Dear Reader,
During the next few weeks, Militant reporting teams will bring our readers on-the-spot coverage of the impact of the capitalist economic crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean and working people's response, as well as continue our eyewitness reports on developments in Cuba.
This week Argiris Malapanis, who has written extensively about developments in Cuba, and Martín Koppel, editor of Perspectiva Mundial, are covering the oil workers strike in Brazil, as well as the Sao Paulo Forum, which took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. The forum is a gathering of political parties from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean that identify with the fight for national sovereignty and against imperialist domination.
Koppel and Malapanis will spend another week in Brazil and Argentina covering political developments there, interviewing strikers, human rights activists, and others.
A team of Militant correspondents - Mary-Alice Waters and Luis Madrid from New York and Ernie Mailhot from Miami
- will spend two weeks in Cuba in June and participate in a conference of U.S. and Cuban philosophers and social scientists. They will visit Havana and Matanzas and speak with workers, farmers, and youth on the measures being taken to confront Cuba's economic crisis and defend the socialist revolution.
Another feature of Militant coverage begining next week will be first-hand reporting from Haiti. These trips make possible the kind of unmatched coverage the Militant has been able to consistently provide on Cuba and working-class struggles throughout the Americas. The cost of these trips will exceed $14,000, so your generous help is needed.
The Militant depends on the contributions from our readers to make these trips possible. Please send your contribution today!
Sincerely,
Naomi Craine
Business Manager