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Vol. 82/No. 11 March 19, 2018
(front page, editorial)
See Cuba’s revolution on May Day Brigade!
Despite the lies and slanders against Cuba and its socialist
revolution that fill the boss press in the U.S., more and more workers,
farmers and youth are becoming interested in learning what’s different
there. We know from our own lives that the capitalist system here
doesn’t work for working people.
How do you explain the selfless sacrifice, valor and heroism of those
Cuban fighters who gave their lives to overthrow the U.S.-backed
dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and bring a workers and farmers
government to power? The way Fidel Castro and the Rebel Army insisted
that moral values above all were the road forward?
The literacy campaign that inspired some 100,000 young people under age
18 to volunteer for a year in 1961 to work side by side with peasants in
the fields in all corners of the island during the day, and teach them
to read and write at night?
The 425,000 Cuban volunteers who served in Angola from 1975 to 1991 to
protect that country from invasions by the army of the apartheid regime
of South Africa backed by Washington? Cuba took nothing back in return
except the remains of their comrades who fell in combat.
The thousands of Cuban internationalist volunteer health workers,
including those who went to West Africa to combat the deadly Ebola
epidemic? And the electrical workers who volunteered to go to Puerto
Rico after Hurricane Maria to aid recovery, only to be callously
rejected by Washington?
If you’re fed up with the assaults of the bosses and their government,
their endless wars against peoples worldwide, their disregard for
working people, growing homelessness, police brutality and attacks on
the rights of women; if you’re inspired by the example of the fight of
the school workers in West Virginia — you have a unique opportunity this
May.
We encourage you to join members of the Socialist Workers Party and
others and sign up for the May Day International Brigade to Cuba April
22 to May 6.
Hundreds of brigadistas from around the world, including a sizable U.S.
contingent, will meet Cubans from all walks of life, visit workers on
the factory floor, work side by side with Cubans in the fields, and
exchange views with leaders and members of the unions, the women’s
federation and other mass organizations. You’ll join in the May Day
march in Havana, as the Cuban people demonstrate their commitment to do
whatever it takes to defend their revolution from Washington’s economic
and political attacks.
You’ll also learn about the problems and challenges the Cuban Revolution
faces firsthand. You’ll come back to the U.S. able to explain to others
why they should oppose the U.S. embargo and economic war against the
Cuban people and why the U.S. military should get out of Guantánamo.
Information on the brigade’s complete itinerary, the inexpensive cost of
$675 for everything except airfare and how to get an application is
available at ICanGoToCuba@xxxxxxxx or from the SWP branch nearest you,
listed on page 8.
Most importantly, you’ll be able to come back and use the example of the
Cuban Revolution to help build a movement right here in the United
States that can fight for our interests today and lead the working class
to take political power.
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Cuban Revolution involves all, with sight or not
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visually impaired
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