December 10 — Over 75 Indigenous activists and their allies demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, to demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirits (MMIWG2S). The delegation was removed from the sidewalk by Spain’s National Police and followed for blocks. The police liaison with the group was held back and forced to show his documents.

In 2016, the Urban Indian Health Institute found that only 116 out of 5,712 cases of MMIWG2S reported in the United States were recorded in the Department of Justice’s federal missing persons database.

Many of these cases have been the direct result of extractive fossil fuel industries implanting “man camps” for transient industry workers located near Native American communities. This is especially apparent for rural areas in states such as North Dakota and Montana, which continue to be the epicenter of violence against Indigenous women. Additionally, according to the Urban Indian Health Institute, 70 percent of Alaska Natives live in urban areas, where Indigenous women not only go missing, but are underreported by municipal police agencies and all too often ignored by local media. We can no longer allow for this issue to be invisibilized by the government or the media alike.

“Whether in rundown motels or pop-up camps, certain things hold true. There is an influx of transient workers who bring alcohol, drugs and violence, such as rape, murder and human trafficking,” says Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma. 

TransCanada and other fossil fuel corporations continue to build pipelines, like Keystone XL, that transport tar sands oil from Canada through jurisdictions in the United States that lack the bodies of justice such as Free, Prior and Informed Consent,  as well as transparent intercommunication between multilateral enforcement agencies, which are necessary to protect Indigenous communities and allow them to practice their respective cultures. The overarching result is violence against Indigenous lands, which perpetuates violence against Indigenous women.

It will take much more than an Executive Action that allocates a perfunctory $1.5 million in federal dollars to address and dismantle human rights violations against Indigenous women and Indigenous lands. And pursuant to the 1991 Principles of Environmental Justice, governmental acts of environmental injustice are considered a violation of international law, the Universal Declaration On Human Rights, and the United Nations Convention on Genocide.

“We call on the global community and all peoples of the United States to join our call for action, to join our call for recognition and to join our demands for the real action it will take to protect and respect Indigenous women,” said Bineshi Albert, Movement Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. “This is not a political issue that should be used to generate votes, it’s a matter of life and death, of dignity, which is why all federal initiatives must include local Indigenous communities in positions of leadership that recognize and respect our sovereignty,” Albert continued.

Source: Native News Online

Dear comrades!

On behalf of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic, we cordially congratulate you on your anniversary. One year is a short time, but during this time you have managed to do a lot to expose the crimes of world imperialism and to promote social mobilization of the working people in the United States and abroad. The global system of capitalist exploitation must be countered with international solidarity of the oppressed masses. Your hard work is an important contribution to fulfilling this task. We wish you new successes and once again thank you for your solidarity with the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR).

Long live socialism!

With best regards,

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic

December 14, 2019

Monday, December 23, 2019 at 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST

City Hall
New York, New York 10007

Join us as we gather on the steps of City Hall in remembrance of the past 1000 days IBEW Local #3 workers have been on strike. FIGHT CORPORATE GREED!!

It was an early morning in December 1969 when a joint FBI-Chicago police crew raided an apartment building, ostensibly for weapons charges.

In fact, they came to kill Fred Hampton, chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, and the man chosen by the party’s central committee to become the new chief of staff of the national organization. Hampton, barely 21, would be shot to death in his bed. In his sleep. 

Also killed was Mark Clark, a captain from Peoria, Ill., who was security for the apartment.

The killing of Fred made him a martyr for Blacks in Chicago and for Panthers across the nation.  

This year marks 50 years since his assassination.

How many cops were sent to death row in Illinois for this most premeditated of murders in Chicago?  I think you know the answer — zero.

Fred’s wife worked for Black freedom movements for years.

His son, sleeping in her belly while his father was assassinated by the state, became an outspoken freedom fighter for the Black Nation.

And Fred Hampton, though gone, is not forgotten. He remains a martyred symbol of resistance.

From Imprisoned Nation, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.Listen to Mumia’s commentary on Prison Radio

The most recent events in the region confirm that the U.S. government and reactionary oligarchies are responsible for the dangerous political and social upheaval and instability in Latin America and the Caribbean.

As the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, foresaw January 1, 2019: “Those who have illusions about the restoration of imperialist rule in our region should understand that Latin America and the Caribbean have changed and so has the world (…) The region resembles a prairie in times of drought. A spark could generate an uncontrollable fire that would harm the national interests of all.”

