Vol. 73/No. 13      April 6, 2009

News articles

• Industrial production, trade in rapid decline
  Unemployment climbs as rulers attempt to shore up their credit and banking system
• Israel rulers craft new coalition government
• U.S. gov’t adds cops to border with Mexico
• ‘Militant’ supporters begin spring subscription campaign
• FBI targets Somalis in Minneapolis
• Toronto arts festival to honor Cuban Five revolutionaries
• Socialists win victory for workers’ political rights
• Students protest education cuts in California (photo box)
• Chinese-Cuban generals’ book presented in China
• French workers protest layoffs, social cuts
• March in Washington: ‘Bring troops home now!’
• On the Picket Line
• Greece: march protests attack on union organizer
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• U.S. capitalism arose upon conquest of Indians
• Academics, others plan for Mexico conference on Martí, Lincoln, Juárez
• Socialist denounces U.S. militarization of border
• Book on Chinese-Cuban generals presented in Cuba
  Students from China keen to learn about Chinese in Cuba’s revolutionary history
• Israel boycotts and divestment serve as cover for anti-Semitism
• Campus meeting discusses ‘Israeli apartheid’
• Letters