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1977

NUMBER 1, April 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Labor’s Big Year: What a Fraud!

FLOC: Fighting for Farm Workers, by Jean Walbridge

• “In a factory, or in the fields, it’s the same thing” – Baldemar Velasquez

UPS’ Believe It or Not! by Anne Mackie

Feds Frame Union Organizers

Nursing Homes: Rotten Conditions for All, by Ben Blake

Rats and Roaches – A Rent Strike

Egyptian Workers in Revolt: “We Will Not Starve”, by Ahmed Shawki

Southern Africa–U.S.A.: Their Struggle is Our Struggle

Editorial

• The International Socialist Organization

Nigel Harris to Speak on “World Crisis”

Teamster Rebels Expelled, by Patricia Gilman

No Comment

• Butter Mountain
• Only $168,834,615
• Allis-Chalmers
• Gone
• Price Fixing

Coke Strike: It’s the Real Thing

In Black and White

• Cheap Shots at Id Amin: There’s More Than One “Wild Man” in the World, by Michael Long

Why My Husband Is Being Deported, by Angela Agee

Another Broken Promise: Organize the South

• J.P. Stevens: The First Big Target
• General Motors Moves South

Cleveland Plant Closes, by Dan Pearson

Shoulder to Shoulder

• The Bloody Battle of Gastonia, by Barbara Winslow

The Unions

• Miners Elections: The Issue Is Rank and File Control
• Steelworkers elections: Tough Enough?

Book Review

• “The Power of Women”, by Patricia Gilman

Fannie Lou Hamer: Sharecropper, Organizer, Leader

Defend the Left Press in Britain: North American Appeal

We Need Money Too!

Where We Stand

Socialist Worker Exclusive: Russian Workers – The Unknown Dissidents, by Cal Winslow

Ashley Leach Takes the Stand: “I broke the law, but the law ain’t right”

‘Don’t Drink the Water, Don’t Breathe the Air’

Boston – 1,000 Say No to the Cuts

All the Bucks Stop Here (cartoon), by R. Cobb

Busses Don’t Roll in Indy

Gay Teacher Fired

Scabs on Teachers

Imperial Wizard Says: “There is going to have to be a violent struggle, and we’re getting ready”

Women: Last Hired, First Fired

• Women Only Work So They Can Buy Luxuries … (cartoon), [_by Evans_]

Louisville Women Support Prisoners

“It’s Like a War Here”

• Non-union Mine
• Troopers Intervene

NUMBER 2, May 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Carter Says Sacrifice, But ...
The Rich Won’t Suffer

South Africa: Soweto Rises Again!

UPS—Pity the Poor Stupidvisor, by Anne Mackie

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Servant Problem
• Culinary Politics
• War Goes Better with Coke
• Travel Tips,
• Cop-Out
• All’s Fair
• Rights Of Man?

What Does a Teamster Bureaucrat Do When He is Voted Out of a Job? by G.E.

National Secretaries Week: Office Workers Picket for Higher Wages (photo)

“Hijacked Again”, by Milton Fisk

TDU Case Locked in Court

Behind Closed Doors: Steel Contract Settled, by Tom Freeman

20,000 Cincinnati Teachers: “It’s up to us to force a change”, by Bill Reed

Markley and Suares Sentenced, by Randall Howarth

The Plan That Broke Local 6, by Cal Winslow

• Post 15 Plead Guilty, by C.W.
• Publisher Katherine Graham

Violence Continues at Stearns Strike

The Battle Inside Zaire, by A.S.

• Mobutu Fills His Pockets
• Mercenary Recruiting
• Western Imperialism from Congo to Zaire, by Ahmed Shawki

In Black and White

• The Roots of American Slavery, by Michael Long

Editorial

• The Washington Post Strike – Working Class Defeat

All of Michigan Poisoned – PBB: The Cancer Timebomb

• Fired For Checking Contamination Level
• The Factory That Makes the Poison

Shoulder to Shoulder

• May Day, by Barbara Winslow
• May Day, 1932, by John Anderson

The Unions

• Protectionism: Higher Prices – No Guarantee on Jobs, by Pat Morgan
• In the Tradition of Reuther and Woodcock, by John Anderson

The Working Class in the People’s China, An Interview with Nigel Harris

Five Young African-American Men Face Execution in Georgia (photo)

Dues Cheater

Letters

• Black Scholar, from Eunice Massie
• K.C. Teachers’ Strike, from Randy Stannard
• Steel Elections, from Pat Morgan

ISO Members Attend International Rally, by P.G.

Where We Stand

Book Review

• Why You Should be A Socialist, by Bill Reed

The Hundred Points, An underground song sung by the Plastic Peoples Band in Czechoslovakia

General Meat Divers Strike, by Jack Pallet

Ashby Leach Jailed

Our Norman (cartoon), [_by Evans_]

Students Demonstrate

Militant Framed, by Wayne Standley

Seattle Bus Drivers Face Cuts

Gay Rights, by Amy Tyson & Robin Latta

Bedinghaus Strike In Third Month, by Ellen Donnelly

“Lousy as Hell”

Dayton Power and Light: Lean Years Are Setting in, by Bruce de Voze & Ellis Jacobs

Oilworker Report, by Melody Lacy

Atlanta: It’s Up Against the Wall Now! by Todd Jefferson

• 1,000 Workers Fired
• [60 AFCSME Strikers Force Their Way into Mayor Jackson’s Office]

NUMBER 3, June 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Prices Going Up, Up, Up

Supreme Court Rulings Attack Workers; OK Racism

Malcolm X on Africa

Cinci Black Caucus Charges: Racism at United Parcel

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Want a Lift?
• Christmas Advances
• Tear Gas & Fire Hoses
• Gossip
• Help Wanted
• It’s Enough to Drive You Crazy
• Taxes and Taxes

Farmworkers Picket Pageant, by Sue Daniels

Tenants Fight City And Win a Victory, by Kent Worcester

Andrew Young Plays the Fool

This Company Sells Guns That Help Keep White Power in South Africa, by Amy Tyson

Building the ISO

• A Realistic Alternative Is Needed for Workers Who Hate This System, by Cal Winslow

FLOC: “We’ve Been Spit at, Sworn at ...”, by Carla A. Moody

Editorial

• Agreement to Do Nothing

Economic Summit: Mr. Peanut Goes to London, by Milton Fisk

Africa

• “We Will Not Pay”, by Ahmed Shawki
• May Massacre

The Phoney General Strike in Ireland, by James O’Donnnell

Gary Tyler Appeal Denied

N.Y. Curbs Sterilization Abuse: It’s a Woman’s Right, by Karen Woods

Success at Milton Bradley: First Strike in 36 Years, by D.M.

A Report on “Illegal” Workers; Their Only Crime Is Wanting to Work, by Patricia Gilman

L.A. Immigration Bust: “Tell my husband not to worryv...”, by Mary Deaton

1933: A Massive Strike of Migrants, by Babara Winslow

The Unions

• Telephone Contract: The Time to Fight is Now, by Harold Kincaid
• Hospital Costs: Profit is the Problem, by Pat Morgan

In Russia, They Jail the Socialists, Interview with Leonid Pliouchtch

Polish Student Murdered

Letters

• CETA: A Job With No Future, from Robin Latta
• Evictions, from S.D.

May Day in Indiana (photo)

British Socialist Worker Appeal Hits Target

Where We Stand

Book Review

• It’s One Working Class: Blue Collar-White Collar, by Milton Fisk

Remember Kent State! (photo)

In Brief

• Washington Post Pressman Jailed
• Cincinnati Teachers Back to Work
• Atlanta: The Struggle Continues, by Todd Jefferson

Apathy in UMWA Elections, but Wildcats Rage On

State Workers Want Strike, by S.W.

Another Trial for Yvonne Wanrow

Rank and File Report

• “We Have Opposite Loyalties”, by Melody Lacey

Hood River Nurses Strike: ‘Company’s Union’ Beaten, by Karen Woods

Israel: A Murderer in Power

Wilmington 10 Appeal Denied: Political Prisoners U.S.A.

NUMBER 4, July 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Our Rights Are Under Attack ... Workers, Blacks, Gays, Women
We’d Better Fight Back

Detroit, July 1967, by Babara Winslow

• The Fire This Time
• Algiers Motel Incident: “If I must die, better it be on Linwood than somewhere in Saigon”

Former CIA Agent Phil Agee Forced to Leave Britain (photo)

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• It’s Time To Get Out And Fight

The Killer Are The Courts and Congress

No Return To The Back Street Butchers! (photo)

The Anti-Gay Movement: Advance Guard Of Reaction, by D. Roberts

Profit Margins Lag: Economic Troubles Worry Big Business, by Milton Fisk

Bloomington, Indiana: The Anatomy of a Scab Town

• A New Market for Parasites
• It’s Also A Striking Town (photos)

Workers Fighting Back

Westinghouse: Two Strikes in Two Months

Louisville General Hospital: Abortions Banned, by Christina Bergmark

Grafitti, by Patricia Gilmore

• No Smiling
• Goodbye Rocky
• And No Lusting
• Stuff the Jubilee!
• Protecting Private Property
• Save A Little (cartoon)
• Prince Charles, Meet Kim Gordon (photo)
• Shape Up, Kids
• Pig Department

A “Crime” in South Africa

“Silent No More”, by Sue Daniels

International News

• Spain: The Left and the Election
• Spain: Franco’s Heirs Rule
• Britain: These Police Break Strikes

South Africa

• “Nothing to Lose”
• Soweto: One Year Later
• The Struggle Continues, Barney Mkgatkle, South African student leader, talks with Ahmed Shawki

The Unions

• More of the Same in the UMW
• Local Strikes Threaten Peace for Steel Union Bosses by Dan Pearson
• ENA: The Monkey on Your Back (cartoon)
• Tough Talk at CWA Convention, by Harold Kincaid

The Murder of Fred Hampton, Interview with Bill Hampton by Ben Blake

Letters

• A Diabolical Situation, from Victor E. Moorhouse
• 10,000 People, from Sue Doan
• Thanks, from Melody Lacey
• W.Va. Sub, from P.K.
• Democracy is Essential, from Maryly Burrows

Where We Stand

Book Review

• Southern Africa in Revolt, by Mike Egan

Children’s Books

• Yertle the Turtle, by Sharon Peterson

New Struggle in Holyoke

Union In-Fighting Spoils Seattle Clerk’ Strike

Eight Months Out, by Kevin Murphy

“The Unions are Feeble, the Wages are Low”

Connecticut Cuts Comp Costs, by Robin Latta

My Fight to Keep my Kids, Bitzy Gomez interviewed by Mary Deaton

Spying on Postal Carriers

Join In, Boycott Coors

Profits While People Starve: The Grain Hoarders

On Death Row: Gary Hawes, Age 16 (photo)

NUMBER 5, August 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

They Shoot Strikers

• in Elwood, Indiana
• and Stearns, Kentucky

Did Someone Mention Looting?

And ‘Animals’ in the Night?

