BY NAOMI CRAINE
This week the Militant welcomes Joshua Carroll as a new
staff writer. Carroll, 25, is a former airport worker and a
leader of the Young Socialists.
Over the last two years Carroll has written for the Militant on actions in defense of the Cuban revolution, the work of the YS, and other topics. He moved from Washington, D.C., to Chicago four months ago to take on more national responsibilities in the YS leadership. He will contribute to the paper from Chicago, helping to edit the column "Young Socialists Around the World," among other assignments. Carroll is currently on a West Coast YS speaking tour, building the regional socialist conference that will take place in Seattle January 24 - 25 (see article and ad on page 7).
At the same time, Francisco Picado has joined the staff of the Militant's Spanish-language sister publication, Perspectiva Mundial. Picado, 36, who also served on the Perspectiva Mundial editorial staff from 1986 to '89, has written for the socialist press on a wide range of issues over the years. Most recently he has covered political developments in Nicaragua, Washington's attacks on north Korea, and actions in defense of immigrant rights.
In 1993 Picado took part in a reporting team to Cuba for the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial. At the time, he was living in Miami, where he was a member of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (now the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees ), and wrote about political developments there. For the last couple of years, he has worked in the printshop that produces Pathfinder books.