<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The Militant Labor Forum presents:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 32pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #96bdc4">Venezuela, Cuba<SPAN style="COLOR: black">’</SPAN>s Socialist Revolution, and the World<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Speaker: John Hawkins, Socialist Workers Party<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV> <H6><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Friday, June 22, 7:30 PM<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H6> <H5 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Militant Labor Forum Hall<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H5> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt;
FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">13 Bennington Street, 2<SUP>nd</SUP> Floor, East Boston<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">Venezuela’s workers, peasants and youth are today </SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt; mso-fareast-font-family: AppleChancery">advancing </SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">their struggles for improved living standards, land, and greater rights. As they do so their experience and confidence increase. Washington’s hostility towards them, in turn, remains unchanged. Meanwhile solidarity from socialist Cuba to Venezuela remains steady, with tens of thousands of volunteers helping to address pressing social problems.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">In the course of struggle many are drawing the conclusion that the standoff between Venezuela’s toilers and imperialism will some day come to a head.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">How can working people in Venezuela and their allies prepare for that coming showdown? What institutions and class forces inside and outside the country can they rely on in a fight to defend gains already won and extend them? Can working people in Venezuela learn from the Cuban toilers’ experience? How did Cuban workers and farmers transform their society? How do they continue to defend their conquests</SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt; mso-fareast-font-family: AppleChancery">—90 miles from the most powerful empire on earth—nearly five decades later? Does there need to be a similar transformation
in Venezuela?</SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Come to this week’s Militant Labor Forum and discuss these and other important questions that workers, farmers, and youth in Venezuela are grappling with today. And discuss how working people a youth in the United States can best demonstrate their solidarity with their class brothers and sisters fighting for a just society in Venezuela today.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoHeading7 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=5><STRONG>Suggested donation $5</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV
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