each day from the Sahara thanking Chávez for his ended with an Anti-Imperialist Tribune in WW PHOTO: LIZ GREEN support of their cause in international The Women’s Fightback Network organizated a delegation of women from the U.S. to attend an outside tent. Some topics of the work- the WIDF Congress in Caracas, Venezuela. forums? The congress gave the opportu- ing sessions provide an idea of the discus- nity to interview many women from dif- sions held: the impact of neoliberal global- ers who had lost their children, former the USSR and the Eastern and Central ferent struggles who offered their pro- ization on women; women’s struggle and prisoners from Nazi concentration camps, European socialist countries meant that gressive views on crucial current events: the impact of state terrorism, occupation combatants who fought alongside men in material support and great theoretical and women’s role in Angola’s MPLA, South and imperialist wars, and the struggle for the battlefi elds, members of the resistance practical contributions so instrumental for Africa after apartheid, Zimbabwe’s land national liberation; exploitation of women and clandestine movements, guerrillas, the functioning of the federation suddenly distribution, the political view of the and children, with a special emphasis on workers who secured the rearguard and stopped. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, immigrant and displaced women; build- supplied the front, fi ghters all of them in the struggle against Plan Colombia and so ing international solidarity against politi- uniform or civilian clothes.” Crucial role of Cuba much more. cal repression and all forms of violence She continued: “With them, women Vilma Espín—one of four WIDF vice against women; defense of Indigenous who had fought in other latitudes against presidents, a combatant in the Cuban Delegation from the U.S. and African-descendant women and their fascism also united, Spanish exiles, mem- Revolution, a member of the Central Many women went from the U.S. culture and for equality. bers from national organizations from the Committee and the Political Bureau of the The largest delegation was organized by A detailed listing and information about Americas and Asia, African women, from Cuban Communist Party and president of African-American artist Vinie Burrows, the congress and the WIDF can be found Arab countries, from Indigenous commu- the Cuban Women’s Federation—played who is also the WDIF representative to the at www.fdim-widf.com.br. nities, all in solidarity.” a decisive role in the enormous task of U.N., and the National Women’s Fightback A special session for women hold- They pledged “To defend the economic, assuring the survival and development of Network (NWFN) of the International ing government office was held in the political, legal and social rights of women; the WIDF. Thanks to Cuban action, the Action Center. The NWFN is now an affi li- National Assembly, hosted by Venezuelan to fi ght so that the indispensable condi- federation not only survived but thrived ate of the WIDF. socialist parliamentarians under the tions for the harmonic and happy devel- as a space of struggle and promotion of The Burrows delegation included rep- theme “International Meeting of Parlia- opment of our children and future genera- women. resentatives of the Granny Peace Brigade mentarians against Imperialism and for tion are built; struggle tirelessly so that all During the WDIF’s 13th Congress and the Women’s International League for Solidarity and Peace in the World.” forms of fascism are forever annihilated held in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2002, Marcia Peace and Freedom. The NWFN delega- and establish worldwide a true democ- Campos from Brazil was elected president. tion included Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian History of the WIDF racy; fi ght without rest to assure a lasting This was the fi rst time a woman from Latin writer and director of Playgrounds for It is not accidental that very little is peace in the world.” America held that post. She had founded Palestine; Brenda Stokely and Anna Wilson known in the U.S. about this federation, The WIDF was also enriched by the the Confederation of Brazilian Women and from the labor sector; Patricia Dahl, who which was born to fi ght against the same membership of socialist women from the is a member of the Central Committee and works in solidarity with Colombia; Nellie imperialism that the U.S. leads. On Dec. revolutions that later developed in Cuba the National Secretariat of the October 8th Hester Bailey, co-founder and director of 1, 1945, right after World War II, women and Vietnam. The federation has played a Revolutionary