[T.O.] We Are Relaunching a Print Edition; Letter to Our Readers

[ALSO: Appeal for an International Emergency Meeting Against the Global Imperialist War (March 2005) – See below.]

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Dear supporters of The Organizer newspaper, Dear friends, 

We are writing to inform you that the national convention of Socialist Organizer, which took place on December 7-8, decided to re-publish a printed monthly edition of our newspaper The Organizer.

It will be a newspaper that our supporters can distribute among workers and unionists on the picket lines during the strike wave that started one year ago and among young people who are looking for ways to fight back against capitalism, war, and exploitation.

Many of you will want additional copies to distribute as well as having your own subscription. Price should not be an impediment to having a print subscription. The donation for 10 copies/year is $20 even though this doesn’t cover the costs of publication and mailing. Please consider a $50 contribution or more if that is possible for you. Also, let us know if you would like to receive a bundle of newspapers. For those of you, who prefer receiving a digital version only (such as our international comrades and friends), the donation is $10. Please consider making an additional donation as well. 

The links for subscribing are: https://socialistorganizer.org/subscribe-today-to-the-organizer/.  ( The QR code to link is at the end of this letter.)

This is a critical moment for us. More than ever the activists fighting to advance the program of the Fourth International In the United States —  that is, activists fighting for a clean break by the Labor movement from the Democratic Party, for a Labor Party, and for a Black independent working-class party linked to the struggle for a Labor Party — need a newspaper to help orient the fightback in this new and perilous situation. 

This is a situation characterized at the international level by the consequences of the crisis of the capitalist system based on the private ownership of the means of production.

It’s a situation of de-facto global imperialist war– from the genocide in Gaza to the bloodbath in Ukraine, from the plundering wars in Africa to the preparations by U.S for a war against China.

It’s a situation marked by the reactivation of the class struggle – from the general strike in Korea to the wave of workers’ strikes in Europe against the war on workers in every country of the world.

The Organizer newspaper will include a monthly report on the upcoming International Emergency Meeting Against the Global Imperialist War, which will take place In Europe at the end of March. [You will find attached the appeal to this emergency meeting with the initial list of signatories.]

In the coming days, Trump will be back in the White House. All social, labor, and democratic rights are under threat. The only answer is working-class independence and a united front of workers and their organizations. The Organizer newspaper aspires to be a tool for all those who want to build workers’ unity against the bosses, their parties, and the Trump-Musk administration.

Trump’s election, as we wrote previously, was first of all the result of the politics of the leadership of the labor movement in our country — a politics of subordination of the top officials of our trade unions to the Democratic Party, one of the two parties of the capitalist class. The subordination by the labor movement was supported openly by leading figures in the DSA leadership, as we witnessed when they supported AOC’s and Cori Bush’s shameful vote for Biden’s $61 billion war credits to fuel the war in Ukraine in April 2024. 

This is not a moment to hesitate … subscribe now and introduce The Organizer to your comrades and friends, too. The links for subscribing are: https://socialistorganizer.org/subscribe-today-to-the-organizer/ 

The Organizer newspaper will be part of all efforts to help the labor movement break with the Democrats. It will report on all initiatives toward a Labor Party that runs its own candidates in local and national elections, expressing the needs and aspirations of working people. 

It will constantly report on the struggle for independent political action by the oppressed Black people of the United States and their right to self-determination. In particular, we will report on the point of view and activities of our comrades from the Ujima People’s Progress Party in Maryland. 

Against Trump’s drive to mass deportations of our immigrant sisters and brothers, against the Wall of Shame at the border and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s cooperation with these plans, The Organizer newspaper will report on the binational activities with our Mexican comrades. who counterpose workers’ internationalism to the racist and chauvinistic politics of the capitalist parties.

We are fully convinced that the U.S working class, as the working class at the international level, retains the full capacity to change this world and liberate us from the chains of exploitation and all forms of oppression.

The working class retains the capacity to seize political power and impose the socialization of the means of production that can guarantee a future for new generations of humanity and the environment. 

But the very condition to help millions of people to open the way a socialist society is to build a vanguard revolutionary workers’ party. And this is the aim of republishing monthly our newspaper, The Organizer. 

For all these reasons, we call upon you, our supporters, to help us in this tremendous task.