The Klan: Deadly and Growing, by Patricia Gilman

• Frank Collins: The Man Who Thinks He’s Hitler

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Stop the Fascists

Why Volkswagen Came to the U.S.A., by Joe White

Grafitti, by Patricia Gilmore

• Black Books Banned
• It’s Official ... Cops Dangerous (photo)
• Pay If You Do – Pay If You Don’t
• Pay As You Stay In Uruguay
• All Work – No Pay
• An Offer They Couldn’t Refuse
• They Start ’Em Young! (photo)
• God Punishes California

International News/World in Struggle

• Pakistan: Bhutto Overthrown
• Britain in Focus: 18,000 Trade Union Pickets Stop Grunwick, by John Charleton
• “A Wall Across the Road”, by Bob Light

No Strike at Inland Steel, by Tom Fahey

Sacco and Vanzetti: Working Class Martyrs, by Barbara Winslow

• Sacco’s Last Words

• to Judge Thayer

• to His Son

• Vanzetti’s Own Defense: “ I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical”

• We Are Two Nations, by John Dos Passos

• Fifty Years too Late!

Letters

• ‘Christian Hordes’ Invade Women’s Rights Conference, from MJS
• Barney Mokgatle (photo), from T.M.
• Sound Arguments, from Todd Jefferson
• Terror on the Border, from Nigel Harris
• Stop Union Busting, from J.T.

Where We Stand

Reviews

• The Klan, by Christina Bergmark

The Unions

• Essex Wire Strike: “I Heard Three Shots and Then Saw Her Go Down”, by Kathy Whalen
• 800 People Support Nurses
• More Deaths in Mines

Tent City at Kent State

• Why We’re Here
• Student Leader Tells: What’s behind the Struggle at Kent State
• The Fight Continues

Strike Ma Bell! “This is the Year to Win”, by Harold Kincaid

Rhodesia’s Deepest Crisis, by Alex Callinicos

• Victory Closer for Freedom Fighters

Soweto Students Score a Victory

NUMBER 6, September 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

They Stole Our Jobs, by Duncan West

Women: The Attacks Continue

New York City:A Socialist Analysis

• When the Lights Went Out on Private Property, by Milton Fisk
• The Bankers in Control

“King Carter”: The Fortune Was Made by Slaves

The International Anti-Nuclear Movement, by Bill Reed

What We Think: Socialist Worker

• Nuclear Power Politics

The Coors Strikers Must Win, by Mary Deaton

• But Can this Boycott Defeat Joe Coors?

Shoulder to Shoulder

• Molly Maguires: The First to Fight, by Barbara Winslow

Trident Base Protest

The Dayton Firefighter: Why We Struck, A Socialist Worker Interview

“Remember the Past” (photo)

Snooper Supes at UPS, by Anne Mackie

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Ford’s Got Another Dumb Idea
• Avoid Long Lunch Lines
• Murder Memo
• Wasting Time Is A Crime
• He Even Took Their Sewage
• Sterling Coca Cola Glass (photo)

International News/World In Struggle

• “We Stopped the Nazis”, by Nina Streich
• Israel: New Evidence of Torture, by Mike Egan
• What the US Left Behind

Phone Contract: Sold Out Again, by Harold Kincaid

Northern Ireland: Rule by Naked Force, A Report by Bernadette Devlin

Letters

• Contract Gets Angry Reception, from Jim Feathers
• Sacco and Vanzetti Issue Still Alive, from Marianne Hall
• “Star Wars”, from Nina Streich
• Elvis ..., from Susan Brody
• A Class of Slave Labor, from Patricia Buck Wolf
• “A Good Year for Death”, from C.C.M., Jr.

Africa In Struggle

• The Role of Russia in Africa, by Michael Long

Briefs

ISO Summer Schools

Duncan Hallas to Speak

Where We Stand

Reviews

• Against Our Will, by Deborah Roberts
• The Other Marx, by Martin Adams

Essex Wire: It’s One Struggle

The Miners Fight On

500 March for Striking Mechanics

A New Anti-busing Rampage

US Hosts Pinochet: The Butcher of Chile Comes to Washington

Support the Farmworkers

Victory for Dawson 5: But the Frame-Up Continues

[Execution] (cartoon), by Feiffer

Campus Custodians Refuse Cuts: Philadelphia Teamsters Fired

1,000 March for Abortion Rights

Racist Arsenal Uncovered in Louisville, by Christina Bergmark

Nazis Are Killers

NUMBER 7, October 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

New Crisis in Steel: The Death of Two Ohio Towns, by Pat Morgan

The Crisis in the Steel Industry: 96,000 Jobs Will Be Lost Before Steel Is “Rational”, by Pat Morgan

Meanwhile ... The United States is Becoming a Scab Country

The Issue Is Not ‘Qualification,’ It is Racism and Sexism, by Patricia Gilman

• Quotas: Here Are the Facts, by Karen Woods

What We Think: Socialist Worker

• US Out of Panama!
• Bakke Decision

Support the L.A. Alltrans Workers! by Duncan West

Talking about socialism … Marxism Made Easy

• The State, the Party, and the Revolution, by Scott Winslow

“Essex Will Stop At Nothing”, by Kathy Whalen

• Support Rally Held
• Essex Thrives on Violence, by Joann Underwood

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• All in Defense of the Free World
• We Pay Taxes: And Them That’s Got Gets
• Goodbye, Loan Ranger (photo)
• Is Your Boss a Wimp?
• Billy Beer
• Anyway, Winter’s Coming
• A Triumph for the System
• It’s Ms. Typhoid Mary
• If we give up the Canal ... (cartoon), by Marlette
• George Meany (quote)
• Accumulate – That Is Moses and the Prophets

International News/World In Struggle

• 25 Years of Tyranny: The Shah’s Iran, by Eli Povey & Ahmed Shawki
• This is ‘White Civilization’ – Rhodesia: A Racist Camp in Africa

Red October: Sixty Years Ago, by Babara Winslow

Seattle 1917: The Year American Workers Welcomed Revolution, by Harvey O’Connor

• Solidarity
• An American in Petrograd

Letters

• Now They Blame the Wives, from Wayne Standly
• And I thought UPS was bad! from Randy Stannard
• West Virginia Report, from C.M.
• Anita Bryant, from Elaine Roesch

Allende’s Chile: The “Peaceful” Road to Socialism, by Geoff Ellen

Militant Students Win: Racist Stocks Sold, by Mike Egan

Seattle Women’s Conference is Step Forward

Bill Hampton Speaks in New England

Where We Stand

Reviews

• 1917: How The Russian Workers Took Power, by Milton Fisk and David Norris
• What The Women Won

Franklin Teachers: The Union is at Stake, by Peter Lowber

Stop the Gym! (photos)

Congress Hits Abortion Again

Gilcrest’s Picketed, by Kent Worcester

State Employees Fight “Discipline”, by Wayne Standley

TDU Holds 2nd Convention, by Anne Mackie and Cal Winslow

Kent State: The Spirit Lives On

Steve Biko: “He Was One of Our Greatest Leaders”, Interview with Majakathata Mokoena

NUMBER 8, November 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

[EDITOR:
_Cal Winslow_]

Get the U.S. Out of South Africa

Essex Striker Beaten: “Next time, I’ll be prepared”

“The court’s message is clear: don’t be honest, don’t be open”, Interview with Jim Gaylord by Diane Eggleston

Carter, Young and the “Arms Embargo”: It's Hypocrisy – South Africa Will Get the Guns, by Michael Letwin

• U.S. Investments in South Africa

What We Think: Socialist Worker

• The ‘Embargo’ Is a Fraud

300 Rally for Essex Strikers

New England GM Workers Fight Over-time

Talking about Socialism ...

• We Rely on the Power of the Working Class

Boeing: 17,00 on Strike, by Michelle Celarier

Giant Tax Breaks: Carter's Made a Promise to the Steel Barons, by Pat Morgan

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Poor Little Rich Boy
• Anita ... Right On! (photo)
• High Class
• It’s Only For Morale
• Write On!
• Klan on Patrol
• Good Grief!
• Here’s One Way to Make a Killing
• Medicaid Patient ... (cartoon), by jorgy

International News/World In Struggle

• New Strike Wave Hits Eastern Europe
• 500,000 Workers: Huge Protest in Spain
• Arrests in Australia
• Another Massacre in Ethiopia
• Argentine Women Demonstrate
• Czech Dissidents Sentenced

The Mineworkers Today: The Rank and File is Militant, but the Union is in Trouble, by Cal Winslow

• Police Attack Stearns Miners

1,000’s Protest Bakke Decision

Letters

• Blame the Steelmakers, from K.S.
• Not All Technology Is Neutral, from S.L.
• Is Klan at Essex? from D.M.
• Other Whites Had Lower Scores, from Deborah Roberts
• This Is a Bill That’s Too Liberal for Massachusetts, from Kent Worcester

L.A. truckers as strike sanction, by Duncan West

Reviews

• How We Almost Lost Detroit, by Christina Bergmark
• It’s a One-Man Show, by Barbara Winslow

Duncan Hallas Speaks for ISO

Portland Anti-Bakke Demo Draws 200

Socialist Worker Fund Appeal

Anita in Indy, by Cathy Cesnik

Where We Stand

Two Years Ago in Portugal: The Workers Were Not Far from Power, by Barbara Winslow

Why They Want to Close Cleveland’s Schools, by Betsy Lewis

Hispanic Council Reports: No American Dream Here

Virginia Teamsters Invest in Non-Union Trucking

Women Workers Sterilized in Pennsylvania Zinc Plant

Abortion Amendment Delays Wage Increase, by Wayne Standley

Students Support Strikers: Here’s Your Garbage, Yale, by Amy Tyson

Showdown in the Coalfields

NUMBER 9, December 1977

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Why The Miners Deserve Your Support

Racist Murder: New York to South Africa – It’s All The Same

• Steve Biko

Cleveland Teachers Out: Banks, Racists Cause School Crisis

Two Miners Talk About Why They Are Striking

• Abbot: “Miners Are Stubborn ...”
• Forms: “We Want a Lot ...”

A Euro Scab Is a Scab, by Amy Tyson

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• We All Need: The Right to Strike

Support the miners! – Forms: “It’s Not Just the UMW ...”

Talking About Socialism ...

• ... And How We Get There

Seattle Metro Drivers Get the Flu, by Diane Eggleston

Who’s Side Are You On? An Open Letter to UAW President Doug Fraser, from John W. Anderson

Essex Strikers Get Support at Detroit Meeting

Gary Tyler: Political Prisoner

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• The Economy Is in the Doldrums, and It’s Going to Stay There

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Smart People Need Not Apply
• Refresher Course
• Avoid Rashness, Please
• No Place to Swim
• Jimmy Carter Shakes Hands With the Shah of Iran (photo)
• Here’s a Cottage for You (ad from Town & Country Magazine)
• Don’t Be Late, But ...

