Vol. 71/No. 21 May 28, 2007
N.Y.: Hunter College students
discuss defense of Cuban Five
(Young Socialists in Action column)
Pathfinder titles well received
at meeting in solidarity
with Cuban Five in Havana
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Militant/Ben O’Shaughnessy
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HAVANA—Young Socialists Alex Xezonakis from the United Kingdom (left) and Filip Tedelund from Sweden (right) show books on revolutionary working-class politics to fellow delegates at an international youth conference in solidarity with the Cuban Five held here April 29-30. The two were part of an international team of Young Socialists who participated in the gathering. In total, the team sold more than 40 books and pamphlets published and distributed by Pathfinder Press. About 400 youth attended the conference.
—BEN O’SHAUGHNESSY
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This column is written and edited by members of the Young Socialists, a revolutionary socialist youth organization. For more information contact the YS at 306 W. 37th St., 10th floor, New York, NY 10018; tel.: (212) 629-6649; e-mail: youngsocialists@mac.com.
BY EMILY PAUL
NEW YORK—Several students and others participated in a May 2 meeting at Hunter College here entitled “Who Are the Cuban Five? Why Should We Demand Their Freedom?” The Student Political Science Association and Hostos Puerto Rican Club sponsored the event.
Speaking on the panel was Francisco Guzmán, president of LUCHA, a Latino student organization at New York University, Maura DeLuca of the Young Socialists, and Camilo Matos of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Youth. Freddie Montgomery of the Student Political Science Association chaired the program.
The Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González—are revolutionaries who have been framed up by Washington and are serving draconian sentences in U.S. prisons. The FBI arrested them in 1998. They were convicted in 2001 on charges of "conspiracy to commit espionage"; "conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent"; and, in the case of Hernández, "conspiracy to commit murder."
The event at Hunter College was organized as part of a stepped-up international effort to win solidarity for the Cuban Five, initiated by the Union of Young Communists and other mass youth organizations in Cuba. The campaign began January 10 and culminated with an international conference held in Havana April 29-30 (see adjacent photo box).
The Young Socialists are taking advantage of the work they did this year to continue collaborating with others to build support for the fight to release the five Cuban patriots.
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