If you agree, please subscribe today to The Organizer. Most of you, in this period of COVID and its aftermath, have allowed your subs to expire. We now need you to come forward and support our new printed edition. The Organizer cannot exist without your support because it is based on financial Independence, the very condition of its political independence.

If you want to receive additional copies to distribute to your friends and co-workers, please contact us.

The first printed issue of this new series will be dated January 2025. If you subscribe today, you will receive it before January 10, 2025. 

The coming months will be extremely difficult for billions of workers around the world and for millions in our country, but they willl also be months full of opportunities for those involved in the class struggle to defeat imperialism.

 We need you. We need your support. You need The Organizer newspaper. 

In solidarity, 

The delegates at the national convention of Socialist Organizer, Oakland (CA), December 8, 2024.

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For an International Emergency Meeting Against the Global Imperialist War (March 2025)

Hundreds of thousands of corpses cover the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia, Gaza and Lebanon, Sudan and the DRC. Millions of men and women will be mutilated for the rest of their lives. Entire civilisations inherited from previous generations are being wiped out by the most savage of barbarities.

Whoever is immediately responsible for unleashing this war or that, one thing is certain: the war that is causing this chaos is the product of imperialism. It stems from the desire of the capitalist classes to live off the exploitation of human labour and the planet’s natural resources

The major capitalist groups that dominate the planet openly claim this, as the CEO of the most powerful investment bank in the United States, JP Morgan, has declared: “World War III has already begun. Individual conflicts are already being coordinated from country to country” (Fortune, 29 October).

Yes, it is a war being waged by the major capitalist powers. One and the same imperialist war, from the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia to the genocide in Gaza and the criminal invasion of Lebanon, from the endless war in Sudan and the DRC to the US preparations for war against China. A war that serves as a pretext for a historically unprecedented increase in military spending, in the sole interests of the weapons industry, for which all capitalist governments are plundering public service budgets.

It’s a “war on abroad” that accelerates the “war at home” waged by capitalist governments against the workers and the workers’ and democratic gains won by previous generations. 

One social force is capable of stopping the march towards total war: the international working class. It is the class that produces all the wealth, and that can sweep all the oppressed strata of society along with it to put a permanent end to war and to its root cause: capitalist exploitation.

That’s why we say

•  Anyone who sincerely wants to fight for peace and fraternity between peoples must fight for the independence of the labour movement from all the warmongering governments, from Biden and Trump, from Netanyahu, Putin, Zelensky, Macron, Scholz, Starmer, Sanchez or Albanese, and all the governments that subordinate themselves to them.

•  Anyone who sincerely wants to fight for peace and fraternity between peoples must reject the manoeuvres of those who condemn the war in Gaza but support NATO’s war in Ukraine or America’s preparations for war against China, which have no other motivation than the desire of capitalists to reappropriate the Chinese market.

•. Anyone who sincerely wants to fight for peace and fraternity between peoples must speak out in favour of the right of the Palestinian people to freely decide their own fate, against all the decisions taken against them over the last 76 years. 

•. Anyone who sincerely wants to fight for peace and fraternity between peoples must demand the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Russia, the withdrawal of NATO troops from Europe, the withdrawal of foreign troops (particularly French) from Africa, and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. 

• Anyone who sincerely wants to fight for peace and fraternity between peoples must, in every imperialist country, affirm that the workers’ main enemy is their own government, and must therefore help the workers’ class struggle to oust “their” warmongering government.

• Anyone who sincerely wants to fight for peace and fraternity between peoples must organise the mass mobilisation of workers and young people for “not one penny, not one weapon, not one soldier for their dirty war” and for the billions spent on the war to be confiscated and allocated to the needs of the people.

 Anyone who sincerely wants to fight for peace and fraternity between peoples must condemn the voting of war appropriations by MPs who speak in the name of the workers (the DSA congressmen and women in the US, most of the “left” MPs in the European Parliament and the “Communist” Party MPs in the Russian Duma).

 
Across and beyond the battlefields, the mass graves and the borders, the workers, the soldiers sent to the
slaughter, the youth, the peasants, the oppressed peoples must oppose the imperialist war with the flag of the fight for a Workers’ International: “Proletarians of all countries, unite!”

Beyond our different points of view and our respective political and trade union origins, we activists, organisations, parties and currents of the labour movement have decided to unite our forces in an emergency international meeting against the global imperialist war, which will take place in March 2025 in Paris.

