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Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 63, No. 30 July 29, 2021 $1 Life expectancy drop exposes , class bias By months during this time period. while female life expectancy The disturbing report indicates the (80.2) returned to the lowest The National Center for Health steepest decline of life expectancy since level since 2005.” Statistics (NCHS) released “provisional World War II. The conclusions from the Two major factors for this life expectancy estimates” for the U.S. report are: “U.S. life expectancy at birth statistical drop are the pan- based on provisional mortality data for 2020, based on nearly final data, was demic and the opioid crisis. for January through December 2020. 77.3 years, the lowest it has been since The pandemic has caused the The statistics show that overall U.S. life 2003. Male life expectancy (74.5) also deaths of over 600,000 people expectancy was reduced by a year and six declined to a level not seen since 2003, in the U.S. Although the death rate has slowed due to millions getting vaccinations, the cur- rent spread of the Delta vari- editorial ant is causing another drastic rise in hospitalizations. At the same time, businesses and Health care worker links racism in health care to Defend Cuba! public places have eased their police murder of George Floyd in 2020. restrictions on mask wearing and social distancing. “The non-Hispanic Black population The Centers for Disease Control and experienced the second largest decline Defend ! Prevention reports that the rise in drug in life expectancy (from 74.7 to 71.8) overdose deaths, attributed to 14% of and was the lowest estimate seen since Anti-communist forces—​led by the the cases in the 18-month decline in life 2000 for the Black population (regard- U.S. government—​are mounting a expectancy, was due to isolation and less of [Latinx] origin). Life expectancy no-holds-barred attack on despair caused mainly by the pandemic. for the non-Hispanic white population Cuba. That country continues to advance There was a 30% increase in these deaths declined from 78.8 to 77.6 years, a level with determination on its own road to from 72,151 in 2019 to a staggering 93,331 last observed in 2002 for the white popu- socialism, begun Jan. 1, 1959, when forces in 2020, according to a separate CDC lation (regardless of [Latinx] origin).” led by Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Ché” report released on July 14. The figures show that life expectancy Guevara overturned the U.S.-backed gov- for people of color, especially Black and ernment of dictator Fulgencio Batista. Impact of racism and class Latinx, has dropped by three years. Black The current assault on Cuba was The NCHS reports the impact of this people already had a lower life expec- launched full-scale on social media at decline in life expectancy upon commu- tancy before the pandemic hit, compared the beginning of July. But the U.S. first nities of color, stating, “The Hispanic to Latinx and white people. declared ideological and economic war [Latinx] population experienced the The pandemic has had a devastating on Cuba in 1960 by placing a brutal eco- largest decline in life expectancy between impact on essential workers—​especially nomic and social blockade on the country 2019 and 2020, from 81.8 to 78.8 years, in the areas of health care, mass transit, that remains in place. reaching a level lower than what it was in restaurants and grocery stores and other

Since then the U.S. has tried every tac- PHOTO: RADHAMES MORALES 2006 (80.3 years), the first year for which industries that require people to work tic to break the Revolution—​from direct Solidarity with Cuba is worldwide. Here, life expectancy estimates by Hispanic ori- outside of home. These workers tend to Union Square, City, July 15. gin were produced. Continued on page 10 Continued on page 6

Solidarity with Cuba International support 7 Dreamers respond to court setback 3 Haiti/Cuba action in Boston 7 Rideshare workers’ strike 3 Fidel – The battle of ideas 10 Oakland: Ports yes, stadium no! 3 Black Lives Matter speaks 10 Billionaires lost in space 5 Philadelphia: Global speakout 11 Bill Gates & Big Pharma 5 Rumsfeld: War criminal 6 Black August tribute Cleveland team scraps racist name 9 58 years: Why is Ruchell Magee still behind bars? 4

Victory for Perú Libre 8 Haiti conflict grows 8 False warrant on Alex Saab 9 Esther Bejarano ¡Presente! 9 Page 2 July 29, 2021 workers.org

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Workers World/Mundo Obrero joins with the Cuban people in celebrating this week the 68th anniversary of an event which changed the course of history for their island nation. On July 26, 1953, Cuban ◆ In the U.S. boldly attacked the Life expectancy drop exposes racism, class bias . 1 Moncada garrison in Santiago de Cuba Dreamers respond as judge rules DACA illegal . .3 and simultaneously conducted a siege of Rideshare drivers’ strike demands ...... 3 the army barracks in Bayamo. These courageous acts were aimed Thumbs down to gentrification scheme . . . . .3 to strike a blow against the brutal Why is Ruchell Magee still behind bars? . . . . 4 U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Black August: A tribute to freedom fighters . . .4 Batista. Although the military goals Billionaires in space ...... 5 were not achieved, and the struggle suf- Bill Gates, Big Pharma block vaccines . . . . . 5 fered a temporary setback, the armed , war criminal ...... 6 struggle had reached a new stage that continued until the dictatorship was Boston: ‘Justice for Haiti! Let Cuba live!’ . . . . 7 overthrown on Jan. 1, 1959. As the guer- Cleveland: Racist name, mascot finally leaving . .9 rilla forces fought in the mountains, an Black Lives Matter defends Cuba ...... 10 underground movement spread across Fidel and other Cuban guerilla fighters in Sierra Maestra Mountains in late 1950s. Philadelphia in solidarity with Cuba ...... 11 the country. Cuba has not only developed in every ◆ Around the world sphere since the socialist revolution, this island nation Program, initiated 44 years ago, to aid in funding the has carried out acts of international solidarity to aid newspaper. Since the early 1990s, these donations have If they touch Cuba, the world will rise up . . . .7 oppressed countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and also helped maintain the workers.org website. Victory for Perú Libre and Mariáteguismo . . . 8 Africa, whether with military might or medical personnel New articles are posted daily at workers.org. During Haiti: conflict grows as President Moïse buried . 8 and supplies. This assistance has been given generously, the pandemic, the weekly newspaper has been printed and Alex Saab: warrant in someone else’s name . . .9 despite the horrific blockade implemented against Cuba mailed out once a month; and WW weekly editions con- Esther Bejarano ¡Presente! ...... 9 by Washington for six decades. tinue to be posted in PDFs on our website. Fidel on the ‘battle of ideas’ ...... 10 Even now during the pandemic, despite having a dearth For an annual donation of $75, $100 or $300, of medical supplies for inoculations, Cuba plans to share members receive a year’s subscription, letters with ◆ Editorial COVID vaccines with countries denied them by the impe- news of activities and analyses of timely issues, and rialist West. one, two or three free subscriptions, respectively, Defend Cuba! Defend socialism! ...... 1 Cuba has deservedly won the support and respect of for friends. Members can receive our book, “What peoples around the globe. Workers World has shown our road to socialism?” (Notify us.) Or read it free at ◆ Noticias en Español unwavering solidarity with this socialist country on this workers.org/books. China y África: Cooperación mutua ...... 11 newspaper’s pages and in countless activities on the streets. Write monthly or annual checks to Workers World. Una historia marxista del VIH/SIDA, parte 1 . .12 Mail them, with your name and address, to Workers Your donations count! World, 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011. ‘Acabar con detenciones trans por ICE’ . . . . 12 We know you read WW/MO for class truth, free from Or sign up to donate online at workers.org. corporate lies and geared to working and oppressed We’re grateful for your help in building Workers World! people. We need your help! Join the WW Supporter

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RAICES supports thousands gram. This ruling bars the government from approving of DACA recipients and helps hundreds of undocumented any new applications. youth file new applications in Texas every year. Many of Judge Andrew Hanen, appointed by George W. Bush our staff members are DACA recipients. This decision in 2002, ruled in favor of Texas and eight other conserva- will spread fear and confusion throughout our work- tive states that sued to halt DACA, which currently pro- force and our community, a community that has already vides limited protections to about 650,000 Dreamers been devastated by the impact of COVID‑19, xenopho- (DACA participants). Fortunately, those Dreamers will bia and the decision-making paralysis in Congress.” not be affected but will have to continue to annually WW PHOTO: GLORIA RUBAC (tinyurl.com/82snjz7u) renew their status. Norma Gonzales, United We Dream Texas, lead organizer The ruling is Hanen’s final judgement on a 2018 law- speaking at rally in Houston, July 19. United We Dream rally in Houston suit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and In Houston, United We Dream Texas held a July eight other states’ officials against the federal argument. At a hearing last December, a group of DACA recipients 19 demonstration outside of the federal courthouse The complaint argues that Texas and the other states face represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and where Judge Hanen’s courtroom is housed. “Enough is irreparable harm because they bear extra costs from pro- Educational Fund and the New Jersey Attorney General’s enough,” Houston resident and DACA participant Susie viding health care, education and law enforcement pro- Office asked Hanen to dismiss the lawsuit. They argued Lujano said at the protest. She said she was “heartbro- tection to DACA recipients. Obama had the authority to institute DACA. ken” by the decision. “I was brought here when I was two Following the cruel and vindictive ruling from Judge Nina Perales, a lawyer for MALDEF, told Hanen that and love my home.” Hanen, the response of United We Dream, the largest the states lack standing to sue, because they weren’t Speaking through tears, Lujano explained that she is immigrant youth-led network in the country, was swift. harmed by DACA, as benefits such as work authorization pregnant, and both she and her fiancé are Dreamers. “We “The moment we are in is urgent. This court ruling on for recipients were not given by DACA but authorized are scared and do not want to go back to living in fear and DACA, the continued detention, deportation and expulsion under other programs and regulations that had previ- worrying that we could be separated from our children.” of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mostly Black ously been created. Another Dreamer militantly told the media, “Let me immigrants, should be a blaring siren to Democrats to MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. remind Judge Hanen and the rest of the Republican act or face the political consequences. We need bold and Saenz reacted to the July 16 ruling: “This case should Party that it was DACA recipients who were and are still transformative leadership,” stated Greisa Martinez Rosas, never have been filed and should never have progressed fighting on the front line trying to save lives during this Executive Director of United We Dream Action. beyond its filing. Current DACA recipients remain fully horrible pandemic. We are essential to this country,” “While we have always known that DACA is right, Judge protected, but the decision threatens hundreds of thou- Demaris Gonzalez said. She is an immigrant rights activ- Hanen’s decision to side with Republicans, who have been sands of others, who should also be protected as they ist with the Texas Organizing Project. hell-bent on deporting immigrants, is a reminder that continue to contribute to the betterment of our nation.” Representatives with the Workers Defense Project DACA has never been enough. Only citizenship can protect (tinyurl.com/3pktbf4d) and F.I.R.E. (Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees immigrant youth, TPS [Temporary Protected Status] hold- MALDEF explained that this decision all but ensures Everywhere) participated in solidarity with United We ers, farm workers and other essential workers from the the matter will be settled either by the U.S. Supreme Dream. Both Spanish and English-language news media looming threat of deportation,” Martinez Rojas continued. Court or Congress. The issue of DACA is not resolved. covered the protest extensively. ☐