President Donald Trump proclaims the validity of the Monroe Doctrine and appeals to McCarthyism to maintain imperialist domination of the region’s natural resources, impede the exercise of national sovereignty, and aspirations of regional integration and cooperation; in an attempt to re-establish its unipolar hegemony on a world and hemispheric scale; eliminate progressive, revolutionary and alternative models to savage capitalism; reverse political and social conquests and impose neoliberal models, regardless of international law, the rules of the game of representative democracy, the environment, and the welfare of peoples.

On Monday, December 2, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threateningly accused Cuba and Venezuela of taking advantage of and helping to expand agitation in countries of the region. He distorts and manipulates reality and ignores, as a principal cause of regional instability, constant U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The legitimate protests and massive popular mobilizations taking place on the continent, particularly in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil, are caused by poverty and growing inequality in the distribution of wealth; the certainty that neoliberal formulas aggravate the exclusionary and unsustainable situation of social vulnerability; absent or inadequate health care, education and social security; attacks on human dignity; unemployment and the restriction of labor rights; privatization, higher prices, cutbacks in public services, and increased citizen insecurity.

Revealed is the crisis of a political system; the lack of real democracy; the extent to which traditional conservative parties are discredited; rejection of the historical corruption typical of military dictatorships and right-wing governments; limited popular support for official authorities; lack of confidence in institutions and the judicial system.

The people are also protesting brutal police repression, the militarization of the police under the pretext of protecting critical infrastructure, the exemption of repressors from criminal responsibility; the use of war weapons and riot police that cause deaths and serious injuries, including hundreds of young people with irreparable eye injuries caused by pellets guns; the outlawing of demonstrations; rapes, beatings and violence against those arrested, including minors; and the murder of social leaders, former guerrillas and journalists.

The United States defends and supports repression against demonstrators using the pretext of safeguarding the so-called “democratic order.” The duplicitous silence of some governments, institutions and figures, who are actively critical of the left, is a disgrace. The complicity of the corporate media is shameful.

People rightly ask where is democracy and the rule of law; what are institutions supposedly dedicated to the protection of human rights doing; where is the much touted independent judicial system?

Let us revisit some facts. In March of 2015, President Barack Obama signed a preposterous executive order declaring the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, economy and foreign policy” of the great power. 

In November of 2015, a costly electoral defeat of the left in Argentina occurs.

The neoliberal offensive take a decisive step in August 2016, with the parliamentary-judicial coup in Brazil against President Dilma Rousseff, the criminalization and imprisonment of Workers Party leaders, and later of former President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva himself, with the early participation of the U.S. Department of Justice, through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, to install a dependent government, willing to reverse important social conquests through neoliberal policies, make nefarious changes to the development model, allow the destruction of state enterprises and devastating privatization, permit the cut-rate sale of the country’s resources and infrastructure to U.S. transnational corporations.

At the end of 2017, Hondurans protest the outcome of elections and face terrible repression.

In January 2018, the United States disrupts the signing of an agreement between the Venezuelan government and the Washington-run opposition. A month later, the Secretary of State proclaims the validity of the Monroe Doctrine and calls for a military coup against the Bolivarian Chavista Revolution.

In March 2018, the atrocious assassination of Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco takes place, causing a wave of indignation in the country and around the world, and raising unanswered questions about the suspicious role of powerful groups. In April, Lula is imprisoned through spurious legal maneuvers. Copious evidence emerges of U.S. intervention in Brazilian elections through specialized companies that use “big data” and polimetric technologies to individually manipulate the will of voters, like those wielded by ultra-reactionary Steve Bannon and the Israeli right wing.

In this period, judicial proceedings against former Presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Rafael Correa are launched. In April 2018, an attempt is made to destabilize Nicaragua through external interference and the application of unilateral coercive measures.

On August 4, 2018, an assassination attempt against President Nicolás Maduro Moros occurs. In January 2019, the self-proclamation of an unknown, the corrupt Juan Guaidó (as President of Venezuela), is organized in Washington. In March 2019, President Trump renews the executive order labeling Venezuela a threat. On April 30, an attempted military coup in Caracas fails miserably, and the United States, vindictively, escalates its unconventional war against the South American nation, that resists tenaciously and heroically with its people’s civic-military union.

