<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">Please note: The forum this week will be on <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">Saturday, Feb. 28.</span> The forum the week after will again be on Friday night, March 6 and it will be a showing of a film on the status of women in Cuba titled </font></span></i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4">With Our Memory on the Future</font></span></span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. <br><br><br>The Militant Labor forum presents:<br></span></u></i><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><style>.ExternalClass
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<h4 style="text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">A Celebration of the Publication of the new book by
Pathfinder Press</span></i></h4>
<h4 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);"><span style="font-size: 26pt;">Capitalism and the
Transformation of Africa</span></h4>
<h5 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);"><font size="6"><i>Reports from Equatorial Guinea</i></font></h5>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Transforming production and class relations</span></p>
<b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">• </span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">Cuban
Revolution's internationalist road</span><br><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><style>.ExternalClass p.EC_MsoNormal, .ExternalClass li.EC_MsoNormal, .ExternalClass div.EC_MsoNormal
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="EC_MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b>"In the decades
of wars, economic crises, and explosive class battles that lie ahead, the
weight of the toilers of Africa in shaping the future will be greater than ever
before."</b><br><span style="font-size: 4pt;"><br>
</span>Reporting from <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_4">Equatorial Guinea</span> in
<span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_5">central Africa</span>, the authors focus on the social transformations unfolding, as
revenues from offshore oil extraction are used to build infrastructure on which
rising labor productivity, industry, and progress depend. Pulled into the world
market as never before, both a capitalist class and a working class are being
born.<br><span style="font-size: 4pt;"><br>
</span>Here also, in accounts of the work of
volunteer Cuban medical brigades in Equatorial Guinea, is the living example of
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_6">Cuba</span>’s socialist revolution—made possible by workers and farmers who were led
five decades ago to take power into their own hands.<br><span style="font-size: 4pt;"><br>
</span>Woven together, these seemingly
disparate threads—the beginning transformation of production and class
relations in Equatorial Guinea, and the proletarian course of the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_7">Cuban
Revolution</span>—show a future to be fought for today. <br></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="EC_MsoNormal"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="EC_MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);" size="5"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hear a presentation on the book and on the recent <br>launching of it at the Havana Book Fair. </span></font><br></div><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="EC_MsoNormal">
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="EC_MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 4pt;"> </span></font></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoHeader" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_9">Saturday,
February 28</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;"> </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt;"></span></b></p><p class="EC_MsoHeader" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt;">
Dinner <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_10">6:30 p.m</span>. • Program <span style=""><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_11">7:30 p.m</span>.</span></span></b></p><p class="EC_MsoHeader" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style=""></span></span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="ES-CO">Militant
Labor Forum Hall</span></p><p class="EC_MsoHeader" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="ES-CO"></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="ES-CO">13 Bennington Street, 2nd floor, East Boston, MA 02128</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="ES-CO"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_12">617-569-9169</span> or email: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:swpboston@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:swpboston@verizon.net"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_13">bostonmlf@yahoo.com</span></a><span style=""> <br></span></span></b></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="ES-CO">Suggested Donation: Program
$5, Dinner $5 </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br></span></b></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Translation to Spanish available • </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="ES-CO">Traducción al inglés </span></b></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(191, 95, 0);" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 4pt;" lang="ES-CO"><span style=""> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><font size="4">Visit <b><a target="_blank" href="http://themilitant.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_14">themilitant.com</span></a></b> and <b><a target="_blank" href="http://pathfinderpress.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_15">pathfinderpress.com</span></a> </b>for news,
analysis, and books and pamphlets.</font></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 4pt;" lang="ES-CO"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="EC_MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES-CO">By train, take the blue line to Maverick Station and walk down <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1235614545_16">Meridian</span>
about 5 blocks to Bennington, by Liberty Plaza.</span></p>
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