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Free the Cuban Five (WW Edit'l)

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Workers World - Aug 24, 2006 issue
http://www.workers.org/2006/editorials/free-...

EDITORIAL

Free the Cuban Five

While Bush's so-called "war on terror" rages on in the Middle East and
against communities of color at home, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled against five Cubans who were in the United States specifically to
prevent terrorism.

The Cuban Five--Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo
Hernández, and Ramón Labañino--have been held in U.S. prisons for the past
eight years for the "crime" of defending their native Cuba against
well-documented terrorist attacks. A year ago, a three-judge panel of the
11th Circuit Court ruled that the Five should receive a new trial given
that the original one was held in Miami--the city where many terrorist
plots against Cuba have been organized, and where lawyers have documented
coercion and threats against the trial's jurors. This latest ruling on Aug.
9 reverses the earlier findings of the three-judge panel, and denies a new
trial to the Five.

This month, working and oppressed people the world over are celebrating the
80th birthday and healthy recovery of Fidel Castro. U.S. imperialists are
fuming with the knowledge that, due in large part to the remarkable
leadership of Comandante Fidel, the Cuban people will continue their
revolution should anything happen to him.

Put into context, this ruling is yet another attempt by the imperialists
to punish socialist Cuba--not just for surviving the past 53 years, but for
helping to put imperialism on the defensive in the "battle of ideas." That
battle has exposed to the world that the biggest terrorists sit in the
White House, and that their reign of terror extends to Latin America, the
Middle East, and beyond.

Yet the ruling has implications for all people facing the U.S. criminal
"justice" system. At an emergency press conference on the ruling on Aug. 10,
National Lawyers Guild attorney Bruce Nestor explained, "The decision really
gives tremendous power to the government to bring politically motivated
prosecutions and to then select a favorable location where community
prejudice will favor the government and allow the government to obtain a
conviction where the evidence did not support a conviction."

The struggle for the Five--who are renowned as heroes in Cuba--is not over.
A national march and forum on Sept. 23 in Washington, D.C., takes on
greater importance, as well as local actions throughout the country that
month.

Free the Cuban Five! U.S. Hands off Cuba!

For more information visit http://www.freet....

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