Vol. 72/No. 40      October 13, 2008

A veteran militant in the labor and Black rights movements, Manuel, 58, has also helped organize activities in defense of the Cuban Revolution. He has written extensively for the Militant on the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the deepening U.S. military intervention in the region.

Manuel reported from New Orleans in September 2005 immediately following Hurricane Katrina, getting out the truth about the social disaster and the solidarity that unfolded among working people there.

He has been active in the communist movement since 1970. In 2002 he was the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Washington.

Martín Koppel, 51, is now the managing editor of the Militant. He has been a staff writer for the Militant since 1991 and was editor from May 2000 to January 2002 and from September 2002 to March 2003. He is an editor of El Militante, the Spanish section of the paper.

Koppel recently spent two weeks in Equatorial Guinea and co-authored a three part series on the changing economic and social relations in that Central African country.

Cindy Jaquith, who has been the editor of the paper, will continue as a staff volunteer.  
 
 
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