Vol. 75/No. 44      December 5, 2011

News articles

• Locked-out sugar workers ‘get word out’ on their fight
• Longshore workers prepare for long fight
  Battle union busting at Washington port
• US, Australian rulers deepen military ties, target China
• International subscription drive poised to go over top!
• Alabama immigrant rights marchers: ‘We’re not leaving’
• Economic, political crisis looms over capitalist Europe
• 5,000 rally to ‘free the Cuban 5’ in Holguín, Cuba
• Poultry workers strike in southeast Australia
• Supreme Court rejects death-row appeal in Texas
• Decade-long history of U.S. operations in Somalia
• Egypt: Protests spread against military rule (photo box)
• Antiabortion referendum defeated in Mississippi
• Party-Building Fund wins new contributors
• On the Picket Line
• Production, ‘safety’ bonuses aim ‘to bribe workers into silence’
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• U.S. gov’t steps up attacks on undocumented workers
• Chicago immigrant rights speakout slams Ala. arrests (photo box)
• Cuban daily reports on int’l meeting for Cuban 5
• Malcolm X sought to ‘wake people to their own worth’
• U.S. military organizes pullout from Iraq