International conference highlights freedom for Cuban Five

TIJUANA, Mexico—The Sixth Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference met here the weekend of Dec. 4-6. The gathering was comprised of labor organizers, political activists, youth and students from all across Latin America, the U.S., Canada, the Philippines and other countries. Participants exchanged information, experience, political analysis and proposals for increasing the global influence of the international working class, including immigrant workers, in this period of severe worldwide economic and political crisis.

The struggle to free the heroic Cuban Five, defenders of Cuba’s independence against continued acts of terrorism originating in the U.S., was a prominent theme throughout the three-day conference. The Five are presently unjustly incarcerated in U.S. federal prisons. The Friday evening meeting was devoted specifically to this issue. An in-depth report on the conference will appear in an upcoming issue of Workers World.