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ENDORSEMENT COUPON

[.  ].  Our organisation endorses this appeal and wishes to be associated with the preparation of this international meeting:

[.  ].  I sign this appeal (name, occupation, country) and wish to be associated with the preparation of this
international meeting:

NAME

TITLE

ORGANISATION

EMAIL

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[Fill out and return to: alanbenjamin2013@gmail.com]

INITIAL LIST OF ENDORSERS

First list of endorsers

Afghanistan

Afghanistan Socialist Association;

Left Radical of Afghanistan (LRA).

Algeria

Aïcha F.; Amel B. and Abdelkader Bentaleb, on behalf of

Comité d’organisation des socialistes internationalistes

(COSI);

Mouloud H., Nourredine H. and Amar T. on behalf of

Cercles des jeunes pour le socialisme (CJS);

Mohamed Bouguerra, trade union activist;

Nadine Kahina, labour activist.

Australia

Workers International Discussion;

Juan González, Organizer, Workers International

Discussion (Melbourne).

Austria

Matthias B. Lauer, ACUS.

Azania/South Africa

Mandlenkosi Phangwa, Azanian Section Coordinator;

Tatum Phangwa, Azanian Section Woman’s Secretariat;

Siyasanga Mancotywa, Azanian Section Youth

Secretariat;

Ashraf Jooma, Azanian Section Secretary General, Azania

Collen Mafa – President ILAWU – Independent Liberated

Allied Workers Union;

Miles Nomiya -Organiser WozaWork Community of the

Unemployed workers;

Nicole Trom President – Umntu Ngumntu Ngabantu

Foundation;

Fatima Mohloase – Chairperson – Black Women Caucus;

Busisiwe Seabe – Student and Feminist Activist;

Luboni Mbozomane – Member of the Azanian Section of

the Fourth International;

Ismael Parkies – Member of the Azanian Section of the

Fourth International;

Bongani Vilakazi – Community Corporatives Initiative of

South Africa;

Lebogang Phanyeko – In personal capacity ;

Bofelo Mputlane – Poet, Writer, Activist and Artist;

Mpho Booysens – Unemployed People’s Forum South

Africa;

Mpho Mokoena – Member of the Azanian Section of the

Fourth International;

Justice Coshi – Supporter of the Azanian Section of the

Fourth International;

Benjamin Chisare – Southern Johannesburg Crisis

Committee;

Simon Mgwebelunde – Malawian Migrant Activist in

South Africa;

Mzwandile Lomo – Labour Activist and a NUMSA

shopstewart.

Bangladesh

Democratic Revolutionary Party;

Amlan Dewanjee journalist;

Badruddoja Chowdhury, secretary IVth International

section;

Zainal Abedin, Farmer association Patia Chittagong;

Morshed Alam, Democratic workers party;

Abbasuddin, General secretary Democratic garments

federation;

Salma Akhtar Shilpi General secretary Bangladesh Jatio

shramik federation (BJSF);

Harun’s Rosid, Bangladesh Rail Workers;

Sheikh Rabiul Islam, general secretary organization

OCRFI section;

Abdur Rashid, BJSF;

Sabuj das, Youth federation;

Abul Kashem Dulal, Bangladesh National Workers

federation, Comilla;

Alak Kumar Da, Hindu Budhist Christian Unity Parishad.

Belgium

Anne Vanesse, Pierre Van Dooren, on behalf of Cercle ‘

Les Amies et les Amis de Rosa Luxemburg ’ (Friends of

Rosa Luxemburg) ;

Internationalist Socialist Organisation.

Benin

Liaison Committee of Benin Trotskyists.

Botswana

Lilo Tamocha, Youth Activist.

Burundi

Hatungimana Richard: President of the Workers and

Democracy Party (PTD-Twungurunani) ;

Ndayatuke Désiré: President of the Circle of reflexion on

coffee growing in Burundi (CERCABU);

Sinzinkayo Jérôme: Secretary General of the PTD and

editorial member of Workers and democracy open

forum;

Haziyo Frère: Teacher at the University of Burundi and

member of the PTD Steering Committee;

Nisubire Nestor: Trade unionist in the education sector

(CONAPES);

Nininahazwe Alice: Professional accountant and PTD

activist;

Kayuku Liliane: Bank officer;

Nzoyihera Thierry: Hotel waiter;

Ntihwanya Clément Robert: Computer scientist in a

private company.