International News/World In Struggle

• Britain: Firemen Lead New Wave of Working Class Militancy, by Scott Winslow
• Rumania: Troops Occupy Mining Regions
• Australians Protest Uranium Export, by Tom O’Lincoln

Stearns Miners Vow to Fight On, by Christina Bergmark

Houston Women: Out of the Streets and into the Mainstream, by Barbara Winslow

• “They Don’t Want Me Here”, by Kate Millett
• Danger on the Right ... and in the Middle

Letters

• Don’t Talk to the Party Man, from Melody Lacey
• We Are Concerned About Violence Against Women, from Boston WAVAW
• No Klan, from J.T.
• I Wish They’d Choked, from Elaheh Povey
• Iron City Woes, from Joe White
• Impressive Demo, from Kirk Lambert

Workers’ Power Is the Only Road to Socialism in Africa, by Ahmed Shawki

Smith starts negotiations with a massacre

Socialist Worker Subscription Drive

New Members in New England

Where We Stand

Reviews

• Scenes from Portugal, by Kent Worcester
• Bridges Is Revolutionary Politics and Funky Jazz, by Todd Jefferson

Vote Supports Coke Strike

Grocery Strike Over: We Were Sold Out, But Not Defeated, by Gloria Park

Boston Boycotts J.P. Stevens

Portland demo: “Ban the Kruggerrand”, by Karen Woods

Crabshell meet

Alltrans Strike in 4th Month, by Duncan West

Framed and Fired: “I don’t accept the B.S. UPS hands Down”, by Anne Mackie

Ford: Where Killing Is the ‘Better Idea’, by Patricia Gilman

Sadat: The Arch Appeaser

• Why He Went

1978

NUMBER 10, January 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

The Bitter Fight in the Mines

A Bitter Defeat for the Elwood Strikers: Interview with Georgia Ellis, by Celia Petty

• The Union Isolated the Strikers, then Settled, by Milt Fisk
• An Opinion: We Could Have Won, by John Anderson

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Rank and File Miners Can Still Win Coal Strike

Stearns Report

• Louisville Workers Give Support
• Strikers Released

Two Explosions Rock Millstone Nuclear Power Plant, by John Baxter

Why You Should Be a Socialist

• We Are the Majority

Seattle Metro: Bus Drivers Fight to Keep Full-time Jobs

Cincinnati: The Newspaper Monopolies, by Bill Roberts

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Made in the USA
• Crime in the Suites
• Day Dreaming Is a Crime and Will Not Be Tolerated
• Very Friendly
• “I Could Have Bought a Lear Jet”
• Judge of the Month
• Kojak in Cage
• Planning

A Search for the Perfect Soldier, by Bertolt Brecht

World in Struggle

• Andalusia – One Million Demonstrate
• Portugal: The Test
• Rhodesia
• Dissident Miner
• Chile Vote
• War in S.E. Asia

Class War in Colorado, by Barbara Winslow

• Evicted by the Copper Bosses; Company Town Closed

The Monster That is Killing Lark

Letters

• “No!” to a Sister City in Chile, from Susan Doan
• More on Humphrey-Hawkins, from David Jagger
• Markley, Suares Lose Appeal, from Michael Egan
• Tragedy at American Bosch, from Larry Howes
• But What About the System? from Peter Court

Why Socialists Support the Struggle of the Palestinian Resistance

Where We Stand

Reviews

• The Little Tramp, by Deborah Roberts
• “Julia” – The Friendship of Two Women

The Unions

• Clerical Workers Win, by Susan Hammond & Michael Egan
• Hospital Workers Organize to Fight Cut-backs, by Wayne Standley
• Bus Drivers Strike Broken

Political Prisoners USA

• Dawson 5
• Joan Little
• Wilmington 10

AFL-CIO Convention: George Meany Declares War on Japan, Surrenders at Home, by Pat Morgan

“Kroger’s” – A New Name for Union Busting in Louisville

Back UPS Down – Defend Ed Walker

Israel’s Plan to Keep the West Bank

NUMBER 11, February 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

New Attack on Abortion

Welder Shot: Another Murder on the Picket Line

We Want Puerto Rico to be Free

• Interview with Steven Guerra, by Bill Roberts

Our Town, by Anne Mackie

Editorials: What We Think

• Pardon Denied Wilmington Ten: There is No Justice for Blacks in the “New South”
• Stop Investments in South Africa

[Supreme Court Gives Nazis the Right to March in Skokie]

Longest National Strike

• But Miners Fight On
• Retirees Lose Pensions: No Checks This Month
• Bill Worthington Wants a “New Movement”
• Melvin Harbin Remembers Pay of $2 a Day
• “Pray for the Dead, But Fight Like Hell for the Living” (Mother Jones)
• District 17 Miners Discuss the Threat of Western Coal

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fiske

• Jimmy Carter’s New Tax-cut Plan: Another Giveaway to Big Business

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• No Negatives, Please
• An Award to Kill
• Just Good friends
• Put-up or ...
• Unemployment (cartoon & comment)
• It Was for Christmas

The State of the Union – Nothing for Blacks, Women, The Working Poor, The Unemployed, by Pat Morgan

Hubert Humphrey, by Barbara Winslow

1977: It was a Good Year for Business

Why You Should Be a Socialist

• We Don’t Have to Have Famine, by Kadi Sprengle

Wisconsin Newspaper Strikers Have Their Own Paper, by Sharon Petersons

International News

• Britain: Firemen Beaten
• Black Nationalists Close in on White Rule in Rhodesia
• Facts of White Rule
• Blacks Talking to Smith
• Italian CP to Join the Government?

How a Beautiful Clear Lake-like Stream Was Turned into a Cesspool, by Harold Kincaid

• Don’t Wait for Congress to Help

Letters

• N.H. Governor Admires South African Regime, from Kevin Murphy
• Puerto Rican Activist Freed in Chicago, from Tim Kosnoff
• Why Sadat Needs Help, from Ahmed Shawki
• Post Office Workers Support Striking Miners, from Steve McFadden
• Andrew Young Dodges Students, from Paul D’Amato

Impressions of a Trip to People’s China

• For the Women Progress, But Not Liberation, by Jean Maunder

A Socialist Worker Analysis

• Behind the New War in S.E. Asia: Imperialism Was Defeated in Vietnam, But as a System It Survives

Australian Socialist in Seattle

Bloomington Holds Meeting with Feminist Historian

Where We Stand

Reviews

• ... And I Think About Prison (poem), by Todd Jefferson
• Punk Music Is Raw Working Class Aggression, by Kent Worcester

The Unions

• Court Says UPSurge is “Protected” by First Amendment
• Unions Gain Against J.P. Stevens
• Victory at Magic Pan
• Ed Walker Still Fighting
• Postal Contract Expires in June
• Kroger’s Workers Get a Win in Louisville Contract Fight, by Christina Bergmark
• Bagel Bakers Hit the Bricks; Fight for Better Conditions

Political Prisoners USA

• Help Clemmie Moultrie
• Two Nurses Cleared
• Joan Little is Free

The Security Business: $2.50 an hour and a gun ... but it’s a job, by Patricia Goldsmith

Alltrans Pickets Still Fighting

Hundreds Jailed in Canton Teacher’s Strike

Stop South Africa Investments: You Can Help These Children

Indiana Students Plan Demonstration

NUMBER 12, March 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Victory to the Miners’ Strike

South Africa Movement Builds, by Tim Kingston

What U.S. Rule means in Panama (photos), by Phil McGowen

Yvonne Wanrow Needs Your Support, by Gretchen Engle

Editorials: What We Think

• Reject the Contract – The Strike Can Be Won

Indiana Rally

Stearns Children Support Strike, by Christina Bergmark

Now It’s Son of S-1, A Deadly Bill, by Ellis Jacobs

Why You Should be a Socialist

• Rights Come with Property, by Kadi Sprengle

“You Can’t Stop a Civil War” – Interview with Banned South African Editor Donald Woods, by Amy Tyson

Demonstrators Greet Puerto Rican Governor, by Peter Court

Taft-Hartley: The Slave Labor Law, by Pat Morgan

Where Do You Stand? by John Anderson

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Now I’ve Heard Everything ...
• [Donald Duck in Trouble]
• [Ceausesceu Smashes Miners’ Strike, Awarded Order of Lenin] (cartoon & comment)
• Reward for Lance
• 35 Times Over
• [Britain Before Court of Human Rights]
• Expensive Care Ward (cartoon & comment)

International News/World in Struggle

• Ethiopia: Bring Down the Derg
• Italy: State Crisis Grows, by Milt Fisk

Seventy Years of Struggle – International Women’s Day, by Deborah Roberts and Kathy Stewart

• The Women of Lawrence Led a New Kind of Strike
• Bread and Roses

Letters

• Kampuchea, Not Cambodia, from Kirk Lambert
• Karate – “I Don’t Wince, I Cheer”, from Denise Matteau
• No Sign of the Cash, from Dennis O’Malley
• [Students Rally Demands U. of Chicago Divest from South Africa], from Peter Moore
• Hidden in the Back Pages, from P.D.

Women and Socialism, by Kathy Ennis

Cincinnati Women’s Conference

• Stearns Women, Georgia Ellis to Speak

Where We Stand

Malcom X: Assassinated February 21, 1965

• The Man the Media Wants to Forget, by Marianne Hill

The Unions

• Nuclear Workers Face Cancer Threat, by Peter Lowber
• Holyoke Safety Fight, by Denise Matteau
• Shipyard Victory

Political Prisoners USA

• [Joan Little Allowed to Remain Free]
• Evans Dies

Framed by UPS: Ed Walker Wins in Court

[Bad Attitude Workers] (photo & comment)

L.A. Teamster Strike Over, by Mary Deaton

[For a Woman’s Right to Choose] (photo & comment)

Cleveland Abortion Outrage – Clinic Fire Bombed, by Barbara Winslow

NUMBER 13, April 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

No Peace for the Middle East: The Rape of Lebanon

Two Pictures from California ... and a Song by Stevie Wonder

Editorials: What We Think

• The Israeli Blitz – An Army of Terrorists

South African Tennis – 3,000 Protest Davis Cup, by Dan Petty

Fighting Sexism in an Auto Plant – “We Demand Respect”

Skokie Demonstration – Why We Are Marching Against the Nazis, by Peter Moore

[Yvonne Wanrow Speaks Out at Rally], by Gretchen Engle

Government Attacks Health Clinic, by Gloria Park

Why You Should Be a Socialist

• Socialists and the “Red” Brigades

International News

• The Palestinians: “Instead of Bowing Their Heads, They Resisted, My Son ...” – Abu Sadek Interview, by Lina Ibrahim

New Setbacks for Women’s Rights, by Christian Bergmark

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Quotes
• How to be a Bad Businessman
• So Who Needs Land ...
• “All right. I’ve had enough. You are all under arrest” [South African cartoon]
• Cocktails Anyone?
• [Mine Executives Enter the Mines]
• Nixon with Gold Edges
• Time on the Red Menace – and Pink, Green ...
• Birds of a Feather

Socialist Worker Special Supplement

• Lessons of the Miners’ Strike
• “We’ve seen what we can do ourselves” – Interview with Tony Bumbico, by Jenny Jackson and Barbara Winslow
• Why We Voted “No”
• How We Helped the Coal Miners
• The Next Steps for the Rank and File Miners
• In Stearns, Kentucky, The Miners Fight Continues – Interview with Irene and Mahan Vanover, by Christina Bergmark (pictures by John Everett)

