An incredible 1-1.5 million black women gathered in Philadelphia on October 25th, in a grass-roots mobilisation that bypassed bodies like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The official themes: Repentance, Resurrection and Restoration, mirrored those of the 1995 Million Man March, which brought 0.40.8 million black men to Washington DC.
-Felipe Vasquez
The mines of Huanani, Bolivia are famous across Latin America, because of a series of dramatic and determined strikes by miners like Felipe Vasquez.
Until his health declined as a result of the hard conditions, Felipe was an active leader of the miners movement.
He played a major role in organising
10,000 miners into the "March for Life"
from Oruro to La Paz. For several years he was one of the leaders of the FSTMB miners union. Felipe was also a leading figure in the regional branch of the
Bolivian Workers Confederation (COB).
Dantd activities
Felipe was an active member of the
Fi Wore Party (POR),
That initiative was dominated by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. This Women's March had no obvious leaders, though applause was particularly strong for South African activist Winnie Mandela, and Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, who denounced the CIA for pushing crack cocaine in ghettos in the 1980s to raise money for the Nicaraguan contras. i identified with the Fourth International.
After several months residence in Cuba, he participated notably in the 1969 Congress of the Fourth International, which re-launched the movement after the great events of 1968-69. He was also at the 1991 Congress, which tried to deal with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Felipe represented the best proletarian traditions of the Bolivian Trotskyist movement - seriousness, courage in the face of repression and terrible material adversity and continuity. He was an important link with the struggles of previous generations. We will miss him. [Inp/PG] *
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17 that these people were accused of conspiring to help the new, post apartheid South African government. What is it that the US government fears could be revealed?" [CoC /JD] * Contact: The Metro DC Committee of Correspondence PO Box 11109, Washington, DC 20008-0309, USA