Movement in Brazil. the Harlem Tenants Council; Sara Ann from 41 countries met in France to create key role in support of national liberation, The 14th Congress was held in Mokuria, LeiLani Dowell, Liza Green, Jill the WIDF (FDIM in Spanish). Many of such as in Angola, and against apartheid Venezuela to show solidarity with the Hill, Kris Hamel, Minnie Bruce Pratt and these women had suffered directly from in South Africa. It has worked in inter- Bolivarian Revolution. But a new phenom- this writer, all from the NWFN. the bloody effects of the war and many national forums trying to give a more enon occurred. The fi ghting revolutionary The WIDF congress is not simply a had struggled against fascism. militant direction and has given voice to masses who are transforming this region “women’s issue.” As one participant said, Yolanda Ferrer Gómez, general secre- those under the yoke of imperialism, from also came to the congress. Many of the “Everything and every struggle is of con- tary of the Cuban Women’s Federation, Palestinians to Iraqis. organizations present were not yet affi li- cern to women; we are half the world gave a moving statement on the organiza- The WIDF was especially hard-hit dur- ates of the WDIF, but infused the congress and give birth to the other half.” It was a tion’s history: “They were widows, moth- ing the 1990s, when the disintegration of with their combative energy. Wanting to Congress of Women in Struggle. Supreme Court sides with anti-woman ideologues

Continued from page 5 ity in society: “[L]egal challenges to undue women’s equality rather than privacy. … it was the struggle of millions that forced women of the right to make an autono- restrictions on abortion procedures do Ginsberg has now offered the most pow- the confi rmation of women’s legal right to mous choice, even at the expense of their not seek to vindicate some generalized erful understanding of the foundations of choose abortion. safety. This way of thinking refl ects ancient notion of privacy; rather, they center on a the right to choose.” (www.latimes.com) Now more than ever before, it is time notions about women’s place in the family woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s It should be remembered by all activ- for all progressive people to assist in revi- and under the Constitution — ideas that course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship ists for women’s rights and reproductive talizating a mass movement for women’s have long since been discredited.” (550 stature.” (Dissent at 4) rights, including abortion rights, that rights and women’s lives and health, for U.S. 2007 Dissent, at 13, 17) Indeed, Cass R. Sunstein, who teaches the victory in Roe vs. Wade was wrested equality and abortion rights for all wom- Ginsberg’s dissenting opinion in this at the University of Chicago Law School, from the Supreme Court by a vast strug- en, including poor women and those case will also have important implica- wrote on April 20: “In the long run, the gling involving literally millions of women most disenfranchised. Now is the time tions for abortion rights and women’s most important part of the Supreme Court’s and male supporters. In 1973 the high to bring pressure to bear on the large rights in this patriarchal, capitalist soci- ruling … may not be Justice Anthony court was forced to enact judicially what women’s organizations, including NOW, ety. Ginsberg dared to stray from framing M. Kennedy’s opinion for the major- this militant struggle won in the streets. NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Feminist abortion in the narrow right of “privacy,” ity. It might well be Justice Ruth Bader Like voting rights and civil rights for the Majority, and others, to issue a call for a a right implied but not guaranteed in Ginsberg’s dissent, which attempts, for the African-American community, and over- massive national march on Washington the Constitution, and said that abortion fi rst time in the court’s history, to justify turning antiquated “sodomy” laws target- to turn back the tide of reaction aimed at rights are paramount to women’s equal- the right to abortion squarely in terms of ing gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people, women’s rights and equality. Page 10 May 17, 2007 www.workers.org 1970s Cuba: Iraq war Sex education campaign comes home battled old prejudices By Leslie Feinberg kind of structure exist, except here.” lated and edited in Cuba in 1981, “was resident George W. Bush says that the He added, “With this kind of task, more ambivalent,” wrote Bjorklund. Pentagon can still tough its way out of the Eva Bjorklund wrote in Swedish- to create a national plan, you can’t “It was intended for a