Vol. 75/No. 36      October 10, 2011

News articles

• Solidarity gives boost to sugar workers’ fight
  1,300 fight 2-month lockout in Midwest
• Gov’t-paid journalists stoked bias in Cuban 5 trial
• US steps up killer drone hits in Yemen and Somalia
• Int’l campaign to win readers to workers’ paper is under way
• Steelworkers in Pa. rally against Armstrong’s union-busting drive
• Cuban 5: For a world free of death penalty
• Workers at Verizon pay for concessions on safety
• US gov’t prepares long-term Iraq presence
• UK agency workers strike banana plant, win support
• New York: ‘Cops left him to die alone’ (photo box)
• Inmates’ appeals spotlight torture by Chicago cops
• Union women’s auxiliary protests cop attack at port
• Two workers die in North Dakota oil fields amid bosses’ profit drive
• On the Picket Line
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• US rulers use Libya war to boost clout in Africa
• Cuba presses fight for return of René González
• ‘Workers must learn to act politically and think socially’