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Vol. 68/No. 47      December 21, 2004

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News articles

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• On eve of union vote, Utah miners fight firings of UMWA supporters
  Press campaign to expose job safety violations by Co-Op bosses
• Statement from Bill Estrada at news conference in Price, Utah, November 29 on behalf of delegation of Co-op miners
• Bipartisan deal reached on bill strengthening U.S. gov’t spying
• Pursuing Baathists, Washington increases forces in Iraq to 150,000
• In Canada visit, Bush pushes ‘missile shield’
• Failure of attack on U.S. consulate shows Saudi rulers’ progress in ‘war on terror’
• Ukraine: Pro-Moscow camp loses ground
• U.S. prison holding Cuban militant ‘locked down’
• Aborigines protest new death in custody
  Palm Island residents face crackdown by Australian cops after explosion of anger
• Puerto Rico: striking water workers turn down gov’t authority’s ‘final offer,’ continue strike
• Colombian government pardons death squads
• Red Cross: U.S. treatment of Guantánamo prisoners ‘tantamount to torture’
• Rumsfeld offers Latin American governments more U.S. investments for military cooperation
• Vietnam, China face steep U.S. tariffs on shrimp
• Coal mine accident in Utah caused by bosses’ speed-up
• 23 die in Kazakhstan mine blast
• SWP files for ballot spot in L.A. mayoral race
• One week, $10,000 to go on Militant Fighting Fund
• Bhopal: Thousands march on 20th anniversary of U.S. chemical plant leak that killed over 13,000
• Saharawis step up protests against Moroccan occupation
• UK farmers resist milk price cuts, intimidation by milk distributors
• Ohio Steelworkers strike as boss tears up contract
• 1936: How workers resisted fascists in Barcelona
• Great society
• 25 and 50 years ago
• Letters

 
 
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