Newspaper of the Communist Workers Party, Volume 7, Issue 23. Includes articles on: Israel’s siege of Beirut; the expiration of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA); two Greensboro church leaders speaking out about the Greensboro Massacre as part of a fourth delegation to the Greensboro Massacre Grand Jury; the beating of black youth Luther Myles Jr. at the hands of police in Jackson Mississippi; a rebuttal by coroners of the police claims that black football player Ron Settles cause of death while in police custody was suicide; the ruling that current U.S. holding of Haitian refugees was illegal; the politics of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and its close ties to the Democratic party; attempts by the Local 595 United Auto Workers (UAW) union to reopen the negotiations of the UAW General Motors (GM) contract; Chinese members of International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) gathering to demonstrate solidarity for a decent contract between ILGWU and the Greater Blouse, Skirt, and Undergarment Association; a reflection on why communists need to form a national, democratic centralist party to lead things like the disarmament and anti-concession movements and a call for a Marxist-Leninist unity conference; a reflection on the 1980 death of Dr. Walter Rodney, the former leader of the Guyana’s Working Peoples’ Alliance, and the way the Guaynese government blamed Dr. Rodney’s brother Donald; the use of the U.S. space program to spy on the Soviets and serve the military; World Cup controversy over seeming collusion between Austrian and West German teams to keep Algeria from advancing; the premier of the film “Survivors” in Los Angeles; U.S. Democratic Party support of Israel; U.S. Jews speaking out positions on Israel’s actions; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convention and the NAACP’s strategy for opposing Reagan; and a democratic convention in Philadelphia to discuss strategy in opposing Reaganism.