Vol. 78/No. 8      March 3, 2014

News articles

• End solitary confinement! demand Calif. protesters
  Speakers at state hearing back prisoners’ fight
• Puerto Rico: Soaring debt, social crisis hit US colony
• ‘Productivity’ up, real wages down, workers pay for capitalist crisis
• Exhibit of paintings by one of Cuban Five opens in Montreal
• ‘Militant’ renewal drive off to good start
• Textile workers in Egypt strike over back pay, national wage
• Montenegro protests hit unemployment, gov’t
(photo box)
• ‘Blood money’ put to good use for working class
• ‘Workers should back fight against Russian domination’
  Militant Labor Forum discusses protests in Ukraine
• Ukraine gov’t cracks down on opposition protests
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• NKorea initiates family visits with South
• Opposition party found guilty in SKorea political frame-up trial
• Thousands pour into Havana Int’l Book Fair (photo box)
• Who are the Cuban Five?
• Teamsters in Illinois strike Bay Valley Foods plant
• Quebec hotel workers maintain picket line