Vol. 73/No. 24      June 22, 2009

News articles

• Puerto Rico: workers resist layoffs, austerity
  Tens of thousands march through capital
• 1,000 attend funeral for slain clinic doctor Tiller
• 3 million displaced in U.S.-backed Pakistan war
• N.Y. Socialist Workers mayoral campaign to petition for ballot
• Broad political debate opens in Iran presidential elections
• Socialist conference to discuss world politics, workers’ struggle
• The Cosmopolitan ‘Meritocracy’ and Class Stratification of Black Nationality
  Chapter of ‘Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power’
• N.Y. bakery workers’ strike enters 10th month
• Troy Davis, on death row, wins support for new trial
• Tehran book fair: major cultural event in Mideast
• N.Y. picket says ‘Free the Cuban Five!’ (photo box)
• More working people are filing early claims for Social Security
• Volunteer effort expands reach of Pathfinder books
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Buffalo, New York: turning point in abortion rights fight
• Letters