Black History Forum on Zimbabwe, crisis at home

The New York branch of Workers World Party held a special Black History Month forum Feb. 27 entitled, “From Zimbabwe to the U.S., National Liberation and Class Struggle.” The speakers shown here from left to right are Monica Moorehead, editor of the book “Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle” and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper, who spoke on why it is important for the U.S. anti-war movement to defend Zimbabwe’s right to self-determination; Omowale Clay, a leader of the December 12th Movement and Friends of Zimbabwe, who talked about the impact of economic sanctions, the land issue and the current political crisis in Zimbabwe; LeiLani Dowell, a Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) organizer and WW managing editor who chaired the forum and also remarked on the depression-like conditions Black people face in the U.S.; Larry Hales, FIST organizer and WW contributing editor, who defended the right of oppressed peoples worldwide to choose their own tactics of winning their liberation; and Larry Holmes, WWP secretariat member and Bail Out the People Movement coordinator. Holmes reminded everyone of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s true fightback legacy and motivated the upcoming April 3-4 march on Wall Street to demand a bailout of the workers, not the banks and CEOs.