broad audience Pcriminal war against Iraq with a victory. If he Cuba magazine in 2000: “In 1977, the leave it in the hands of one person or a and argued that homosexuals have the really believes this, he has misjudged the Iraqis— Center for Sexual Education (CNES) group of people or to one organization; same ability to function in society as who will eventually drive the U.S. out. And he has was founded on the initiative of the it has to be done throughout the entire other people, but that they can never misjudged the people here. Cuban Women’s Federation (FMC) society.” be as happy as married people. Mónika The resistance in Iraq has been dramatic and and their seminars and publications One of the first suggestions the Krause, a leading expert at CNES, courageous. At home it has been slow in develop- encouraged a more enlightened out- Ministry of Education made was to admitted that this was a response to ing—but it is here. look on homosexuality and started to begin elementary sex education from criticism against the fi rst edition of Take, for example, the news from a May 8 Boston undermine traditional prejudices and the earliest years. But Cuba was still Schnabl’s book, for being too positive Globe column. In 2000 some 23.5 percent of Army taboos. The work done by this center trying to build enough schools and towards homosexuality. A second edi- recruits were African American. That was a higher has contributed to changes in attitudes train enough teachers to meet the tion of Schnabl’s book, intended to be rate than the rest of the population and refl ected and laws, and the credit for the fact educational needs of the population. printed in 250,000 copies, although the lack of opportunity for Black youth in civil- that the AIDS problem has not been Alvarez said his youngest child’s teach- delayed because of the economic cri- ian jobs. By 2005, after two years in Iraq, the rate handled with a homophobic outlook ers at that time in secondary school in sis, however, persisted, stressing that had dropped to 13.9 percent—the same as of the is largely attributed to this endeavor.” the countryside were just two or three sexual violation of minors has no caus- population. As of current Pentagon estimates, “the (Quarterly publication of the Swedish- years older than their students. al relationship to sexual orientation, African-American propensity to join the military Cuban Association) “It was diffi cult for the Ministry of dismissing the theories of seduction had dropped to 9 percent.” Bjorklund noted: “Before the Center Education under these circumstances,” into homosexuality, and emphasizing That means that in the more politically aware for Sexual Education (CNES) started he stated, “to assume responsibility for that since nobody is responsible for part of the U.S. population, the people want no part its work, sexual education was a a national program in sex education. his or her sexual orientation, homo- of the war in Iraq. Black youths no longer join the practically unknown phenomenon in “The fi rst task was to prepare some sexuals must be just as respected as volunteer Army as they did before. This attitude Cuba, as in the rest of Latin America, texts on the subject, because there heterosexuals.” has spread in most of the big cities to other sec- where the stand and the attitude of weren’t any.” Álvarez said the next step was a tors of the population, driving Army recruiters into the Catholic Church has continued paperback entitled “When your child deep depression. So the Pentagon has turned to the to curb any attempted change. In Ground-breaking fi rst asks you” (Cuando tu hijo te pregun- National Guard to fi ll its ranks in Iraq. And send this light, Cuba’s sexual education is publication ta), fi rst printed in 1980. It was offered them back again and again. Especially it is relying groundbreaking.” Álvarez explained, “We decided to for public sale with a book aimed at on the guard units from smaller cities and towns in Cuban women led the way forward. make a selection from the most highly sex education for children aged 9 to 12. the U.S. midsection. Dr. Celestino Álvarez Lajonchere, developed socialist country in this “We did simple illustrations showing There the population is mostly white, less then-director of the National Institute area, East Germany, and we selected the process of reproduction. This was politically aware and more likely to be steeped in of Sex Education in Havana, recalled in the books that we thought would best the best way to start trying to break the patriotism. And while white youths don’t face racist a December 1986 interview: “In 1974, cover our needs.” prejudices of the population,” he stat- discrimination, like all young