Vol. 73/No. 49      December 21, 2009

News articles

• U.S. gov’t seeks wider air strikes in Pakistan
  Presses Pakistani gov’t to expand war
• Cuban 5 win 2 more reduced sentences
• Thousands in student rallies defy Iran gov’t
• White House officials: Troops not leaving Afghanistan in 2011
• Obama at ‘job summit’: gov’t can’t do anything about jobs
• Cubans answer slander of racism against revolution
• 2 miners die on the job in Alabama, Kentucky
• Australia rallies fight attack on gay rights (photo box)
• ‘Free the refugees!’ demand Australia marchers
• Iran parliament votes to end food, gas subsidies
• ‘Mobilize workers to support Cuban Five’
• New Zealand wage freeze protested (photo box)
• Massachusetts: Warehouse workers fight for contract
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• S. Korea rail workers end strike over job cuts
• Newark pickets say, ‘Bring troops home now!’ (photo box)
• N.Y. rally condemns attack on abortion rights
• Workers turn bosses’ bribes against them by giving to Capital Fund
• Cuban Five: ‘We will continue until victory’
• N.Y. pickets: ‘Free Cuban Five now!’ (photo box)
• Health group withdraws from anti-Cuba letter
• Afro-Cubans defended anticolonial fighters
• Guineans rally at UN against junta’s massacre (photo box)
• The Bolshevik Revolution and women’s emancipation
• ‘Stewardship of nature’ printed in Greek
• Letters