Vol. 75/No. 30      August 22, 2011

News articles

• 45,000 strike against Verizon’s takebacks
  ‘They’re coming after all us workers’
• ‘Green shoots’ nipped in bud by capitalist contraction
• Workers fight lockout by American Crystal Sugar
• Maryland: nine days of actions defend women’s right to choose
• UK gov’t boosts cops as police killing sparks street unrest
• Growth of interns part of attack on worker solidarity
• The unique history of Chinese in Cuba: from independence wars to socialist revolution
  Presentation at Guangzhou, China, conference on 150-year continuity of struggle underlying Cuba’s proletarian revolution and its worldwide example
• Rally protests closing of yet another NY hospital
• Alabama march stands up for immigrant rights (photo box)
• Calif. rally protests cop killing of homeless man
• 5 New Orleans cops convicted for 2005 shooting
• Illinois uranium workers: ‘We fought a good fight’
• Leader of Roquette struggle backs sugar workers
• On the Picket Line
• Corn-processing workers in Iowa discuss lessons of recent lockout fight
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Socialist in NY campaigns for jobs, workers power
• An apology to readers
• What workers can learn from 1990-91 capitalist crisis