Letters

• Two Letters from Elwood, Indiana, from Georgia Ellis and Lola M. Green

Taft Hartley: The Law Democrats and Labor Bureaucrats Learned to Love, by John Anderson

• Taft Hartley at Essex Wire (picture and comment)

ISO News

• Seattle ISO Holds Miners’ Strike Support Rally

Where We Stand

Reviews

• Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option, by Steve Leigh

The Unions

• Norwood, Ohio Electrical Workers in Longest Strike Yet, by Kathy Stewart
• Black Hospital Worker Framed, by Kent Worcester
• Boston Taxi Drivers Fight to Save Their Union

Political Prisoners USA

• [Los Angeles Rally to Support Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk], by Sue Doan

Boycott Packard’s, by Ben Blake and Wayne Standley

Dracula Comes to the BMC – Comic from “Postal Strife”

South Africa Demo

Stop the Shut-offs! By Gary Staiger

Thanks from the Miners

NUMBER 14, May 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

(Front page only)

Schools: The Crisis That Never Ends

• We Support the Teachers

NUMBER 15, June 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Behind Carter’s Hysteria about Zaire: One Billion Dollars in Investments

The Longest Firefighters Strike in History: “We Persevered and We Won”

What the Nazis Really Want in Chicago

• “They tried to kill me and burn my house down” – Interview with Casalear Gross, by Jean Maunder

Wildcat Strikes Hit Mines

Editorials

• It Was a Scramble for the Vast Riches of Zaire
• Defend Gay Rights

“We had to Take a Stand”

Why You Should Be a Socialist

• The Long Arm of the Law, by Kadi Sprengle

A System Gone Mad

• Remember the Energy Crisis? Gas Shortages? Today It’s the Oil Glut, by Pat Morgan

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• The Debt Trap: Exporting the Crisis

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• “My mother feels much safer now we’ve kicked out those gay teachers…” (cartoon)
• Punks for Stearns
• Royal Pot for a Royal Piss
• Patty’s Back
• How to Spend One Hundred Grand
• Swing Low, Sweet Chevy Van (photo & comment)
• The Debs Award
• A Record
• Where Are They Now?
• Nixon

International News/World in Struggle

• We are Black. We are white. We are Dynamite! Carnival

The Tragedy at Willow Island, by Phil Keeling

Workers’ Power Not Nuclear Power, by Ben Blake

Letters

• Good Work, from Ann Lindsay
• It’s a Very Wealthy Club, from Larry Howes
• Don’t Mourn for Moro, from S.L.
• Israel and South Africa: Birds of a Feather, from Peter Lowber
• The Nazis and the Right to Life Movement, from C.E.

Iranian Students Arrested: Face Deportation

The Moro Killing Paved the Way for Repression, by Simone Rossi and Paolo Pasquino

• Communist Party Tries a “Red” Purge
• Trotsky on Terrorism

Where We Stand

The International Film Festival, Cannes, France [photo]

Recommended Reading

• Food Follows Money Under Capitalism, by Bill Roberts
• Free Enterprise Medicine: The Poverty of American Healthcare, by John Anderson

The Unions

• Connecticut Foundry Workers Organize to Fight, by John Baxter
• West Virginia State Employees Organize
• UPSurge Holds Contract Planning Meeting, by Anne Mackie
• Aurora Teachers Strike, by Barbara Winslow

Political Prisoners USA

• Yusuf Alim

Protest Banda Award

South Africa Solidarity: We Support the Struggle, by Amy Tyson and Blair Sandler

Miners’ News

• Still More Scabs at Stearns
• Rank and File Challenge
• Bill Lamb sent to Kansas

Believe It or Not (comic)

No Nukes! by Gretchen Engle

The Deadliest Thing Known

NUMBER 16, July 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

These Men Made Racism Legal – Say No to Bakke!

The Slave (poem), by Georgia Ellis

1200 Indiana Coal Miners Protest Contempt Charges

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Tax the Rich: That’s the Real Revolt

450,000 California Workers May Lose Their Jobs, But It’s a Bonanza for the Bosses, by Mary Deaten

Labor Reform Act Dies in Senate, by Pat Morgan

Why You Should Be a Socialist

• Take It to the Streets, by Kadi Sprengle

Forget About Dr. Strangelove, Now It’s All Done with Computers, by John van Raalte

Blacks Humiliate Klan: Victory in Tupelo

Fight for Women’s Rights

• Abortion Rights: Liberty for Those That Can Afford It

Washington, D.C. Demonstration Called: “State of Emergency” for E.R.A.

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• News Flash (photo from Postal Strife)
• Ford Does it Again
• Responsibilities, Responsibilities ...
• Excellent!
• Where the Money Goes
• It’s a Right
• Shock! Scandal!
• Union Chief Leads Fight (cartoon)

International News/World in Struggle

• Soweto: The Spirit of the Revolt Lives On
• What’s behind the Killing in Zimbabwe?
• Mobutu Surrenders Control of the Economy

Chicago Nazis Humiliated, by Jean Maunder, Ed Moor & Tim Kosnoff

Coast to Coast: No Nuclear Power, by Ben Blake and Steve Leigh

What We Think

• No Nuclear Power

250,000 in San Francisco: Lesbian and Gay Pride Week

Letters

• Thanks for the Story on Our Strike, from Art Cobbins
• Support the Most Oppressed, from Larry Howes
• Don’t Wish Away Reality, from Geronimo
• But Where Was the Rank and File? from Mark Pickering

Yugoslavia: “I Found Patriarchal Attitudes Toward Women and the Family” by JoAnn Underwood Fisk

ISO News

• The First National ISO Convention

Where We Stand

Reviews

• The Tom Robinson Band, by Kent Worcester
• Ford: A Report on the Company: Dearborn to South Africa, by Pat Goldsmith

The Unions

• Fleetwood Workers Defeat Incumbents
• PROD Plans for Contract
• Solidarity is the Issue
• Miners’ Exec to Discuss Recall
• UPS Pushes “Incentive Plan”, by Anne Mackie

Political Prisoners USA

• Komboa

11,000 Working Women Found Illegally Underpaid

Two Years on the Picket Line; “I’d Do It Again” Says Coke Striker

Rank and File Miners Meet in Charleston

Boston Soweto Rally

Postal Workers Prepare to Strike, by Steve McFadden

Indiana Bus Body Strike: “We’ve Turned Back the Scabs” by Bob Morris

NUMBER 17, September 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

The Real Crime Against Women: Victim of Desperation Abortion Arrested, by Christina Bergmark

OSHA: “It’s All in the Head”

August 6, 1945: We Will Never Forget – “This Was No Ordinary Bomb”

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Postal Workers: The First Victims of “Wage Restraint”

Douglas Fraser Uncovers “A Class War Against Labor”, by John Anderson

Cleveland’s Kucinich Hangs On

Hawaii: Agricultural Workers Fight Back, by Neil Smith

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• We Are All Political Prisoners, by Christina Bergmark

City Workers Fight Back

• How to Save the Cities – for the Rich: Tax Cuts for Business, Cut Backs for Workers, by Ben Blake
• Memphis Wildcats Win

California Teamsters Fight Safeway, by Tom Freeman

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• Capitalism: The Battle for Markets

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Banned in Boston
• She Promises to Fight
• Statistical Fluke
• Our Norman [cartoon]
• Graffiti from Northampton [photo]

Chicago 1968, by Todd Jefferson

International News/World in Struggle

• Britain: The Birth of Our Power, by Ed Moor
• Rhodesia: The Rule of White Racism and Black Oppression Is Over
• Black Miners Strike [Rhodesia]
• Eritrea: The Ethiopian Attack, by Joanna Rollo
• Shooting It Out in London, Paris and Beirut
• 1968: The Prague Spring

New Anti-Gay Drive, by Donna Burgess

“We Have Company Doctors in a Sexist Society” interview by Jean Maunder

What We Think

• Abortion: A Fundamental Right

Millions of Women Suffer, Thousands Die, But Attacks Continue, by Deborah Roberts

Pope Paul: Another in a Very Long Line of Tyrants, by Paul Foot

Letters

• The Mini Fascist State in Philadelphia: Rizzo’s Police Massacre, from Neil Smith
• Can we Cut the Violence, from Sandy Downey
• Getting Ready for the Eighties, from John P. Donley
• We’ll Need More Militant Action, from Ann Darby

“No Power Greater” – A Page from Working Class History

• “The General” Harriet Tubman, by Barbara Winslow

More Letters

• An ISO Presence in Houston, from Linda Spatig
• A Letter from a Prisoner, from Bro. Sunni Ali Ber
• A New Book of Poems, from Russell Gavin (includes poem A Day Without Time)

Miners’: The Next Step – Rank and File Plan Challenge to Miller

• Miners Tried in Rockport
• “We’ve Got Thirteen Months to Prepare for This Convention”, by Dave Forms
• Stearns Strike in Third Year

Where We Stand

ISO News

• First Convention Held in Oberlin, Ohio
• Revolutionary Publications from Britain Available from Hera Press

Reviews

• Women, the Family, and Alienation, by Kadi Sprengle and Barbara Winslow
• Remember Chile, by Elizabeth Hamilton

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• We Should Fight for Shorter Contracts

On the Picketline

• “Uprising” of Mass. State Workers
• Wildcat Hits Wrentham School, by Wayne Standley
• New York Pressmen Fight for Jobs
• Bay Area Postal Wildcat, by Tom Freeman
• Philadelphia: Workers Defy Rizzo, by Sandy Meredith
• Bus Builders Back to Work, by Bob Morris

VW Workers Fight for Jobs

Poorest Families Pushed from Homes, by Bill Roberts

“Star Wars” for Detroit Mechanics

NUMBER 18, October 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

The Revolt of the Teachers

“My Freedom is at Stake” by Diane Eggleston

• Our Union Is on Record against ‘13’”

Well, It’s Only Natural ..., by Judith Condon

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Why Public Workers Strike, by Pat Morgan

$184,813 in Fines Hit Indiana Miners

Wurf Strives for “Statesmanship”, by Wayne Standley

Police Murder in Seattle, by Steve Leigh

By Any Means Necessary – Black Politics in America

• The Revolt of the Black Athlete, by Harry Edwards

The Campaign to Stop Frank Rizzo: “Hey Rizzo, Have You Heard, Philly Ain’t Johannesburg” by Sandy Meredith

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• Anti-Inflation: Carter’s Attack on Workers

Railroad Workers Defy Carter

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• The Workers’ Vital Role

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Safety First! [cartoon]
• Dear Abby
• Jimmy Thanks Again
• Go Bombers
• Barricades Go Up in Cleveland
• Caught in Their Vice
• Hats Off
• Games

International News/World in Struggle

Iran/Nicaragua: The Struggle Will Continue

• U.S. Imperialism Behind Samoza’s Bloody Regime, by Elizabeth Hamilton
• Massive Protests Shake Shah’s Rule, by Terry Povey and Ahmed Darvish

Terror in a West Virginia Factory, Interview with Lois Blake, by Pat Goldsmith

South African Freedom Fighters on Trial, by Tom Freeman

Student Committee Formed: Job Action Planned at U-Mass Boston, by Kent Worcester and Paul D’Amato

15,000 March in Northern Ireland

Letters

• Marla Pitchford Found Not Guilty, from C.B.
• We Don’t Support the Police, from Bob Goldman and Kadi Sprengle
• Boston Bryant Concert Cancelled, from Peter Lowber

800 in Akron Pro-Abortion March

“No Power Greater” – A Page from Working Class History

• Crazy Horse: The Greatest of the Sioux Warriors, by Barbara Winslow

Where We Stand

Cleveland Upsets Cincinnati

Review

The Beat Goes On ...