Throughout this period, the U.S. government has implemented savage anti-immigrant policies, and adopted aggressive, hateful measures to fuel fear and division within the electorate. An attempt is made to erect a xenophobic wall on the border with Mexico. This country and Central American nations are threatened with terrible tariffs and sanctions if they do not stop those fleeing poverty and insecurity, and the U.S. increases deportations. Thousands of children are cruelly separated from their parents, 69,000 minors detained and attempts made to deport the children of immigrants born and raised in U.S. territory.

Showing shameless subordination to the United States, the far-right Brazilian government of Jair Bolsonaro resorts to lies, a xenophobic, racist, misogynist and homophobic discourse, combined with delirious projections about social and political phenomena such as climate change, Indigenous populations, fires in the Amazon, and emigration, which have generated the repudiation of many leaders and organizations. His administration is dismantling social programs that allowed Workers Party governments to notably reduce levels of poverty and social exclusion in Brazil.

Since May 2019, tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets against cuts in education, pension reforms, discriminatory policies and gender-based violence.

The Brazilian government has intervened in the internal affairs of neighboring countries, including Venezuela, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, and has taken hostile positions against Cuba, in violation of international law. As reported in the Brazilian press, in April 2019, the Foreign Ministry instructed 15 of its embassies to coordinate with U.S. embassies to urge receptive governments to condemn Cuba in international forums.

For the first time since 1992, this year Brazil — accompanied only by the United States and Israel — voted against the United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, which the United States is now tightening, and for an end to the extraterritorial application of its laws against third states.

At the same time, the Colombian government abstained in the vote on the resolution it has supported since 1992, at a time when the genocidal U.S. blockade of Cuba and its extraterritorial scope is intensifying. To justify this reprehensible decision, the country’s authorities resorted to disgraceful, politically motivated manipulation of Cuba’s altruistic, devoted, modest, unobjectionable contribution to peace in Colombia, for which our country is universally recognized. The broad, critical debate that the process generated in this nation is well known, one which Cuba, despite everything, will continue to support in its efforts to achieve peace.

U.S. slanders, attributing to Cuba supposed responsibility for the organization of popular mobilizations against neoliberalism in South America, constitute an incredible pretext, to justify and tighten the blockade and hostile policies directed against our people. Likewise, it is useless to attempt to hide the failure of the capitalist system; to protect failing, repressive governments; to cover up parliamentary, judicial and police coups; and to revive the specter of socialism to intimidate people. In doing so, the U.S. also seeks to justify repression and the criminalization of social protest.

Cuba is only responsible for the example set by our heroic people in defending our sovereignty, in resisting the most brutal and systematic aggression, in the invariable practice of solidarity and cooperation with sister nations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

It bothers imperialism that Cuba has demonstrated that another world is possible and that an alternative model to neoliberalism can be built, based on solidarity, cooperation, dignity, fair distribution of income, equal access to professional advancement, citizen safety and protection, and the full liberation of human beings.

The Cuban Revolution also provides evidence that a firmly united people, owner of its country and its institutions, in constant, profound democracy, can resist victoriously and advance in its development, despite aggression and the longest blockade in history.

The coup in Bolivia, orchestrated by the United States, using the OAS and the local oligarchy as tools, demonstrates the aggressiveness of the imperialist escalation. Cuba reiterates its condemnation of the coup, of the brutal repression unleashed, and expresses its solidarity with compañero Evo Morales Ayma and the Bolivian people.

While the U.S. government continues its unconventional war to attempt to overthrow the legitimately constituted government of President Nicolas Maduro Moros and invoke the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), Cuba reaffirms our unwavering intention to maintain cooperation with the Venezuelan government and people.

To the Sandinista government and people of Nicaragua, led by President Daniel Ortega, who face destabilization attempts and unilateral coercive measures, we reiterate our solidarity.

The legitimate government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, and its Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, deserve international solidarity and already have that of the Cuban people, at a time when this island nation is a victim of external interference that has provoked violence and is intended to undermine the electoral process.