Canada

Pamela Mubeza, member of the Committee against War

and Exploitation and women’s rights activist;

Steven Joe Ntacyibuze, member of the Committee

against War and Exploitation;

Félix Bwitonzi, member of the Committee against War

and Exploitation;

Roya Roya, member of the Committee against War and

Exploitation;

Paul Nkunzimana, retired university professor;

Xjeneb, member of the Committee Against War and

Exploitation;

Maher Kamal, member of the Committee against War

and Exploitation;

B. Ross Ashley, member of the Trotskyist Liaison

Committee of Canada;

China

Labor action in China;

Apo Leong.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Kaneke Kanyanduru Rodrigue, coordinator of the

Committee for the Independent Democratic Party of

Workers and Peasants (PDITP) in Tanganyika province;

Kalemie. Shabilepa Musimbi Gaius, coordinator of the

Committee for the PDITP in South Kivu province, Bukavu;

Kibally Yunga Marcel, coordinator of the PDITP

committee in Haut-Katanga province, Lubumbashi;

Muhindo M. Sambo Frédéric, coordinator of the PDITP

committee in North Kivu province, Goma.

Egypt

Essam Chaaban; journalist, writer;

Haby Al Masri; journalist.

France

Workers’ Party (PT)

Germany

Daniel Cuadrado González, trade unionist IG BAU

(building);

Thomas Dietzel;

Thomas Elstner, trade unionist ver.di (public services);

Andreas Gangl, ver.di shop steward;

Karin Gerlich, retired ver.di trade union secretary and

international peace activist;

Gudrun Hintermeier, IG Metall trade unionist, member

of Die Linke;

Peter Hintermeier, DGB local union president, IG Metall

trade unionist;

Joe Körner, secondary school pupil;

Peter Kreutler, ver.di trade union representative;

Norbert Müller, member of the ver.di retirees’

committee for the Frankfurt region;

Claudius Naumann, ver.di shop steward, ISG

(Internationalist Socialist Group) activist; German section

of OCRFI;

Ernst Neweling, ver.di trade unionist;

Sean Nowak, ver.di trade unionist;

Ruben Schenzle, ver.di trade unionist;

Klaus Schüller, EVG trade unionist (railways), member of

the International Workers’ Committee against War and

Exploitation, ISG activist;

H.-W. Schuster, ver.di-Mitglied trade unionist, ISG

activist;

Dietmar Schwalm, ver.di and DGB trade unionist,

member of Die Linke in the Hochsauerland district;

Jürgen Senge, ver.di Board member for the Düssel-Rhine-

Wupper region in North Rhine-Westphalia;

The ISG Group.

Great Britain

Jane Doolann, UNISON NEC (Pers. Cap);

Audrey White, Liverpool;

Mike Calvert , Deputy Branch Secretary Islington

UNISON;

Nick Phillips, Unite Community (Pers. Cap);

Henry Mott, Unite Community (Pers. Cap);

Charlie Charalambous.

Greece

Andreas Guhl;

Sotiria Lioni.

Haiti

Berthony Dupont, editor, Haïti Liberté

Hungary

Supporters of the IVth International in Hungary;

Somi Judit, workers’ activist.

Iceland

Marzúk Ingi Lamsiah Svanlaugar, member of the Socialist

Party of Iceland (Sósíalistaflokkur Íslands);

Karl Héðinn Kristjánsson, member of the Socialist Party

of Iceland (Sósíalistaflokkur Íslands).

India

Vadudevan Nambiath, Trade Unionist , Mumbai ;

Subhas Naik Jorge, Trade Unionist;

Denzil Cheruvathoor, Trade Unionist, Mumbai;

Franklin de Souza, Trade Unionist, Mumbai;

Gausuddin Shaikh, Trade Unionist, Mumbai.

Iran

Kaveh Nematipour.

South Korea

Sang Su Ha, chief of the Non-document workers center

Sung He Jung – executive commissioner

Young Be Sine -executive commissioner

Jung Sikhwa, executive commissioner

Mikyung Cha (Seraphina)Independent Researcher.