workers they fi nd few the Federation of Cuban Women has The fi rst ground-breaking publica- ed. “We were trying to tell parents that civilian opportunities. Many youths join the Army already insisted that sex education had tion in Cuba was Sigfried Schnabl’s they didn’t have any alternative, they and the National Guard. It would be no surprise to be done. They had been working on “The Intimate Life of Males and had to tell children about these things, to fi nd there is a high proportion of youths in the this since the early 1960s.” Females” (El hombre y la because their kids were going to deal military from a town like Greensburg, Kan., or its (International Journal of mujer en la intimidad). with them for better or for worse. It neighbors. Health Services, Vol. 18, lavender The book had been pub- was up to the parents to answer their And now, in a way, the Iraq war has come to No. 2, 1988) lished fi rst in the German kids’ questions and they needed to Kansas. Greensburg’s buildings were completely The interview with & Democratic Republic—the know how to do that.” fl attened in 20 minutes by an uncommonly power- Álvarez—known on the red #97 East German workers’ A fourth publication, “Thinking ful tornado. The tornado struck quickly. State aid island as “Tino”—was con- state—in 1978. about love?” (¿Piensas ya en el amor?), came slowly. ducted with Elizabeth Fee, Joan Bjorklund wrote that Sigfried was designed for teenagers. Álvarez The Kansas governor, before some presidential Furman-Seaborg and Ross Conner. Schnabl’s book, which was “translated explained: “This book covers sexually arm-twisting quieted her, complained bitterly that Margaret Gilpin arranged the inter- and edited in Cuba in 1979, clearly transmitted diseases and discusses the state National Guard forces “don’t have the view and did the translation. states that ‘homosexuals should be some of the emotional aspects of how equipment they need to come in” because it is all In the interview, Álvarez stressed: granted equal rights, respect and rec- children become adults and what adult in Iraq. This message won’t be lost on small-town “The First Party Congress reviewed ognition, and that any kind of social relations are all about. It deals with USA, despite all the hugs Bush is dealing out on all of the things that the Federation discrimination is reprehensible.’ This some of the problems that have to do camera in Kansas. has asked for and converted them book served as guidance for the work with being in love, and also talks about Across the board, people here are learning to into a political directive. This is the of CNES and at pedagogical colleges.” contraception.” embrace what the Globe column said is the typical only country in the world where the In their article in the Summer 1980 Yet another book was written for attitude of Black people in the military toward the people who have suffered from the Gay Insurgent, Stephen J. Risch and children from 3 to 7 years old, entitled occupation of Iraq: “This is not a Black people’s consequences of ignorance, princi- Randolph E. Wills noted, “In fact it “Mama, papa and me” (Mamá, papá, y war. This is not a poor people’s war. This is an oil- pally women and young people, did was the Women’s Federation which yo). Álvarez said, “It was the only one man’s war.” not have to spend one minute to con- saw the book as so important that it that didn’t sell out immediately, the vince the highest levels of leadership successfully lobbied for its publica- way all the rest of them did, and we of the country that something had to tion considerably ahead of schedule think that’s a sign of some resistance be done. On the contrary, the politi- (since there are limited resources for to our work in the population.” cal leadership was always worried that publishing books in Cuba, finished In 1981, the Cuban Ministry of they weren’t doing enough of what manuscripts must wait in line to be Culture produced a publication titled Subscribe to the women expected them to do. I am published).” “In Defense of Love” that stated homo- convinced that that doesn’t happen in Álvarez remembers that the subject sexuality was a variant of human sexu- Workers World any other country in the world. I think was so popular: “We sold it in a special ality. Cuba-solidarity.org.uk concluded that’s important—very important.” way to try and guarantee that it would that the book “argued that homopho- Álvarez continued: “The First Party get into the hands of doctors, other bic bigotry was an unacceptable atti- newspaper Congress of 1975 agreed on the dec- health personnel and teachers. We sold tude inherited by the Revolution and 4 weeks trial subscription $2 laration of the complete and absolute it at