Vol. 76/No. 47      December 24, 2012

News articles

• Gov’t jobless stats increasingly out of step with workers’ reality
• Egyptian president moves to restrict political rights
  Amid mass protests, workers defend space to organize
• Drive to win readers builds momentum in home stretch
• New Pentagon spy unit, drones part of shift in long-term US military strategy
• Killing of Florida teen spurs protests demanding repeal of pro-vigilante law
• Factory fires in S. Asia show need for union in safety fight
• Bosses ‘didn’t want union,’ close mine after worker killed
• S. African farmworkers’ strikes end, but wages fight is not over
• Anti-abortion laws struck down by Oklahoma Supreme Court
• Socialist Workers Party wins new fund contributors across US
• Socialists campaign in Omaha for gov’t-funded jobs program
• Socialist Workers Party launches campaign in Chicago
• Human Rights Day: Thousands march in Israel (photo box)
• Illinois miner tells story of fight for safety on job
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Tunisian unions strike, answer attacks from pro-gov’t Islamists
• First military defeat for U.S. imperialism in the Americas
• ‘Cliff’ or no cliff, workers go to the wall