Rideshare drivers’ strike demands justice and recognition as workers

By Judy Greenspan 2020 and funded heavily by the gig driv- silenced. We are not less than a living going to steal from us and take our live- San Francisco ing companies—legally​ classifies drivers as wage, transparency, benefits and a voice lihoods, they can expect us to be banging “private contractors,” rather than workers. on the job, just like every other worker in on their doors all the time.” ☐ “We need to stop letting them disman- RDU, which represents more than 30,000 this country.” tle labor rights! How is there a gig com- gig drivers nationwide, began in Los At the rally in front of the block-long pany without gig workers? There is no Angeles and has been organizing for the Uber headquarters, gig drivers, many of Uber without drivers. There is no Lyft right of gig drivers to be defined as work- them immigrant workers, testified about without drivers! There is no Doordash ers, so that they have the right to organize the economic and social injustices faced without drivers!” unions. (tinyurl.com/bt4rntm8) on the job. “How can we be happy when Those were the sentiments expressed The strike also demanded passage of the we don’t have benefits like medical, den- by former Uber driver and activist Eddy PRO Act, which would expand union rights tal and then vision,” said Ibrahim Diallo. Hernandez at the strike organized by and make it easier for unorganized workers He went on to compare the disparity of Rideshare Drivers United (RDU) July to unionize. Rallies and other actions were wages between gig and taxi cab drivers. 21, designated as a day for app-based gig scheduled to take place in Los Angeles; Diallo concluded, “Uber is sucking the drivers in parts of California and around Cleveland; Austin, Texas; Boston; Las blood of the drivers.” the U.S. to strike. Vegas; Baltimore and Denver. Cleveland Driver organizer Ahmad Ibrahim Moss Over 100 striking drivers participated drivers held their first RDU organizing said, “We are fighting to protect our jobs, in a march, car caravan and rally, which meeting and voiced their grievances. for the right to organize and for voting began in front of Lyft’s San Francisco Gig drivers nationally were asked to rights too.” Moss spoke for all of the headquarters near the Embarcadero and turn off their apps and not work for the workers when he said, “We work to make ended at Uber headquarters. The drivers day. According to RDU organizers, many the rich richer, but we should own it. We came from as far away as Sacramento, Bay Area drivers participated in the strike should own that damn building,” pointing San Jose and the Central Valley to speak by doing just that. to the Uber headquarters behind him. out against the corporate greed of the gig Erica Mighetto, one of the RDU strike RDU organizers were adamant in their WW PHOTO: JUDY GREENSPAN companies and to demand a repeal of organizers, set the tone of the strike determination to keep fighting for justice Striking gig drivers and their supporters Proposition 22. action: “We’re here today to send a mes- for gig workers. Mighetto said it clearly, outside the San Francisco Uber headquarters July 21. Proposition 22—​passed in November sage to Uber and Lyft that we will not be “You know what? If these companies are

People’s verdict on gentrification scheme: Thumbs down

By Dave Welsh smoke and mirrors,” he said, “a farce, a Howard Terminal with a ballpark “will not council voted 6-1 for a nonbinding “term Oakland, Calif. show, trying to make West Oakland and benefit our community. Transportation sheet,” which advocates believe may Chinatown believe they will get justice will be terrible.” move the project forward. ☐ West Oakland turned out July 17 at and benefits. But this is not true. Chris Roberts said, “This is a big Taylor Memorial Church for a com- “They promise jobs. But they never money project. They’re giving away the munity speak-out organized by City intended to provide jobs for Black peo- waterfront.” Councilmember Carroll Fife. On the ple, no real apprenticeship programs. The A member of the Oakland United agenda was a plan by the wealthy Fisher Oakland A’s have no commitment to hire Coalition said, “Our kids in West Oakland family to bulldoze into the Port of Black people. For us there is nothing but are growing up with asthma, but there is Oakland (the fifth largest port in the U.S.) displacement and gentrification, destruc- no remediation plan about the environ- and build a high-rise luxury complex and tion of our community.” mental impacts. There is no provision for baseball park by the Bay. Most speakers Helen Duffy said the Fisher family, living wage employment, or 35% afford- were not impressed. owners of Gap Stores and the Oakland able housing, or access to jobs for the for- Derrick Muhammad, from A’s, “are sending out slick mailers and merly incarcerated. There is no local hire Derrick Muhammad, second from left, International Longshore and Warehouse trying to ram this through. We need to job policy so our community can stay in former secretary treasurer, ILWU Local 10, Union Local 10, said the Black community stand up against Fisher.” their homes and avoid gentrification.” with members at 2017 demonstration in should not support it. “This process is all Mercedes Rodriguez said replacing Despite community opposition, the city San Francisco. Page 4 July 29, 2021 workers.org Who is Ruchell Magee and why has he been in prison 58 years? By Judy Greenspan to life in prison for a bogus charge of James McClain and Magee, who were in attempting to kidnap someone to commit the courtroom that day, joined the escape Ruchell Cinque Magee, a U.S. political robbery for $10. attempt. Magee and Christmas were in years old, having served over 58 years in prisoner who has served over 58 years California built its vast prison system court to testify in support of McClain, who prison, and is now incarcerated at the in California prisons, was again denied and exponentially increased its prison was facing charges for assaulting a guard California Medical Facility. parole July 15 by the state’s Board of population of poor Black, Brown and at Soledad after the Billingsly murder. Parole Hearings. Why won’t the state of Indigenous peoples by sentencing them Jackson and the three prisoners took Free Ruchell Magee! Free them all! California allow Magee to go free? to indeterminate sentences for petty theft several hostages, including Judge Harold The Coalition to Free Ruchell Magee, His story begins as a Black man from and drug-related crimes. Magee was one Haley, Deputy District Attorney Gary the Jericho Movement and other groups Louisiana, who since 1955 has had to deal of the victims of this racist and outra- Thomas and three jurors, and attempted organized a groundswell of support with this racist injustice system. Magee geous sentencing system. Once convicted, to escape in a van. The San Quentin for Magee during his last parole effort remains in prison today because he partic- it was almost impossible to get parole guards fired into the van, killing everyone July 15. A current petition to California ipated in a bold, heroic during these years. but Magee and the prosecutor, who were Governor Gavin Newsom to grant clem- action in an attempt to both badly wounded. ency for Magee states: “As an elder, he free political prisoners Becoming politicized This August 7 will mark the 51st anni- faces constant mental and physical health George Jackson, John Like George Jackson versary of Jonathan Jackson’s heroic risks every day from nearly six decades of Clutchette and Fleeta and so many other incar- effort to free his brother and two other incarceration. With the COVID-19 pan- Drumgo, known as the cerated Black people, political prisoners. demic raging across California’s prisons Soledad Brothers, over Magee became politi- Magee wrote, “Once the facts can be throughout 2020 and 2021, Ruchell has 50 years ago. cized while inside, add- clearly established and shown to the been in significant danger of falling ill.” Magee grew up in ing the middle name people, where these dogs are practicing (tinyurl.com/5hf9xty2) Louisiana; and at the of “Cinque” after the slavery under the color of law, then this Incarcerated people in California’s age of 16, he faced a African freedom fighter automatically requires a special investiga- prisons have suffered high COVID infec- racist conviction in Cinqué, who led a rebel- tion by the people to look for themselves. tion rates and deaths due to the prison 1955 for “attempted lion on the slave ship La They will find that these judges are crim- system’s refusal to stop transfers and cell aggravated rape” for Amistad. Magee believed inals.” (freeruchellmagee.org/about) extractions and to provide adequate med- having a relationship and stated, “Slavery Magee wanted to conduct a very polit- ical care to people inside. with a white girl in an 400 years ago, slavery ical trial that challenged the validity of The Jericho Movement, Campaign area dominated by the today—it’s​ the same but the prison system and recognized his to Bring Mumia Home, Incarcerated Ku Klux Klan. with a new name.” right like Cinque’s to fight for his freedom Workers Organizing Committee and His conviction occurred at the same He became known throughout the against slavery. International Leonard Peltier Defense time that Emmett Till was lynched in prison as a jailhouse lawyer. He filed a The legal team of Magee’s co-defendant Committee have launched a coalition Money, Miss., for supposedly whistling wrongful death lawsuit and helped win , who was facing charges for called “The Spirit of Mandela” to orga- at a white woman. Magee was sentenced a big settlement for the family of Fred supposedly purchasing the weapons used nize the international campaign to free to eight years in Angola State Prison. He Billingsly, who was tear-gassed and in the courthouse action, had a different all U.S. political prisoners, most of whom was legally ordered to leave Louisiana beaten to death by San Quentin guards legal strategy and separated the cases. are elderly, ill and facing death inside. in 1962; and when finally released from while in his cell in February 1970. Magee went on alone in his legal defense (spiritofmandela.org) Angola in 1963, Magee went to Los On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, battle, eventually defending himself pro se. Magee, Sundiata Acoli, Mutulu Shakur, Angeles. (tinyurl.com/333jn64z) the 17-year-old brother of George Fortunately the murder charges were Russell Maroon Shoatz, Mumia Abu- Magee was arrested that same year Jackson, burst into a Marin County court- dropped, but he was convicted of “sim- Jamal, David Gilbert and Leonard Peltier after a disagreement with someone about room armed with guns with the intention ple kidnap.” The verdict in the more seri- are some of the aging political prison- a $10 bag of marijuana. After his arrest, of taking over the courtroom to demand ous kidnapping charge was disputed, and ers who have served decades of time for he was beaten so badly he had to be hos- the release of the Soledad Brothers. They Magee believes he was acquitted of that their bold defiance of racist murder and pitalized for three days. He was then rail- were charged with killing a white guard at charge. (tinyurl.com/6fpweaf4) injustice. This year, 2021, has been des- roaded by the California Superior Court Soledad State Prison, notoriously known Magee was sentenced in 1975 to life ignated the Year of the Political Prisoner. of Los Angeles County, via extreme mal- for racist murders and brutality against in prison and has gone before the parole It’s time to free Ruchell Cinque Magee practice by both prosecution and defense Black and Brown prisoners. board many times since then. Each time, and free them all! ☐ attorneys, and sentenced to seven years Three prisoners, William Christmas, he has been denied parole. He is now 82 Black August: A tribute to freedom fighters By modern-day slave trade we now call the and formally established as a month U.S. penal system. of reverence, as a time of revolutionary The following slightly edited article celebration. was first published in August 2013. Lilly Jonathan Jackson and Angela Davis The heroic Attica prison rebellion ran as Workers World Party’s candidate Black freedom fighters—​James which began on Sept. 9, 1971, and was for vice president in 2016. McClain, William Christmas, Ruchell eventually drowned in blood by Gov. Magee, Khatari Gaulden and 17-year- Nelson Rockefeller’s stormtroopers (the George Jackson old Jonathan Jackson—​the brother of N.Y. state police), with the deaths of over The March on Washington for Jobs and George Jackson—led​ a courthouse rebel- 33 prisoners and 10 guards, was sparked Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963, galvanized lion on Aug. 7, 1970, in a brave display by Jackson’s assassination. hundreds of thousands in the streets of of all-out resistance and armed struggle. Incarcerated workers today have con- Washington, D.C. A. Philip Randolph Unfortunately, lives were lost as they typ- tinued to protest and press forward all helped to establish the Brotherhood of ically are in any war for liberation. Magee, over the United States. Hunger strikes Sleeping Car Porters in Harlem, N.Y., on who is currently still incarcerated, was over the past year have roused hundreds Aug. 25, 1925. The Haitian Revolution the only survivor. And though our her- of thousands in states such as California, first broke the chains of French colonial- alded comrade, George Jackson, was not Georgia and North Carolina. Letter writ- ism in August 1791. August marks the Nat freed, the efforts of Jonathan and others ing campaigns have served as vital lines Turner slave rebellion of 1831 and the would inspire decades of continued resis- of inspiration and direct communication. George Jackson Watts Uprising of 1965. The Philadelphia tance and revolutionary solidarity. ­Human rights activists such as political Police Department first raided the MOVE George Jackson had just completed his prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal have served organization on Aug. 8, 1978, giving book “Soledad Brother,” a philosophical as critical catalysts, tirelessly working to its disastrous effects upon the oppressed way to the unjustly imprisoned MOVE revolutionary classic. Jackson, however, empower the voices of those who con- worldwide. In the age of the prison-in- 9. August also bears the births of Fred was assassinated by San Quentin prison tinue to be oppressed by the public and dustrial complex, school-to-prison pipe- Hampton, Marcus Garvey and Mutulu guards one year later on Aug. 21, 1971. private prison industry. line and widespread police brutality, the Shakur. His second book, “Blood in My Eye,” was Today, in the spirit of continued resis- struggle for justice and liberation is alive “Black August” is a monthlong celebra- published posthumously by Black Classic tance, we honor the deaths of Mark Clark, now more than ever. tion that marks the remembrance of the Press. Jackson’s legacy of resistance has and Geronimo Pratt. We In the 42nd year of Black August, may lives of freedom fighters who gave their inspired millions worldwide, while his lit- honor the sacrifices and life work of polit- we all take heed to the spirited words of all for Black liberation, freedom, radi- erary works continue to teach even in his ical prisoners Eddie Conway, Sundiata our brother and mentor, George Lester cal resistance and mass consciousness. physical absence. Acoli and our freedom fighters in exile Jackson: “Settle your quarrels; come The official origin of Black August was This is the background in which like Assata Shakur. We honor the count- together; understand the reality of our in honor of the fallen soldiers who val- Black August was first formed. It was less victims of COINTELPRO’s callous situation; understand that fascism is iantly fought to liberate Black Panther deep within the belly of the California attacks upon the people. We duly recog- already here, that people are dying who leader George Lester Jackson from the penal system that it was first embraced nize the destructive ills of capitalism and could be saved.” (“Soledad Brother”) ☐ workers.org July 29, 2021 Page 5 Billionaires in space By Betsey Piette by exploiting their labor, many of Bezos’ employees at Amazon have recently been Centibillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and mul- organizing for a union. They know they tibillionaire Virgin Group founder Richard Branson used are paid much less than the value they the profits they extracted from their companies’ work- produce. And the work is harmful. force to launch themselves on personal space rides in A recent investigation by the Strategic recent weeks. And centibillionaire SpaceX founder Elon Organizing Center found Amazon’s seri- Musk is expected to follow. ous injury rate was twice the warehouse One thing is clear: None of these billionaires did any industry average. (cbsnews.com, June 2) of the work that got them into space. All the labor to Pregnant workers have miscarried after build their capsules, rocket launchers, launchpads and being refused leave by the company. more was done by workers, whose labor these billion- Many struggle to get workers’ compensa- aires exploited. tion when injured. (Reveal News, Sept. 29, These same billionaires’ earthly fortunes came from 2020) superexploiting workers in their factories, sweatshops Stuart Appelbaum, president of the and warehouses. They managed to pay little to no taxes Retail, Wholesale and Department Store to support public services. Nothing of benefit to human- Union that tried to unionize Amazon’s kind will come from this. warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., responded On the contrary, the success of these personal space to Bezos’ comments: “These are people who put their capitalists richer at public expense. launches threatens to send vast amounts of waste into lives on the line during the pandemic and did not receive Like Musk’s SpaceX, which won a $149 million con- space, increase the potential for mining on the moon adequate support from Jeff Bezos. In the middle of the tract from the Pentagon to build missile-tracking sys- and open the door for greater militarization of space. pandemic, he even cut people’s wages, when he didn’t tems, these private companies rely heavily on public And these launches generate increased pollution during need to. People are being forced to work in conditions funding. Many have billions in contracts from NASA, a time of severe climate crisis. where their health and safety is not being adequately the military and telecommunications. The contracts let Only the very rich could afford seats on these flights. protected. There is so much more Jeff Bezos should be SpaceX and Bezos’ Blue Origin control the infrastructure Bezos raised millions in a lottery where 7,600 people doing for his employees.” (Democracy Now!, July 22) of space. (Democracy Now!, July 22) participated to win a seat in his capsule. The winner paid Many question how someone who gained tens of bil- $28 million. The lottery gives Bezos a list of prospective lions of dollars in personal wealth during the pandemic, China is the target customers for future flights. His company, Blue Origin, who lied to prevent his workers from unionizing, could U.S. corporations and politicians alike worry that has already amassed $100 million in private sales for joke about exploiting his workers to pay for private space China’s technological innovations will give it the com- more trips. trips for billionaires. Their advantage arises because by petitive edge in space. China’s new Tiangong space sta- Branson, whose Virgin Galactic spacecraft beat Bezos promoting “space tourism,” these billionaires are count- tion received its first three astronauts June 17—​a major by nine days to be the first civilian space launch, charged ing on access to military contracts—​public money—​to milestone in the country’s rapid scientific and technolog- less at $200,000 per seat. Yet none of the wealth gener- fund their future initiatives. ical development. By contrast, the International Space ated by these projects will benefit their workers through Station, launched in 1998, will be decommissioned in the increased wages or benefits. Money from militarizing space coming years, likely making Tiangong humanity’s only Corporations pay lobbyists and back politicians who permanent outpost in space. Bezos’ big mouth pitch the falsehood that private companies run public U.S. corporate management aims to overcome In a move that angered millions of people, Bezos agencies better than the government can. This argument Chinese gains by using militarization to win funding bluntly told the truth at a news conference after his mul- has virtually shut down NASA and nearly dismantled the and space-related contracts. Space privatization through timillion-dollar joyride: “I want to thank every Amazon U.S. Postal Service—​the oldest public entity in the U.S. companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, heavily reliant employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys Many privately owned utility systems, transportation on public contracts and built with billions of public dol- paid for all this.” services and former public schools have failed to deliver lars, may appear to be the solution. Clearly the billion- Already aware of how Bezos has enriched himself better products or services—​but they have made many aire owners of these companies are aware of this. ☐

