And the meaning of events such as the popular insurrection that occurred in Ecuador in January of this year are not lost on them either. In that context, the sustained effort Cuba has organized to win the battle of world public opinion, the massive political mobilizations of the Cuban people week after week, month after month, have made the U.S. rulers decide that they have achieved their primary objective in this case and have nothing further to gain from their blatant and arrogant denial of Cuban sovereignty. The reason Eli n will soon be returning to Cuba has nothing to do with the supposed humanitarianism of Janet Reno, William Clinton, or any other U.S. government figure. It has to do with these kinds of political developments happening in Cuba, in the United States, and around the world. If it weren't for the strength of the Cuban revolution and the intensifying class struggle inside the United States, Eli n would not be coming home at all.
Justice is of no concern to Washington.
Nor is justice something working people in the United States expect from the judicial arm of the imperialist state. The U.S. court system is theirs, not ours. It is part of their system of checks and balances, one of the mechanisms the rising, and at that time progressive, bourgeoisie established more than 200 years ago to enable that class to resolve factional differences within its ranks and maintain class stability. Working people caught in the coils of the U.S. judicial system know we are on enemy ground. A degree of justice is something workers sometimes win despite the legal system, not because of it.