Buses are being organized from nearly 30 states around the country for the January 27 march in Washington to demand “Bring the troops home now!”

In New York State alone 30 buses are being organized, from New York City to Albany and Syracuse. Twenty-two buses are coming from Pennsylvania, 21 from New Jersey, and 11 from Massachusetts.

More information on transportation can be found by contacting the Young Socialists at youngsocialists@mac.com; or YS, 306 W. 37th St., 10th floor, New York, NY 10018, Tel: (212) 629-6649; local Militant distributors (see directory); or United for Peace and Justice at www.unitedforpeace.org, Tel: (212) 868-5545.

Representatives of some of the more than 60 organizations sponsoring and building the January 27 march in Washington held a meeting here tonight at the offices of United for Peace and Justice in Manhattan. March organizers reported that the demonstration is building well across the country. In New York, a number of unions have signed on recently, including Service Employees International Union Local 1199 and the United Federation of Teachers.

Fill the buses!
 

The five men—Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero, and René González—are five Cuban revolutionaries serving draconian sentences in federal prisons across the United States after being framed-up by the FBI and convicted on charges that were not backed up by evidence. They were on an internationalist mission to defend the Cuban people by providing information on counterrevolutionary organizations that have a record of murderous attacks on Cuba carried out from U.S. soil. These Cuban-American groups operate with impunity from their safe havens in this country.

In 1998, FBI agents arrested the five men and railroaded them to prison on charges of conspiracy “to commit espionage” for the government of Cuba and conspiracy “to act as an unregistered foreign agent.” Gerardo Hernández was also charged with conspiracy “to commit murder.” The five were convicted in a federal court in Miami in 2001 and were given sentences ranging from 15 years in prison to a double life term.

The case of the Cuban Five is one of many examples of Washington’s 45-year ceaseless economic and political war against Cuba.

Cuba’s socialist revolution remains an example for the oppressed and exploited around the world. The Cuban people and their revolutionary leadership continue to defend, respond to, and promote the interests of toiling humanity worldwide. For this reason the U.S. rulers have never forgiven Cuba’s working people for overthrowing the Batista dictatorship, taking state power, and opening the door to the socialist revolution in the Americas.

The Union of Young Communists, Federation of University Students, and other Cuban youth organizations have issued a call for “youth and student organizations, associations, and all young people of the world in general to act” to build greater solidarity between January 10 and April 30 with the Cuban Five and demand their immediate release. The campaign will conclude with an International Youth Solidarity meeting set to take place in Havana April 29-30. The Young Socialists have enthusiastically endorsed this call and seek to collaborate with other youth groups as part of this stepped-up campaign to demand “Free the Cuban Five!”
 
 
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