Vol. 73/No. 45      November 23, 2009

News articles

• White House plans for Afghan war escalation
  Mulls sending 30,000 or more troops
• Bosses use layoffs to raise worker productivity
• Health-care bill attacks right to abortion
• North Korean patrol boat is fired on in unprovoked attack
• Israel to continue settlements as ‘peace talks’ near collapse
• Final push for ‘Militant’ readers
• Openings today to build the communist movement
• San Francisco: bridge reopens with warning
• Philadelphia transit workers strike over pensions (photo box)
• San Diego rally counters anti-immigrant rightists
• Cuban library head speaks at N.Y. meeting
• Broad response to party-building fund
• Australia union builds support for Cuban Five
• Maryland students defend affirmative action
• Tamil refugees demand asylum in Australia
• 76 Tamils are arrested off coast of Canada
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Cuban foreign minister answers U.S. gov’t at UN
• Postal strike cancelled in United Kingdom
• Illegal or unsafe abortions kill 70,000 around world
• Georgia students discuss role of Cuban Revolution
• Fighting for a class-struggle course in the unions