ALBA after ten years

John Riddell looks at ALBA after ten years.

During a visit to the Penobscot indigenous nation in Maine a few years ago, I found they were receiving material aid from Venezuela, in a program that also assisted Black communities in the United States. The Bolivarians thus confirmed the vision of Malcolm X, murdered 50 years ago today, who saw the freedom struggle in the global South as a beacon of hope for his people. ALBA has set an example for such mutual assistance, in a spirit of solidarity, among its members and also with non-member countries in the region.

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Nothing marks the moral poverty of the USA than this: poor countries are assisting the poor in the USA.

This is building the solidarity among the international proletariat. Workers, by helping each other, develop their political consciousness about the operations and morality of the Capitalist system.