In this complex scenario, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico confronts neoliberalism, and defends the principles of non-intervention and respect for sovereignty, while the election of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández as President and Vice President in Argentina expresses the unequivocal rejection by that nation of the neoliberal formulas that impoverished it, indebted it, and seriously hurt its people. The liberation of Lula is a victory of the people, and Cuba reiterates its call for a worldwide mobilization to demand his full freedom, recognition of his innocence, and restitution of his political rights.

The corruption that characterizes the behavior of the current U.S. government is obvious. Its impact on the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean has cost lives, suffering, instability and economic damage.

Given the dramatic situation that the region and the world are facing, Cuba reaffirms the principles of sovereignty, non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states, and the right of all peoples to freely choose and construct their own political system, in an environment of peace, stability and justice, without threats, aggression or unilateral coercive measures; and calls for adherence to the postulates of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.

Cuba will continue to work toward the integration of Our America, which includes making every effort to ensure that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), soon to be chaired by Mexico, continues to promote the common interests of our nations by strengthening unity within diversity.

Cuba responds to the relentless onslaught of the most reactionary forces in the hemisphere with the unwavering resistance of our people, and the will to defend the unity of our nation, its social conquests, sovereignty and independence, and socialism, at whatever cost necessary. We do so with optimism and unwavering confidence in the victory bequeathed to us by Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, with the guidance of our Party’s First Secretary, Army General Raúl Castro, and the leadership of President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Havana, December 3, 2019

Source: Granma

Os mais recentes acontecimentos na região confirmam que o governo dos Estados Unidos e as oligarquias reacionárias são os principais responsáveis pela perigosa convulsão e instabilidade política e social na América Latina e no Caribe.

Como havia previsto, em 1º de janeiro de 2019, o Primeiro Secretário do Partido Comunista de Cuba, General de Exército Raúl Castro Ruz: “Os que se iludem com a restauração do domínio imperialista em nossa região deveriam compreender que a América Latina e o Caribe  mudaram, e o mundo também […] A região se assemelha a uma pradaria em tempo de seca. Uma faísca poderia gerar um incontrolável incêndio, que prejudicaria os interesses nacionais de todos”.

O presidente Donald Trump proclama a vigência da Doutrina Monroe e apela ao macartismo, para preservar a dominação imperialista sobre os recursos naturais da região; impedir o exercício da soberania nacional e as aspirações de integração e cooperação regional; tentar restabelecer sua hegemonia unipolar em escala mundial e hemisférica; eliminar os modelos progressistas, revolucionários e alternativos ao capitalismo selvagem; reverter as conquistas políticas e sociais e impor modelos neoliberais, sem considerar o Direito Internacional, as regras do jogo da democracia representativa, o meio ambiente, ou o bem-estar dos povos.

O secretário de Estado, Mike Pompeo, nesta segunda-feira, 2 de dezembro, acusou ameaçadoramente a Cuba e Venezuela de tirar proveito e ajudar a aumentar a agitação nos países da região. Distorce e manipula a realidade, e oculta, como elemento central da instabilidade regional, a permanente intervenção dos Estados Unidos na América Latina e no Caribe.

Os legítimos protestos e as massivas mobilizações populares que ocorrem no continente, particularmente no Estado Plurinacional da Bolívia, no Chile, Colômbia, Equador e Brasil, são causadas pela pobreza e a crescente desigualdade na distribuição da riqueza; a certeza de que as fórmulas neoliberais agravam a excludente e insustentável situação de vulnerabilidade social; a ausência ou precariedade dos serviços de saúde, educação e previdência social; os abusos contra a dignidade humana; o desemprego e a restrição aos direitos trabalhistas; a privatização, encarecimento e cancelamento de serviços públicos e o incremento da insegurança cidadã.

Eles revelam a crise dos sistemas políticos, a falta de democracia verdadeira, o descrédito dos partidos conservadores tradicionais, o protesto contra a histórica corrupção, típica das ditaduras militares e dos governos de direita, o escasso apoio popular às autoridades oficiais, a desconfiança nas instituições e no sistema de justiça.

Protestam, igualmente, contra a repressão brutal da polícia, a militarização desta, com o pretexto de proteger infraestruturas críticas, a isenção de responsabilidade penal aos repressores; o emprego de armas de guerra e antimotins que provocam mortes, lesões graves, inclusive irreversíveis lesões oculares a centenas de jovens, pelo uso de balas de borracha; a criminalização das manifestações; as violações, espancamentos e violência contra os detidos, entre eles, menores; e ainda o assassinato de líderes sociais, guerrilheiros desmobilizados e jornalistas.

