Vol. 73/No. 29      August 3, 2009

News articles

• ‘Workers need to take political power’
  New York socialists hit campaign trail
• Official figures mask scale of joblessness
• U.S. gov’t denies visa to spouse of Cuban 5 prisoner, 9th time
• Afghanistan: troop deaths in UK-led offensive open debate
• Sri Lanka gov’t interns nearly 300,000 Tamils
• How U.S. gov’t framed Cuban revolutionary
  Facts of Cuba’s ’96 downing of rightist planes
• Philips fined for selling medical device to Cuba
• Pathfinder draws interest at Harlem Book Fair (photo box)
• Workers counter rightist anti-immigrant action
• Philadelphia: protesters fight closing of city pools
• U.S. gov’t, Baghdad oppose Kurdish referendum
• Obama speaks at NAACP convention in New York
  Says ‘individual responsibility’ is key to progress
• Immigration raid protested in Tel Aviv
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Tom Leonard: leader of Socialist Workers
  Party Made lessons of labor battles come to life
• U.S. government and the assassination of Malcolm X
• Letters