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Newspaper of the Communist Workers Party, Volume 8, Issue 4. Includes articles on: Eddie Carthan’s continued hunger strike against his imprisonment and the arrest of several who protested Carthan’s imprisonment; Communist Workers Party (CWP) member Nelson Johnson calling for the dismissal of Greensboro police chief William Swing; court arguments for the Greensboro Civil Rights Fund (GCRF) to secure a special prosecutor for the Greensboro Massacre civil rights trial; the reconvening of the Greensboro Massacre Grand Jury; military developments in El Salvador; the wounding of an American soldier in El Salvador; a conflict between congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over documents the EPA director said Reagan marked as confidential; the decreasing unemployment rate; Hollywood movie stars partially financing a mercenary raid into Laos; national polls showing support for disarmament, cuts to military spending; a nuclear freeze national conference; a New Jersey plan to fingerprint children to make them easier to find if kidnapped, and the potential dangers of the program; Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov’s new domestic policy; a march to honor Iranian leaders who opposed and were killed by the Khomeini regime; the changing political situation in West Germany; an interview with Christelyn Henry, a senior producer of Radio Free Grenada; the history of Zionism and Israel; the way increased military spending is harming U.S. blacks; and an Independent Truckers Association strike against Reagan’s federal gas tax increase.