Os Estados Unidos defendem e apoiam a repressão contra manifestantes, com o pretexto de salvaguardar a suposta “ordem democrática”. O silêncio encobridor de vários governos, instituições e personalidades, muto ativos e críticos contra a esquerda, é uma vergonha. A cumplicidade dos grandes meios corporativos de informação é escandalosa.  

Os povos se perguntam, com razão, onde está a democracia e o Estado de direito; o que fazem as instituições supostamente dedicadas à proteção dos direitos humanos; onde está o sistema de justiça cuja independência se apregoa.

Repassemos alguns fatos. Em março de 2015, o presidente Barack Obama firma uma insólita Ordem Executiva, que declara a República Bolivariana da Venezuela “uma ameaça inusual e extraordinária à segurança nacional, à economia e à política exterior” da grande potência. Em novembro de 2015, ocorre a custosa derrota eleitoral da esquerda na Argentina.

A ofensiva neoliberal teve um momento decisivo em agosto de 2016, com o golpe parlamentar judicial no Brasil, contra a presidenta Dilma Rousseff, a criminalização e prisão dos líderes do Partido dos Trabalhadores e posteriormente do próprio ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, com a prévia participação do Departamento de Justiça dos Estados Unidos, mediante a Lei de Práticas Corruptas no Exterior, para instalar um governo dependente, disposto a reverter importantes conquistas sociais, mediante ajustes neoliberais; à mudança nefasta do modelo de desenvolvimento; a permitir a destruição da empresa nacional e a privatização espoliadora; à venda barata dos recursos e da infraestrutura  do país às transnacionais norte-americanas.

No final de 2017, ocorreu em Honduras o protesto contra o resultado eleitoral e a terrível repressão contra os manifestantes.

Em janeiro de 2018, os Estados Unidos abortam a assinatura de um acordo entre o governo da Venezuela e a oposição, manipulada desde Washington. Um mês depois, o Secretário de Estado proclama a vigência da Doutrina Monroe e conclama o golpe militar contra a Revolução bolivariana e chavista.

Em março de 2018, produz-se o atroz assassinato da vereadora brasileira Marielle Franco, que levantou uma onda de indignação em seu país e no mundo, e do qual permanecem ocultas as obscuras implicações de grupos no poder. Em abril, Lula é preso, mediante espúrias manobras jurídicas. Há abundantes evidências da intervenção dos Estados Unidos nas eleições brasileiras, através de companhias especializadas, que usam tecnologias de big data e polimetria para manipular individualmente a vontade dos votantes, como as manejadas pelo ultrarreacionário Steve Bannon e outras israelenses.

Nesse período, abrem-se processos judiciais contra os ex-Presidentes Cristina Fernández de Kirchner e Rafael Correa. Em abril de 2018, tentam desestabilizar a Nicarágua, mediante a ingerência externa e a aplicação de medidas coercitivas unilaterais.

Em 4 de agosto de 2018, há a tentativa de magnicídio contra o presidente Nicolás Maduro Moros. Em janeiro de 2019, ocorre a autoproclamação do desconhecido e corrupto Juan Guaidó, organizada em Washington. Em março de 2019, o presidente Trump renova a Ordem Executiva que considera Venezuela uma ameaça. Em 30 de abril, é a tentativa de golpe militar em Caracas, que fracassa de maneira estrepitosa, e os Estados Unidos, vingativamente, incrementam sua guerra não-convencional contra a nação sul-americana, que resiste, tenaz e heroicamente, com a união cívico-militar de seu povo.

Em todo esse período, o governo estadunidense aplica selvagens políticas anti-imigrantistas e uma conduta agressiva, cheia de ódio, para alimentar o medo e a divisão nos eleitores. Tenta o muro xenófobo na fronteira com o México, ameaça-o e a América Central com terríveis sobretaxas e sanções, se não detêm os que fogem da pobreza e da insegurança, e multiplica as deportações. Separa cruelmente milhares de crianças de seus pais, detém a 69 mil menores, e trata de expulsar os filhos de imigrantes nascidos e criados em território norte-americano.