about 5 pesos, but in addition, the that all sanctions against gays should equality of women. The elaboration buyer had to have a paper signed by be opposed.” One year subscription: $25 of that declaration included the need me saying that he or she had the right This ground-breaking work on sex to organize a system of sex educa- to buy the book. Otherwise, the books education, in which Cuban women NAME ______tion. They needed a plan to create, for would have disappeared from the played such a leadership role, helped example, illustrated texts, and edu- bookstores within two hours.” pave the road for a scientific and PHONE ______cational materials for the population. The law against same-sex love was humane approach to the AIDS epi- The National Assembly of People’s removed the same year that the book demic that put the imperialist coun- ADDRESS ______Power then created a permanent com- was published in Cuba—almost a tries to shame. mission. Within that commission they quarter century before the U.S. gov- Next: Cuba prepared AIDS health EMAIL ______created a working group, the National ernment followed suit under pressure care plan before the fi rst diagnosis. Institute of Sex Education. The struc- from a mass lesbian, gay, bisexual and To read more about Cuba, read CITY ______STATE ______ZIP______ture is very important. I don’t think trans movement. parts 86-96 of Lavender & Red at Workers World Newspaper that in any country in the world, A subsequent publication, “Are You workers.org. 55 W. 17 St. 5 Fl.,NY, NY 10011 including the socialist world, does this Beginning to Think about Love?” trans- E-mail: [email protected] 212-627-2994 www.workers.org www.workers.org May 17, 2007 Page 11 Havana conference mobilizes solidarity for Cuban 5 By LeiLani Dowell

Solidarity with the Cuban Five and determination to win their freedom was the focus of an international youth confer- ence from April 29-30 in Havana, Cuba. The conference was organized by the Union of Young Communists (UJC) and included representatives from more than 35 countries around the world. The Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and René González— are political prisoners held in the United States. They have been collectively sen- tenced to four life sentences and 75 years for infi ltrating CIA-backed right-wing ter- rorist organizations in order to monitor and stop attacks on Cuba from U.S. soil. Participants at the conference pointed out the hypocrisy of the U.S. government, which imprisons these men while com- LeiLani Dowell and condemn U.S.-sponsored terrorism and ference on April 30, Cuban National mitting atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan Larry Hales of FIST, demand justice in the cases of the Cuban Assembly President Ricardo Alarcón told and beyond under the guise of a “war on fi rst and second Five and Posada Carriles. participants, “Tomorrow, our people will terror.” from left, with del- Conference participants—including gather in every square in the country and Concurrent with this hypocrisy, and a egates from Mexico family members of the Five as well as fam- will show their unanimous and strong will and Haiti at Havana major focus of the conference, is the case conference. ily members of passengers aboard Flight to struggle for justice until we have it. We of Luis Posada Carriles—an admitted ter- 455—raised that were it not for Posada and will show Bush, and little by little show rorist who, along with other bombings and terrorism but for “illegally” entering the allied terrorists, who continue to receive others the truth. Little by little the people assassination attempts, masterminded United States. In fact, the prosecution impunity from the U.S. government, there of the United States, who do not deserve the bombing of Cubana Airlines Flight had attempted to silence any mention of would have been no need for the Five to the terrorist regime that makes them suf- 455 in 1976 that killed all 73 passengers Posada’s terrorist actions or connection to travel to the United States in defense of fer, will be the ones to fi nd the key to those and crew onboard. Activists worldwide the CIA during the trial. their country. jails.” are demanding the extradition of Posada Three days before the trial was to be These cases were the focus of the annual For more information on the case of the to Venezuela to face trial for his role in the held, however, a U.S. judge dismissed all May Day march in Cuba as well. A large Cuban Five, visit www.freethefi ve.org or airliner bombing. Posada escaped from the charges against him and set him free, UJC contingent followed the international www.freethefi veny.org. prison in Venezuela before returning to on grounds that the case was based on conference delegation and closed out the LeiLani Dowell represented Fight the United States. statements made by Posada under false march, carrying large photos of each per- Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) at Posada was expected to face trial in El pretenses. (Reuters, May 8) son killed on Flight 455. the Havana conference. Paso, Texas, on May 11, not for acts of Worldwide actions on May 11 will At a closing ceremony for the con- E-mail: [email protected]

