FBI murdered Ojeda Ríos

The murder of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos at the hands of the FBI is a statement to the impunity and arrogance with which the U.S. federal repressive apparatus operates in Puerto Rico.

Like the so-called natural disasters precipitated by the capitalist profit system recently, the oppressive conditions that are evident to socialists are in plain view for the entire world to see. Ojeda Ríos’s murder has made manifest that Puerto Ricans live in a colonial system whose people, resources, and territorial integrity are at the disposal of the American government. The FBI tried to humiliate and demoralize the independence movement. It succeeded in flaring rejection of the colonial condition. Puerto Ricans, and working-class people worldwide, must respond to this criminal offensive on the part of reactionaries with a movement to end imperialist oppression in all its forms.

Juan Declet
Arizona

Northwest Airlines threats

I thought the headline and article “Northwest Airlines to annul all union contracts” [October 31 issue] should have read, “Northwest Airlines threatens to annul all union contracts.” Following the example of United Airlines and USAirways, Northwest is seeking to stampede workers into signing contracts to cut wages and gut benefits.

Rick Young
Chicago, Illinois  
 
 
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