TRUMP, ANTISEMITISMO Y SOLIDARIDAD EN LA LUCHA 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 58, No. 49 Dec. 15, 2016 $1 Justice for James Means 3 At Standing Rock ‘We’re not going anywhere’ By Monica Moorehead PHOTO: UNICORN RIOT Dec. 6 — In a full-blown North Dakota blizzard, thou- Majority Navajo veterans pre- sands of veterans, many of whom were stationed in Iraq pare for march to Backwater and Afghanistan, led a march Dec. 5 to Highway 1806 Bridge, Dec. 5. Backwater Bridge in solidarity with the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations of Standing Rock. The bridge is the site where police viciously used concussion grenades, tear gas, water cannons and more against unarmed wa- ter protectors on Nov. 20. The veterans mobilized delegations of thousands to come to Standing Rock the first weekend in December to act as human shields to protest the ongoing illegal construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Sioux land, a $3.7 billion pipeline that will span four states. The ranks of those standing with Standing Rock swelled to an estimated 20,000 people. The federal government’s Army Corp of Engineers (ACoE), which controls some of the land and permits for where the pipeline is being built, had issued a Dec. 5 “eviction notice” to water protectors to leave their en- campments. As the veterans — many of them Indigenous, along with hundreds of non-Native vets — descended upon Standing Rock, the ACoE suddenly issued a statement on Dec. 4 saying that they would not grant an easement for the pipeline to be drilled under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, which is part of Standing Rock’s unceded treaty land. The Obama administration, largely silent Cuban masses salute Fidel on the crisis at Standing Rock for months, announced it was sending a federal mediator to monitor potential “vi- By Cheryl LaBash olence” — having failed since August to take any action Cuba’s nine-day, islandwide farewell to Fidel Castro at all to stop the violence that was suffered repeatedly by ended Dec. 4 in Santiago de Cuba on the island’s south- water protectors. west tip. The ashes of the undefeated historic leader of Many in the water protector movement were joyous the Cuban Revolution were placed into a large granite upon hearing this news from the ACoE, but their cele- boulder by Cuban President Raúl Castro. A simple black bration was short-lived. Energy Transfer Partners and marker with gold letters FIDEL sealed the enclosure. Sunoco Logistics Partners (SXL), Wall Street corpora- Fidel’s death on Nov. 25 coincided with the 60th an- tions backing the pipeline, announced several hours lat- niversary of when 82 revolutionary fighters led by Fidel er that they were not beholden to the ACoE statement sailed in the yacht The Granma from Mexico to launch and that they planned to drill under Lake Oahe regard- an armed struggle that liberated Cuba from the U.S.- less of whether an easement had been granted. backed Batista dictatorship. The memorial activities ETP and SXL had filed an action in federal court on Nov. 14 and issued a press release Dec. 4, stating, “The Continued on page 6 White House’s directive today to the Corps for further delay is just the latest in a series of overt and transpar- ent political actions by an administration which has Cuba: 6-7 abandoned the rule of law in favor of currying favor with Mumia Abu-Jamal: Viva Fidel! a narrow and extreme political constituency. “As stated all along, ETP and SXL are fully commit- Remembering Fidel ted to ensuring that this vital project is brought to com- pletion and fully expect to complete construction of the Fidel and Billy Dean Smith pipeline without any additional rerouting in and around BLM: ‘The lessons we take from Fidel’ Lake Oahe. Nothing this Administration has done today changes that in any way.” Indigenous Nations inspire broad solidarity Since last April, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation have been in the forefront of uniting hundreds of 2 other Indigenous Nations throughout the Americas to • Revolution: theory and practice Continued on page 8 • Charlotte Uprising 3 Subscribe to Workers World • Fight for ‘$15 and a Union’ 4 4 weeks trial $4 1 year subscription $30 • Peoples’ Power vs. the KKK 5 Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: workers.org/articles/donate/supporters_/ • Carrier ‘deal’: liars and politicians Editorial 10 Name 11 Email ______________________________Phone __________ • S. 