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Vol. 69/No. 3      January 25, 2005

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News articles

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• Venezuela gov’t starts seizing idle farm land
  Peasant struggles propel land reform
• Labor support grows for Utah miners’ union fight
  UMWA ‘Journal’ features Co-Op struggle
• U.S. troops focus military assaults in four Iraqi provinces
• Abbas elected Palestinian president
  U.S., Israeli gov’ts pleased; 48% of Palestinians vote
• 40 years later: Mississippi Klansman charged for civil rights workers’ murder
• Retired U.S. military officers oppose nominee for attorney general
• Australian troops intervene in Solomons
• Puerto Rico water workers end 3-month strike
  Workers hold off gov’t attempt to deal blows to their union
• U.S. housing costs up, while real wages decline
• Ford halts training program after charges of racism
• Unemployment cuts take effect in Germany
• Offshore oil deposits found in Cuban waters
• Algiers deals blows to ‘Islamist’ groups
• Thousands of tsunami victims still not reached as death toll increases
• Colonial legacy, capitalist reality plague Sri Lanka
• Lessons of Quality Meat Packers strike in Toronto
  To strengthen the unions a fighting strategy is needed against employers
• Iran opens military site to UN ‘inspectors’
• SWP in 1964: ‘Federal troops to Mississippi!’
• U.S. gov’t inaction encouraged lynchings in Mississippi
• Newspaper workers strike in Youngstown, Ohio
• Author Piero Gleijeses speaks in Los Angeles on Cuba, Africa
• Great society
• 25 and 50 years ago
• N.Y. bus drivers strike to defend jobs, benefits (photo box)
• Letters
• Corrections

 
 
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