‘A better world’s in birth’
Published May 19, 2005 8:14 PM
Pat
Chin, a beloved member of the New York branch of Workers World Party, died on
May 16 after a long struggle with breast cancer. An article on her many
contributions to the revolutionary movement will appear in next week’s
Workers World. Below is a transcript of her last message to the New York branch
of the Party, called in to a meeting on March 25.
(Running time is 05:08, filesize is 4.7MB)
Revolutionary greetings to my dear comrades and
friends.
First of all, congratulations on the tremendous success of the
March 19th anti-war mobilization. You deserve to give yourselves a big round
of applause for that.
As always, your determination, heroic courage and
years of accumulated skills paid off in the most gratifying of ways. A better
world’s in birth, even though it takes the vision of a socialist
revolutionary to understand that the fight for socialism is a long-term
struggle, not for those addicted to the instant gratification of capitalist
consumer culture.
My illness is a serious one, but my years in Workers
World, the place where
I found the most valuable reception of my
revolutionary self, where I was encouraged to be me, has given me such profound
satisfaction and sense of fulfillment that it makes it much easier to bear.
It gives me strength, comrades and friends.
This is a most profound truth
in large part because I came from a British colonized country where you are
taught to hate yourself, where racism and class discrimination are combined to
infuse the poison of self-hatred, giving the colonizers less work to do as
capitalism destroys the sense of self.
I’ve heard some good news
about new people joining the Party. Congratulations again. I would lastly like
to thank the comrades in the Party, my wonderful, wonderful Workers World, for
all the practical assistance, the love, warmth and care that you have been
giving me over the course of this ordeal. Without this my recovery would be much
more rocky.
I have a mountain to climb, a steep mountain, but with your
love and assistance I will continue to struggle forward.
Thank you
from the bottom of my socialist heart and revolutionary mind. And for all
the good food that you have been bringing me!
See you later, comrades and
friends. Forward ever, backward never! All power to the people!
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