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Vol. 82/No. 21 May 28, 2018
Help fund ‘Militant’ fact-finding trip to Puerto Rico!
SETH GALINSKY
The Militant is sending editor John Studer and correspondent Martín
Koppel on a fact-finding trip to the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico May
25-28. A few weeks later Studer will speak for the Socialist Workers
Party at the June 18 annual meeting of the United Nations Special
Committee on Decolonization, explaining why the fight for revolutionary
change and independence for Puerto Rico is in the interest of working
people there, in the U.S. and around the world.
Eight months after hurricanes Irma and Maria slammed the island —
already ravaged by the capitalist economic crisis — about 100,000 are
still without electricity. Tens of thousands of homes have only a blue
tarp as a roof.
None of this matters to the U.S. rulers. The U.S.-appointed Financial
Oversight and Management Board, known as the junta in Puerto Rico, says
it will impose its own cutback budget on the island. Their goal? To
squeeze working people to pay for the $74 billion debt to wealthy
bondholders, part of U.S. imperialism’s ongoing plunder of the island.
Thousands in Puerto Rican cities and towns, large and small, have joined
protests demanding action to restore electricity, opposing the closing
of hundreds of public schools and other anti-worker actions by the junta
and the colonial government.
Studer and Koppel will meet with students at the University of Puerto
Rico in San Juan, meet with union leaders, and visit some of the areas
in the center of the island that are still without electricity and talk
with working people there who have been part of the recent protests.
Help make this trip possible! If you have not yet made a contribution to
the Militant Fighting Fund now is the time. If you have already
contributed, please consider increasing your pledge. Send contributions,
payable to the Militant, to 306 W. 37th St, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
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