Vol. 79/No. 5      February 16, 2015

News articles

• Castro: End US embargo, normalize Cuba relations
• Nat’l oil workers strike fights for job safety
  Walkout at 9 refineries largest since 1980
• Pipeline debate ignores energy needs of world’s toilers
• Ukraine coal miners protest gov’t attacks as war in east takes toll
• Lawsuits challenge new Penn. law silencing prisoners, press
• Locked-out British Columbia rail workers keep up fight for safety
• Turkish metalworkers protest government order to end strike
• 18,000 Kaiser nurses in California win pay raise, increased staffing
• Chicago socialist: ‘Cuba shows how to fight’ (photo box)
• ‘Selma’ shows power of fight, distorts place of Malcolm X
• Workers fight frame-up for Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
• Economic crisis in Russia pierces myth of Putin genius
• Membership drop poses need to rebuild unions
• Seattle program: ‘Paintings show spirit of Cuban Five’
• ‘Our fight for justice was a fight to defend Cuba’
  Excerpt from new book ‘Absolved by Solidarity’
• Video ‘Cuba and Chernobyl’ is now available