Bill Gates, Big Pharma block vaccines to the Global South by Jim McMahan create a voluntary intellectual property pool. In opposi- tion, Bill Gates launched a bold bid to overturn C-TAP. The COVID-19 death rate Gates’ initiative was called ACT-Accelerator; Accelerator continues to be high worldwide, committed to respecting exclusive IP claims for the drug especially as the virus ravages companies. the developing world. A recent Gates was able to outmaneuver the WHO, based on study reveals India’s death his being a so-called “wise leader”—​along with being toll could be 3.4 to 4.7 million worth $130 billion. He dismissed many warnings that people, with the official death there would be a crisis of supply and deprivation, and toll of 414,000 being a vast he blocked all challenges to his authority. undercount. (Center for Global Gates’ dedication to IP rights is related to his control Development) of Microsoft. He wants control of the world’s data—​an The lack of access to life- extremely valuable commodity. The Gates Foundation saving vaccines, from Latin is deeply invested in Big Pharma, including Pfizer. It America to Africa to the Middle owns shares of the German company BioNTech, having East and Asia, is the main rea- invested $55 million in 2019, along with $52 million in son for the pandemic continuing CureVac, another German company. They’re also share- to spread. It’s a case of Western holders in Vir Biotechnology. With no shame, stock pick- pharmaceutical companies—​ ers say these companies could be winners for Gates and Big Pharma—​making fabulous company. (The Motley Fool, Sept. 24, 2020) profits because of their monop- Protesters block traffic outside Pfizer headquarters, July 14, New York. On May 5, the Biden administration reversed its oly control. The oppressed work- position and came out in support of an IP waiver after ing masses of the Global South are still being largely in annual sales for its vaccine, and Moderna $19.2 billion. intense pressure from over 100 nations. The next day the denied, months after an April World Health Organization (Reuters, July 21) Meanwhile 85% of the world’s countries Gates foundation relented and came out for a “narrow (WHO) report of 87% of the vaccines going to wealthy aren’t expected to be fully vaccinated until 2023. IP waiver.” But Germany remains in opposition inside nations with only .2% to developing countries. It’s hard to imagine a single event that could make a the World Trade Organization, the decision-making In , demonstrators marched on Pfizer’s stronger case for international cooperation than a global body. Demonstrations have targeted German Chancellor world headquarters and blocked traffic July 14. They pandemic. Instead the crisis exposes the irreconcilable Angela Merkel. demanded that the imperialist company end its pat- conflict between the needs of the masses and the profits Waiving IP rights will increase vaccination rates ent restrictions on the COVID-19 vaccine and instead of the few. worldwide. Mandating technology transfer must also expand its availability across the globe. happen. It’s crucial that Gates and Big Pharma be Seattle City Council member spon- How Bill Gates blocked access to vaccines unmasked for their role in perpetuating the interna- sored a similar demonstration in front of the Bill and At the beginning of the pandemic, it was hoped that tional pandemic. Melinda Gates Foundation in May. Sawant and protest- the world would unite against the virus. Public health In contrast to big pharma profit-making, Peoples ers called out Big Pharma and the Gates foundation, who leaders thought that the immensity of the pandemic China and Cuba have advanced public health through with President ’s support, are blocking intellec- would override a global drug system based on market socialism. China expects to produce over 3 billion vac- tual property (IP) waivers for formerly colonized coun- monopolies. Governments spoke of shared interests. cine doses this year and is the main supplier to many tries. Similar protests are being held around the world. Drug companies pledged nonprofit approaches. developing countries. Likewise, Cuba has produced its Big Pharma corporations have racked up huge fortunes In March 2020, a plan was created inside WHO to set own vaccine and has sent medical brigades in solidarity from the pandemic. Pfizer is expected to make $26 billion up a Technology Access Pool or C-TAP; C-TAP would to fight the pandemic to many countries worldwide. ☐ Page 6 July 29, 2021 workers.org Lessons from the life of Donald Rumsfeld, war criminal By John Catalinotto to be costly as well as criminal, Rumsfeld argued for and put into practice the “shock and awe” strategy. A massive When an ordinary official of an imperialist govern- air assault on Iraq, followed by a massive invasion, he ment dies, since there is usually nothing good to write said, would bring a rapid victory. about them, common practice for a working-class news- Rumsfeld argued that this ambitious land and peo- paper is to write nothing. ple grab could be carried out at minimum cost to the When someone like Donald Rumsfeld dies, to avoid U.S. and its people, and little cost to Iraqi civilians, who comment means avoiding struggle. Rumsfeld, who died would welcome the U.S. assault on . June 30, was far from ordinary. He was a world-class Besides being a war criminal, Rumsfeld was dead wrong war criminal, who had major responsibility for the mur- with this prediction. der of millions of people. In the first weeks of the war on Iraq, even as the Iraqi That anyone, even in the corporate media, praises Army was collapsing, the U.S. invasion force ran into Rumsfeld and his work—and​ they did—​should in itself resistance. Workers World newspaper’s analyst Fred came to illegal aggression, Rumsfeld saw the big picture. be shocking proof of the criminal nature of U.S. imperi- Goldstein pointed this out in April 2003, weeks after the General , former NATO commander and alism and its agents. invasion began: himself capable of bombing civilians—​as his forces did In his first stint as secretary of defense, in 1975-77 “The U.S. military and Secretary of Defense Donald in Yugoslavia in 1999—​claimed in a March 2, 2007, under President Gerald Ford, Rumsfeld was a deter- Rumsfeld promised a quick and relatively bloodless war in interview on Democracy Now! that he had a memo “that mined Cold War warrior. In his second stint, in 2001-06 Iraq. Their plan was based upon a massive ‘shock and awe’ describes how we’re [the U.S.] going to take out seven under President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick campaign of initial bombing. … The bombing took place. countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Cheney—​Cheney was a Rumsfeld crony for decades—​ It produced only resistance. The most overpowering mil- Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” Rumsfeld was a prime mover and planner of the U.S. itary machine in the history of humanity faced the heroic While Rumsfeld had to resign in 2006, Libya and invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. opposition of the Iraqi people from Day One of the war.” Syria were targeted during the Democratic administra- Only months after the Pentagon’s ‘shock and awe’ air tion that followed Bush; Sudan was split in two, and Iran Architect of U.S. war on Iraq destruction of the Iraqi army and infrastructure, Iraqi has been subject to strangling sanctions. Lebanon faces Along with Bush, Cheney, Deputy Secretary of guerrillas were inflicting casualties on the 150,000-plus collapse plus sanctions. Defense Paul Wolfowitz and National Security Adviser U.S. troops in Iraq in 2003. Unlike Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld promoted two Big Lies to who eventually regretted his criminal role in pursuing justify U.S. aggression against Iraq. The first was that Sowing divisions the U.S. war against Vietnam, Rumsfeld defended his the Iraqi government led by Saddam Hussein collabo- During 2004 and 2005, a determined Iraqi resistance murderous policies to the end. The question to ask is rated with al-Qaeda to attack the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. was killing and wounding U.S. troops. To avoid defeat what sort of system of government places someone with The second was that Iraq possessed “weapons of mass in an urban guerrilla war, the U.S. occupation regime Rumsfeld’s characteristics in a position of power? And destruction.” resorted to sowing and exacerbating ethnic and religious how do we rid the world of that system? ☐ U.S. intelligence agencies had no support for these lies, divisions among the Iraqi people. so Rumsfeld created his own reports. The government All this was under the direction of Rumsfeld and the figures repeating them knew they were false. Secretary neocons, whose strategies led to the disintegration of the Turn the Guns of State Colin Powell, who recited these charges at the Iraqi regime and splitting its people. While Rumsfeld’s United Nations to justify U.S. military action against strategy failed to bring victory to U.S. imperialism, Around Iraq, knew there was no evidence and knew the lies it created misery for millions of Iraqis—​misery that were invented to justify the war. (, New York continues. By John Catalinotto Times, July 16, 2020) The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan cost some- Draftees and enlistees — where near $4 trillion. The military-industrial complex The lies were enough to get backing for the U.S. mil- eighteen-year-olds from the itary to initiate aggression against Iraq, something that grabbed a lot of that in profits, making it understand- South Bronx, factory workers Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and other “neocons” had able why they might praise Rumsfeld. For the working from Buffalo, miners’ sons from aimed to do as soon as the 9/11 attacks gave them a class in the U.S., and especially for the peoples of Iraq, Kentucky, unemployed youth pretext. Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Sudan, he and others fol- from Watts — hate the military These neocons, with Rumsfeld in a leading role, lowing his strategy in the upper levels of Washington can and the Vietnam War. They throw promoted the U.S. strategy to reconquer those coun- only be considered enemies. a wrench into the Pentagon’s tries—like​ Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran—that​ had won some Rumsfeld was equally criminal on a smaller scale in war machine, becoming leaders of the anti-war movement independence and sovereignty, when the his support for torture during interrogations and his and organizing a union in the conscript military to battle existed as a socialist counterweight to world imperialism. defense of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. His crimes, war, racism and their officers. To rally ruling-class support for what could turn out however, went beyond Afghanistan and Iraq. When it Get your copy today at workers.org/books Life expectancy drop exposes racism, class bias Continued from page 1 study in New Orleans, “Black patients by University of Medicine impact of high blood pressure on cogni- accounted for 76.9% of those hospital- researchers on health disparities between tion, memory and executive function. be people of color. ized with COVID-19, although they made Black and white patients tied to white The National Poll on Healthy Aging Also Black and Brown people are more up just 31% of the health system’s popu- supremacy within class society. “From indicated food insecurity disparities—​ susceptible to the virus when living in lation.” (Dec. 9) inadequate access to fresh food and clean by age, health status, race, ethnicity and overcrowded housing with multigen- water, to screening in early stages of education—​have been potentially wors- erational family members or traveling Lack of health care for generations disease or the inability to rent an apart- ened by the pandemic. “Access to nutri- in overcrowded buses and subways for The U.S. is the richest and largest ment because of discriminatory housing tious food and health status are closely work. Many migrant workers are not eli- imperialist country, but according to the practices, these long-standing systemic linked, yet this poll reveals major dispar- gible to receive health care. Due to their Organization for Economic Cooperation inequities for some Black Americans ities in that access,” says Preeti Malani, understandable fear of being detained or and Development in the area of pub- can have long-lasting effects on health.” M.D., the poll’s director. “Even as we deported due to their undocumented sta- lic health, compared to its peer nations (healthblog.uofmhealth.org) focus on preventing the spread of coro- tus, many forego vaccinations. it ranked a poor 27th out of 37 in 2018. Some of Michigan Health’s findings navirus, we must also ensure that older Jon Zelner, an epidemiologist at the (Washington Post, July 26) The decline included: Black people have higher rates adults can get food that aligns with any University of Michigan, stated in a New in life expectancy for poor and working of obesity, heart disease and hyperten- health conditions they have, so we don’t York Times interview that “the federal people must be viewed within the general sion; and Black men have a 2.5 times exacerbate diabetes, hypertension, diges- government could have protected workers social context of this ranking. higher rate of prostate cancer mortality. tive disorders and other conditions fur- from risky work situations by providing However, communities of color suffer The lack of doctors of color means lack ther.” (healthyagingpoll.org) income subsidies allowing them to stay the added burden of health care disparities of medical visits. Nearly half of all Black, These findings smash the racist myth home and could have ensured adequate that did not occur overnight but have been Latinx and Indigenous women had a lapse that Black and other people of color are protective equipment to workers in nurs- around as long as poverty has existed. of insurance coverage between precon- genetically prone to contract the corona- ing homes and long-term care facilities.” In a Feb. 8 WW article “Reparations, ception and after delivering their babies, virus, rather than suffering from substan- (Dec. 9) health care and the pandemic,” this writer compared to approximately a fourth of dard living conditions and health care Some 2020 studies have shown that noted, “The inequality of death during white women. they receive, which is not isolated but while the deaths of people of color and the pandemic reflects the fact that lack of There has been a huge jump in colon institutionalized. This is why reparations whites are equal when it comes to the adequate health care for Black people is cancer among young African Americans in the area of the right to health care must virus, 60% to 70% of Black and Latinx not an isolated occurrence but has been a due to a gap in early diagnosis. Black peo- be a clarion call supported by all workers people were more likely to be infected generational inequality.” ple are more likely than white people to in solidarity with the most oppressed fac- than whites. In a Veterans Administration On June 3, a study was released develop dementia as they age, due to the ing genocidal treatment. ☐ workers.org July 29, 2021 Page 7 International Declaration of Solidarity with Socialist Cuba If they touch Cuba, the world will rise up The following statement in solidar- failed in its main objective of overthrowing There are many thorns that stick and hurt, and only 5 percent in government errors, ity with the Cuban Revolution was socialism. It has been relatively successful as well as maneuvers by the “bad neighbor” delays, bureaucracy or disorganization. initiated by Chilean and Argentine com- in generating hunger and desperation in and the Miami counterrevolutionaries, Let us emphasize: the fundamental cause munists and signed by scores of organi- some sectors of the population, due to the who with propaganda, networks and dol- of the shortages is the genocidal blockade zations, including Workers World Party. shortages derived from the blockade. lars, help the counterrevolutionaries from maintained for 60 years by Washington! Translation by John Catalinotto, WW Cuba is prevented from trading freely, within, as in the case of the San Isidro “cul- It is in the hands of the Cuban govern- managing editor. accessing foreign currency, buying med- tural” movement, Rosa María Payá’s NGO ment to analyze its part to correct and icines and medical supplies, receiving and others dependent on orders and money improve, even under the crossfire of the We, the undersigned working-class charter flights and tourist cruises from the transfers from the State Department and empire and its vassals. It is necessary to political parties and anti-imperialist orga- U.S., etc. Notwithstanding the interna- USAID. separate the confused or misguided peo- nizations from various countries of the tional repudiation of the blockade, which it On July 11, several hundred Cubans ple from the mercenaries who want to world, raise our voices to express our sol- qualifies as criminal and an act of genocide, gathered in a protest, pained by their return to the semi-colony, the gambling idarity with the Cuban people and govern- Yankee imperialism maintains it. unsatisfied basic needs, but driven by mer- den and the brothel of Batista’s times. ment, led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, They punish shipping companies that cenaries who carried the baton under the All data must be put in context. It is which are confronting the U.S. blockade transport oil to Cuba in order to cut off fuel, pseudo-humanitarian label of #SOSCuba. true that COVID cases have increased, but and the campaign of aggression against trade, transportation and electricity gen- With much opportunism, they took advan- Cuba’s results are much better than those socialist Cuba. eration; they sanction banks that operate tage of a peak moment of food shortages, of the USA, Brazil and Argentina. The U.S. The greatest threat is the U.S. blockade, with the island, they block money transfers fuel and power outages, along with days has 138 times more infections than Cuba established in February 1962 and main- from Cuban relatives abroad, etc. of increased contagions and deaths from and 384 times more deaths. The empire tained until today, with both Democratic The Cuban Foreign Minister to the U.N. COVID-19. They took to the streets in seven has so far refused to release the use of vac- and Republican presidents occupying quantified the direct economic damages or eight cities, which the imperialist news cine patents, as requested by the World the White House. The neo-Nazi Donald between April 2019 and March 2020 at agencies multiplied to 50. They were hun- Health Organization. And it dares to crit- Trump aggravated it with 243 measures $5.57 billion, which increase to $9.16 bil- dreds, in total some thousands, but those icize Cuba in the health field? between 2017 and 2021, and Joe Biden lion if computed until December 2020. agencies multiplied them to “multitudes.” For all these reasons, the undersigned keeps them in place, refusing to lift those These are not just numbers. They trans- While raising demands against hunger, parties and organizations ratify our soli- economic and financial measures, not late into many things that the Díaz-Canel the gusano leaders and agencies made it darity with Cuba, we defend it from the even the infamous decision to place Cuba government cannot do due to lack of clear that their objectives were “free- blockade and the Yankee-Gusano [coun- on the list of “sponsors of terrorism.” resources. As if that were not enough, the dom” and the “end of communist tyr- terrevolutionary worms] maneuvers, That continuity of the blockade shows island’s economy suffered the impact of anny.” In other words, political objectives and we are part of its Martí and Fidelista that the U.S. political system is no democ- the COVID pandemic and the cessation in line with those advocated by Biden, cause, we defend its embassies and con- racy, as its leaders claim, but a plutocracy, of tourism, so its gross product fell almost his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sulates attacked in many countries, etc. or government of the rich. 11 points in 2020. Despite this, the people Senators Bob Menendez and Marco We demand the immediate end of the It is a two-party system where Wall remained firmly committed to the option Rubio, and other counterrevolutionaries Yankee blockade and we ask that the Street, the monopolies, the CIA, the of socialism and the party held its VIII from the Miami sewer. Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to the Pentagon and their plans for world domi- Congress in April 2021. The Cuban president was in the Cuban International Medical Brigades nation always rule. It is a two-party dicta- At the same time, the Cuban govern- streets leading the defense of the Cuban “Henry Reeve.” torship of big capital! ment made remarkable efforts against the Revolution and also to dialogue with the We demand that the U.S. return the The overwhelming majority of coun- pandemic, within its country and in sol- confused but honest part of the protest- usurped Guantanamo area and nullify the tries repudiate that blockade. Votes in idarity at the international level. Within ing people. He was very coherent and very Platt Amendment, and grant freedom for the United Nations General Assembly Cuba, its scientific and biochemical Fidelista in calling on the revolutionaries political prisoner Ana Belén Montes, in a since 1992 have shown this. There have branch developed five vaccine candidates, to win the streets to defend the revolution, U.S. jail for almost 20 years for helping been 29 votes in favor of Cuba, the last two of which have already become vac- and to put himself in the front row in San Cuba. one on June 23, with a total of 184 coun- cines: Abdala and Soberana 02. And Cuba Antonio de los Baños. We demand that the U.N. amend its tries against two (the U.S. and Israel). has shown solidarity with many countries Díaz-Canel made it clear that he knows Charter to make a motion voted by two- Notwithstanding this repudiation of through 56 missions of the International of several real reasons for the popular thirds of the General Assembly binding on the blockade, which the U.N. qualifies as Medical Brigade “Henry Reeve,” sending complaints, but 95 percent or more of the the Security Council and the entire entity. criminal and an act of genocide, Yankee 2,500 doctors and health personnel. causes of these shortcomings are to be We demand that the central banks of imperialism maintains it. Cuba’s path is not paved with rose petals. found in the prolonged Yankee blockade China, Russia and the European Central The U.S. objective is to use hunger and Bank give a zero-rate credit to Cuba for the disease to force the surrender of the noble damage caused by the blockade between people who opted for the Cuban road to 2019 and 2020, amounting to $9,157,000. socialism, with its roots in José Martí and Once the blockade is lifted, José Martí’s the leadership of Fidel Castro, continued homeland would be able to return that capi- with Raúl Castro and now with new gener- tal, without interest, in annual installments. ations of leaders, its Communist Party, its mass organizations and the Revolutionary July 15, 2021 Armed Forces. Liberation Party (Partido de la As the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Liberación) of Argentina State Department, Lester Mallory, said in Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian 1960, the aim of the blockade is to “provoke Action—​PCAP) hunger, desperation and the overthrow of Solidarity Work Group (A Thousand for the government.” So far the blockade has Hands Off Cuba demonstration, Philadelphia, July 26. WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE Cuba)—​Argentina ‘Justice for Haiti! Let revolutionary Cuba live!’ By Maureen Skehan included beautiful Caribbean music and confidence that socialism will ultimately Boston militant chants of “Cuba Sí, Bloqueo No!” prevail in this hemisphere, including and “Justice for Haiti, U.S. Out!” here in the U.S.—​the belly of the beast. A multinational, multigenera- Passionate speakers condemned Many left the rally committed to tional, pro-socialist crowd, including U.S. aggression and intervention in the build greater unity and solidarity for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, immigrant Caribbean and Latin America, including socialism in Boston and the U.S. rights, peace and justice, union, faith- its backing of fascist, mercenary forces Initiated by Workers World Party based, youth, veterans, LGBTQ2S+ and repressing the popular movements of and the July 26th Coalition, the ral- disability rights organizers, converged Brazil and Colombia and undermining ly’s co-endorsers included the Alliance at Park Street Station, Boston, July the revolutionary socialist governments of for Secular and Democratic South 24, for a militant and unified “People’s Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia. Asia, Answer, Boricuas for Liberation, Speak Out and Rally” to demand “No U$ Many speakers expressed their heartfelt Boston May Day Coalition, Colectivo Intervention in Haiti, Reparations Now!” thanks and revolutionary love for Haiti and de Boston-Fora Bolsonaro, Committee and “Let Revolutionary Cuba Live! End Cuba, emphasizing each country’s historic for Peace and Human Rights, Fanmi the U.S. Blockade!” contributions in the struggle against slav- Lavalas, International Action Center, Co-chaired by longtime Puerto Rican ery, racism and colonialism. Haiti’s victo- Massachusetts Peace Action, Palestinian independentista Dorotea Manuela and rious revolution against slavery in 1804 led House of New England, Party for immigrant rights leader and abolitionist to the first independent Black Republic in Socialism and Liberation, Team Bishop Filipe Teixeira—​a leader in the the Western Hemisphere. Solidarity, USW Local 8751 Boston struggle to free imprisoned Venezuelan Cuba’s world-renowned internation- School Bus Drivers Union, United WW PHOTO: STEVAN KIRSCHBAUM diplomat Alex Saab from a U.S.-backed alism, in solidarity with workers and American Indians of New England and Chantal Casimir, member, USW Local 8751, garrison in Cabo Verde—​the rally oppressed nations globally, expresses the Young . ☐ spoke at the Boston rally July24. Page 8 July 29, 2021 workers.org Victory for Perú Libre and Mariáteguismo By Christian Noakes activities, however, went well beyond the implies fighting against recesses of power, written page. In 1928, he founded the embedded not only in its institutions but For more than a month, Peruvian Socialist Party, a Marxist-Leninist in our minds. Keiko Fujimori and others vanguard party that sought to unite the “To achieve the Party’s aspirations, we in Peru’s right-wing opposi- country’s urban and rural working class, must bear in mind that the Party needs tion attempted to overturn under the direction of a core group of com- in its leadership, like the government in the results of the June 6 pres- munists, and connect the national struggle its public officials, highly technical poli- idential election that gave to the internationalist communist move- ticians and highly political technicians, Perú Libre party’s candidate ment via the Third International. neither of these two qualities must be Pedro Castillo a narrow lead As the party’s first secretary-general, divorced from the other. They must be over Fujimori. On July 19, Mariátegui trained and developed party concatenated, so that the revolutionary the National Jury of Elections leaders or cadres from working-class machinery can march.” upheld the results, officially and Indigenous populations, who then Viva Perú Libre! Viva Mariáteguismo! Peru declares Pedro Castillo winner, July 19. declaring Castillo the winner. organized their communities. Among Castillo is set to take office the party’s activities was the creation of July 28 for a five-year term. better understand concrete reality in Peru the General Confederation of Peruvian The right wing’s undemocratic campaign and for carving a path to revolution based Workers (CGTP), a Marxist trade union against the popular teacher and peasant on these particular historical conditions. federation that worked in tandem with leader included the utilization of the bour- the party to organize and unite the urban geois-dominated media to smear Castillo. Attention to Indigenous, peasantry and rural masses. There was attempted bribery, largely As such, Mariátegui was one of the first Mariátegui’s emphasis on the revolu- orchestrated by Vladimiro Montesinos, Latin American socialists to acknowledge tionary role of peasant and Indigenous former intelligence chief, under the dicta- the revolutionary potential of the peas- masses, the subjective factor of class tor Alberto Fujimori from his prison cell. antry and Indigenous peoples. Rather consciousness and the dialectical rela- (midwesternmarx.com, July 9) than take a paternalistic or humanitarian tionship between nationalism and inter- Like the former president and father position, he believed that these overlap- nationalism have had a lasting impact of Keiko Fujimori, Montesinos is serving ping groups needed to be the architects on both Peruvian Marxism and Latin time for corruption charges. of their own liberation and to do so using American Marxism as a whole. Perú Libre cites Marx, Lenin and their own cultural knowledge, experience Mariátegui’s influence in the region Peru’s own José Carlos Mariátegui as the and language. is wide-reaching and can be seen in the intellectual basis for its political vision. The attention Mariátegui paid to these likes of Ché Guevara, the Sandinistas and (tinyurl.com/4jnsbfwe) Unlike Marx marginalized populations, in both his the liberation theologians. His thought is and Lenin, Mariátegui’s contributions to thought and organizing efforts, set him undeniably foundational to Perú Libre’s the struggle for national liberation and apart from many of his contemporaries. political orientation and aspirations. socialism are far less known in much of He provided an ideological foundation The victory of Pedro Castillo and Perú the English-speaking world. Since Perú for the melding of revolutionary social- Libre belongs to the country’s oppressed Libre pays such respect to Mariátegui, a ism and struggles for Indigenous social, and exploited masses. However, the Parts of this article have been adapted study of his role can help in understand- political and cultural inclusion through- struggle is far from over. Now, accord- from the author’s introduction to Iskra ing events in that country. out the region. ing to the writing of the party, begins the Books’ “Selected Works of José Carlos Considered by many to be the founder The practical or material grounding of “search for a new, more equitable and Mariátegui.” A free PDF is available of Latin American , he is cel- his theories was, by itself, a monumental just society which will rescue its children at tinyurl.com/5cwywkss and print ebrated for being the first person to utilize contribution to the struggle of oppressed from modern slavery in its various forms. copies are available for purchase at Marxist methods of analysis in order to and exploited Peruvians. His revolutionary Building that society is not an easy task; it tinyurl.com/r4drba99.