Founder, Friends of Asia Co-publisher, Asia Dignity

Freedom and Democracy

Mexico

Israel Cervantes, Generando Movimiento (General

Motors de México workers);

Fernando Serrano Monroy, General Secretary of the

Independent Union of Academic and Administrative

Workers of the Colegio de Bachilleres of Chiapas

(SITAACOBACH);

Juan Carlos Vargas Reyes, National Executive Committee

of the New Workers’ Union;

Muriel Ernesto Gómez Alvarado Central Struggle Council

Section 40 National Coordination of Education Workers

(CNTE);

Fernando Márquez Duarte UAW 2865;

Liliana Plumeda National Union of Education Workers

(SNTE) Section 2;

Raymundo Blas, construction worker, LCI – CORCI activist;

Marco Rojo, National Union of Application Workers;

Catalina Miranda, SNTE section 37;

Irma Moran, Lower California Resists collective;

Laura Alejandra Rivera Arvizu, teacher;

Luis Carlos Haro Montoya, historian;

Rosemberg Pérez García SNTE section 40;

Daniel Gómez Meza SNTE section 40 CNTE;

Jorge Manuel Arcia Nájera, retired, Section 7 SNTE –

CNTE;

Russell Aguilar, retired from Section 7 SNTE – CNTE;

Marian Nuñez Lugo, UABC student;

Hiram Vidal, student and worker;

Carlos Uriel Salmerón, psychology student;

David Martínez, historian;

Christian Santana González, UABC student;

Manuel Ángeles, sports journalist;

Jesús Casillas Arredondo, teacher;

Raúl Ramos Sánchez, UABC student;

Gilberto Montes Vázquez LCI;

Roger Cerda Pensioner Section 7 SNTE;

Lic. Ana Lilia Escalante, LCI;

Fredy Rodríguez Blue Motorcycle Taxi Cooperative;

Colectivo Generando Movimiento, General Motors

workers in Mexico;

Mexicali Committee for solidarity with the cause of the

Palestinian people.

Morocco

Mohamed Bentouhami; Lawyer (Al hoceima);

Moufid Zekkaghi; Lawyer (Tangiers);

Mohamed El mansouri; Lawyer (Rabat);

Mohamed Dalouh; Lawyer (Al hoceima);

Karam Lamqaddam; Lawyer (Al hoceima);

Abdessamad El jaziri; Lawyer (Al hoceima);

Azzeddine El mommouhi; Lawyer (Nador);

Mouad Bentouhami, trainee lawyer (Al hoceima);

Ahmed Lemkenfi; Journalist;

Ahmed rabeh; Teacher – Nador.

Mohamed Jedraoui; Worker – Al Hoceima;

Mohamed Benhaddou; Education trade unionist –

Errachidiya;

Thami Laamoum; Education Trade Unionist – Tétouan;

Mohamed saddik abakhkhar; Left-wing activist –

Meknes;

Btissam Chakir; Doctoral researcher – Meknes;

Mourad El ajbari; Teacher (Toulouse – France);

Mohamed Dahak; Retired education trade unionist –

Oujda;

Ad BC; UMT trade unionist – Casablanca;

Mohamed Attabi; National leader of the transport union

(UMT);

Mohamed el Ghoulbzouri; Secretary of the local office of

the national higher education union – UMT;

Khalid Salhi; Deputy National Secretary of the National

Union of Higher Education – UMT;

Habil Bouras; unemployed; Al Hoceima;

Mohamed El ajbari; trade unionist (Al Hoceima);

Y. Lamine; Editor of the ‘Labour and information

newsletter;

Omar AB; Associate Professor – Agadir;

Azizi Jbari; Health and Safety employee, UMT trade

unionist – Tétoua;

Sanaa Ahayek; Doctoral student in law – Tétouan.

Moldova

Leonid Chornykh, on behalf of the Marxist organisation

‘The Red Corner

Palestine

Naji El Khatib “One Democratic State Initiative” (ODSI)-

Palestine.

