Vol. 71/No. 18      May 7, 2007

News articles

• ‘We’re workers, not criminals!’
  At Iowa meeting, workers denounce plan to turn local cops into ‘la migra’
• May Day actions across U.S. to demand legalization of immigrants
• U.S. high court ruling deals blow to women’s right to choose abortion
• Coal miners in Southwest sign up for ‘Militant’
• Protesters in Georgia demand justice for youth killed by cops
• Congress to send bill to Bush with $100 billion for Iraq, Afghan wars
  Democrats keep portraying it as ‘antiwar’
• Venezuela congress draws women from 90 countries
• Gutierrez-Flake bill: anti-immigrant, antilabor
• Afghanistan execution by Swedish troops stirs controversy in Sweden
• Pentagon advances Army ‘transformation’
• Event to defend Cuban Five held at New York University
• On to close gap in ‘Militant’ fund
• On the Picket Line
• Circuit City fires 3,400 to replace them with lower-paid workers
• Two miners killed in western Maryland
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• ‘Internationalism a principle of the Cuban Revolution’
  Boston event promotes book by Chinese Cuban leaders
• Cuba, Venezuela protest U.S. release of CIA-trained murderer
• May Day and U.S. fight for an eight-hour day
• Imus’s firing isn’t about free speech
• Correction
• Letters