Haiti Conflict grows as President Moïse is buried By G. Dunkel Thomas-Greenfield, heading the U.S. officials and their U.S. advisors “showed funeral delegation, hastily left, driving them strategizing about countering Wearing a Kevlar bulletproof vest, directly to the airport at high speed over American critics and potential rivals for Martine Moïse praised her late spouse, the rough roads in northern Haiti, accord- the presidency and looking for ways to assassinated President Jovenel Moïse, ing to the video on the NBC website. The cast blame for the killing.” The Haitian at his July 23 funeral in Cap-Haïtien, for White House announced the delegation’s government paid an outfit called Mercury “defending the poorest against the cupid- safe return. Public Affairs at least $285,000 for ity of the elites” and striving to reform “a A large demonstration called for jus- six months work and continues to pay rotten and unjust political system.” Using tice for Moïse in Trou-du-nord, his home- $67,000 a month to a consortium of pub- Haitian Creole and French, she attacked town, about 20 miles past Cap-Haïtien on lic relations firms. the “oligarchs who have won a battle but the way to the Dominican Republic. There Beyond all this maneuvering, there not the war.” (haitilibre.com, July 24) was also a major pro-Moïse demonstra- Protesters against Moïse. are Haitian businesses and individual The hundreds of thousands of Haitians tion of Haitian expats in Paris a few days politicians that want to whip up inter- throughout the country that came out earlier. The BBC and est for their projects, even if they have to time and time again over the years that The U.N. and various religious NGOs report that bandit activity along coast shell out for this interest from their own Moïse ran the country to protest him and report that the number of internally dis- roads—​especially around Port-au- pockets. his policies obviously disagree with her. placed individuals is growing in Haiti and Prince—is​ so great that drivers take fer- When the NY Times tries to explain Protests outside the Moïse family com- that the increased political instability is ries rather than roads. Haitian history, because this history has pound in Cap-Haïtien wafted tear gas, preventing people from earning enough a direct bearing on what the U.S. can smoke from burning tires and the sounds to feed themselves and their families. The New York Times exposes U.S. control do now, it often leaves out some incon- of gunfire into the ceremony—​which the percentage of food-insecure individuals—​ The 10 Haitian senators, still in office venient truths. A July 25 article entitled Moïse family made a point of paying for. people who don’t regularly get enough to because their terms are staggered, met “We Owe Haiti a Debt We Can’t Repay” After gunshots were heard, U.S. eat to sustain themselves—is​ 48%, one of a few days after the assassination and correctly points out that “[i]nstead of Ambassador to the United Nations Linda the highest rates in the world. appointed president of the Senate, Joseph welcoming and supporting the fledgling Lambert, as provisional president. One of republic, the United States refused to rec- the constitutions that might be in force—​ ognize Haiti until 1862, after the Southern there are some disputes about which one states seceded from the Union.” is currently operational—​suggest that The article then concludes with the U.S. Haiti: A Slave Revolution they followed correct procedure. But after occupying Haiti in 1915 “after the assas- 200 years after 1804 Lambert made a few phone calls, he sus- sination of President Vilbrun Guillaume pended his campaign. He had no apparent Sam.” Published in 2004, “Haiti: A Slave Revolution,” uses art, support in Washington. It doesn’t mention that a Marine raid- poetry, photos and essays to document the victory of an According to the June 23 New York ing party, shortly before the 1915 occupa- enslaved people liberating themselves, and their centuries of continued resistance to embargoes, occupation, Times, politicians, business people, polit- tion began, slipped into Port-au-Prince dictatorship, U.S. intervention and global capital. ical parties and the Haitian government and seized Haiti’s gold reserves—​worth itself have been spending tens of thou- at that time around $500,000—​and Available as a FREE download at tinyurl.com/IACbooks sands of dollars on lobbyists and political turned them over to First National City consultants in Washington. Bank in New York—​now Citibank. According to the Times, a group chat This is indeed a debt that the U.S. could among some Haitian politicians and indeed repay—​with interest. ☐ workers.org July 29, 2021 Page 9 Alex Saab Arrest warrant in someone else’s name The following slightly Saab and Álvaro Enrique General Secretariat, but it did not do so, “In consequence, Saab’s arrest was ille- edited article first Pulido-Vargas, but “by violating its own rules. Therefore, when gal, and that is why so many legal experts appeared in the Orinoco mistake, in the extradi- Alex Saab was arrested, he was not pre- agree in calling it a plain and simple kid- Tribune July 22, as tion request sent to Cape sented with the Notice and could not napping,” an international affairs expert "Cape Verde Admits Alex Verde, the requesting have been, as it was not issued until after said to Orinoco Tribune. Saab’s Arrest Warrant State attached the first his arrest. Saab’s defense only received Alex Saab remained in prison, held was in Someone Else’s page of the original order a copy of the Red Notice June 18, 2020, without any grounds, until June 29, 2020, Name (Kidnapping)." in the name of Álvaro almost a week later. when the United States’ request for extra- Enrique Pulido-Vargas Henrique Borges, Cape Verde’s repre- dition arrived. However, the extradition A year after the arrest … but in the following sentative at the ECOWAS court, presented request did not contain an arrest warrant of the Venezuelan dip- pages of the order, as well a communication between Interpol, in the name of Ambassador Saab. Rather, lomat Alex Saab, Cape as in the Portuguese and Washington and Praia [the capital of Cape it was in another person’s name: The Verde’s Attorney General (PGR), Luis Spanish translations, they are in the name Verde], in which he confirmed that the arrest warrant was issued in the name of José Landim, admitted that the warrant of Alex Saab”—​further evidence of the red notice was issued retroactively. Mr. Álvaro Pulido-Vargas. used to arrest him, June 12, 2020, was mounting irregularities in the case. In its arguments, Saab’s defense pointed actually issued in somebody else’s name. What is a proven fact is that on June 12, Chain of illegalities out the absence of the arrest warrant, both In the counter-allegations presented 2020, when Alex Saab was arrested while Special Envoy Alex Saab was arrested in its refutation of the extradition request before the Constitutional Court, the PGR [his plane was] refueling on the island June 12, 2020, during a technical stop- presented on January 14, and in its appeal requested a correction in these terms: of Sal, neither the order nor the Interpol over on the island of Sal, Republic of Cape before the Constitutional Court. “It was mentioned that there was an Red Notice was presented to him. In Verde, as part of a diplomatic mission in Likewise, the Attorney General, in his international arrest warrant issued by fact, the Red Notice only arrived on the the Islamic Republic of Iran. At the time statement before the Constitutional Court Interpol against the appellant, issued by 13th but was ultimately annulled, since of his arrest, there was no Interpol Red on June 28, admitted that there was an the U.S. judicial authorities in the file. The the Red Notice is not a judicial order for Notice, and when the red notice against error in the arrest warrant attached to the name on the order is the name of Álvaro imprisonment. Ambassador Saab came, there was no Extradition Request, and [he] attached Enrique Pulido-Vargas.” To issue the Red Notice, the requesting arrest warrant. The Interpol Red Notice the corrected version of the arrest warrant Later, the PGR stated that the docu- party—in​ this case the United States—had​ was issued in violation of the Interpol Rules of the other person. ☐ ments were issued in the name of Alex to present an arrest warrant to the Interpol and was therefore canceled on June 25.

