E. Mazmanian

Corporations are not your friends. The only reason we have the very flimsy and pathetic labor rights we have at all is because our ancestors died for them, and the support for them got rolled back the millisecond the government was able to manufacture consent for it.

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1991 - Fidel Castro speaks about the failures of Capitalism.

Fidel Castro & Malcolm X" As long as Uncle Sam is against you, you know you're a good man," Malcolm X told Castro a year after the Cuban Revolution, Castro and his delegation came to New York to attend the UN General Assembly, but the management of the Manhattan hotel the delegation booked now refused to house them after the US government already pressured other hotels to reject the Cubans. Upon learning of their situation, Malcolm X invited them to come uptown to Harlem, to stay at the Black-owned Hotel Theresa, where Malcolm X said he would be greeted with open arms. People from Harlem received the 34-vear-old Cuban revolutionary leader by the thousands, with masses huddling round-the-clock in front of the hotel. Castro was to them that bearded revolutionary who had told white America to go to hell and his stay there was an important acknowledgement of the struggle African Americans shared with therest of the Third World in resisting racism, colonialism and imperialism. But above all Fidel spoke of Harlem. "I always wanted to come to Harlem;" said Castro, "but l was not sure of what kind of welcome l would get. When l got the news that l would be welcome in Harlem, l was happy." The Black people of the United States were not as brainwashed by the government's anti-Cuban propaganda as whites, he continued. Revolutionary Cuba, a majority Black nation, was wiping out racial discrimination. Cubans, Africans and the Black people of the United States were all in the same boat. "I feel as if l were in Cuba now, feel very warm here." Malcolm X responded that it was indeed true that, "We in Harlem are not addicted to all the propaganda the U.S. government puts out. And then they embraced.