Mostrando desavergonhada subordinação aos Estados Unidos, o governo ultradireitista do Brasil, encabeçado por Jair Bolsonaro, usou a mentira, o discurso xenófobo, racista, misógino e homofóbico, combinado com projeções delirantes sobre fenômenos sociais e políticos, como a mudança climática, os povos originários, os incêndios amazônicos e a emigração, as quais geraram o repúdio de numerosos líderes e organizações. Na gestão do governo, foram desmontando as políticas sociais que levaram o Brasil a reduzir notavelmente os níveis de pobreza e exclusão social, durante os governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores.

Desde maio de 2019, dezenas de milhares de manifestantes saíram às ruas, contra os cortes na educação, as reformas no sistema de previdência, as políticas discriminatórias e a violência de gênero.

O governo do Brasil interveio nos assuntos internos de países vizinhos, como a Venezuela, Argentina, Paraguai e Uruguai, e assumiu posições hostis contra Cuba, violatórias do Direito Internacional. Como publicou a imprensa brasileira, em abril de 2019, o Itamaraty mandou instruções a 15 de suas Embaixadas, de coordenar com as estadunidenses, para instar com os governos receptores a condenar Cuba em fóruns internacionais.

Pela primeira vez, desde 1992, o Brasil votou este ano, acompanhado por Estados Unidos e Israel, contra a resolução da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas, para pedir o fim do bloqueio econômico, comercial e financeiro, que os Estados Unidos agora intensificam contra Cuba, e o fim da aplicação extraterritorial de suas leis contra terceiros Estados.   

Paralelamente, o governo da Colômbia se absteve na votação da resolução que apoiava desde 1992 e que reclama, em momentos em que este recrudesce, o fim do bloqueio genocida dos Estados Unidos contra Cuba e o alcance extraterritorial deste. Para justificar esta censurável decisão, as autoridades daquele país utilizaram a manipulação, ingrata e politicamente motivada, sobre a altruísta, consagrada, discreta e inquestionável contribuição de Cuba à paz na Colômbia, um tema em que a conduta de nosso país é universalmente reconhecida. É conhecido o amplo e crítico debate que esse fato gerou naquela nação, à qual, apesar de todo, continuaremos acompanhando em seus esforços para alcançar a paz.

A calúnia norte-americana de atribuir a Cuba supostas responsabilidades na organização das mobilizações populares contra o neoliberalismo na América do Sul constitui uma absurda desculpa, para justificar e endurecer o bloqueio e a política hostil contra nosso povo. Do mesmo modo que é inútil proteger governos instáveis e repressivos, ocultar golpes parlamentares, judiciais, policiais, para esconder o fracasso do sistema capitalista; e agitar o fantasma do socialismo, para amedrontar os povos. Com isso, pretendem também justificar a repressão e a criminalização do protesto social.

A única responsabilidade de Cuba é aquela que emana do exemplo  dado por seu heroico povo, na defesa de sua soberania, na resistência ante as mais brutais e sistemáticas agressões, na prática invariável da solidariedade e da cooperação com as nações irmãs da América Latina e Caribe.

Dói ao imperialismo que Cuba tenha provado que, sim, há outro mundo possível, e que, sim, pode-se construir um modelo alternativo ao neoliberalismo,  baseado na solidariedade, na cooperação, na dignidade, na distribuição justa dos ganhos, no acesso igualitário à formação profissional, na segurança e proteção cidadãs e na liberação plena dos seres humanos.

A Revolução cubana é também evidência de que um povo estreitamente unido, dono de seu país e de suas instituições, em permanente e profunda democracia, pode resistir vitoriosamente e avançar em seu desenvolvimento, frente à agressão e ao bloqueio mais longos da história.

O golpe de Estado na Bolívia, orquestrado pelos Estados Unidos, utilizando como instrumento a OEA e a oligarquia local, é uma demonstração da agressividade da investida imperialista. Cuba reitera sua condenação ao golpe de Estado e à brutal repressão desatada, e expressa sua solidariedade com o companheiro Evo Morales Ayma e o povo boliviano.

Enquanto o governo dos Estados Unidos continua sua guerra não-convencional, para tentar derrubar o governo legitimamente constituído do presidente Nicolás Maduro Moros, e invoca o Tratado Interamericano de Assistência Recíproca (TIAR), Cuba ratifica a vontade inquebrantável de manter a cooperação com o governo e o povo venezuelanos.

