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Newspaper of the Communist Workers Party, Volume 7, Issue 27. Includes articles on: Israel’s continuing attacks on Lebanon, and six U.S. Jews, members of the Jews Against the Israeli Massacre in Lebanon (JAIMIL), occupying Israel’s UN offices to protest the increased attacks; the growing struggle against the death penalty and mistreatment of prisoners; the first Haitian women to be released from Miami’s Krome Avenue Detention Center; the “Jobs. Peace & Equality†conference in New York City sponsored by the Federation for Progress (FFP); three Jewish elder statement calling for negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO); attempts by Japanese textbooks to whitewash Japan’s imperialist history; the barring of creative financing and low interest mortgages preventing U.S. workers from buying homes; the strategy of the U.S. government in co-opting and neutralizing the anti-nuclear movement; increasing joblessness, and other woes, as a sign of the deepening economic crisis facing the U.S.; an explanation of why they have chosen to call for federal prosecution for the Greensboro Massacre; a critique of Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOPs) and how they give the image, but not substance, of worker ownership of business; United Steel Workers of America (USWA) local presidents unanimously opposing a new contract with massive concessions; the effect of the political aftermath of the Falklands war on the U.S.; a call for nuclear disarmament in South Africa and Israel; a discussion of the 1982 world cup, and the West Germans and Austrians cooperating to oust Algeria; the Reagan administration adding user fees to previously free information; conflicts between black Dartmouth students and a hyper-conservative Dartmouth newspaper; and Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day Coalition demonstrations against nuclear weapons.