Alfredo Maneiro Turning In His Grave
Quico says: The irony in yesterday’s thuggish repression in Guayana is bitter. When the government re-nationalized steelmaker SIDOR last year, it made a big show of renaming it the “Siderúrgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro”, in memory of the legendary communist guerrilla fighter and Causa R founder who cut his teeth training a new generation of Guayana steelworkers in the tactics of radical labor organizing. Yesterday, though, it was precisely SUTISS – the SIDOR union that Maneiro spent the last 12 years of his life organizing – that found itself under the repression of the revolutionary government.
That high-pitched sound you hear is the noise of Alfredo Maneiro turning in his grave at 17,000 RPM.
Post 44 of 100. Blood boiling.
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