A happy warrior Esther Bejarano ¡Presente! By Victor Grossman “death march” at the war’s end, she was things that were done to the Palestinians.” rescued by Red Army and U.S. army units. In 1960 she and her family made the dra- This lightly edited article first appeared Esther went to what was still Palestine. matic move back to Germany, to Hamburg. in Berlin Bulletin No. 193, July 20, 2021. I can add a personal note here. I was lucky But she had not forgotten her earlier suf- enough, as a Harvard delegate, to go to fering. She never ceased combating fascism many inroads of the fascists, and her last She was all of 96 years, yet Esther the first World Youth Festival in Prague and former Nazis wherever they showed action was to join in urging that May 8th, Bejarano’s death hits hard, leaving a pain- in 1947. At the Palestine evening we saw their heads. In West Germany in the 1960s, the day of victory over the Nazis, be made ful gap in Germany’s anti-fascist scene. a chic, uniformed Zionist dance-and-song that still meant in virtually every walk of a national holiday. Until the final weeks of her long life, she group organized by the Jewish Agency. life, right up to Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger Most media and many politicians was a fighter, speaking, singing and pass- And the Ron Workers Chorus, a leftist (1966-1969) and President Heinrich Lübke voiced their praise and mourning—​after ing the good word along—​especially to group, no uniforms, singing leftist songs, (1959-1969). almost totally ignoring her in life and young people. both Jewish and Arab like the singers. She founded a German branch of the attacking and trying to squelch organi- Her life almost ended horribly when The Festival asked both to perform on Auschwitz Committee in her living room zations she was active in, as an avowed she was 19, after being crammed into a the same evening in one place. But after and became honorary president of the Communist. They stressed how she had cattle car with other Jewish Germans on the Jewish Agency group finished and the Association of Victims of the Nazis, on always fought anti-Semitism. She had a final route to Auschwitz. Unlike most Ron chorus was ready to begin, all lights occasion braving water cannon to stop indeed, ceaselessly, but not in the way of her family she survived, thanks to her in the huge opera house went out. A min- neo-Nazi parades. She was active in peace they used the term, labeling everyone an ability to play the piano and please some ute later they were back—​and a cloud demonstrations and supported Cuba anti-Semite who criticized Israeli govern- Kultur-lover among the killers. of leaflets with a Zionist message floated against the blockade. ment policies, its settlements, occupation, “Can you play the accordion too?” Yes, down from the top gallery. Only then was After 1988 she joined her son, her repression, its missile and drone attacks. she lied, and picked up the basics quickly the chorus with Esther able to sing. So I daughter and young Turkish-German Her opposition to this and her clearly enough to be included in the “girl orches- saw and heard her 74 years ago! musicians in groups playing modernized leftist views and actions have gone tra” used to calm and deceive incoming She got married, had children, but was international songs, Jewish songs and almost unmentioned by officialdom and trainloads of human beings, thus avoiding not happy. As she wrote: “My husband new political songs for all the good causes, its media. But not by the thousands who incidents on the way to the gas chambers. It and I could not stand Israeli politics. It including the rights of Palestinians to con- attended the funeral ceremony, who had was a nasty job but enabled her to survive, was a catastrophe. … Life was difficult duct their boycott campaign. In countless loved her, fought at her side, enjoyed her until, after escaping the guards on a forced because we did not agree with the terrible schools she used her story to oppose the music—and​ would greatly miss her. ☐

