Vol. 77/No. 2      January 21, 2013

News articles

• ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal prepares gov’t austerity aimed at workers
• Bipartisan vote continues NSA phone, Internet spy program
• Mounting evictions in Spain meet resistance
  4.85 million jobless, capitalist crisis deepens
• Reunification is driving force of politics on Korean Peninsula
• ‘There’s no other paper like the ‘Militant’ telling workers’ side’
• New Egypt constitution targets workers’ rights
  Unionist: ‘Laws forbid strikes, yet people strike’
• India: Brutal rape ignites ongoing protests against abuse of women
  Religious guru blames victim, others disregard rights of accused
• Meeting in Greece discusses two new books on Cuban Revolution
• Party-Building Fund goes over top with boost from new contributors!
• Lawsuit condemns extensive use of ‘solitary’ in New York prisons
  Ex-prisoner: ‘They use it to break you. It should be abolished’
• NY meeting: ‘Release Oscar López and Cuban 5!’ (photo box)
• Who are the Cuban Five
• On the Picket Line
• Workers donate bosses’ speedup bribes to communist movement
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Court upholds secrecy of gov’t assassination protocol
• Gov’t curbs on reactionary speech counter to workers’ interests