LAHORE, PAKISTAN JAKARTA, INDONESIA BEIRUT, LEBANON Workers Day celebrated worldwide By Brenda Ryan workers’ union, spoke before the crowd rally in Istanbul with tear gas, water can- of delegates and activists of CGTP-IN, wishing Fidel a speedy recovery, to which nons and batons and arrested more than the largest Portuguese confederation of From Cuba to Pakistan to South Korea, people shouted “¡Viva Fidel!” Millions of 500 people, including many union lead- unions, scheduled a general strike for millions of workers around the world Cubans marched in other parades across ers. The crowd had been marching to May 30. At the May Day march, tens of celebrated May Day with marches and the island. Taksim Square to mark the 30th anni- thousands took to the streets. Many car- rallies. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez versary of “Bloody May Day,” when 34 ried banners calling for participation in In Cuba, more than half a mil- marked May Day with another blow people were killed after someone fi red on the May 30 general strike. For the past lion people paraded through Havana’s against imperialism: the government the crowd and caused a stampede. The several months there have been dozens of Revolutionary Plaza. They denounced took over the last privately run oil fi elds government blocked roads and cancelled strikes, marches and protests in response the U.S. government’s release of terrorist in the country. BP, ConocoPhillips, buses, trains and ferries to block people to the government’s attacks on workers Luis Posada Carriles from a Texas jail last Chevron, Exxon Mobil, France’s Total SA from gathering. rights. Levy said the ruling Socialist Party month. Carriles was behind the bombing and Norway’s Statoil ASA had controlled In Pakistan trade unionists held rallies has increased the cost of living, the age of of a Cuban airliner in 1976 and several the drilling fi elds in the Orinoco River and meetings in Karachi to honor the U.S. retirement, unemployment and tempo- other terrorist activities. The Cubans also basin. Chávez addressed a gathering of labor activists executed by the govern- rary labor. demanded the release of the Cuban Five, thousands of red-clad oil workers, shout- ment after the 1886 Haymarket riot. Protests and rallies were also held who have been imprisoned in the U.S. for ing “Down with the U.S. empire,” the The Daily Times of Pakistan reported throughout Russia and the former Soviet more than eight years for supplying infor- Associated Press reported. that workers from North and South Korea Republics, in cities throughout Germany, mation on terrorist conspiracies against May Day events were held throughout held their fi rst joint May Day rally in South in Spain, Italy, Britain and Hungary. Cuba. Latin America. In El Salvador, Ecuador, Korea. They had held joint celebrations in Thousands marched in Jakarta, Indonesia. President Fidel Castro, who was not Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica North Korea in 2001 and 2004. And in Greece transport workers called at the parade, sent a message calling for people protested against CAFTA, the free From Portugal, Andre Levy of the for a 24-hour strike, prompting the Greek “prison for the assassin” Carriles. Salvador trade treaty with the United States. weekly newspaper Avante reported that carrier Olympic Airlines to cancel dozens Valdés, secretary general of Cuba’s central In Turkey police attacked a May Day on April 19, a national plenary session of domestic and international fl ights. MUND OBRERO ¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los países, uníos! La verdadera razón por que Wolfowitz está bajo fuego Por Robert Dobrow Wolfowitz ha empleado la acusación eras. “La ley nueva otorgaría al concilio de corrupción selectivamente para virtualmente todo el poder para desar- Estos días, desde las sangrientas negar préstamos a los países que ejer- rollar la política y los planes para los batallas en Irak hasta los lujosos salones cen una medida de independencia de la campos petroleros sin desarrollar, y del Banco Mundial, el “Nuevo Siglo infl uencia de los EEUU, como Congo- revisar y cambiar todos los contratos Americano” del imperialismo está en Brazzaville y Chad, países