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Pinkney moved, again ...............................3 Below is a slightly modified talk that Lamont Lilly scholar. There’s living struggle and revolutionary practice ‘$15 AND A UNION’.......................................4 gave at the Nov. 11-13, 2016 Workers World Party Na- right here in this room. We just have to share it now. North Carolina backs down the KKK . 5 tional Conference at the Shabazz Center in Harlem, N.Y. I must thank my comrades Imani, Loan, Garrett, Mat- Harvard blockade bans neo-Nazi Bannon ................5 I speak you to all today as an ancestral descendant ty and Andre for teaching me so much about the LGBTQ People’s Power Assembly shows anti-Klan solidarity ......5 of the Black Liberation movement, as a member of the struggle. They’ve taught me so much and have really made Buffalo kicks off month of ‘RESIST!’ . .5 working class, as a Black man from the U.S. South and as me a better revolutionary. But I had to listen. And not just an organizer of the Black Lives Matter movement. listen, but I had to want to listen. And I had to want to learn. Fidel and Billy Dean Smith ...............................6 The Black Lives Matter movement is still fairly new, It’s the process of constantly learning that makes us A communist in the U.S. remembers Fidel ................7 still growing, still learning, still building, still fairly better revolutionaries. Personally, I always want to relate Mumia Abu-Jamal: Viva Fidel! ............................7 young in its theoretical and ideological formation. This to as many struggles as possible. Not just through a politi- Black Lives Matter: Lessons from Fidel ....................7 movement of the vanguard and most oppressed, not only cal context, but in a very sincere, deep-rooted, human way. Peltier’s message on Day of Mourning ....................8 needs our support, it needs our wisdom and experience. What we want is “revolution.” The only way to do that Philly blocks bank pipeline to DAPL.......................8 It needs our revolutionary solidarity in a very sincere and is by becoming better organizers. The only way to do that tangible way. Thankfully, there are a lot of people who is getting out and meeting the people where they are. The Virginia for Standing Rock ................................8 are beginning to wake up now and hit the streets. only way to do that is to challenge our individual and or- Hands Off Syria kicks off speaking tour ...................9 But what we have to do now is connect our struggles. ganizational comfort level. Dec. 9 in Philly: Stop hep C, fight for Mumia! .............10 As revolutionaries and members of Workers World Party, The union halls are great, but we have to get out to Palestinian boycott defeats giant G4S ...................11 we have to connect the Palestinian movement with the the hood. We have to make [Vladimir] Lenin relevant movement for Black lives. We have to connect the energy to the ghettos and barrios. And what that means is that Around the world of Standing Rock and the Indigenous movement for sov- we may have to give people the Black Panther Party first Cuban masses mourn Fidel ................................1 ereignty, with the Latinx and immigrant movement. We before we give them Marx and Engels, particularly in Syria and the Trump administration ......................9 have to connect the energy of the LGBTQ movement with Black and Brown communities. Most of all, we have to S. Korea swept by massive protests ......................11 the environmental movement. be open-minded. We have to listen to new ideas and new In many circles, these movements still see themselves perspectives. We have to be able to evolve without sacri- Editorial as separate struggles of separate oppressed groups. Com- ficing our principles. Carrier ‘deal’: Liars, damned liars and politicians.............10 rade Larry Holmes said how there are no working-class Just to share a brief example, while Monica and I were ‘Mad Dog’ at the Pentagon..................................10 borders anymore. So what we need now is a formal and on the campaign trail, at one of our branch stops we met material shift of not only domestic solidarity, but also a young sister who had expressed her interest in “decol- WWP National Conference international solidarity: a revolutionary movement of onizing the mind.” Though she did describe herself as an Lamont Lilly: Putting revolutionary theory into practice....2 multinational, multigendered freedom fighters.