Obituary

Keith Moon: “He Sang About the Young and Oppressed”

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• Douglas Fraser: All Talk and No Action

On the Picket Line

• Farm Labor Organizing Committee: “We Will Fight ‘Til we Get Changes” by Ben Blake
• Zims: First S.F. restaurant Strike in 30 Years
• Briefs: Postal Workers & United Steelworkers Union
• 24 Workers Arrested – Safety Hazards Cause Strike, by Wayne Standley and Conrad Mish
• Bitter Grocery Strike Continues, by Tom Freeman
• Miller Attacks Oppositionist

Boston Women “Take Back the Night”

The “Peace” of Hypocrisy

South Africa: More Terror

UPSurge Calls National Meeting, by Anne Mackie

NUMBER 19, November 1978

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

(Front page only)

Carter’s Plan: Cuts

The Battle of the Jericol Mines

NUMBER 19, December 1978 (actually No. 20)

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Iran: The Fire This Time

Economic Forecast: Recession, by Pat Morgan

Northeast South Africa Solidarity Conference Bombs ..., by Ahmed Shawki

• But the Struggle Continues, by Naomi Wallace
• Meanwhile, in England ...

Socialist Worker

• We Support the Freedom Fighters

Supreme Court Stops Cleveland Abortion Clinic

By Any Means Necessary – Black Politics in America

• Nationalism & Socialism, by Tony Bogues

Causes of the Economic Crisis

• Carter’s Policies Promise Recession, by Milt Fisk

Government Says Set the “10” Free

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• The System’s Driving Force

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Cut Off Federal Funds for Abortion (cartoon)
• [Former FBI Officials Indicted]
• Oops
• No Comment
• Never Too Young
• Sisterhood Is Powerful
• Take This Job & Shove It (photo)
• Life is Tough

Iran: The Fire This Time

• Against the Shah
• For the Shah, by Ben Blake

Seattle Gay Activists Speak Out: How We Defeated [Initiative] 13, by Jan Darger and Tom Richards

Rizzo: The “Tough Cop” Loses, by Jim Creegan

International News/World in Struggle

• Behind Amin’s Invasion of Tanzania
• Sweden: End of the Dream, by Milt Fisk
• Victory for Ford Workers
• West German Steel Mills Idled: 37,000 Stage Mass Strike
• South Africa Scandal, by Alex Callinicos
• Mid-East “Peace” Talks Stalled
• More death in British Mines, by Bill Message

Cancer and Capitalism, by Bob Goldman

Letters

• “The Cypriot Problem is Not Exceptional”, from Arthur Aloferis
• Mexico: How You Can Help the Political Prisoners, from E.H.
• Support the Irish Struggle, from Brian O’Ceallaigh
• Keep Tough and Keep Pushing, from Georgia Ellis

“No Power Greater” – A Page from Working Class History

• “Pray for the Dead, But Fight Like Hell for the Living”: Mother Jones, by Barbara Winslow

The Revolt in Iran

• A Working Day in the Land of Liquid Gold

Where We Stand

Reviews

• Marx and Mao in Modern China, by Cal Winslow

Boycott Coors Beer, by Scott Winslow

Machinists on Strike, by Ben Blake

Our Norman (cartoon)

Big “Take Back Night” Demonstration, by Brad Whiteman

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• An Injury to One is an Injury to All

Michigan Office Workers Dump UAW

UPSurge: Ready for the National Contract, by Anne Mackie

Coal Miners Meet

Why I’m Still Fighting, by Bernadette Devlin McAlisky

1979

NUMBER 20, January 1979 (actually No. 21)

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Iran Explodes!

• Support the Iranian Students, by Mary Deaton

They Put the Victim on Trial, by Jackie Segal

Fight-Back at UPS, by Anne Mackie

Socialist Worker: What We think

• Solidarity: the Answer to the Bosses’ Attack, by Pat Morgan

China: The End of the Road

Yvonne Wanrow Faces New Trial

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• Weber: The Bakke of the Working Class

Cleveland: The Rob the Poor to Pay the Rich, by Ben Blake

• Cleveland’s Poor ...
• ... and Rich

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• What Causes the Crisis

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• A Silver Lining
• The Onbly Cola
• Mao’s Thoughts on Anti-Capitalism (cartoon)
• Great White Hope

Socialism & the Fight for Independence in Puerto Rico

Bloomington Demonstration

Rhodesia Gets U.S. Choppers

Chinese Protest: Woman Shot

The Form – Religious; the Spirit – Revolution

• The Role of Religion, by Terry Povey

What We Think

• Power to the Workers! by Joanna Rollo

Letters

• On Jonestown, from Deborah Roberts
• Whaling & Native Americans, from Dan Petty
• Likes Paper, from David Smith

Days of Glory, from New York Post

Katherine Hyndeman: A Working Class Fighter, by Cathy Crosson (obituary)

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• Nat Turner: “He Put the Fear of God into the White Slave Master”

Where We Stand

What’s On

Reviews

• Franco Brusati’s Bread and Chocolate, by Christina Bergmark
• “Third worldism”: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed, by Kent Worcester

On the Picket Line

• Pulp and Paper Workers Standing Firm, by Dave Moore
• Publish or Perish
• Carter, Deregulation and the Teamsters: The Trucking Contract, by Duncan West
• Trident Convictions

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• UAW Leadership Takes Path of Least Resistance

General Motors in South Africa, by Ben Blake

NUMBER 22, February 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Carter Attacks Poor and Aged

How to Fight Low Pay

Fight for Women’s Rights

• Build the Pro-Choice Movement

Rocekfeller: Remember Him for Attica (obituary)

‘Education’ in Uniform

Socialist Worker: What We think

• OCAW: No Banana

Tragedy in Indo-China, by Nigel Harris

Women and Minorities: It’s Still 1900

“It’s Economics”: Workers Evicted

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• Malcolm X on Black History

Northeast Solidarity Coalition Reforms

Boston Coalition Formed: Fighting the KKK, interview with Louis Sheppard

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• The Budget: Plums for Business

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• The March of the Giants

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Olympic Prisons
• “Mighty Man” in South Africa
• [Teng Hsiao-ping]
• “It’s from Junior ...” (cartoon)

International News

• Jamaica: ‘A Tense Calm’, by Tony Bogues
• Nicaragua: Armed Struggle, by Elizabeth Hamilton The Seattle General Strike
• The Week the Workers Served Notice on a Terrified Bourgeoisie, by Mary Deaton
• Russia Did It, by Harvey O’Connor

Letters

• Class Struggle Alive in Latin America, from E.H.
• The Clash to the Rescue, from Ben Blake
• Can Cyprus be Free, from Ali Saffet
• [Ben Chavis], from Ann Ross
• You Were Wrong on the Rideout Case, from F.T.

The Boat People

• [Report], from Far Eastern Economic Review
• “The Boat People Are Learning This Lesson ... They No Longer Have a Right to Exist”

Where We Stand

What’s On

Marxism and the Party, by Sharon Smith (book review)

The Angry Man of Jazz, by Christina Bergmark (obituary)

Top Longshore Official, Anthony Scotto, Indicted, by Sandy Meredith

Cambridge: 600 Jobs Lost, by Kent Worcester

Farmworkers Strike Lettuce

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• Social Security: Unequal and Unjust

Go-It-Alone Strategy Fails: Fash Strike Ends

Big Shipyard Strike, by Pat Morgan

Miners Stage Protest Strikes

Georgetown Students Demonstrate Against CIA: For Freedom in Iran, by Avery Gordon

Iran: The Workers Hold the Key

• Can Half the People Be Free ... If the Other Half Is in Chains?

NUMBER 23, March 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Women’s Rights: Join the Fight

14 Year Old gets 48 Years in Mississippi

Bitter Lettuce Strike Continues

Forced Sterilization a Crime Against the Poor, by Jean Maunder

Pro-Choice Actions Called

Schools: No Change for the Oppressed

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Chinese Invade Vietnam: Blood Tribute to the Gods of the System

Cleveland: People Get Taxes

Flash!

Deng on Iran: Solidarity Forever

Students Oppose Tuition Hike, by Kent Worcester

Southern Africa Solidarity Actions Planned

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• The Black Woman

Sacrificed for Profit, by Coleen Thompson

UPSurge: Contract Countdown Begins

Armed Guards Threaten Cleveland Strikers

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• The White Man’s “Burden”

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Now for Romance!
• It’s Just Business ...
• Budget (cartoon)

A Letter from London

• The Power of the Pickets

National Contract Expires March 31

• Teamsters Face Carter, Companies, and Fitzsimmons, by Duncan West
• Two Rank and File Leaders Tell What’s at Stake

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Support the Rank and File

Where We Stand

What’s On

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• The Uprising of the 20,000: The First International Women’s Day

Letters

• More on John & Greta, from Jackie Siegel
• Shrink the Heads, from Nancy Gusack
• The CETA Cutbacks, from Elizabeth Hamilton
• “Totally Dehumanized”, from David Jagger
• The Rockefellers’ Industrial Relations, from B.W.
• They Blame the Victim, from F.W.

With Babies and Banners, by Celia Petty

A New Weapon for Women (review)

Unionists March for Shipbuilders

8,000 Lose Jobs

Paper Strikes Down, by Dave Moore

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• GM: Grand Larceny with a Vengeance
• Linden UAW Stooges

Cabbies Fight Back

• East ...
• ... and West, by Tim Kingston

Miners’ Families Protest Lay-offs

Public Workers March

Announcements

The Unfinished Revolution

NUMBER 24, April 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Get It While You Can

Yes, It’s China Syndrome

160 Arrested

• Clamshell’s New Stand at Seabrooke
• ‘RenewedEnergy’

“If He’d Been Black, He Would Be in Jail Now̵

Socialist Worker: What We think

• Support the Teamsters! Shove Carter’s Guidelines

The Solidarity Movement We Need

Keep Seattle a Union Town

Fighting Words

No White Wash Here!

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• South Africa – U.S.A.: It’s the Same Fight

Berkeley Liberals “Hip” But Still Dems, by Steve Diamond

Solidarity – That’s the Thing, interview with Dennis Brutus, by Peter Moore & Jean Maunder

U. of Chicago: $74 Million Is at Stake, by Peter Moore

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• Imperialism: Only the Slogans Have Changed

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• “A fund of Experience”
• Bathroom Abuse
• Tourist Tips
• Valuable Data ...
• Photo Corner
• [Florida Rape Victim Turned Away from Two Hospitals]

Iran: Still Fighting

• The Women
• The Kurds
• The Workers: No Illusions ...

