US Activist Describes Unfair Treatment of Workers in her Country

_ Mary-Alice Waters, president of Pathfinder Press and member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), spoke of the unfair treatment workers received in the United States, during the VII International Colloquium to Free the Cuban Five, underway in the Cuban eastern province of Holguin.

Waters described the hardships the US labor force is enduring, when in a time of crisis, it has become the main victim.

“The situation in the United States is growing worse, the living standards are crashing, the working conditions deteriorate and workers without papers are being deported by the thousands”, she said.

“The number of foreclosures is impressive, millions of families are left to fend for themselves, the government doesn’t take any actions against the banks but it does against workers.”

She said that the people throughout the United States are protesting, while the rejection towards the government increases, because it is an accomplice and responsible of this calamities.

“Millions of families are suffering the injustices against their kin in jails, just as the families of the five Cuban Heroes, sentenced in the US for fighting terrorism, due to the violations of their rights during their trials and later in jails,” she added.

She explained that The Militant, her party’s newspaper, now published in English and Spanish, is sold all over the United States and in other countries like the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

“For us is mandatory to speak about the Cuban Five in our newspaper, due to the silence about them in the mass media, and we need to spread their truth though different means”.  / ACN

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