Vol. 72/No. 26      June 30, 2008

News articles

• Coal miners go on strike in Montana
  Ratify contract after 10-day walkout
• Cuban Five conference projects fall actions
• Mexico is torn apart by capitalist drug wars
• Flooding in Iowa devastates workers' homes, small farms
• Guantánamo prisoners gain right to challenge detentions
• ‘Book is must reading for working-class militants’
• 'We're fulfilling our pledge to join workers' struggles'
  Interview with socialist candidates
• Boston Socialist Workers candidate opposes 'Safe Homes' initiative
• Turkish shipyard workers walk off job
• Unemployment jumps to 5.5%
• New Zealand protest: ‘Free the Cuban Five’ (photo box)
• Capital Fund appeal stands at $34,000
• N.Y. picket protests grand jury probe (photo box)
• Dallas: construction worker killed on the job
• U.S. air strike kills 11 Pakistani soldiers
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Myanmar: workers resist military junta
• New Barrier to Cuba travel protested in Florida
• Leadership challenges in transition to socialism