WWP: 'Free all political prisoners'

Workers World Party took part in the LGBT Pride March in New York City, as it has for more than a quarter of a century. The contingent was multi-national, immigrant and U.S.-born, and included party members of all sexualities and genders and sexes.

WW photo: G. Dunkel

This year, the WWP contingent pressed the demand for freedom for the Jersey 4. An all-white jury recently convicted the four African American lesbians—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—who had defended themselves against an anti-lesbian attack. The four received sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to 11 years.

Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five—five political prisoners held behind bars in the U.S. for trying to stop CIA-backed anti-communist terror attacks on their island—also marched with the Workers World contingent.