Vol. 73/No. 6      February 16, 2009

News articles

• ‘Working people need to organize, take power’
  L.A. socialist campaigns for mayor
• Labor Dept.: 6.5 million jobless get no benefits
• Washington to double troops in Afghan war
• Attorneys for jailed Cuban 5 file Supreme Court appeal
• Gaza borders remain closed as Tel Aviv, Cairo squeeze Hamas
• Political interest boosts ‘Militant’ renewal effort
• ‘Capitalism and transformation of Africa’
  Pathfinder book spotlights new class relations emerging today in Equatorial Guinea
• N. Carolina meat packers fight bosses’ harassment
• Vancouver cops charged in attack on immigrant
• Socialist campaigns at N.Y. transit hearing
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• Reactionary UK strikes oppose immigrant jobs
• Tokyo uses Somalia ‘piracy’ for militarization drive
• Montreal: Tamils protest Sri Lankan repression
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• Bronx bakery workers’ strike enters 6th month
• U.S. union membership rises 2nd year in a row
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Lessons from labor party campaigns in the 1880s
• Militant Labor Forum in N.J. defends Ft. Dix 5
• Six Miami workers face third ‘terrorism’ trial
• Referendum in Bolivia approves new constitution
• Greece: meeting celebrates ‘In Defense of Socialism’
• Worker-bolsheviks send ‘blood money’ to advance communist movements’ publishing program