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Spoken: September, 1962 in Socialist Cuba
Published: Cuba Socialista
Transcription/Markup: A.N./Brian Baggins
Online Version: Ernesto Che Guevara Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2002

“….In all these situations, the function of the cadre, in spite of its being on different fronts, is the same. The cadre is the major part of the ideological motor which is the United Party of the Revolution. It is something that we could call the dynamic screw of this motor; a screw that in regard to the functional part will assure its correct functioning; dynamic to the extent that the cadre is not simply an upward or downward transmitter of slogans or demands, but a creator which will aid in the development of the masses and in the information of the leaders, serving as a point of contact with them. The cadre has the important mission of seeing to it that the great spirit of the revolution is not dissipated, that it will not become dormant nor let up its rhythm. It is a sensitive position; it transmits what comes from the masses and infuses in the masses the orientation of the party.

Therefore, the development of cadres is now a task which cannot be postponed. The development of the cadres has been undertaken with great eagerness by the revolutionary government with its programs of scholarships based on selective principles; with its programs of study for workers, offering various opportunities for technological development; with the development of the special technical schools; with the development of the secondary schools and the universities, opening new careers; with the development finally of our slogans of study, work and revolutionary vigilance for our entire country, fundamentally based on the Union of Young Communists from which all types of cadres should emerge, even the leading cadres in the future of the revolution.

Intimately tied to the concept of cadre is the capacity for sacrifice, for demonstrating through personal example the truths and watchwords of the revolution. The cadres, as political leaders, should gain the respect of the workers by their actions. It is absolutely imperative that they count on the respect and affection of their companeros, whom they should guide along the vanguard paths.

Orinoco Tribune

DATE CHANGE: Tell the KUSD School Board Science is Real and Black Lives Matter!

The School Board meeting is officially rescheduled for Thursday, September 3 at 6 PM. 3600 52nd Street, Kenosha. There will be an opportunity for public comment. We will protest outside of the meeting ahead of time.

At this meeting the Superintendent will be presenting the Board with their plan to improve equity in our district but in reality district leadership continues to delay progress and withhold resources in order to affect meaningful change for our Black and Brown students and ensure they are safe in our schools. The Board will be also be voting on the trans student policy that has been 4 years in the making. The policy they are voting on is problematic because it only allows students who are 18 and students with parental consent to identify as trans. This means that many trans students will be named and called the wrong pronouns by policy. This is detrimental to students mental health and physical safety, as it creates the risk of being outed to abusive parents/guardians and others. The School Board must amend this policy to be truly inclusive of all trans students in KUSD.

Most of you are also aware that the School Board flip-flopped on their decision for an all virtual return to school. In the middle of a pandemic and without a solid plan the Board unanimously denied science and put KUSD in a terrible position. KUSD is the third largest district in the State and will be the only urban district in the State to have an in person option to the beginning of the school year. This is a dangerous and deadly decision.

To top it all off, the KUSD School Board will also be voting to finalize their new policy on Citizen Committees. The new policy reduces the number of times these committees can meet from 12 to 4 a year, it also removes committee members ability to vote on issues, and takes away the ability of the committee to discuss the budget and district strategic plan. This decision is being made for only one reason, the Board doesn’t value citizen input and would rather make decisions that are simply a rubber stamp for administration or a method of pandering to the loudest voices at a time. We need to save and strengthen our district committees to ensure citizens can continue to have a voice, this does the opposite.

Science is real, these decisions are deadly, and on all of these issues KUSD needs to change course immediately or our community may never recover.

Social distancing and masks required!!!

Build the People, NOT the Jail

1125 Williamson Street, Madison – 5 P.M.

It is time again for allies in the Movement for Black Lives to step up and do some of the disruptive labor. Please join us for a rally and march to tell the City of Madison and Dane County that we will not rest until we defund the police and Build the People, NOT the Jail!

Carcerality in Madison and Dane County is killing people and we’re paying for it through the teeth. The police take over 80 million taxpayer dollars per year that could be going to so many other community-building investments. The proposed jail will cost the county $150 million at minimum but likely much more. We call on the mayor and the city council to move immediately to have MPD absorb the entirety of the 5% city budget cut, and we call on the Dane County Board of supervisors to vote for the Doyle Resolution that halts jail construction.