Cleveland baseball team Racist name, mascot finally leaving By Martha Grevatt the process of choosing a new name would and headdresses, referred to their team Indigenous Clevelanders won’t become Cleveland begin, and the mascot would be retired. as “the Tribe” and let out “war whoops” overnight fans due to “over 60 years of The new name gives a nod to Cleveland’s when a hit was scored—​represent a trauma and torment that we’ve been deal- The big front page news July 24 was iconic landmark, the “Guardians of major source of profit for the owners. ing with.” (cleveland.com, July 23) The the new name of the city’s Major League Traffic,” that adorns the Hope Memorial Cynthia Connolly, a member of the Lake Council, the American Indian Movement, Baseball team: the Cleveland Guardians. Bridge. The bridge, named for an English Erie Native American Council, welcomed the Committee of 500 Years of Dignity The “Cleveland Indians” and their despi- immigrant stonemason who worked on the new name but explained that many and Resistance and the Lake Erie Chapter cable mascot—​a racist caricature known the art deco statues, spans the of the American Indian Science and as “Chief Wahoo”—​had finally found their Cuyahoga River connecting the Engineering Society comprise the rightful place in the dustbin of history. East and West Sides. Cleveland Indigenous Coalition, For decades Indigenous activists and However, the new team name which pressed the team owners to allies protested outside home games, represents an appeasement of drop the offensive name and mascot. demanding the team scrap its mascot and backward-thinking fans who Now is the time for each and every change its name. For decades team own- strongly opposed the change. It professional, college and high school ers were intransigent, citing “tradition.” was chosen in part because it con- sports team—starting​ with Atlanta’s In 2018 they announced that the offensive tains the same last five letters of baseball and Kansas City’s football logo would no longer appear on player the old racist name. The new logo teams—​to end their racist tradi- uniforms—but​ merchandise bearing the retains the original script font and tions of degrading Indigenous peo- image was still sold. color scheme. The fans—​who Protest outside Cleveland home baseball game, ple with hateful names, mascots and Only last year was it announced that came to games wearing face paint July 24, 2020. fan rituals. ☐ Page 10 July 29, 2021 workers.org

editorial Defend Cuba! Defend socialism!

Continued from page 1 Cuba. The country has been hit recently created a committee to coordinate have specifically addressed issues facing by shortages in food and pandemic-re- anti-communist high school curricula. women, LGBTQ+ people, Afro-Cubans, military might in the 1961 Bay of Pigs lated medical supplies like syringes, to By 1963 U.S. corporations were Indigenous peoples, disabled people and (Playa Girón) invasion to creating a secret which the U.S. blocks easy access. spending about $25 million a year on others with special . “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest and orga- Revolutionary Cuba is celebrated for its anti-communist literature distributed to The current anti-Cuba campaign is nize “smart mobs” for a “Cuban spring” to innovative, comprehensive and free med- customers and workers on the job. (Sara tied inextricably to the U.S. war on a overturn the government. (The Guardian, ical care, with medical teams traveling in Diamond, “Roads to Dominion: Right- socialist future. And no wonder! In a sur- April 3, 2014) solidarity to other countries, especially Wing Movements and Political Power in vey from June 11-15, Axios/Momentive The most recent campaign against during the pandemic. A recent U.S. polit- the United States,” Guilford Publications, found capitalism rapidly losing its popu- Cuba includes thousands of boilerplate ical cartoon mocked this achievement, 1995, pp. 50-52) larity with young people in the U.S., with anti-Cuba twitter accounts linked to an falsely showing a bleeding protester Now, the latest anti-communist cam- 18-34 year olds now almost evenly split automated system that rapidly retweets. hauled away by grim police boasting of paign is underway as “American Marxism” between those who view capitalism neg- Disinformation expert Julián Macías free medical care. hits the top of the New York Times best- atively and those who view it positively. Tovar told Newsweek that 100,000 tweets But during the pandemic, Cuba—​still seller list. Written by Mark Levin, a right- (tinyurl.com/xrpce8v4) using an anti-Cuba hashtag were sent classified in the world economy as an wing Fox News star, and a Cold War In a 2020 Gallup poll about elections—​ July 9, with 500,000 the following day “underdeveloped” country—​has managed warrior resuscitated, the book uses classic a far from radical source—​45% of U.S. and 1.5 million by July 11. Tovar added: with its socialist planned system to limit red-baiting tactics to attack almost every people indicated they would vote for a “If there are accounts with few followers COVID-19 deaths to 214 per million peo- progressive initiative underway in the U.S. socialist for president. (tinyurl.com/ who make many tweets or retweets, newly ple. U.S. profit-oriented health care has m36u4u2u) created accounts with a fake profile pic- lost 1,882 people per million, had over Big Lie with a vengeance We place the campaign against Cuba ture … that’s always suspicious.” three times more cases per million than This is the “War Is Peace” Big Lie with in the context of the long U.S.war against Reuters has stated categorically that Cuba and leads the world in total deaths—​ a vengeance! As socialists we know the communism—​and we are alert to how posts of protests in Cuba—​shared in now over 625,000. (worldometers.info/ real legacy of Marxism—​based on sol- this poison still spreads, virulently alive, the millions—​were falsely mislabeled as coronavirus/#countries, July 21) idarity in the struggles against injustice through every aspect of life in the U.S. anti-Cuban government protests. Some of Many of the achievements of the and inequality—​shines in the beacon of We are in the midst of a battle of ideas the photos were in fact pictures of a 2011 Cuban Revolution are unknown to peo- revolutionary Cuba. that will determine our future—​the protest in Egypt—​and some actually of a ple in the U.S.—​though not to the rest of Anti-Cuba propaganda is the order of future of a socialist Cuba and our own large crowd gathered in support of Cuba’s the world—​because of the ongoing U.S. the day for the U.S. government, because future building a path to socialism. 2018 May Day march celebrating its work- campaign against communism. In place Cuba has been so successful in forging As Fidel Castro said in his historic ers revolution! (tinyurl.com/dbh5y7sf) since the 19th century, virulent during the ahead in its revolutionary vision, despite remarks on the battle between capitalism Disinformation has included cultural 1950s McCarthy era, this anti-communist the vicious attacks and blockades placed and socialism: “A revolution can only be intervention, like the promotion of an campaign by the U.S. ruling-class strate- in its way. born from culture and ideas. No people anti-communist reggaeton song coming gists became focused in the 1960s on try- Led by its Communist Party over the become revolutionary by force. Those who from the Miami Cuban community, that ing to break the socialist revolution taking decades, Cuba has created campaigns, sow ideas have no need to suppress the has its origin in the wealthy white land- place only 90 miles off U.S. shores. initiatives and formal government agen- people ever. Weapons in the hands of those owners who fled Cuba when the Revolution Right-wing Christianity backed capi- cies to significantly address material same people are used to fight those abroad triumphed. Over the decades, many phys- talism through literature funneled into inequalities and cultural insensitivities. who try to take away their achievements.” ical and psychological operations against churches on how to oppose Cuba, China, Government officials have frankly admit- From inside the capitalist beast, we Cuba have originated in Miami. the USSR and other Communist Party- ted mistakes rooted in the past, and with must continue resolutely to fight in the The disinformation campaign launched led or “Communist-leaning” countries. In an electoral system built on full repre- battle of ideas. Defend Cuba! Defend as some protests were taking place inside 1962 the National Governor’s Conference sentation of all sectors of the country, socialism! ☐ Black Lives Matter defends Cuba’s right to sovereignty

