Vol.64/No.3 January 24, 2000
Letters
Human rights in Cuba
Tell me something. Where do you stand with North Korea? and China? And since Cuba has the death penalty and gun control where do you stand on those issues? Just curious. I’ve been told not just by the media but by other folks that Cuba has a huge violation of human rights and China and N. Korea the same. Fill me in.Jimmy Harkin
Cary, North Carolina
Great WTO coverage
Great coverage of the WTO protests. I could not wait for the next issue of the Militant to read the truth about what the WTO really is. It is often the pages of the Militant that prepares me for discussions with my coworkers and friends.Gary Willhite
Los Angeles
Irish taxi drivers strike
I was recently in Ireland and was able to follow some political developments. Taxi drivers went on strike protesting the government’s decision to increase the number of taxi licenses. Taxi drivers in Dublin went out for 24 hours, affecting 30,000 people.Despite the fact that Ireland is supposed to be a European tiger, workers can’t get along on wages of about 200 Irish pounds a week and many families can’t pay the rent.
Lasse Erlandsson
Stockholm
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