Street Battles in France

Workers Shut Dublin Down

How Long will this Go On? by Lon Henderson, photos by Sid Scales

• Racism & Poverty
• “I Thought the Whole World Was My Nasty, Filthy Slum”
• “the Whole Sky Was Red

Letters

• Don’t Forget the Rank and File, from Steve Diamond
• Design Teachers Plan Strike, from Allyson Smith
• Bring Back the Draft?, from Peter Lowber
• Likes Enquirer, from T.C.

The Einstein They Forgot, by Milt Fisk

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”

• “I John Brown Am Quite Certain That the Crimes of This Guilty Land Will Never Be Purged Away, But with Blood”

Reviews

• Racism, Ethnic Nostalgia and Gore, by Carroll Williams (film review)
• A Thermal Thriller, by Pat Goldsmith (film review)

[page missing]

Newport News Strike: Eighty-Eight, Eighty-Eight, Close the Gate, by Pat Morgan

“I Hope They Hear Our Voice”

Remember Deir Yassin

Women Charge Harassment

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• What will the Gas Crisis Mean to Autoworkers?

Ready to Strike UPSurge

Let Women Decide!

[Hog’s Breath Strike] (photo)

When ‘Peace’ Is War, by Peter Lowber

NUMBER 25, May 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Before Next Accident Stop Nukes Now!

Ohio Dissident Mine Leader Shot

Jercop Coal Miners Seek Support

Steelhaulers Show How to Beat Guidelines, by P.M.

‘Who Needs Jobs? We Do!’

Cabbies Make Strike a Cause, by Barry Gordon

Stearns Election: “It’s a Farce”

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Abortion: Only Action Will Win

Guidelines: The Result Is Wage Cuts, by Pat Morgan

Fighting Words, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Solidarity Round-Up

• [Chicago], by Peter Moore
• [Boston], by Kent Worcester

The Sky Is the Limit, by Milt Fisk

Cambridge Cabbies Win, by Peter Lowber

Women Unite: Take Back the Night, by Celia Emerson

299 People Killed Illegally by Police in Philadelphia (photos)

Fighting Racism at Amherst, by Brian O'Ceallaigh

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• Post-Bakke Cuts: “We Won’t Accept Them”

[page missing ?]

Rhodesian elections: No Change

London: A Comrade Killed

• “A Quiet Man Who Hated Racism”, by Dick North

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• Arms Economy: The Key to Recovery

Grafitti, by Patricia Gilman

• People’s Democracy
• [Cyrus Vance Likes Legroom]
• Not Even a Paddle
• Incredible
• You Pay
• Photo Corner
• Ugh!!
• It’s American
• [What Melts Underground ...?]

Socialist Worker Supplement

Say No to Nuclear Lunacy: Shut ’Em Down!

It’s the Same the World Over

• German Nukes
• Russian Nukes
• Australian Ore

Why We Are Marching

• What You Can Do

Extract from Masters of War, by Bob Dylan

Who Makes the Money

Who Makes the Decisions

What to Read

In Orbit

The Trail of Tears

• Lakotas’ Land threatened by Uranium Mining

The No-Nukes Directory

The Socialist Alternative

“Well, Win a Few, Lose a Few ...” (cartoon), by R. Cobb

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• Haymarket: The Flames Still Blaze

“Prepare for the Future”, interview with Tony Cliff, by Cal Winslow

Reviews

• Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, by Colin Barker

Clerical Workers Strike at Daily Californian, by Steve Diamond

Profs Win in Boston

Solidarity in Boston: UMPS Call a Strike, by Peter Lowber

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• Blacks and Women Need Their Own Caucus

Union Sends Strikers Back, by Pat Morgan

Harvard Boycott: “Only the Beginning”, by Charling Tao

“Who Can Live on $90 a Month?” by Tom Freeman

Black Students Occupy Amherst

UPS Contract: Stop the Fall, by Anne Mackie (?)

NUMBER 26, June 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

There’s No shortage of Profits: How Industry Created This Crisis, by Milt Fisk

A Steelworker Speaks Out: “There Was and There Is Discrimination”, by Cynthia Hawkins

• National Anti-Weber Mobilization Week

Stearns Strike Over: UMW Sells Out

Women Fight for Freedom: “New Determination”, by S.D.

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• No Nukes on the Offensive

United Parcel: Union Says Contract Near

Fighting Words, by Joe Hill

Chicago Protest: Sixties Style, by Peter Moore & Bob Goldman

No Nukes Pack Seattle Council, by Steve Leigh

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• The Era of Bakke, by Tony Bogues

Will California’s Governor Jerry Brown Lead the Fight Against Nuclear Power? Don’t Count on It, by Patricia Goldsmith

S.F. Cops: “We’ll Kill the Queers” – But Gays Fight Back

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• The End of Post-War Stability

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Ddn’t Know
• [Izvestia on Anti-Nuclear Movement in U.S.]
• Our Norman (cartoon strip), [_by Phil Evans_]
• [Rubber Plants in Washington]
• You Pay for the Gas
• Marijuana
• [Millionaires in the Senate]
• [Coyote “Kiss & Tell” Campaign]

A Special Report from Tehran in Iran

• The Choice for the Left: Build a Mass Party or Be Crushed

Nuclear Workers: On the Line

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Karen Silkwood 1946–1974: Her Death Was Not in Vain

Goodyear: Any Way to Make a Profit

1961: Lead Coffins

A Miner Talks About Nuclear Power

Letters

• We Need a fighting Movement, from Steve Leigh
• UPS Worker: “I Liked What I Read”, from a Los Angeles UPS Worker
• UMW: Help Draw the Line, from Tony Bumbico

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• “With No gods and No Masters”: Margaret Sanger and the Fight for Birth Control

Where We Stand

What’s On

Reviews

• TRB: “Politics Is Everyday Life”, by Christina Bergmark
• Rock Against Racism USA

Boston Racism, by Louis Sheppard

Cops in Conflict: Black Polics Lead “A Walk for Justice” by Bill Roberts

Regular Bulletins Can Be of Vital Importance (cartoon), [_by Phil Evans_]

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• Only an Industry-wide Strike Can Win in Auto

Rubber Contract: Union Is on Wrong Track

City Workers Shake Worcester, by Wayne Standley

‘We Can’t Live on 7 Percent’

Coal Giant Declares War

Court Upholds Abortion Ban

Stop “Right to Life” – Stop the Bombers! – Defend Abortion Rights

NUMBER 27, July 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Weber Buried, by Christina Bergmark

Abortion: Our Right

Diablo

Alaskan Rank and File: “Ruled Out of Order”

Massachusetts: Fighting King’s Cuts, by Kent Worcester

[Setback for “Master Race] (photo)

“We’re Out for Everyone”, by Wayne Standley

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• The First Gas Rebellion

Massive Marches for Gay Rights

Announcement

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• How the Revolution Was Lost

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• No Shortage
• [Gas Crisis]
• Sohio Blames the Public
• [“Scarlet Letter” Bill]
• Good Ol’ American Know-How (cartoon)
• [Youngsters in New York]

Nicaragua: “Beginning of a New Era”, interview with Roberto Cajina, by Milton Fisk

A Horror That Rivals Auschwitz

SALT Agreement: The Deadly International Numbers Game

We Demand the Right to Choose

• Cincinnati, June 23
• Reproductive Rights: The Next Step, by Celia Petty
• Right Wingers Unlimited ...

Where We Stand

What’s On

• Coalition Says Hands Off Nicaragua
• ISO National Convention Planned

Reviews

• Everyone’s guide to Nuclear Power, by Peter Lowber
• “Better Active Today Than Radioactive Tomorrow, by Bill Roberts

[Letters]

• John Wayne: The Most Racist of All Stars, from Robert A. Maschi
• No Nukes: Working Class Is Key, from John Charlton

Worcester: A Hot Summer’s Just Starting, by Patrick Connolly

Health Workers Rally Against Anti-Abortion Bill, by Paul D’Amato

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• UAW Negotiations: No Hint of Class Struggle

Guidelines: Carter Still on Top, by Pat Morgan

Australia: A Massive Strike to Defend the Unions, from The Battler

Coors Caught

Goodyear Strike in Third Month

Keep the Fight Going, by Kevin Murphy

UPSurge Says “Vot It Down!”

NUMBER 28, August 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

Boat 0105

We Pay More ... As Gas Profits Soar

Chrysler to Close Dodge Main, by John Anderson

UMWA: Bill Lamb Loses, Miller Fades

[Farm Labor Organizing Committee]

“It Made My Blood Run Cold”, by Connie Coker

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• There Is Plenty of Oil, by Ahmed Shawki

Ohio Abortion Defeat

And They Say This System Isn’t Crazy

Fighting Words, by Sojourner Truth

Nuke Protests Mark Bombing

“Let’s Stop the Nukes Ourselves”, by Kent Worcester

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• Report Shows Little Progress

Jimmy Carter Cracks, by Pat Morgan

UPS, Teamsters Fire Stewards

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• 1980: A Million More Unemployed

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• The Rise of Stalin’s Dioctatorship

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Rocky Mountain Hog
• [Workers’ Control in East Germany]
• [Nixon & the Shah] (photo)
• [Notices to Former Servicemen]
• And Now Get Ready for the Energy Glut

World in Struggle

• Nicaragua: the Dream Come True, by Neil Smith
• Iran: Khomeini Faces Crisis, by Colin Sparks

1919: The Red Summer

• An Important Chapter in Black History, by Barbara Winslow
• [If We Must Die ...], by Claude McKay (poem)
• The African Blood Brotherhood: An Untarnished Chapter

Letters

• Be Ready to Defend the Clinics, from Elizabeth H. Hamilton
• Occupy Seabrook! from Sharon Smith
• Balck Cops Should Quit, from Fredrica Sprengle

Vietnam: the Agony Continues

• Why Socialists Must Protest
• The Boat People: Victims of War, Hunger and Racism

Where We Stand

ISO News

What’s On

Reviews

• “She Wanted to Live, to Leave Poverty and Welfare Behind Her”, by Deborah Roberts

On the Picket Line

• Don’t Count on Union Rep, by Ed Moor
• UPS: ‘Wait til Next Time’
• Carhaulers: Minority Rules
• “We Need Freedom of Movement”, by Robin Latta
• Electrical Workers Fight to Save Pensions, by Pat Morgan
• Workers Walk Out on Babcock and Wilcox, by Kevin Murphy
• How Many More?

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• Solidarity House: The Image of a Fortified Castle

“Nothing But Suspensions, Firings and Headaches”

• [Interview], with Roosevelt Minter & Larry Madda

Here’s One Way to Make Your Point

NUMBER 29, September 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

The Biggest Spill Ever, by Steve Leigh

Cops Attack Bailey Strikers (photo)

Our President, The Oil Companies’ Best Friend, by Joe Allen

FLOC Strike: Tomatoes Rotting in the Fields

[Lesbian and Gay Activists in NY Protest _Cruisin’_] (photo)

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Busing; Which Side Are You On?