This statement, first posted on the BLM and history of lending doctors and nurses twitter account July 14, has generated con- to disasters around the world. siderable coverage. Many in the corporate The people of Cuba are being punished media have attacked BLM for the post. by the U.S. government because the coun- Workers World wishes to extend our full try has maintained its commitment to solidarity for this courageous statement. sovereignty and self-determination. U.S. leaders have tried to crush this revolu- Black Lives Matter condemns the U.S. tion for decades. Instead of international federal government’s inhumane treatment amity, respect and goodwill, the U.S. gov- Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial leaders, and Fidel Castro together of Cubans and urges it to immediately lift ernment has only instigated suffering for at the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, which focused on common goals of the economic embargo. This cruel and the country’s 11 million people—of​ which resistance to colonialism and imperialism and the establishment of an alliance across inhumane policy, initiated with the explicit 4 million are Black and Brown. colonial national boundaries. intention of destabilizing the country and Cuba has historically demonstrated sol- undermining Cubans’ right to choose their idarity with oppressed peoples of African own government, is at the heart of Cuba’s descent, from protecting Black revolution- current crisis. Since 1962, the United States aries like Assata Shakur through granting Fidel on the ‘battle of ideas’ has forced pain and suffering on the people her asylum, to supporting Black liberation of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine and struggles in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea These slightly edited excerpts are from ideas, a people endowed with a great polit- supplies, costing the tiny island nation an Bissau and South Africa. a speech given by Fidel Castro Ruz, speak- ical consciousness, because that is most estimated $130 billion. Now, we look to President Biden to end ing as president of the Republic of Cuba, important for us. We have resisted every- Without that money, it is harder for the embargo, something Barack Obama Feb. 3, 1999, at the Central University thing and are ready to continue resisting Cuba to acquire medical equipment needed called for in 2016. This embargo is a bla- of Venezuela. The complete remarks are for as long as need be, thanks to the seeds to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines and tant human rights violation and it must available at tinyurl.com/7uf96wy2. planted throughout those decades, thanks equipment for food production. This comes come to an end. ☐ to the ideas and the consciousness devel- in spite of the country’s strong medical care “We have had to wage, and will have to oped during that time. It has been our continue waging, a more difficult battle best weapon and it shall remain so. … against that extremely powerful empire: “We have withstood that warfare. … Rainbow Solidarity in a ceaseless ideological battle that they We are winning the battle of ideas. Still, stepped up with all their resources after the battlefield is not limited to our small Defense of Cuba the collapse of the socialist camp, when island, although the small island has to by Leslie Feinberg fully confident in our ideas we decided fight. Today, the world is the battlefield; to continue forward … without ever for- it is everywhere, in all continents, in all This ground-breaking book is a compilation getting the immense and invincible sup- institutions, in every forum. This is the of 25 articles about same-sex love and port and solidarity of the peoples which good side of the globalized struggle. We sex/gender variance in Cuba’s pre- we always had and which makes us feel must defend the small island while fight- and post-revolutionary history. under a greater obligation to struggle. … ing throughout the huge world they dom- “[The U.S.] was unable to defeat a inate or try to dominate.” ☐ Available, along with complete Lavender & Red united people, a people armed with just series, as free downloads at workers.org/books. workers.org July 29, 2021 Page 11

China y África: Comentario Cooperación mutua, no neocolonialismo Por Ernie Hamer (Autor invitado) de africanos no tienen acceso a la electri- entre los prestatarios chinos en dificul- investigadores del Instituto Internacional cidad, el 40% de los préstamos chinos se tades de deuda”, según el artículo de de Investigación sobre Políticas Basado en una charla dada en una destinaron a la generación y transmisión Deborah Bräutigan [en The Diplomat]: Alimentarias “recopilaron una base de reunión de Workers World/ Partido de energía. Otro 30% se destinó a la mod- “Chinese Debt Relief: Realidad y ficción”. datos de 57 casos en los que supuesta- Mundo Obrero en Buffalo, N.Y., el 27 de ernización de la infraestructura de trans- (tinyurl.com/jmv6n7k) mente las empresas abril de 2021. porte de África. Entre 2000 y 2018, chinas (o el gobierno) En un Foro de Cooperación China- China ha condonado habían adquirido o nego- Con la República Popular de China África celebrado en 2018 en Pekín con $9.800 millones de ciado grandes cantidades en ascenso, las fuerzas del imperialismo líderes africanos, el presidente chino Xi dólares de deuda a (más de 500 hectáreas) estadounidense están comenzando a Jinping declaró: “Seguimos un enfoque otros países, entre de tierras agrícolas afri- entrar en pánico a medida que las mar- de “cinco - no” en nuestras relaciones ellos Cuba y más de canas”, que fue publi- eas globales cambian gradualmente en con África: Ninguna interferencia en la 20 naciones africanas cada por Johns Hopkins su contra. El Partido Comunista de China búsqueda de los países africanos de vías receptoras de présta- University Press. ha llegado a su centenario, celebrando de desarrollo que se ajusten a sus condi- mos del gobierno “Si todos estos el inmenso progreso realizado por su ciones nacionales; ninguna interferencia chino. (forbes.com, 29 informes de los medios sistema socialista. en los asuntos internos de los países afri- de mayo de 2019) de comunicación hubi- Al mismo tiempo, los medios de comu- canos; ninguna imposición de nuestra Otra falsa narrativa eran sido noticias reales, nicación estadounidenses han exper- voluntad a los países africanos; ningún predominante afirma esto habría ascendido imentado un importante aumento de apego a las condiciones políticas de la que las empresas chi- a la muy alarmante la retórica antichina destinada a restar asistencia a África; y ninguna búsqueda nas en África sólo cifra de 6 millones de importancia a los logros de la China de beneficios políticos egoístas en la emplearán y beneficia- hectáreas, el 1% de todas Popular y a pintar una imagen de China inversión y la cooperación financiera con rán a los trabajadores las tierras de cultivo de que sencillamente no es congruente con África.” (focac.org, 3 de septiembre de chinos. En realidad, “las encuestas sobre África. Pasamos tres años rastreando cada la realidad. Una de las falsas narrativas 2018) el empleo en los proyectos chinos en uno de los casos. … Confirmamos que casi que se han esparcido sobre China es que Lo que se expone en ese enfoque difiere África encuentran repetidamente que tres un tercio de estas historias … eran lit- es una potencia “imperialista”, citando enormemente del de Estados Unidos y de cuartas partes o más de los trabajadores eralmente falsas. En los casos restantes, regularmente las relaciones que China ha Occidente. Sin embargo, a pesar de ello, son, de hecho, locales.” (Washington encontramos verdaderas inversiones chi- construido en África. China es constantemente pintada como Post, 12 de abril de 2018) nas. Pero la cantidad total de tierra real- África es un continente extremadamente una nación imperialista que se aprovecha Incluso más allá de las prácticas de mente adquirida por las empresas chinas rico en recursos, pero que carece de la de África y de su gente. empleo, China ha encabezado la investi- fue sólo de unas 240.000 hectáreas: el 4% infraestructura necesaria para extraerlos gación académica para ayudar a mejorar de la cantidad comunicada”. (ifpri.org, y utilizarlos. Por ello, los gobiernos afri- Falsas narrativas sobre China el bienestar general del pueblo africano. marzo de 2021) canos suelen mirar hacia el exterior para Las prácticas de préstamo de China son La Academia de Ciencias de China está En general, las inversiones chinas encontrar financiación para los proyectos a menudo objeto de escrutinio, al ser cal- muy involucrada en el apoyo a proyec- vinculadas a su política no interven- de infraestructura de sus países. ificadas de explotadoras de las naciones tos de investigación en África, incluida cionista sirven a su objetivo de desar- En total, África tiene una deuda pen- de África. En cuanto a la creciente pres- la investigación agronómica destinada rollo económico a largo plazo. Aunque diente de más de $350.000 millones de encia de China en África, el ex ministro a acabar con la escasez de alimentos. no son perfectas, las inversiones chinas dólares y, de esa cantidad, al menos el sudafricano de Comercio e Industria, (Nature.com, 14 de mayo de 2019) en los países africanos les proporcionan 21% corresponde a China, lo que la con- Rob Davies, dijo que “sólo puede ser algo Según el informe anual de seguimiento una financiación alternativa y más ben- vierte en el mayor acreedor. (aiddata.org, bueno... porque significa que ya no tene- de la educación mundial de junio de eficiosa para ambas partes, lo que ayuda 31 de marzo) mos que firmar en la línea lo que nos pon- 2020, China iba a ofrecer 12.000 becas a a mejorar las condiciones de vida de la Entre los años 2000 y 2019, China pro- gan delante de nuestras narices. … Ahora estudiantes africanos en el próximo año población de estos países y también aleja porcionó $153.000 millones de dólares en tenemos alternativas y eso nos beneficia”. académico, en gran parte para apoyar a Occidente de la explotación en la que compromisos de préstamos a África, con (Financial Times, 24 de agosto de 2010) los estudios en universidades chinas, lo históricamente se ha basado. los principales compromisos de présta- Una y otra vez, se ha demostrado que las que representa más becas universitarias Tenemos que entender y reconocer que mos de Angola, Etiopía, Zambia y Kenia. prácticas de préstamo de China con África que las de todos los principales gobiernos la relación entre China y África es muy dif- (chinaafricaloandebt.bu.edu) no sólo no son explotadoras, sino que son occidentales juntos. erente a la que existe entre otras naciones Estos préstamos chinos se están utili- beneficiosas. Los investigadores han dem- Otra falsedad es que China es acusada occidentales y África. No hacerlo sólo zando principalmente para financiar el ostrado que “no hay pruebas de embargos regularmente de acaparamiento de tier- sirve para avivar una peligrosa retórica déficit de infraestructuras de África. En de activos en lugar de pagos de préstamos ras, el acto de adquirir tierras a gran escala anticomunista cuando lo más importante un continente donde más de 600 millones en África, o de hecho, en cualquier lugar para su propio beneficio financiero. Los es defender a China de estos ataques. ☐ Philadelphia in solidarity with Cuba By Betsey Piette Philadelphia

