Vol. 76/No. 7      February 20, 2012

News articles

• Longshore workers win union at EGT terminal
  From California to Alaska, West Coast remains ILWU
• Athens deepens gov’t cuts and targets private industry workers
• Drive kicks off to win long-term subscribers to workers’ paper
• Hundreds protest killing of Black youth by New York cop
• Caterpillar shuts Canada plant, workers picket for severance pay
• Capitalist rule is source of violence, not of its decline
  Book serves as apology for imperialism’s brutal nature
• 4 workers killed in 7 months at Vale’s mines in Canada
• Women fight discriminatory hiring at Illinois mine
• Maine disclosure law undermines workers rights
• Locked-out tire workers in Ohio win solidarity
  Reach out from Serbian workers to Toledo students
• Wood donation aids sugar workers’ pickets (photo box)
• Using bankruptcy, American Airlines to lay off 13,000
• On the Picket Line
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• NY cops step up targeting of Black youth with drug laws, stop and frisk
• NZ gov’t presses frame-up of activists for Maori rights
• Australia: death in police custody sparks protest
• Malcolm X: ‘stop and frisk’ an ‘anti-Negro law’
• Correction