Ao governo e povo sandinistas da Nicarágua, liderados pelo presidente Daniel Ortega, que enfrenta as tentativas de desestabilização e medidas coercitivas unilaterais estadunidenses, reiteramos nossa solidariedade.

O governo legítimo da Comunidade da Dominica e seu Primeiro Ministro Roosevelt Skerrit merecem a solidariedade internacional e já têm a do povo cubano, no momento em que essa ilha é vítima da ingerência externa, que já provocou violência e pretende frustrar o processo eleitoral.

Neste complexo cenário, o governo de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, no México, enfrenta o neoliberalismo e defende os princípios de não-intervenção e respeito à soberania, enquanto a eleição de Alberto Fernández e Cristina Fernández, como presidente e vice-presidente da Argentina, expressa a rejeição inequívoca daquela nação às fórmulas neoliberais que a empobreceram, endividaram e prejudicaram seriamente seu povo. A libertação de Lula é um triunfo dos povos, e Cuba reitera seu chamado à mobilização mundial, para exigir sua liberdade plena, a restituição de sua inocência e de seus direitos políticos.

A corrupção que caracteriza o comportamento do atual governo dos Estados Unidos já é inocultável. Seu impacto sobre os povos da América Latina e Caribe tem um custo em vidas, sofrimento, instabilidade e prejuízos econômicos.

Na dramática conjuntura atravessada pela região e pelo mundo, Cuba reafirma os princípios de soberania, não-intervenção nos assuntos internos de outros Estados, pelo direito de cada povo escolher e construir livremente seu sistema político, em um ambiente de paz, estabilidade e justiça, sem ameaças, agressões, nem medidas coercitivas unilaterais, e conclama a que se cumpram os postulados da Proclamação da América Latina e Caribe como Zona de Paz.

Cuba continuará trabalhando no rumo da integração de Nossa América, o que inclui a realização de todos os esforços para que a Comunidade de Estados Latino-americanos e Caribenhos (CELAC), logo presidida pelo México, continue promovendo os interesses comuns de nossas nações, mediante o fortalecimento da unidade dentro da diversidade.

À implacável investida das forças mais reacionárias do hemisfério, Cuba opõe a inquebrantável resistência de seu povo, junto com a vontade de defender a unidade da nação, suas conquistas sociais, sua soberania e independência, e o socialismo ao preço que for necessário. Nós o fazemos com o otimismo e a confiança inabalável na vitória que nos legou o Comandante-em-chefe da Revolução Cubana, Fidel Castro Ruz, com a direção do Primeiro Secretário de nosso Partido, General de Exército Raúl Castro, e a liderança do Presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Havana, 3 de dezembro de 2019

Fuente: MINREX

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines firmly supports the powerful defense of the Republic of Cuba of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela led by President Nicolas Maduro, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, President Evo Morales and the Bolivian people, the Sandinista government and people of Nicaragua, and other progressive and anti-imperialist forces in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Cuba likewise vigorously condemns the US for its permanent interference in Latin America and the Caribbean which Cuba identifies as the main reason for the instability in the region.

It declares with no hesitation that “the corruption that characterizes the behavior of the current US administration can be hidden no more. Its impact on the peoples of Latin America and the Carabbean has taken a toll on human lives and has caused hardships, instability and economic damages.”

Cuba declares with conviction: “The Cuban Revolution has also been a proof that a people that is closely united, that has become the owner of their country and institutions, living in a permanent and profound democracy, can successfully resist and develop in the face of the longest-lasting aggression and blockade in history.”

Cuba assures that it “will continue to work towards the integration of Our America, which includes all efforts so that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which will be very soon presided over by Mexico would continue to promote the common interests of our nations by strengthening unity amidst diversity.”

We salute the Republic of Cuba and the heroic Cuban people for asserting “with unswerving optimism and confidence” in their  glorious victory that “they inherit from the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, under the leadership of the First Secretary of the Party, Army General Raul Castro and the guidance of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.”

We recognize the valiant struggle of President Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan people, President Evo Morales and the Bolivian people, and President Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas.