Chrysler Workers to Pay Big Price, by John Anderson

Andrew Young: No Loss to Palestinians or Blacks

Fighting Words, by Rosa Luxemburg

The Boat People II: Haitians

By Any Means Necessary: Black Politics in America

• Racism Arose Out of Economic Necessity, by Tony Bogues

We Have to Rely on Ourselves, interview with Vicki Denton, by Dan Petty

Chapters from The Meaning of Marxism, by Duncan Hallas

• Internationalism: The Only Way

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Never Mind
• [Richard Nixon Denied Apartment]
• In Need the Excitement
• [CIA Offering Employment]
• [“To Us Boat People ...”] (cartoon)
• [CIA: Favorite Recipes]
• [Plenty of Fuel This Winter]

World in Struggle

• Mountbatten: The Victim of His Own Work
• British Troops Out of Ireland Now!
• Release the Iranian Socialists!

Workers Against the Gulag, by Sharon Smith

• A Strike That Shook the Kremlin
• Behind the Propaganda: A Bleak Life with Little Hope
• “Don’t Tell Me This Isn’t Slavery”, by L. Sery

Letters

• It’s Wrong to Imply that Oil Production Is the Answer, from Steve Leigh
• Right Off! from Erica Goldman
• Solidarity, from Dave Moore
• Found Him, from Neil Smith

A Page From Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• Joe Hill: A Member of the Fighting Section of the Working Class
• Joe Hill’s Last Will

Where We Stand

What’s On

Reviews

• “The Great Test of the American Socialist”, by Mary Williams

On the Picket Line

• Three Strikes in Transit
• Teachers Strike into the New Year
• West Virginia Miners Wildcat
• Cops Rampage, Company Stalls: BaileyStrikers Fight On, by Ahmed Shawki

An Opinion, by John Anderson

• Picnic for Pioneers of the Labor Movement

Why Kurds Must Fight

Boston U. Workers Strike for a Decent Contract

NUMBER 30, October 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

EDITOR:
Cal Winslow

(Front page only)

Nukes: Let’s Stop Them Now

[FLOC on Strike in Ohio]

NUMBER 31, November 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

Boston: Racist Mobs on teh rampage – We Say Fight Back

Illinois Miners Wildcat, by B.B.

Chrysler: the Workers Pay, by John Anderson

Support Pan-African Student

“Chances Are the Nuke Will Be on Indian Land”, interview with Bob Gustafson, by Kevin Murphy & Carol Sepkoski

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Goodbye George

The Largest Lesbian and Gay Rights March Ever, by Neil Smith

Action and Democracy: the Lessons of Seabrook, by Peter Lowber

Fighting Words, by George Jackson

Vietnam Vets Launch New Drive, by Sandy Mered[ith]

Black Politics in America, by Tony Bogues

• The Birth of Our Movement

Racist Violence in Boston, by Peter Lowber

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• How Carter Got His Recession

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Hedonism and Low Moral Standards ...
• National Defense ...
• The Only Victim ...
• Have a Whiff ...
• Money Swears ...

Meanwhile, High over the Pope’s Head ... (photo)

Talking About Socialism

• Alone, the Odds Are Against All of Us, by Deborah Roberts

World in Struggle

• Behind the Crisis in Central America: Carter Scrambles for an Alternative to Socialism
• Zimbabwe: No Sell-Out!

October 28 & 29: No Nuke Round-Up

“A Small Victory”, by Paul D’Amato & Matt Backer

Letters

• Don’t condem Solar Power – It’s the Only Alternative, from Steve Leigh
• Busing, from J.G.
• “Lefty for Life”, from Robert M. Ferrera
• What About the National Election? from Bob Green

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• 1919: Steel Was a Bastion of the Open Shop, the Symbol of 20,000,000 Unorganized Workers

Where We Stand

What’s On

• McAliskey Tour a Success, from Bernadette McAliskey

Reviews

• Leon Trotsky: 1879–1979

On the Picket Line

• Students Back Palestine
• Police Riot at Olin Winchester, by Robin Latta
• Safety Is Our Business
• Bailey: the Contract Is Company Revenge
• Help Save Cook County Hospital, by Robin Goldman
• Victory at Newport News
• AAUP Strikes Cincinnati, by Dan Petty

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• The Failure of the Labor Leaders

Teachers Want a Living Wage, by Christina Bergmark

Strikes Hit AG-IMP

NUMBER 32, December 1979

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

Stop the War Threats

The 1970’s (photo spread)

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Now for the Eighties

1979: The Year of Hypocrisy

Steelworkers: A Spark Is Needed

TMI: The Disaster Is Not Over, by Neil Smith

Black Politics in America, by Tony Bogues

• The Klan: We Can Stop Them

Prisons: The New Plantations, by Colleen McGuire

Shelton Woodworkers Strike for Women’s Rights, by Scott Winslow

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Christmas List ...
• “Meltdown” ...
• Still in Court ...
• Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way ...

Support Key in Profs’ Strike, by David Jagga[r]

Talking About Socialism

• We Can’t Win Separately, by Deborah Roberts

World in Struggle

• Ireland: Where There’s Oppression, There’s Resistance, by Brian O’Ceallaigh
• Bolivia: workers’ Power
• South African Ford Workers Fired, by John Van Raalte
• Pro-Abortion Demonstrations in Spain

Iran: Behind the Embassy Crisis

• The Revolution: Was It Worthwhile?
• International Law: It Never Stopped the C.I.A.
• In the Shah’s Prisons

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Stop the War Threats – Stop the Deportations

Letters

• Renewable Resources, from Jim Hurd & Cathy Crosson
• Congratulations to Comrades at Seabrook, from M.J. Myers
• Solar Satellites, from Neil Smith
• The “Right-to-Life” Can Use Him, from Kathy Stewart

Montana Readers Disagree

• Live Without Nuclear Terror, from Mark Anderlik
• Immune, from David Host
• Disarm Ourselves, from Nansea Rivecsea
• Non-Violence Is Not a Tactic, from Lucinda Buren-Host

A Page from Working Class History: “No Greater Power”, by Barbara Winslow

• Pullman: The Strike That Shook America to the Core

Where We Stand

What’s On

• National Fund Appeal

Reviews

• Bringing the Working Class on Stage, by Allyson Smith

On the Picket Line

• Cleveland Teachers: “We’re Determined”, by Christina Bergmark
• A Strike Against Overtime, by Ben Blake
• Miners Meet in Denver – New President Rules
• Teamster Reformers Merge in Michigan
• Teacher Strikes Hit New Records

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• GM: A Free Reign on the Shop Floor

Youngstown: 5,000 Jobs Stolen

• More Firings Promised

1980

NUMBER 33, January 1980

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

Stop Imperialism: East and West

The Hostages at U.S. Steel

He’s Paid to Put People Out of Work, by Ben Blake

An Opinion

• Unanswered Questions About the Right to Life, by Alfred Ferdnance

Flashback: Mashhad, January 1979 – Why they Want the Shah

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Bringing Back the Cold War

Rally for the E.R.A.

Iran: The Contradictions Sharpen

Fighting Words, by Eugene V. Debs

Announcement

Graffiti, by Patricia Gilman

• Free Enterprise Forever ...
• Mindless ...
• Great Moments in Science ...
• Best Use of Taxpayers’ Money Award ...
• Screening ...
• Man Bites Man ...
• Class Struggle Banned ...

Anti-Klan March Called

Talking About Socialism ...

• Patriotism: Standing Up for the Shah, by Deborah Roberts

Rebellion in the Name of Religion, by Nigel Harris

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• Economy: No Sign the Tide Has Turned

Youngstown: A Tragedy for 5,000 Families, interview with Ken Doran, by Cal Winslow

Where We Stand

ISO News

• What’s On
• ISO appeal fund

Reviews

• The Brethren: Not the Wisest Nine Men in America, by David Gershon
• Hallas on Leon Trotsky, by Sharon Smith

On the Picket Line

• Teachers Win Longest Strike
• Chicago Transit Strike, by Pat Morgan
• Miners’ Convention: Sam Church Rules
• Health Care Key in OCAW Strike
• Meat Packers Fight Montfort
• Cuts for Chrysler Workers

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• In Defense of the Rank and file

On Strike at the Biltmore, by Vicki Lewis

UPS: Police Riot in Jersey, by Anne Mackie

Zimbabwe: The Ceasefire Changes Nothing

NUMBER 34, February 1980

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

ISO Fund Appeal: Will You Help?

Workers Occupy U.S. Steel

Battered Women: “We Are Your Mothers, Your Sisters ...”, by Beatrice Kern

• Mary Jo: “My Girl Knew what Waas going On. She’d Seen Him Hit Me ...”
• Meribeth: “I Had to Find a Place I Could Hide ...”

“A Scab Is a Scab”, by Mary Deaton

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• The Enemy Is at Home

Abortion: A Victory in Court

• [Demonstration Against Anti-Abortionists]

In Defense of Democracy ...

David Howe, Friend and Comrade (obituary)

Fighting Words, by Rosa Luxemburg

Harvester Strike in Fourth Month

Black Politics in America, by Tony Bogues

• The End of the Decade

Exporting Genocide, by Jean Maunder

• “Maintaining U.S. Commercial Interests”, by Kadi Sprengle

Graffiti, by Patricia Goldsmith

• Anything for a Buck ...
• Keeping the World Safe for Democracy (II) ...
• And Get a Gold Card to Boot ...
• Not this Year ...

White Hunters Kill Black Man

Talking About Socialism ...

• What Will Work Be Like Under Socialism? by Deborah Roberts
• Our Norman, by Evans (cartoon)

World in Struggle

• British Steelworkers: Fighting for their Lives, by John Charlton
• Zimbabwe: “Free Elections”

The Gold Medal for Hypocrisy, by B.W.

“ We Want the Jobs”

• Why We Want Rank and File Organization

Where We Stand

What’s On

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• They Didn’t Want Brotherhood, Just Coffeee Sitting Down

Iran/Afghanistan: The Crisis of the World System

• Questions and Answers About Afghanistan, compiled by Jane Morrison
• Chronology

On the Picket Line

• “Pass It By, It’s a Lie, by Allyson Smith
• Briefs:
  Pittsburgh, PA
  Cambridge, MA
  Denver, CO
  Detroit, MI
• Rallies Back Wesco Strike, by Wayne Standley
• Streetsboro Teachers Vow to Stay Out, by Glenn Perusek
• [“Equal Work, Equal Pay – Ratify the ERA”]
• Bad Year for Labor

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• The UAW: One Party Rule

Stop the Draft! by Ahmed Shawki

Union Fights for Survival, by Bill Roberts

NUMBER 35, March 1980

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

Stop the Draft!

Zimbabwe: The Struggle Must Continue, by Ahmed Shawki

Wildcat Strike Hits Pacific N.W. Bell, by Steve Leigh

7,000 in Anti-Klan March

Whirlpool Workers Win Fight for Safety, by Anne Mackie

New V.P. in UMWA

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• International Women’s Day

Fighting Words, by Malcolm X

FBI Tied to Klan Murders

Black Politics in America, by Tony Bogues

• End of the Decade: II

World in Struggle

• Nicaragua: Towards a Socialist Nicaragua?

