"....we must fight as one mighty fist for the rights of all workers and oppressed peoples, in order to be victorious against imperialism once and for all."
"....Today the socialist legacy of IWD is vital as women deal with capitalist inequality, poverty and oppression. Socialism is needed to truly emancipate women."
The following is from a talk by Berna Ellorin of Bayan USA to an Inter na tional Women’s Day forum sponsored by Workers World Party in New York on March 10.
Following are excerpts from an article written by Dominican activist Vannia Lara, who traveled to the state of Lara in Venezuela for the first U.S./ Venezuela exchange gathering on Jan. 13-22.
Something smells funny about the recent denunciation of maverick Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala for alleged human rights violations. Before the accusations, Humala was riding high as the leading candidate in Peru's presidential elections. Investigations illustrate that Humala's accusers are subsidized by the US Government funded Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Washington may be interfering in this election to protect its own interests.
....But Abu Ghraib prison, with many of its most horrifying photographs still under wraps; Guantanamo’s atrocities; “secret” renditions of U.S. prisoners to be tortured by client police states; the CIA’s boasts that the U.S. has developed “touchless torture”; which relies on sensory overload or deprivation to destroy a prisoner’s psyche; the death penalty, widely used by U.S. courts, and the fiasco of Katrina have exposed U.S. hypocrisy to all the world....