pobres afri- de exploración y producción,” reportó problemas. canos con ricos recursos naturales. A Juan González en el Daily News el 21 de El ex jefe diputado del Pentágono y ambos países el Banco Mundial les negó febrero. La Compañía Nacional Iraquí ahora presidente del Banco Mundial, ayuda para desarrollo el año pasado. de Petróleo quedaría sin defensas frente Paul Wolfowitz, príncipe de los nuevos Con Irak, sin embargo, Wolfowitz ha a estas compañías extranjeras. conservadores y arquitecto de la invasión estado más activo en hacer disponible “Como la mayor parte de los 73 cam- de Irak, está sumido en un profundo el Banco Mundial al servicio del pos comprobados de petróleo en Irak escándalo. El hombre que comenzó su Pentágono. están todavía por desarrollarse, el nuevo puesto hace dos años como cabecilla de Primeramente Wolfowitz hizo una concilio se convertiría instantáneamente la supuesta institución fi nanciera pública serie de nombramientos a puestos del en una poderosa central mundial de Mensaje de Mumia más grande del mundo con llamados a más alto nivel en el banco a socios políti- energía,” escribió González. Los con- luchar contra la “corrupción global” se cos de gobiernos derechistas que habían tratos con compañías internacionales encuentra acusado de pedir favores a sido unos de los más leales seguidores probablemente serían semejantes a los para el 1º de Mayo una amiga en el Banco. de la política estadounidense en Irak, controversiales acuerdos de producción No gastemos tinta en estos puntos de como por ejemplo El Salvador, España y compartida, los cuáles ofrecen la parte ¡Adelante! Viva John África. Hay sola- segunda. Dejaremos esto a los derechis- Cisjordania. “Ha utilizado su puesto en mayor de las ganancias petroleras a los mente dos pueblos que viven en la tierra tas de la prensa capitalista que ha tornado parte para recompensar los gobiernos e inversionistas extranjeros. que llamamos América que no eran inmi- todo comentario político objetivo sobre individuos que fueron particularmente El Banco Mundial fue fundado en 1945 grantes, el pueblo Indígena-llamado Indio- Wolfowitz en un escándalo sensaciona- útiles a los EEUU en la guerra de Irak”, con el propósito específi co de proyectar el y el africano americano que fue arrastrado lista sobre sexo, mentiras y sobornos. dice Steven Clemmens de la Fundación poder de los Estados Unidos en la época aquí en cadenas y con terror. La verdadera historia es cómo la Nueva América. de posguerra. El presidente del banco El resto inmigró aquí o sus antepasados administración de Bush ha tratado de siempre ha sido de los Estados Unidos, El Banco Mundial y el petróleo lo hicieron de Europa, de China, de la India, moldear al Banco Mundial en una her- la sede del banco está en Washington, y de Irlanda y sí, de México. A decir verdad, ramienta para su agenda de guerra y los Luego, el otoño pasado Wolfowitz esta- Estados Unidos tiene veto permanente. América era un asentamiento español límites de su habilidad para forzar al res- bleció una ofi cina permanente del Banco El Banco es criticado en muchos países mucho antes de que se convirtiera en inglés to del mundo a obedecer su voluntad. Mundial en Bagdad. Según el Centro de alrededor del mundo por las medidas y he ahí el dilema. Cuando Wolfowitz fue nominado por Información Bancario, una organización severas de austeridad que obligan a La algarabía sobre la inmigración hoy en George W. Bush hace dos años para liberal no gubernamental que monitorea las naciones en camino a desarrollarse día es sobre todo un miedo al bronceamien- dirigir el Banco Mundial, el periódico las políticas del Banco: “La institución a aceptar sus términos, incluyendo to de América. Imaginen eso. El pueblo fi nanciero europeo, The Economist, de está aconsejando al Fondo Monetario demandas de privatización de indus- que vivió originalmente en lo que ahora es extrema derecha y conservador, publicó Internacional (FMI) sobre el desarrollo trias y el saqueo de recursos nacionales California, Nuevo México, Arizona, Tejas, en un editorial que, “Su postulación dice de la estrategia del sector petrolero. Más e industrias nacionales a favor de las Colorado, fácilmente una tercera parte de lo al mundo que el señor Bush quiere captu- ampliamente, el Banco está aconsejan- ganancias del capital extranjero. que ahora se conoce como Estados Unidos, rar al Banco Mundial y convertirlo en un do a Irak sobre cómo atraer inversiones Pero el Banco Mundial en el pasado es visto como forasteros permanentes, inva- ala de la política exterior americana.” directas extranjeras a través del rápido ha sido también un esfuerzo de coalición sores incluso, debido a su piel marrón, a su Debemos agregar aquí sin