Vol. 72/No. 7      February 18, 2008

News articles

• ‘Now we must win a decent contract’
  Victory for union at Minnesota packinghouse is boost to efforts to organize other workers
• Blackouts in China, S. Africa highlight energy gap in world
• Socialist candidates Calero and Kennedy on national tour
• Chicago worker fights deportation, champions legalization for all
• Democratic, Republican candidates offer ‘change’ from unpopular past
• Collapse of mortgage debt bubble is part of wider world financial crisis
• Farmers in Mexico march against NAFTA (photo box)
• Ottawa re-arrests man facing deportation under ‘antiterror’ law
• Australia: action to protest gov’t takeover of Aboriginal communities
• YS campaigners join election debate at N.Y. state campus
• 700 rally against hospital closing in New Jersey
• Workers condemn anti-immigrant raids in Tennessee
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Working class grows in China, social inequalities sharpen
• N.Y. event honors Luis Miranda, Cuban revolutionary in U.S.
• Bolshevism: the fight for Marxist continuity today
• Letters