Vol. 73/No. 4      February 2, 2009

News articles

• End Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip!
  Over 1,300 dead as Israeli troops withdraw
• U.S. military prepares for ‘failed state’ in Mexico
• Capitalist crisis stirs protests in E. Europe
• Longshore workers union local joins fight to free Cuban Five
• Militant’ starts four-week drive to win long-term readership
• Restructuring an industry: when workers decide
  Former sugar workers in study-as-work program in Cuba are ‘more confident in what we can accomplish’
• Judge sets ‘contempt’ trial for Sami al-Arian
• Lebanon meeting hails Cuban Revolution
• ‘Declarations of Havana’ sell at Lebanon meeting on Cuba
• Socialist candidates say ‘End U.S. aid to Israel!’
• Havana book panel to discuss U.S. class struggle
• 2.6 million jobs cut last year, largest annual loss since 1945
• Australia to Minnesota: No to Israeli assault!
• Islamists take over bases as Somali gov’t weakens
• Moisés Mory urges support for antideportation battle
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Women’s combat platoon in Cuba’s revolutionary war
• Tel Aviv asked for U.S. help to bomb nuclear site in Iran
• Letters