Vol. 71/No. 16      April 23, 2007

News articles

• ‘Legalization now!’
  15,000 march in Los Angeles;
  Reject bosses’ ‘immigration reform’
• Demands grow louder that radio host be fired over racist, sexist remark
• Hundreds rally in Indiana in solidarity with miners’ strike
• Over 400 sign up in first week of ‘Militant’ subscription drive
• Thousands in Iraq protest U.S. occupation
  U.S. troops battle local Mahdi militia
• ‘La migra’ raids pork plant in Illinois; 60 workers in jail
• International women’s conference opens in Caracas
• Protests in N.Y., L.A.: ‘Free Cuban 5!’
• U.S. smear campaign of Cuban libraries falls flat
• Washington’s ‘war on terror’ undermines ally in Pakistan
• ‘Free four Puerto Rican political prisoners!’ (photo box)
• Tokyo moves to establish missile shield
• Teachers’ training school opens in Equatorial Guinea with assistance from Cuba
• New education minister stirs Kuwait (photo box)
• Right-wing party makes gains in Quebec elections
• Tel Aviv strengthens its missile shield
• New Zealand: YS members campaign to free Cuban 5
• $17,500 needed by April 18 for spring ‘Militant’ fund drive
• On the Picket Line
• Report faults British Petroleum for 2005 Texas refinery explosion
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Events held in Iowa on Chinese Cubans in Cuban Revolution
• New Zealand tour promotes book by Chinese Cuban generals
• Letter from Eliades Acosta to Robert Kent
• Prospects for socialist revolution in the United States
• Corrections
• Letters