Vol. 70/No. 49      December 25, 2006

News articles

• Immigration agents raid packing plants
  ‘We are not criminals!’ say workers at Swift factories; ‘No deportations!’
• N.Y. protesters demand justice in brutal killing by the police
• U.S. rulers debate strategy to advance war in Iraq
  Many call for sending more troops
• Cubans mobilize to mark 50 years of Revolutionary Armed Forces
• London meeting will celebrate political life of Connie Harris
  Cadre of communist movement for 60 years
• Relatives of miners reject state report on Sago disaster
• Is China capitalist?
• Asian Americans attacked by Boston-area cops win support
• New Jersey state workers rally against cutbacks (photo box)
• 'Militant' holiday schedule
• Beijing expands trade, investment in Angola
• Dutch gov't debate over burqa ban sparks protest
• Young Socialists debate college Republicans on Iran at Albany, New York, campus
• Australia: hundreds of thousands march to protest federal antiunion laws
• N. Carolina meat packers fight company attempts to fire dozens
• Trade union officialdom in Canada wages chauvinist campaign for 'Canadian jobs'
• Great Society
• Scotland: discussion on independence worries UK rulers
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Murder indictment dropped against N. Carolina cop who shot unarmed teenager in house raid
• New Jersey: relatives of victims of police brutality speak out
• Book by Chinese-Cuban generals popular at African Studies Association conference
• Abortion: the issue is a woman's right to choose
• Letters