Your past coverage concerning the post-World War II rise in class consciousness is great and needs to be repeated to remind us all about our true past and what we can and need to do now.

Dave Worthington
Keizer, Oregon  
 

U.S. embargo of Cuba
I have a question concerning the economic sanctions on Cuba. Your newspaper, along with the Cuban government and most other leftists, opposes sanctions on Cuba. While the sanctions have caused hardship for the Cuban economy and people, it seems to me that the influx of foreign capital caused by a lifting of the embargo would inevitably lead to a restoration of capitalism on the island.

After all, Trotsky said that the greatest threat to the Soviet Union was not military intervention, but the "cheap goods in the baggage train." If this is true, wouldn’t lifting the sanctions cause more harm than good?

Eupen Runwick
by e-mail  
 

Profit drive
As companies grow and expand globally, taking over other companies and gaining huge profits, it’s another way of saying that regular people are losing a lot of money. Usually these people are overseas, but ever more rapidly it seems that these very people are from our very country.

Poor people are a direct result of companies with huge profits. If there was less money in the hands of large corporations there would be more money for common people--more food and more equality.

J.M.
Prince George, British Columbia


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