Pakistan

Anwer Gujjar, President APTUF;

Nasir Gulzar, Secretary Information APTUF;

Rubina Jamil, General secretary APTUF;

Zarqa Sohail, Chairperson, Punjab Employees Social

Security, Staff Nursing Union;

Fahad Munir, Militant youth organization;

Saniya Bibi, Punjab women Rickshaw union;

M.Ilyas, Joint secretary APTUF;

Amna Ali, Punjab Teacher association;

Main Khalid, president, Railway workers Union;

Muhammad Tahseen,Joint Action Committee for

People’s Right;

Director Faiz (poet)Foundation Peace activist Indopak

forum;

Sajid Kazmi, Senior Editor;

Adeeba Akram, Teaching;

Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan;

Syeda Ghulam Fatima Gilani, General Secretary, Bonded

Labour Liberation Front;

Rashed Rahman, Editor;

Farzana Bari;

Yasir Gulzar, Secretary International Relations All

Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF);

Muhammad Imran Representative (Qadri Engineering

Employees Union;

Zulifqar Ali (Kasur) General Secretary (Power looms

workers Union. District Kasur);

Rahmat Ullah Secretary Youth All Pakistan Trade Union

Federation;

Bilal Ahmad Sial President (Shezan International

Workers Union) Treasurer (Pakistan Workers

Federation);

Aliya Jabeen (Gujranwala) Chairperson (Nursing

Association PESSI) District Gujranwala

Shahid Iqbal Daskavi Journalist;

Ameen Shah Al Hammd printers workers Union All

Pakistan Trade Union Federation – Punjab;

Mian Zahid Senior Vice President Sanati Mazdoor

Welfare Society, Labour Colony, Defence Road;

Muhammad Khalid Member (Sazgar Engineering

Workers Union);

Mirza Riffat ul Beg, General Secretary PEL Workers

Union;

Mohsin Ilyas General Secretary (Packages Workers

Union)Founding Member;

Sanati Mazdoor Etihad (United Industrial Workers-

Pakistan);

Faiqa Shahbaz General Secretary Women Workers

Union;

Aima Gulzar General SecretaryAll Pakistan Trade Union

Federation-Punjab;

Sajid Shah Executive Member Railways Workers Union –

Workshop;s

Mahpara Alam Teachers Association Punjab;

Kamran Sagheer President Nisar Art Press Workers

Union;

Amir Saeed Rawn: Adovcate Supreme Court Pakistan, Ex-

General Secretary High Court Bar Council;

Nasir Mahmood Secretary Information (All Pakistan

Trade Union Federation-Punjab;)

Shahzad Masshi President Mazdoor Union Municipal

Committee (Kot Radha Kishan);

Muhammad Shabaz Bhatti Muller and Phipps Workers

Union;

Shafiq Khan President (PC Hotel Employees Union);

Ameer Abdullah Nayazi President (J & P courts workers

and staff union).

Philippines

Partido Manggagawa (Workers Party PM).

Portugal

Platform for a workers party;

Raquel Varela, professor, historian;

Mário Tomé, retired army colonel, ‘April Captain’, former

UDP MP, former UDP General; Secretary, member of the

Ecosocialist Network;

Pedro Viegas, engineering professor.

Romania

Constantin Cretan, President of the National Federation

of Labour (FNM);

Luliu Iulian Pauna, Executive President of the National

Labour Union of Oltenia;

Gheorge Militaru, Executive President of the Jiu Valley

National Labour Union;

Tiberiu Grigoriu, Executive President, Workers’ League of

Marioara Cretan, President, FNM Women’s Organisation.

Russia

Alexandre Voronkov, Union of left-wing activists in the

post-Soviet space.

Spanish State

Juan Martin Moreno; Soelí Lemes de Souza, Brazilian

citizen; Rakel Saiz Querendez, CNT activist, Basque

Country; Jacinto Duran Largo, ESK trade unionist; Andeka

de Miguel Zabala, chairman of the works council of a

private secondary school; Miguel García Murillo; Juan

Manuel Lodosa, anti-imperialist activist, Bizkaia; Reme

Martín Rodríguez, LAB, MPB, CORCI ;Trotskyist Liaison

Committee of the Spanish State (CETEE).

Sri Lanka

Saman Mudunkotuwage;

Saman Panapura;

Nandasiri Thenuwara.

Switzerland

OCRFI activists in Switzerland (Tribune Ouvrière-Büezer

Tribüne).

Syria

Haji Mustapha Bassam, President of the Political Bureau

of the Union of Syrian Coordination Around the World

(USCAW);

Faraj Barakhdar, poet (in exile).

Togo

Messan Lawson, National Secretary of the Democratic

Workers’ Party/L’Émancipation.

Tunisia

Alaa Talbi, History researcher;

Lotfi Guesmi, workers’ activist.

