Vol. 72/No. 51      December 29, 2008

News articles

• After 15-year struggle at N. Carolina plant:
  Meat packers win union at Smithfield
• Workers in Chicago celebrate sit-in victory
• UN okays U.S. military operations in Somalia
• U.S. officials: Afghan war ‘more complex’ than in Iraq
• Ft. Dix ‘antiterror’ trial in N.J. marked by attacks on rights
• Cuba marks centennial of Independent Party of Color
  Two presentations on little-known history of party that championed black rights in Cuba in early 1900s
• London court lets off cops in 2005 ‘antiterror’ killing
• British ‘antiterrorist’ cops arrest Conservative Party spokesperson
• Long Island cops cover up anti-immigrant attacks
• After rightist protests, Thai gov’t forced out
• More unemployed workers excluded from jobless benefits
• 300 protest thug killing of Ecuadoran in N.Y. (photo box)
• Defense of Cuban Five featured at int’l labor conference in Tijuana
• Canadian rulers face parliamentary crisis
• Communist League opposes attacks on free speech in Canada elections
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago