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Vol. 69/No. 50      December 26, 2005

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News articles

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• Ireland: 100,000 rally to back ferry workers
  Seafarers win fight against union busting
• New Orleans: hundreds march for ‘Justice after Katrina’
• European powers commit more occupation troops for Afghanistan after Rice tour
• 1,200 miners, other workers march in St. Louis to back union organizing
• Air marshals kill mentally ill man in Miami; passengers dispute bomb claim
• N.Y. transit workers resist ‘productivity drive,’ health-care and pension cuts for new hires
• ‘Oil is not the curse in Africa, imperialism is’
  New York event hears report from first book fair in Equatorial Guinea
• Australian gov’t boosts cop powers for ‘counterterrorism’
• Stanley Williams executed after governor of California rejects demands for clemency (photo box)
• Miami: ‘Free Jean-Juste from Haitian prison’ (photo box)
• Palestinian acquitted of ‘terror’ charges in Florida; supporters demand his freedom now
• Dec. 10 actions promote union organizing
• Protesters outmobilize rightists in Toledo; police arrest 30
• Appeal to our readers
• Corrections
• Great Society
• On the Picket Line
• New Zealand: KFC workers demand pay hike (photo box)
• Books on working-class politics sell well at Montreal book fair
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• 10 years since imperialist intervention in Bosnia: main class contradictions remain unresolved
• Cuba’s role in southern African freedom fight
  Fidel Castro speaks on 30th anniversary of Cuban fighters’ arrival in Angola
• Changing meaning of democracy in class society
• Letters

 
 
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