A system that stockpiles Black and other marginalized people in cages by the millions is a system that doesn’t care about any of our well-being. Join us while we follow the voices of those most marginalized and uplift all of the efforts that Black leaders across the city have been making to let us know: people come before property and we must end the war on Black people.

Defund Police and Build the People, NOT the Jail!

Hosted by Allies for Black Lives – Madison

Stand with Tosans for change! This is a family-friendly, peaceful event.

Join on the NE corner of North Ave and Mayfair Rd. Bring signs, wear masks, and spread the word. 10 A.M.

4 P.M., Civic Center Park, Kenosha, WI

March with Lawyers and friends in family in support of the ideals behind Black Lives matter. You don’t have to be a lawyer or related to a lawyer to march with us… all are welcome.

Black & Brown Solidarity March

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When: September 5th, 2020 at 1 P.M.
Where: Mitchell Park, Milwaukee Wisconsin
What: Rally for Black & Brown Lives

Why and more info:
In a show of Black & Brown Strength, we will demand the decriminalization of our communities and the separation of our families by abolishing ICE and defunding the police.

We will be marching across the 16th Street Bridge, which is the historic link between Milwaukee’s mostly Latinx South Side and Milwaukee’s mostly Black North Side.

Cuando: 5 de Septiembre, 2020 at 1 P.M.
Donde: Mitchell Park, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Que: demonstracion para Comunidades de color

Porque y mas informacion:
En una demostración de la fuerza de communidade de color, exigiremos la despenalización de nuestras comunidades y la separación de nuestras familias mediante la abolición de ICE y la desfinanciación de la policía.

Marcharemos a través del puente de la calle 16, que es el vínculo histórico entre el lado sur de Milwaukee, en su mayoría una communidad Latinx, y el lado norte, en su mayoría una communidad Negra, de Milwaukee.

Hosted by CORE, Voces de la Frontera

The LatinX TalkBack is about the intersections and challenges of Blackness and Latinidad.

In this episode, we will cover the history of the past 25+ years of immigration reform in the United States. We will talk about our personal histories with immigration and migration and discuss the grassroots work that is being done for immigration reform.

Join us Thursday, September 10th at 8 PM for the Latinx TalkBack with Valeria Cerda (Civic Engagement Director, Wisconsin VOICES), Nancy Flores (Deputy Director, National Partnership for New Americans), Larissa Joanna (Voces de La Frontera) & Aissa Olivarez (Managing Attorney, Community Immigration Law Center (CILC)).


Partially sponsored by DANG! Grant by the Dane County Arts Commission.


***Although we try to represent all voices at each one of our #Latinxtalkback, we have a long way to go to break down hundreds of years of white supremacy, but as Latinos to refuse to be active in the Black Liberation movement is to deny ourselves as Latinos an alliance that is not just necessary but mandatory in the fight for our collective freedom for immigration reform and community justice.

Our promise to you is that we will continue to challenge ourselves to pass the mic and give voice to the Anti-Blackness that is ingrained in our community and often swept under the rug.

No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.

By Kim Kelly August 27, 2020

By now I’m sure you’ve heard the bad news: The United States Postal Service (USPS) is in trouble, and the current president is doing his damnedest to destroy it. Despite the agency’s overwhelming popularity and the essential nature of its labor, Republicans have been trying to kill off the post office for a very long time. They scored a body blow in 2006 with the bipartisan Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which required the USPS to fund retiree health care benefits decades in advance — something no other government agency has been compelled to do. Unsurprisingly, the agency has since been bleeding money (and jobs), and the economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t helped matters. As Mark Dimond­stein, the president of the Amer­i­can Postal Work­ers Union (APWU), told In These Times in April, if Congress doesn’t step in with emergency funding, “some time between July and Sep­tem­ber, the Post Office will like­ly run out of mon­ey. And when they run out of mon­ey, their oper­a­tions will cease.”