Turkey

Munzur Pekgüleç, ex-president of Deri-İş (leather

workers union affiliated with Türk-İş confederation);

Metin Ebetürk, previous president of Sosyal-İş (office

workers union affiliated with DİSK confederation);

Mehmet Özgen, political refugee from Turkey in New

Jersey, USA who stayed in prison for 15 years following

the military coup in 1980;

Hülya Havadır, İKEP, Ankara;

Kadrican Mendi, İKEP, Adapazarı;

Sevim Şimşek, President of Workers Own Party (İKEP).

Ukraine

Victor Sidorchenko, Union of left-wing activists in the

post-Soviet space;

Andreï Moryak, Internationalist activist.

United States

(Titles and organizations listed for id. only)

Mark Burrows, Former Co-chair and current publications

editor of Railroad Workers United (RWU), Chicago, Ill;

Nancy Wohlforth, Past president emerita (ret.), Office

and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU),

Venice, Calif;

Ron Dicks, past regional director (ret.), IFPTE

(professional and technical engineers), San Francisco,

Calif;

Nnamdi Lumumba, Co-chair, Ujima People’s Progress

Party, Baltimore, MD;

Desiree Rojas, President, Sacramento chapter, Labor

Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA),

Sacramento, Calif;

Traven Leyshon, Regional Vice President, Vermont AFL-CIO,

Calais, VT;

Mya Shone, Steering Committee, Socialist Organizer,

Vallejo, Calif;

Linda Thompson, AFSCME Retirees Council, MA Green

Rainbow Party, Boston, Mass;

Jerry Levinsky, Organizer, Western Massachusetts AFL-

CIO, Western MA;

Alan Benjamin, Edit. Bd. The Organizer Newspaper, New

York, NY;

Millie Phillips, Continuations Committee, LCIP, Oakland,

CA;

Brandon Walker, Ujima, Baltimore, MD;

David Walters, retired member, IBEW 1245, Pacfica, Calif;

Dan Kaplan, Organizer, AFT 1493, San Mateo, Calif;

Allan Fisher, Past president (ret.), AFT 2121, Santa Cruz,

Calif;

Mark Vorpahl, Chief steward, SEIU Local 49, Portland,

OR;

Connie White, Continuations Committee, LCIP, Long

Beach, Calif.;

Sabrina Peña-Young, Continuations Committee, Labor

and Community for an Independent (LCIP), Chicago, IL;

Sandy Eaton, Massachusetts Nurses United (ret.), Quincy,

MA;

Don Bryant, Cleveland Peace Action, Cleveland;

Gary Votour, Treasurer, South Carolina Workers Party,

South Carolina.

Jim Lafferty, Past president, Los Angeles, National

Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles, Califl

Donna Dewitt, Past president, South Carolina AFL-CIO,

Charleson, South Carolina

Michael Carano, Teamsters Local 348 (retired),

Tallmadge, Ohio

Zimbabwe

Mafa Kwanisai Mafa – Chimurenga Van Guard OCRFI

Zimbabwe Section (Chairman);

Arasiah Phiri – Secretary for Women Affairs , Zimbabwe

National Teachers Association , Chimurenga Vanguard;

Kudakwashe Shambare – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan

African Socialists;

Tafirenyika Shoko – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African

Socialists;

Mkondo Tungamirayi – Pan African Students Society;

Nathan Ndlovu – Pan African Students Society;

Takudzwanashe Taringa – Pan African Students Society;

Tinashe T Maenzanise – Pan African Students Society;

Albert Chimhofu – Zimbabwe Congress of Students

Union;

Tipei Loratta Dube – Zimbabwe Palestine Solidarity

Council;

Ntandoyenkosi Ayanda Ndhlovu – Zimbabwe Congress of

Students Union;

Dr. Shadreck Matindike – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan

African Socialists;

Pianos Mugomba – Zimbabwe Congress of Student

Union;

Victor Maride – ZANU PF;

Caleb Kuranga – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African

Socialists;

Fortune Madondo – Zimbabwe Youth Forum;

Tapiwanashe Chikwinho – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan

African Socialists;

Runesu Gumbo – Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union;

Memory Rudo Mupandawana – Zimbabwe Movement of

Pan African Socialists;

Isabel Shumba – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African

Socialists;

Tanaka Chipere – Pan African Students Society;

Rhoda Mafa – Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union.

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