Vol. 71/No. 14      April 9, 2007

News articles

• House: $124 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan wars
  $31 billion more than Bush requested;
  Democrats portray measure as ‘antiwar’
• UN Security Council stiffens sanctions against Iran
• More workers arrested in Swift raids convicted of ‘identity theft’
• Montreal event promotes book on Chinese Cubans in Cuban Revolution
• 108 coal miners die in Russia after blast at Siberia mine
• New Militant Labor Forum hall opens in Atlanta
• Tokyo denies use of sex slaves for its troops during WWII
• New Zealand: protesters slam acquittal of cops accused of rape
• Koreans in Japan resist gov’t repression
• Pennsylvania anti-immigrant law is challenged in court
• Wisconsin protesters: ‘No REAL ID!’ (photo box)
• Socialist candidate in Houston: ‘Stop the raids!’
• Colorado to use prison labor on farms
• Some immigrant rights groups call boycott on May Day
• On the Picket Line
• Greece: cops attack protest against school privatization
• Athens event launches new Greek-language title
  Pamphlet describes fraud of education reform under capitalism
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Event is held at Chicago campus to discuss struggles by Asians in the Americas (photo box)
• N.Y. law allows sex offenders to be held indefinitely
• Can ‘card check’ help reverse U.S. unions’ decline?
• Panama: workers were target of 1989 U.S. invasion
• Corrections
• Letters