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Newspaper of the Communist Workers Party, Volume 6, Issue 4. Includes articles on: the murder of American Roman Catholic nuns and a social worker in El Salvador; the legal battle against the National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) Ironworkers Local 627 being put into a trusteeship by the International and against the firebombing charges of NASSCO labor leaders; forced school desegregation in Buckeye; how governmental actions in Boston have fostered an racial hatred and violence; a critique of Samuel R. Pierce, Reagan’s nominee for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; the FBI’s instigation of conflict between the Black Panther Party and the Jewish Defense League; Klan harassment of Chinese residents of Los Angeles; the slashing of pension benefits over 80000 railroad workers; a United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) strike for increased pension benefits and cost of living adjustment (COLA) for their wages; a new supreme court case that would decide whether employers are required to bargain with a union over an industry wide pension fund; pressure against the Reagan administration to drop Raymond Donovan’s labor secretary nomination; the auctioning off of the Wisconsin Steel plant in South Chicago; the injury and death of United States Postal Service (USPS) workers on the job; removal on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limits on maximum commercial length; the United Rubber Workers Local 138 contract negotiations; opposition to takebacks in a new Chrysler contract; the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Reagan’s inauguration; South Africa backing out of the Geneva Conference on Namibia; the potential take down of a monument to a white uprising against reconstruction in New Orleans; Polish Workers struggle; Bob Marley’s death; the fixing of college basketball games; and the political strings attached to the U.S. food aid program.