Vol. 78/No. 46      December 22, 2014

News articles

• NY grand jury lets cop off who killed Eric Garner
• Fast-food workers hold ‘Fight for $15’ protests
• Turkish miners fight for wages, job safety
• Cuba ‘country of honor’ at Haiti book fair (photo box)
• Chicago socialist mayoral candidate: ‘Workers need own political party’
• Quebec marches protest cuts in gov’t services, attacks on labor
• Massey Energy boss indicted in 2010 W.Va. coal mine blast
  Union buster’s rise to prominence linked with UMW decline
  
• DC rally backs pregnant workers’ rights in UPS case
• New Zealand tenants protest gov’t plans to sell their homes
• ‘Socialism 2014’ conference meets in Malaysia (photo box)
• US sanctions, oil price drop take toll on Russian toilers
• Who are the Cuban Five?
• ‘Blood money’ bribes go to party Capital Fund
• Fight to free Cuban 5 wins backing at Beirut book fair
• Locked-out uranium workers in Illinois win support
• Housekeepers at Harvard-owned hotel strike for unionization
• Brooklyn gas workers push back concessions
• Rally in Brooklyn backs locked-out ‘carwasheros’
• Texas aerospace workers end one-month strike
• Correction