Vol. 79/No. 27      August 3, 2015

News articles

• SWP candidates campaign for $15/hour, unionization
  Call for labor party based on the unions
• Cuba opens DC embassy, presses call to lift embargo
• US-Iran deal heightens contradictions in Mideast
• Fight against cop brutality grows in year since Eric Garner was killed
• From Ukraine to Baltics, Moscow seeks to extend sphere of influence
• ‘Blockade must be lifted, Guantánamo returned’
  Speech by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on reopening of Cuban Embassy in US after 54 years
• Calif.: ‘Join monthly protests against solitary confinement’
• Montreal: ‘Don’t deport Haitians, Zimbabweans’
• Malcolm X: revolutionary leader of the working class
• Fatal factory blasts highlight UK bosses’ drive for profits
• L.A. port truck drivers strike to expand union (photo box)
• Pope visits Latin America, appeals to poor, oppressed
• NY picket: ‘Stop attacks on workers in Puerto Rico!’ (photo box)
• Drop charges against Harding now!
• United flight attendants hold international day of action
• Seattle hospital workers demand more nurses per patient
• Washington farm workers union marches to demand contract