embargo, desarrollo de leyes facilitadoras para de capital estadounidense, europeo, y habla en español, a su Catolicismo, y a su que The Economist no tiene ningún los inversionistas y a la vez aconsejando japonés, con fondos considerables pro- continuo deseo de tierra y de trabajo. problema en que el Banco Mundial sea sobre la reforma [privatización-BD] de vistos por fuentes no-estadounidenses. En este Primero de Mayo, un día san- un ala de la política exterior imperialista empresas estatales. Adicionalmente, el Sin embargo, hoy en día, a la admin- tifi cado para la clase trabajadora, ¿cómo de Europa. Banco está participando en reuniones istración de Bush y a sus socios de las podemos darle la espalda a una de la gente con el FMI, el Ministro de Finanzas grandes empresas no les interesan El SIDA como arma política que más duramente trabaja en América? No de Irak y el Centro Internacional de las coaliciones. Demandan el con- la alienemos; organicémosla. Traigámosla Wolfowitz, después de Bush, ha sido Impuestos e Inversiones (CIII) sobre trol total. Esto está mejor revelado en a la unión de trabajadores de la agricul- un de las fi guras más visibles y odiadas el sector petrolero de Irak. El CIII es el infame documento co-escrito por tura. Inscribámosla en una unión nacional en el mundo por su papel en Irak, por un grupo de cabilderos empresari- Wolfowitz mismo hace siete años titu- de carpinteros. ¿Después de todo, no son las mentiras que justifi caron la invasión, ales compuestos de representantes de lado “Reconstruyendo las defensas de trabajadores y trabajadoras? Celebremos por las políticas de torturas de la ocu- BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell y América”. Este manifi esto del proyecto el Primero de Mayo construyendo un pación, por la arrogancia y la conducta Total”. llamado Proyecto por el Nuevo Siglo movimiento de trabajadores y trabajado- despiadada de la guerra. “La aparente intrepidez de Wolfowitz Americano ha sido llamado el “Mein ras. ¡Adelante! ¡Viva el 1º de Mayo! Desde Y ahora como presidente del Banco de utilizar el Banco Mundial para avan- Kampf” del movimiento de los nuevos la galera de condenados a muerte, éste es Mundial, Wolfowitz también ha zar los objetivos militares dudosos de conservadores. Proyecta un mundo de dominación estadounidense global, Mumia Abu-Jamal. impuesto una agenda descaradamente los americanos en el Medio Oriente pro estadounidense. Un artículo de pri- es … una violación de los Estatutos de pidiendo aumentos masivos en el pre- mera plana en la revista New Yorker del Acuerdo fundadores del Banco, y un mal- supuesto militar, que se cubra el planeta 19 de abril por John Cassidy titulada gasto precipitado de los recursos dona- con bases del Pentágono, que se cree un “La Siguiente Cruzada” cita numerosos dos”, dijo Bea Edwards, directora del estado casi permanente de disponibili- ejemplos para apoyar este punto de Programa Internacional del Proyecto de dad militar, y que se cambie el régimen vista. Contabilidad Gubernamental, un grupo dondequiera que los intereses políti- Por ejemplo, en julio del 2005, la de interés público sin fi nes de lucro y una cos y económicos de capitalismo esta- república de Uzbekistán en el Asia organización que protege a las personas dounidense estén amenazados. Central demandó que EEUU retirara que revelan actividades corruptas. Pero esta utopía reaccionaria está des- sus tropas y aeronaves de una base mili- “De hecho, está prohibido que el Banco integrándose en el suelo de Irak donde la tar en su territorio que había sido usado opere en semejante confl icto”, agregó resistencia popular frente a la agresión para apoyar la guerra contra Afganistán. Edwards. “En los términos fi nancieros estadounidense sigue creciendo. Y Dos meses después, Wolfowitz suspend- más sencillos, no hay sistema bancario aunque preferiríamos que Wolfowitz ió un paquete de ayuda al país dedicado funcionando, el gobierno no controla su sea acusado de crímenes de guerra en mayormente para proyectos de servicios territorio”. vez de por los cargos menores de sobor- de agua y salud en las zonas rurales. El Banco Mundial y el Fondo no, el hecho es que sus problemas en el No se sugirió semejantes recortes para Monetario Internacional están esperan- Banco Mundial son otro signo más de Tayikistán, un régimen brutalmente do que el Parlamento Iraquí establez- que la administración de Bush está a la represivo pero partidario de los EEUU ca un Concilio Federal de Petróleo e defensiva y sin el poder de imponer su que recibe millones en préstamos del Hidrocarburos, administrado por ejec- voluntad sobre un mundo que no está FOTO: JOHN CATALINOTTO Banco Mundial. utivos de las grandes empresas petrol- dispuesto a acatarla.