Newspaper of the Communist Workers Party, Volume 7, Issue 7. Includes articles on: the beginning of the trial of anti-Apartheid activists Mike Young and John Spearman; growing fear of the depression across the media; Reagan’s “Caribbean Basin Initiative” and his attitude towards Latin America; the convening of an extra grand jury for the Greensboro Massacre civil rights suit; members of the National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP) confronting representative Eugene Johnston’s aide over Johnston’s policy decisions, and an open letter condemning Johnson’s actions; the Reagan administration’s Commission on Housing recommending that all rent controls be erased; the hunger strike prisoners incarcerated in Restrictive Housing Units (RHU) over inhumane conditions; an interview with a Professional Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) union member; a New York Times article on the PATCO strike and why it failed; selections from a forthcoming Communist Workers Party (CWP) pamphlet on the task of communists; shifts in China’s stance towards the United States; a review of the movie “Taps”; the nuclear weapons between the U.S. and South Korea; a critique of Reagan’s plan to shift the burden of several federal programs onto states; a reflection on John Gofman’s book “Radiation and Human Health”; Helm’s condemnation of El Salvador’s government as being too far left; anti U.S. involvement in El Salvador protests in Fayetteville North Carolina and Jersey City New Jersey.