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Vol. 69/No. 41      October 24, 2005

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News articles

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• New Orleans cops assault Black man
  Airing of video forces officers’ suspension
• Teamsters expand organizing independent truckers in South
  Hiring halls to open in Charleston, Savannah
• Meat packers, taxi drivers, truckers snap up ‘Militant’ subscriptions
• Striking airline mechanics fight denial of jobless pay
• GM auto parts supplier files for bankruptcy; to slash wages, jobs
• As we go to press…
• Socialist candidates in Miami back fights by truckers, taxi drivers
• New Zealand: timber workers walk out, demand wage increase
• Iceland: shipyard workers fight for back pay
• Utah miners use T-shirt to promote union fight
• Ford retakes parts plants; to cut wages, jobs
• Massey refiles ‘defamation’ suit against UMWA
• Utah coal company presses retaliatory lawsuit
• N.Y. cab drivers protest imposition of spying device (photo box)
• $13,000 needed weekly to meet goal of Socialist Workers party-building fund
• Great Society
• U.S. gov’t appeals ruling anulling convictions of Cuban 5
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Evacuation killed more than storm in Texas
• Gulf Coast farmers face deeper crisis after Rita
• Appeal to our readers
• Hundreds honor Puerto Rican independence fighter (photo box)
• Alberta: unionists strike meat plant
• ‘Racism: a world, not just an American, problem’
• U.S. rulers target Iran, Syria, Islamic jihadism
• Letters

 
 
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