Vol. 72/No. 46      November 24, 2008

News articles

• Unemployment rises as production slows
  Cities, states plan to slash social services
• Meeting in Australia defends Cuban Five
• Washington escalates Afghan war
• Push needed in final 2 weeks of ‘Militant’ subscription drive
• Party-Building Fund boosted by new pledges
• Cuban Five are example for world working class
• Colombian cane cutters strike, win pay increase
• Minnesota students protest erosion of right to abortion
• Imperialist powers press for more troops in Congo
• International book fair opens in Venezuela
  Workers’ access to literature is highlight
• On the Picket Line
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Sales of Marx’s ‘Capital’ jump in Germany
• Cuba and the class struggle in the United States
  Living example of Cuba’s socialist revolution decisive for U.S. revolutionists
• ‘It’s useless to stay in Democratic or Republican parties’
• Letters