Now, at the end of August, things have gotten much worse. Trump has continued to block desperately needed funding, and postal workers have been sounding alarms over a slate of worrisome new changes engineered by Trump’s postmaster general appointee, Louis DeJoy, a wealthy businessman with significant financial stakes in companies that compete directly with the USPS, and the first postmaster general in nearly 30 years to have come from outside the agency. Those worrisome changes include reassigning or displacing 23 USPS executives, a cut in overtime hours, reduced post office hours, and most troublingly, the removal of hundreds of iconic blue mailboxes. With multiple congressional inquiries underway, and a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), DeJoy has grudgingly promised to halt his “reforms.” But the extent of the damage remains unclear. Mail-in voting — which has been embraced by Democrats and lambasted by Trump — remains under threat. (It’s worth noting that Trump himself requested a mail-in ballot for himself and his wife.)

The APWU represents 220,000 USPS employees and retirees, and nearly 2,000 private-sector mail workers. The group is not happy about the Trump administration’s behavior, and hasn’t been all that impressed with Congress either, which has so far failed to provide the emergency funding the agency desperately needs. “Up until now, the Trump administration has blocked the USPS from any direct financial assistance,” the union explained in a scathing August 18 press release. “The USPS is an essential public service that binds the country together and delivers vital public health information, medicine, financial transactions, and needed supplies to every American household and business and is a critical component in our election process with vote-by-mail access to the ballot box.”

Amid all of this politically manufactured chaos, postal workers have continued to do their jobs, delivering mail, medicine, and other essentials to people across the country; the work they do and the long hours they put in directly benefit some of the country’s most vulnerable communities. Postal workers are truly essential, and it’s nothing short of evil that the Trump administration is targeting them, their livelihoods, and the people who depend on them — in the middle of an economic tailspin… as a deadly pandemic rages. As the APWU says, “We do our job. Congress and the administration need to do theirs and ensure that postal workers can safely and reliably deliver for the people of the country during this year and beyond….”

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Photo: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement

Moratorium NOW! Coalition

More than 35 Groups Demand Chief Craig’s Resignation, End to Police Violence

Press conference, solidarity statement add to mounting pressure for Detroit police changes from top-down

DETROIT – Representatives from more than 35 grassroots community organizations will hold a press conference Thursday morning calling for an end to police violence against protestors and for the resignation of Chief James Craig.  The General Baker Institute, Community Movement Builders, the Black Brown Alliance of the Detroit Democratic Socialists of America, Black Youth Project 100, the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, Moratorium Now, and the East Michigan Environmental Action Council, will be among those sharing the collective statement and remarks at The Shed at Martz Park on Flanders St on the eastside of Detroit. 

Their collective statement cites Saturday, August 23 as a major escalation in the already unacceptable level of police abuse and violence against protesters. The coalition supports the recently announced lawsuit filed by Detroit Will Breathe to stop police violence. But they also note the absurdity of having to spend public money to defend people against what is ostensibly, their own police department. It is yet another reason the coalition has joined the growing calls for James Craig to no longer head the Detroit Police Department.

What: 

Press conference and release of statement demanding an end to police violence and abuse and the resignation of Police Chief James Craig

*Who:
The General Baker Institute
Community Movement Builders
Black Brown Alliance of the Detroit Democratic Socialists of America

Black Youth Project 100

Detroit Will Breathe and others will speak on behalf of a coalition of 35 Detroit groups who have signed on to the statement and demands

When: Thursday, September 3 –  11:00 a.m. 

Where: The Shed at Martz Park 11530 Flanders St, Detroit, MI 48205

* List of Coalition Members 

Black Brown Alliance branch of Metro Detroit Democratic Socialists of America

Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)

Community Movement Builders 

Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan

Detroit Eviction Defense

Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation

Detroit Justice Center 

Detroit Solidarity & Defense

Detroit Will Breathe 

East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC)

Garage Cultural

General Baker Institute America

James & Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership

Jewish Voice for Peace

Mama Akua House

Metro Detroit Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

Michigan Caucus of Rank and File Organizers (MI CORE)

Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition

Michigan Liberation 

Michigan Students Dream 

Moratorium Now Coalition

Motor City Street Dance Academy 

Movimiento Cosecha – Detroit 

One Michigan for Immigrant Rights  

One Michigan for the Global Majority

Palestinian Youth Movement 

Queer Pride Detroit

Rapid Response Detroit

Riverwise Magazine

Showing Up for Racial Justice Metro Detroit

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

Sunrise-  Detroit

Sunrise –  Michigan

Take On Hate 

We The People of Michigan 

We Want Green Too

Yemen Liberation Movement