A team of Militant correspondents - Mary-Alice Waters and Luis Madrid from New York and Ernie Mailhot from Miami
- has travelled to Cuba, where they will 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.
In next week's issue, Militant correspondents Aaron Ruby and Marnie Kennedy will file eyewitness reports from Manila, the Philippines, where they are covering the speaking tour of Alejandro Herrera, a leader of Cuba's Union of Young Communists.
Our coverage from South America continues in the current issue. Correspondents Martín Koppel and Argiris Malapanis have just returned from Brazil and Argentina, where they prepared firsthand coverage of the Sao Paulo Forum, the Brazilian oil workers strike, and student and workers demonstrations in Argentina. Their coverage this week outlines the opening of the working-class fightback in Argentina.
This week's issue also features an eyewitness report from Haiti by Ernie Mailhot, who spent several days there in May.
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-and around the globe. The cost of these trips will exceed $16,000, 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