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Newspaper of the Communist Workers Party, Volume 7, Issue 18. Includes articles on: the Falklands war; community outrage after a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) chief made racist remarks justifying an officers lethal chokehold of a black man; violence against the black and the poor in Boston; the city of Miami’s harassment of Leo Harris, one of the leaders in the Miami Riots; organizing in Hoboken New Jersey for federal investigation into arson fires that left 28 people dead, with suspicion that landlord were behind the fires; a rally for Ed Asner after the cancellation of the “Lou Grant†TV show following Asner’s declaration of support for the people of El Salvador; the attempts of American Standard to bust the United Electrical Workers Local 610 union over a new contract and what it means for future union contract negotiations; the rising human cost of Israel’s occupation of Palestine; African Liberation Day (ALD) fighting against Reaganism; a reflection on the currents within the disarmament movement after Reagan presented himself as in favor of disarmament; a reflection on how Workers Viewpoint has reviewed the film “Redsâ€; the continuing fight against the Blitz amendment; Project Censored, a project to cover stories that weren’t sufficiently covered in mass media; and a compromise to the Voting Rights Act and the potential damage the compromise could do.