We, the revolutionary Filipino people, are engaged in a life-and-death struggle against US imperialism and its puppets, the big compradors and landlords. Ever since the US launched its war of aggression in 1898 to colonize the Philippines, as it did to Cuba and Puerto Rico, we have never stopped fighting against US imperialism. From 1898 to 1914, during the US war of aggression, the imperialist aggressors caused the death of 1.5 million Filipinos.

As we persevere in our struggle for freedom and liberation against US imperialism, we are united with the just struggles of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Down with US imperialism and its puppets!

Victory to the liberation struggles of Latin America, the Cariabbean, the Philippines and elsewhere!

Long live international solidarity!

Luis Jalandoni
Member, National Executive Committee
Chief International Representative

Source: NDFP

Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST

2011 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

End of the Year –
December Peoples Power Assembly / ICE Out of Baltimore Organizing Meeting
Celebrate each other — Silent Auction

Thursday, December 19, 7 pm to 8:30 pm — doors open at 6:30 pm
2011 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

We are making this a get together not only to report on important campaigns but to celebrate each other – to share some refreshments, food and deserts — and to hold a silent art auction of “Trump is a rat signs and much more”* to help with the rent at the Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center. *you might have a relative or friend who would like a gift of a historic piece of people’s art”.

Whatever your traditions are please join us for this pre-holiday get together as we look forward to a new year of struggle.

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The banner “Avenge Fred Hampton” was made by members of Youth Against War and Fascism to protest the Dec. 4, 1969, murders of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by a Chicago police death squad working with the FBI’s Cointelpro assassination program. 

Hundreds of flags and banners with this logo were carried outside New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where President Richard Nixon was speaking a few nights after the murder. Thousands of protesters broke through barricades and battled police through the night. The banner was reproduced by YAWF chapters across the U.S. 

Veterans of YAWF are among the founders of Struggle-La Lucha newspaper and the Socialist Unity Party / Partido de Socialismo Unido.

Dear reader,

We are proud to announce that December 9, 2019, marks the one year anniversary of our publication Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo!

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This has been an incredibly important year for exposing the imperialist lie machine on almost every front, from Venezuela — where U.S. imperialism demonized President Nicolás Maduro to justify an unsuccessful coup attempt — to the continuing Hong Kong demonstrations — where empire has obscured the real issues under the false cry of “democracy” — or the continuing U.S.blockade of Cuba.

Our publication immediately condemned the coup in Bolivia and issued a statement in defense of the rightful president, Evo Morales. We did more than just write about Bolivia. Our writers helped to organize protests overnight from New York City to Los Angeles to Baltimore and Washington, and in other cities.

In addition to our continuous coverage of anti-imperialist struggles from Syria to Zimbabwe, from the Philippines to Ukraine and Palestine, Struggle ★ La Lucha held several national webinars, including “Sanctions are War” and “The Puerto Rican Liberation Movement.”

We took to the streets during the global climate strike, distributing our publication with front page coverage of the Amazon fires and carrying a huge banner that read, “The Pentagon, world’s biggest polluter — Shut it down!”

We have covered the attacks on immigrants and the movement to defend them; we have analyzed the rising racist, rightwing violence and its connection to capitalism in the United States, discussed the capitalist economic crisis and covered the workers’ fightback. This included publishing a series of articles from an Amazon worker. 

The fight for all political prisoners, from Mumia Abu-Jamal to Leonard Peltier, has received continuous coverage in both our printed editions and on the web. We have published a series of articles entitled “Black August — 1619 to 2019” by writers Gloria Verdieu and M. Matsemela Ali Odom, soon to be published as a book. 

Our writers attended and covered the “National Day of Mourning” in Plymouth, Mass., in depth.

Struggle for Socialism ★ La Lucha por el Socialismo representatives attended and reported back from the anti-imperialist conference in Havana, Cuba, and from the Women’s Conference in Namibia called by the Women’s International Democratic Federation/Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres.

In just one year, we are proud to announce not only our participation at the major marches commemorating the Stonewall Rebellion for LGBTQ2S pride but also the publishing of a new book by Bob McCubbin, “The Social Evolution of Humanity; Marx and Engels Were Right.” 

These are some (not all) of our accomplishments in just one year! 

We believe that there is a tremendous need for our publication Struggle ★ La Lucha! It is crucial that we not only survive but expand. This means being able to come out with a printed version more frequently; the ability to have a greater internet presence and to be able to send our activist writers into the field to give first hand reports.

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