Click on the headline to link to a Partisan Defense Committee article (via Workers Vanguard) on the cases of Walter Kendall Taylor and Gwendolyn Taylor.
Markin comment:
I have used the sense of my comment on class-war prisoner Ana Belen Montes in another entry on this date for this comment on Walter Kendall Taylor and Gwendolyn Taylor. The points made in the former case apply here as well. In both cases free these pro-Cuba defense class-war prisoners (and the Cuban Five)ahora!
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On numerous occasions in this space I have noted that the defense of the Cuban revolution here in the United States, “the heart of the beast” in Che’s exquisite phrase, starts with the defense of the Cuban Five. The Cuban Five case involves attempts by these class-war prisoners to defend the Cuban revolution, as best they could, in concrete actions to thwart those who were (and are) interested in counter-revolution. You can Google or link from this blog to the National Committee To Defend The Cuban Five to get more information on their current status.
Today I wish to mention another case that involves the defense of the Cuban revolution, that of recently sentenced class-war prisoners Walter Kendall Taylor and Gwendolyn Taylor. I have placed a link to a Partisan Defense Committee statement above for the details of their case. What I want to emphasize here in the struggle for their freedom is the question of how one, effectively, puts teeth into the question of defense of the Cuban revolution.
I have noted on other occasions that I came of political age contemporaneously with the Cuban revolution and have defended the conquests of that revolution from a liberal through to a “high communist” political prospective as my own political understandings have evolved. During the course of that defense I have, mainly, organized around various Hands Off Cuba slogans when American imperialism has tried to put the bite into that revolution. Thus my defense of the Cuban revolution has been mostly a propagandistic proposition.
Walter Kendall Taylor and Gwendolyn Taylor, through the fates, had an opportunity to aid the Cuban revolution in a more concrete way, and acted on that opportunity. For those efforts they are now serving much time in a U.S. federal penitentiary. In any rational, reasonable or just world they would be sitting in some place of honor, and rightly so. But for right now their fate and ours is to call for, loudly call for, their freedom. Free Walter Kendall Taylor and Gwendolyn Taylor!
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