Boston celebrates legacy of Malcolm X
Published May 12, 2005 3:31 PM
A Boston Workers World Party program on May 7 examined the legacy of Malcolm X, who would have turned 80 years old May 19. The meeting was chaired by Robert Traynham, a Boston school bus driver and former Black Panther.
Monica Moorehead, a former WWP presidential candidate, talked on Malcolm’s indispensable role in the development of the Black Power nationalist movement. She also spoke of Malcolm’s political evolution into becoming an internationalist and making the links between racism and capitalism.
She spoke of WWP’s support of the right of oppressed nations to self-determination inside and outside of the U.S.
Moorehead paid tribute to the important intervention of the Black worker-led Million Worker March Movement in stressing the links between the struggle for workers’ rights and opposing imperialist wars.
Yves Alcindor of the New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti spoke on the severe repression by the U.S.-backed puppet regime in Haiti and the situation of Yvon Neptune, the legitimate prime minister of Haiti, who has been imprisoned and is on the verge of death due to a protest hunger strike.
Sharel'le and Margaret Campbell
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Najah Abdullah of the Rank and File Commit tee of maintenance workers at the Bromley Heath housing project described the struggle of these African American and Latin@ workers who have been working for over two years without a contract.
Margaret Campbell from the Politicin’ with the Sisters group and Women’s Fightback Network stressed the importance of passing down Malcolm’s true legacy to the younger generations. She and her daughter Sharel’le read poetry by the exiled Black freedom fighter Assata Shakur.
—Frank Neisser
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