Aug. 12, 2004 Vol. 45, No. 32 50¢ Días tormentosos para el movimiento sindical 12 MONSTROUS 100,000 MARCH IN KHARTOUM CRIME UAL pension theft 5 ‘RICH WAR Will Sudan be HAWK’ Analysis of Democratic Convention 6 the next Iraq? By John Parker the 1991 war on Iraq. Washington consid- would now be deployed to Chad’s eastern BOLIVARIAN ered Sudan a rogue nation and the Bush frontier with Sudan. REVOLUTION Oil and the disappointing results for administration pushed the UN into spon- The U.S.-drafted resolution that the U.S. imperialist designs in Iraq have soring sanctions. The year before Sudan Security Council adopted July 30 Free food, while brought the continent of Africa into even refused to join U.S. imperialism’s war on demands that Sudan end the fighting in under siege 8 greater focus. Iraq Bush called Sudan a good role model the Darfur region. Although the Sudanese The pieces are being assembled to fur- for “democracy.” government has held negotiations with ther U.S. imperialist aims in Sudan. The Aug. 1 Sunday Telegraph reported the warring parties and severely punished Already the Bush administration has that U.S. Marines based in Camp some of the combatants, the resolution’s VENEZUELA’S forced sanctions and has assembled troops Lemonier in nearby Djibouti are under- punitive actions are in effect. CHAVEZ in the region under United Nations cover. taking special anti-terrorist operations in The resolution calls for UN Secretary Washington is using the tragedy in Sudan and the Horn of Africa. General Kofi Annan to issue a report in 30 Indigenous stand Western Sudan to justify its actions. UN The Sudanese government has days on the progress made in each of those in solidarity 8 sources estimate at least 30,000 people attempted to accommodate the U.S. by areas. The resolution passed the UN have been killed and more than a million allowing small teams of U.S. soldiers to Security Council only after the U.S. others displaced by the conflict. pass into the country as part of official vis- dropped the word “sanctions” and added More than 100,000 people marched in its. This happened last month on economic and diplomatic “measures.” LEONARD Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, Aug. 4 to Secretary of State Colin Powell’s trip. As reported by the BBC July 31, Sudan’s protest against any foreign intervention. Despite these conciliatory steps, Sudan is UN ambassador Elfatih Erwa, and its PELTIER: Marchers said they were ready to fight now under threat of international inva- ambassador to the African Union, Osman ‘Cruel & unusual against the invaders, the BBC reported. sion. In actuality the invasion has already al-Said, separately said Khartoum would punishment’ 3 As stated by an Aug. 2 Guardian article, started. comply. many people have failed to notice the pri- The Sunday Telegraph reported that a “We are not happy with the resolution, mary motivation for this renewed interest: team of five Special Forces soldiers broke but we are going to implement it—we have “The absence of anti-war skepticism about off from the Powell entourage for a week- no other option,” Mr. al-Said told OCCUPIED IRAQ the prospect of sending troops into Sudan long mission in the Kurush Mountains. reporters in the Ethiopian capital Addis is especially odd in view of the fact that There U.S. aerial surveillance allegedly Ababa earlier this week.” Puppet gov’t Darfur has oil. backs up claims that Al-Quaeda is operat- The stage is set for a repeat of U.S. crumbling 10 “For two years, campaigners have ing in the region. imperialist plunder under cover of chanted that there should be ‘no blood for French imperialism, with its long his- “humanitarian” operations and supported oil’ in Iraq, yet they seem not to have tory of colonialism in neighboring Chad, by the European imperialist powers— noticed that there are huge untapped is also intensifying its threat against unless the progressive movement here can SOWING reserves in both southern Sudan and Sudan. The BBC on July 31 reported that recognize the intervention for what it is southern Darfur. the French army with about 1,000 troops soon enough to resist it here in the U.S. POVERTY “As oil pipelines continue to be blown in Chad was moving to the Sudanese bor- John Parker, who accompanied WTO vs. up in Iraq, the West not only has a clear der. French ambassador Jean-Pierre Ramsey Clark on the 1998 mission Black farmers 10 motive for establishing control over alter- Bercot told the BBC from Chad’s capital, to Sudan, is the 2004 presidential native sources of energy, it has also offi- N’Djamena, that 200 French soldiers candidate for Workers World Party. cially adopted the policy that our armies should be used to do precisely this. Oddly enough, the oil concession in southern NOVEMBER 13-14 • 2004 • NYC Darfur is currently in the hands of the orld Party 1920S SOVIET China National Petroleum Company. WWorkersorkers WorldPartyW UNION: China is Sudan’s biggest foreign investor.” nference Lesbian•gay•bi NNationalational CConferenceo Scientific, and trans In August 1998 then-President Clinton PRIDE bombed Sudan, one of the poorest coun- not utopian tries in the world, using fabricated evi- After the election, no matter who wins — 11 dence to accuse Sudan of manufacturing chemical weapons. Following the bomb- The struggle is growing ing, a fact-finding mission in 1998 that AND IT’S GROWING! 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Peltier: Cruel and unusual punishment . 3 Accompanied by a 10-foot painting depicting political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and a banner proclaiming Demanding reparations in South Carolina . 3 “No pride in war, occupation and racism,” these New England grocery workers . 4 activists and their political slogans were greeted with On the picket line . 4 enthusiastic applause along the entire two-mile march route. Greyhound workers fight for union . 4 The local Coalition for Justice, along with the IAC Pension theft at UAL . 5 contingent, addressed anti-war concerns. Many of the Letter to the editor . 6 50,000 spectators joined in chanting “Bring the troops Analysis of the Democratic Convention . 6 home!” Even in a major military town like San Diego, growing frustration toward an illegal war and occupa- The case against Bush . 7 tion continues to mount. —David Tworkowski International IAC banner demanding freedom for death row Will Sudan be the next Iraq? . 1 political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal at New York action condemns wall . 3 July 31 San Diego Pride march. Bolivarian revolution provides free food. 8 Indigenous communities with Chavez . 8 Haitians protest World Bank . 8 At Houston City Hall Guantanamo torture report . 8 Eyewitness Cuba . 9 Long live July 26! . 9 Birthday protest backs Iraq’s occupation regime crumbling . 10 Soviet Union in 1920s . 11 innocent man on death row Editorials Farming in the fields of capitalism . 10 By Gloria Rubac Houston Noticias En Español Capitalismo . 12 Kids from 3 to 83 years old beat candy labeled “Justice” out of a big Texas-shaped piñata on Aug. WW CALENDAR 1 as dozens gathered in the Houston City Hall Park to celebrate the 30th birthday of Nanon Williams, LOS ANGELES.