Graffiti, by Patricia Goldsmith

• Workers of All Galaxies Unite
• An Another Historic Compromise ...
• Our Man in Singapore

Harvester Workers Rally Support

Talking About Socialism

• “For the Glory and Honor of teh Ruling Class”, by Deborah Roberts

Special Supplement

The Draft and the New Cold War

“Sorry Jimmy, We’re Not Going”, by Maggie Levenstein

And What About the Russians

U.S. Policy and the Crisis of Imperialism

The Socialist Alternative

[page missing]

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• The Rising of the Sharecroppers

Where We Stand

What’s On

Reviews

• Alexandra Kollontai: Bolshevik Feminist, by Celia Petty

On the Picket Line

• Why the AFL-CIO Wants the Teamster, by Steve Early
• W.Va. Mines Shut Down
• Chicago’s Firefighters: A Fight for All City Workers, by Bob Goldman
• Victory at Biltmore

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• Education for the Employers

Three Mile Island: One Year Later, by Kathy McCaughin

NUMBER 36, April 1980

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

Harvester: U.A.W’s Longest Strike

April 26: “The Nukes Stop Here”, by Neil Smith

2,350 Seabrook Workers Shafted, by Vicki Lewis

30,000 March Against the Draft

[Important Victory for Firefighters in Kansas City]

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• If You Like Kennedy ..., by Christina Bergmark
• Consider This, by Carol Steuer

Carter#8217;s Budget: No Remedy for Inflation, by Milton Fisk

Fighting Words, by Lenin

West Virginia Miners’ Continue Strikes

Black Politics in America, by Tony Bogues

• The Ballot or the Bullet: 1964

Lane Kirkland: Superhawk with Friends at the CIA, by Mitchell Miller

Chicago Fire Fighters: “They Won’t Ever Break Us Ever”, by Bob Goldman

Graffiti, by Patricia Goldsmith

• [Science Magazine’s Doublespeak Award]
• [Israeli Kidney in Palestinian Girl ...]
• [Nancy’ “Beautiful whitze People“]

Marxist Analysis of Month Award

Talking About Socialism

• Education: Producing Its Gravediggers, by Deborah Roberts

Harvester: “We’re Going to Win It”, interview with Mike Myers, by Milt Fisk

Zimbabwe! by Alex Callinicos

“Today’s Army”: No Place to Be, by Sandy Meredith

Letters

• [Crisis in Steel Industry], from Kent Worcester
• ][Anti Draft March, from John Nelson
• [Kent State], from Glenn Perusek

Women Workers Discuss Health, by Peter Lowber

A Page from Working Class Hiatory: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• Homestead: The Bitter Battle of 1892

Where We Stand

What’s On

Reviews

• Working for Your Life, by Louise Mitchell
• Moon Mining, from Bernard Nossiter

On the Picket Line

• Restaurant Workers Fight for the Union, by Vicki Lewis
• US Steel Workers Lose in Court, by Glenn Perusek
• Union Busting in New Jersey, by Chris Renaud
• Mississippi Workers Plan ‘March for Dignity’: “We Were Slaves on that Plantation”
• Judge Lenient on Boston Racists, by Peter Lowbeck

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• Lives Cut Short for Profits

Akron Worker Perdicts: “A Nation of Minimum Wage Earner”, by Glenn Perusek

Court to Rule on Abortion

NUMBER 37, May 1980

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

Hands Off Iran

Harvesters Strike Ends in Standoff, by Ben Blake

Klan Stopped in Kokomo

Seabrook: The Most Militant Demo Yet, by Kevin Murphy

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Carter’s Mission: Take Back Iran

May Day 1980: ’Workers of the World Unite’

We’re Out for Rights and Wages

Black Politics in America, by Tony Bogues

• Crisis: Black Women Face the Recession

Kent State 1980: Ten Years Since the Killings, by Glenn Perusek

Residents of Crestwood Apartments Stage Sit-in, by Ben Blake

Graffiti, by Patricia Goldsmith

• Just Be Frugal ...
• Equal Rights for All ...
• Royal but flaky ...
• New from Nixon ...
• And a Bit from Agnew’s Book ...

Majority Supports Abortion Rights

Talking About Socialism

• No, the System Isn’t Working, by Deborah Roberts

World in Struggle

• Women and the Iranian Revolution, by Shirin Rani
• Korean Coal Miners End Seige [_sic!_]
• Students Battle South Aftican Police

The World Economy: Who Pays for the Slump? by Ken Kidd

“We’ll Fight Old Massa Till We Win, interview with Gloria Jordan

Boston Sit-in Students Defend Black Teachers, _by Kent Worceste_r

Letters

• SmithKline Drugs Boycott, from Bob Harris
• Defend Yuri Shukhevych, from Mark Weber

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• Frederick Douglass: Tireless Fighter for Black Freedom

Where We Stand

What’s On

Jean-Paul Sartre: 1905–1980 – The Spirit of Revolt, by Kent Worcester (obituary)

Women in Russia: ‘No One Thinks About Women’, by Vera Gorbatov

On the Picket Line

• Big Year for Labor disputes
• Chicago Steelworkers’ Jobs Gone “Overnight”, by Pat Morgan
• Strikes Work: Boat Men Win, by Mary Deaton
• Lipton: “Lucky to Get Six Months Notice, by Brian Erway
• Basic Steel Contract Settled
• “This Town Is Nothing More Than a Kangaroo Court Aimed at Strikers”, by Milton Fisk & Jim Hurd

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• No Return to the Thirties

Motown Hit by Crisis

NUMBER 38, June 1980

SOCIALIST WORKER

Paper of the International Socialist Organization
Published monthly

Carter vs. Reagan: No Choice

Cops Protect Cincinnati Nazis, by Bill Roberts

Boston Rally Supports Iran, by Peter Lowber & Kevin Murphy

Carter Cuts Hospitals

[50,000 Marched in Chicago to Support ERA] (photo)

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• It’s About Time!

[1,500 Gathered at Kent State to commemorate 1970 Killings] (photo)

Fighting Words, by John Brown

Reproductive Rights Coalition Plans Protests, by Patricia Goldsmith

Black Politics in America, by Tony Bogues

• “No Hands Can Free Us But Our Ownᰵ

Banned at Kent State, by Christina Bergmark

• Repress Us, Please (extract from campaign song)

Love Canal: “We Mean Business”, by Brian Erway

Graffiti, by Patricia Goldsmith

• Conservative Groups in Illinois ...
• The Chic Art of Rolfing ...
• According to the May Issue of The American Lawyer ...
• The Past Month ...

Seabrook: Training for the Future, by Paul D’Amato

Talking About Socialism

• Profit, Not Need, Determines Production, by Deborah Roberts

Insurrection in South Korea, by Nigel Harris

Israeli Terror on West Bank

Jimmy Carter, Castro and the Cuban Refugees, by Glenn Perusek

Gay Pride Week, by Allyson Smith & David McKay

“I Have a Vivid Memory of the 1930s” by John Anderson

Thirty Miles South of St. Helens, by Mary Deaton

S-1612: Groundwork for Repression, by George Axiotis & Brian Gibbons

Letters

• Some Facts on Fascism, from Joe Denton
• Support Cuban Refugees, by Ron Lang[e]
• [Sanderson Strike], by Mary Andrew[s]

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• The ‘Factory Amazons’ of the First Trade Unions

Where We Stand

What’s On

Slavery: Revolt to Revolution, by Calvin Williams

On the Picket Line

• Tighten Those Belts!
• Pickets fight Back at Baker Material, by Brian Gibbons
• Railroad Car Threatens Shut Down, by Milton Fisk
• Our Norman (cartoon), by Evans
• Economic Index in Record Dive

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• Goodbye to a Loyal Bureaucrat

March for Dignity and Justice

NUMBER 39, July 1980

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One Million More Jobless, by Neil Smith

Correction ... (cartoon), by Phil Evans

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• July 21: Stop the War Games! No registration, by Christina Bergmark

Registration (cartoon), by Jim Borgman

Fighting Words, by Frederick Douglass

UAW Convention: No Answers, by John Anderson

7,000 Baltimore Jobs Gone, by Curtis Price & Neil Smith

• Interview with Stuart Taylor

Women Miners Can Dig Coal Too! by Cindy Senefeld

Racist Attacks in Detroit, by Retha Hill

Graffiti, by Patricia Goldsmith

• Riot Insurance ...
• Rally Round the Flag ...
• Freedom of Choice ...
• In the Best Interests ...

Pay the Detroit City Workers!

Talking About Socialism

• This System Is Organized Robbery, by Deborah Roberts

Hands Off Jamaica! by Tony Bogues

• The Yoke of Imperialism

South Africa

• The Worst Massacre since 1976
• Pieter Botha on the Brink
• The Soweto Rebellion: “I Was, I Am, I Will Be”

100,000 Demonstrate – New York: Largest Gay Pride March, by Allyson Smith & Andy Rosso

Kent Students Win Appeal

The Crisis: Where the Blame Lies

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• Thomas Paine and Revolutionary America

Where We Stand

What’s On

Painting the Picture of American Class Society (review)

War and an Irish Town, by Brian O’Ceallaigh (review)

On the Picket Line

• Baker Materials Strikers Rally, by Brian Gibbons
• “Morale High, Funds Low”
• Osborn: Fighting Back! by Ahmed Shawki
• Solidarity at Boston City Hospital, by Patty Healey & Peter Lowber
• [300 Anti-Loan Demonstrators in Middleton, OH]

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• The Workers Case against Import Controls

June 30: Day of Infamy

• 1,000 in Los Angeles Reproduction Rights Demonstration, by Patricia Goldsmith

NUMBER 40, August 1980

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New York and London: Strike Together

Carter’s Recession: The ‘Cure’ That Kills

“He Was Blown Away in Cold Blood”, by Kevin Murphy

“Hell No, Our Fight Is at Home!”, by Nanci MacLean

Uniroyal Closes Plant

Socialist Worker: What We Think

• Women: The Battle Is On!

1980: The Year of the Black Revolt

Jamaican CIA Agents Exposed

The Shah Is Dead: Good Riddance

Fighting Words, by Robert Williams

Graffiti, by Patricia Goldsmith

• Protected Activity ...
• Who’s Overeducated ...
• Tarantula News ...

Poor Billy’s Brother

Dog Bites Police

Talking About Socialism

• Why Half the World Goes Hungry, by Deborah Roberts

Auto Workers Lead Largest Russian Strike Ever Reported, by Claire Herschfeld

South Africa: Black Workers Shake the System, by Alex Callinicos

Notes on the Economic Crisis, by Milt Fisk

• Regulating the Economic Bust

Never Again! by Christina Bergmark

Where We Stand

What’s On

A Page from Working Class History: “No Power Greater”, by Barbara Winslow

• “The Rebel Girl”

On the Picket Line

• Steel Workers Rally to Protest Closures, by Ben Blake
• Boston City Hospital: “Solid”, by Peter Lowber
• Strike Stops San Francisco Hotels, by Murray Armstrong
• Ma Bell Contract Expires: Militant Strike Needed

Talkin’ Union, by John Anderson

• Detroit: The Workers Must Organize

Iran Forum Meets, by Ladan-Razi

Pass Cards Coming: So Is Big Brother

Osborn: We’ll Make Them Talk

Iran: It’s Up to the Workers, by Phil Marfleet

Israel: Legal Terror!

NUMBER 41, September 1980

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