Around 100 people gathered outside Philadelphia City Hall July 26 to raise up international solidarity with the people of Cuba and demand: U.S. hands off Cuba! End the Blockade! Asantewaa Nkrumah- Ture with Black Alliance for Peace and Ted Kelly with Workers World Party chaired the rally. Speakers represented many of the international struggles Cuba has provided support to. Fermin Morales from the grassroots organization Philly Boricuas described Hyun Lee, with Korea Peace Now! PA speaking at Cuba solidarity rally in Philadelphia July 26. WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE the historic solidarity between his native Puerto Rico and Cuba in opposing U.S. occupied for years.” care system, noting: “A better world is U.S. sanctions used against 39 coun- occupation. “What does the U.S. have to Hyun Lee with Korea Peace Now! PA possible, and Cuba’s medical system is tries involve cutting off food and medi- offer people from Cuba—​homelessness, stated: “After a three-year war, the U.S. testament to this.” Sara Flounders with cines, resulting in hunger and sicknesses police brutality, racism, drug addiction?” and Korea settled for a ceasefire 68 years the International Action Center dis- that would otherwise be solvable. They he noted. Mexican immigrant activist ago, but that war still goes on today. The cussed the purpose and impact of U.S. applied sanctions to Haiti for over 60 Carmen Guerrero with the Coalición DPRK and Cuba are both under some of sanctions. She asked: “Why does U.S. years, crippling their economy. But Haiti Fortaleza Latina PA delivered her the heaviest sanctions in the world. We imperialism, with all its economic power stood alone. Cuba has international remarks in Spanish to broad applause need to end this.” Godfrey Sithole, area and its global military bases, see Cuba as solidarity. Cuba Sí, Bloqueo No! End from rally participants. representative of the African National a ‘national security threat?’ The capitalist the sanctions now!”The rally was orga- Deandra Jefferson with Black Alliance Congress, praised Cuba for its interna- class knows that revolutionary ideas are nized by Philadelphia chapters of the for Peace stated: “Cuba has shown the tionalism, especially in support of liber- contagious—​more so than COVID-19. Black Alliance for Peace, Workers World world that socialism is viable. Just com- ation struggles in African countries. They can spread around the globe. Party and the Party for Socialism and pare conditions in Cuba to those in Clancy Murray from Workers World “The U.S. relies on suppression, Liberation. ☐ Haiti where the U.S. has intervened and spoke on Cuba’s community based health often through sanctions, an act of war. Correspondencia sobre artículos en Workers World/Mundo Obrero pueden ser enviadas a: [email protected]

¡Proletarios y oprimidos de todos los paises unios! workers.org Vol. 63 Núm. 30 29 de julio 2021 $1 FOTO: ELVERT BARNES Una manifestación de 2017 de ACT UP (Coalición contra el sida para liberar el poder), en la ciudad de Nueva York. ‘Criminalización del VIH es racista y Una historia marxista del VIH/SIDA homofóbica.’ Parte 1 Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (SIDA) en puede describirse como una plaga. septiembre de 1982. Para comprender adecuadamente la Unidos, dedicada a los beneficios y a la Por Devin Cole En 1984, se anunció que un retro- calamidad de la crisis del SIDA, debemos privatización de la sanidad, ha devas- virus conocido como HTLV-III (Virus examinar a fondo las condiciones que tado el bienestar de la gente y ha per- Hace cuarenta años, el 5 de junio de Linfotrópico T Humano III) era el virus condujeron a tal desastre. mitido que mueran cientos de miles de 1981, se informó del primer caso de lo que causaba el SIDA, y era idéntico al ¿Cómo es posible que, en 14 años, una personas. que llegó a conocerse como VIH/SIDA en Virus Asociado a la Linfadenopatía, que enfermedad matara a más de un cuarto de Muchos observan ahora el paralelismo un comunicado de prensa semanal de los antes se creía que era la única infección millón de personas, la mayoría de las cua- de COVID-19 con los primeros años de Centros para el Control y la Prevención de causante del SIDA. En 1985, el HTLV-III/ les estaban oprimidas a nivel nacional y/o la epidemia de SIDA, y la similar falta de Enfermedades. LAV pasó a llamarse oficialmente Virus social? ¿Cómo fue que el “país más avan- respuesta del gobierno estadounidense al El 3 de julio de 1981, el primer reco- de la Inmunodeficiencia Humana (VIH). zado y desarrollado” del mundo, Estados sufrimiento de la clase trabajadora y los nocimiento del VIH/SIDA en las noti- El VIH es la infección que, si no se trata, Unidos, se mostró totalmente inútil en los oprimidos. Las conexiones son eviden- cias principales fue hecho por el New da lugar a la enfermedad tardía del sida. primeros años de esta plaga, y más tarde tes y se reducen a esto: El capitalismo- York Times, que informó en este titular: Entre 1981 y 1995, cuando la FDA apenas fue de ayuda? Esta serie pretende imperialismo es un sistema decadente y “Raro cáncer visto en 41 homosexua- aprobó la primera terapia antirre- responder a estas preguntas y explicar podrido que ni siquiera es capaz de man- les”. En el momento de esa publica- troviral, al menos 300.000 personas esas respuestas. tener vivos a sus trabajadores para impul- ción, al menos 8 de las 41 personas ya murieron de SIDA en todo el mundo. La crisis del sida fue sin duda una cri- sar el sistema. habían muerto. Estos casos se habían (tinyurl.com/c8w8m5x6) sis médica, pero también fue un ejemplo Plenamente conscientes de las grietas registrado en California y Nueva York. La cifra de muertos es sin duda mayor. dramático de la economía capitalista en de esta estructura, sus defensores siguen (nyti.ms/3vZTInK) Millones de personas de la clase trabaja- crisis. Ahora, 40 años después del primer invirtiendo miles de millones en tácti- A finales de 1981, 121 personas habían dora no tuvieron acceso a las pruebas ni a reconocimiento del SIDA, la economía cas de “division y conquista”, teorías de muerto a causa de esta enfermedad hasta la atención sanitaria, sufrieron en secreto capitalista ha vuelto a ser sacudida por la conspiración y cualquier estratagema entonces desconocida. En los siguien- o murieron antes de que se contabiliza- una nueva epidemia: COVID-19. que pueda agrandar las divisiones entre tes 14 años, la enfermedad mataría a ran las estadísticas oficiales, ya que ahora Hasta el 1 de julio, más de 3.964.766 la clase trabajadora y los oprimidos y blo- cientos de miles de personas en todo el se ha revelado que el VIH/SIDA existía personas en todo el mundo habían quear la solidaridad y la organización de mundo, afectando principalmente a per- antes de 1981. muerto a causa de este virus, con el mayor masas para acabar con el sistema. sonas negras y morenas, discapacitadas y ¿A quién hay que culpar? Los culpables número de víctimas en Estados Unidos: Cada vez más gente es consciente de LGBTQ+ y a quienes se encontraban en la de siempre: los capitalistas, las farma- más de 604.000. (worldometer.com) que debemos organizarnos juntos para intersección de estas identidades. céuticas codiciosas, los directores gene- Países socialistas como China, Cuba asestar un golpe mortal al capitalismo. Denominada inicialmente GRID rales de la sanidad y las empresas en el y la RPDC han movilizado sistemas de Con ello, y sólo con ello, podremos esta- (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) en ámbito económico. En la esfera social, atención sanitaria basados en principios blecer una dictadura del proletariado y junio de 1982—​debido a la creencia los villanos siguen siendo la homofo- socialistas para disminuir el número de construir un sistema socialista. errónea de que sólo afectaba a los hom- bia, la misoginia y la transmisoginia, el casos y, sobre todo, el número de muer- Sólo entonces epidemias como el SIDA bres homosexuales—​la enfermedad racismo, el capacitismo y otras opresio- tes, y han conseguido contener el virus. y el COVID serán manejables y, eventual- fue rebautizada como Síndrome de nes sociales que intensifican lo que sólo Pero la estructura capitalista de Estados mente, tratables. ☐

Acción de DC exige ‘Acabar con detenciones trans por ICE’ Por Judy Greenspan centros de detención. Presidente Obama, soy una mujer trans. Estoy cansada de los Llevando pancartas y tres ataúdes pinta- abusos”. dos de color rosa, los activistas de los dere- Gutiérrez fue entrevistada en chos de los inmigrantes transgénero y sus Democracy Now! el día después de la pro- partidarios marcharon hacia la Casa Blanca testa del 25 de junio y describió algunos el 23 de junio para exigir el fin de la deten- de los muchos casos de abuso de migran- ción de personas transgénero y VIH+ por tes trans por parte del ICE. (Democracy parte del Servicio de Inmigración y Control Now!, 24 de junio) de Aduanas. Los ataúdes simbolizaban las La lucha de las personas transmigran- muertes de tres mujeres trans, Roxsana tes encerradas en centros de detención Hernández, Victoria Arellano y Johana ha empezado por fin a recibir atención “Joa” Medina Leon, que murieron entre nacional. La protesta del 23 de junio fue 2018 y ahora mientras estaban bajo custo- la culminación de varias acciones en ciu- dia del ICE o poco después. (Washington dades de todo Estados Unidos en las que Blade, 23 de junio) se exigía “¡No al Orgullo en detención! La protesta comenzó con un servicio Acabar con la detención de personas conmemorativo para las tres mujeres trans ahora”. en la Iglesia Cristiana de National City. Ataúdes rosas abandonados frente a la Casa Blanca, D.C., 23 de junio. Una semana antes de la marcha del 23 Los organizadores de los migrantes trans de junio, ocho grupos de defensa de los leyeron declaraciones sobre las tres muje- marcha había más de 25 mujeres trans estaban cansadas de esperar justicia. derechos de los inmigrantes enviaron una res y las condiciones que enfrentan los recientemente liberadas de los centros de “¿Quieren que esperemos? No tenemos carta al secretario de Seguridad Nacional, migrantes trans, VIH+ y otros migrantes detención del ICE. Los manifestantes blo- tiempo, no queremos que se añada otro Alejandro Mayorkas, y al director en fun- en riesgo en los campos de detención. quearon el tráfico durante varios minutos nombre a la larga lista de personas que ciones del ICE, Tae Johnson, en la que El servicio fue presentado por Issa en las calles 16 y H, N.W., cerca de lo que han muerto en detención”, dijo. (Daily exigían que el gobierno estadounidense Noyola, subdirector de Mijente, uno de se ha rebautizado como Plaza “Black Lives Beast, 24 de junio) liberara a todos los migrantes trans y a los grupos de derechos de los migrantes Matter”. A continuación, los manifestan- Gutiérrez es una organizadora de las personas con VIH/sida de la deten- que organizó este evento. Noyola habló de tes entraron en la plaza de Lafayette para Familia: Movimiento de Liberación Trans ción del ICE. las injusticias a las que se enfrentan los celebrar un mitin de clausura. Queer, uno de los grupos que patrocinó Los activistas transmigrantes están migrantes trans y reprodujo una decla- Los manifestantes dejaron los tres la protesta nacional. En 2015, interrum- decididos a seguir luchando por la justi- ración grabada del sobrino de Roxsana ataúdes apoyados en una valla frente a la pió al presidente Barack Obama en un cia hasta que todos los migrantes trans- Hernández en Honduras. Casa Blanca. evento del orgullo LGBTQ+ en la Casa género y las personas que viven con el Tras el servicio, los activistas trans Jennicet Gutiérrez, de End Trans Blanca, gritando: “¡Liberen a todos los VIH/sida sean liberados de la custodia migrantes salieron a la calle y marcha- Detention Now, dijo a los periodistas LGBTQ [de] los centros de detención! del ICE. Hay una petición en curso y otra ron hacia la Casa Blanca para llevar su en las escaleras de la Iglesia Cristiana Presidente Obama, detenga la tortura información disponible en su sitio web: mensaje al presidente Joe Biden. En la de National City que las personas trans y el abuso de las mujeres trans en los endtransdetention.org. ☐