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Discusses a rumor that was spread in Memphis, Tennessee, of an African American uprising at Jackson, a smaller city eighty-five miles northeast. Origin of stories of an uprising in a group of Americans who had passed the building of a well known African American fraternal organization; Preparations for first blackout test in Memphis; Statement by Percy Wyly, special agent in charge of the local Federal Bureau of Investigation office, on no racial trouble in Memphis.

Presents information on member of the American Legion, Westbrook Pegler and other reactionaries that declare hostility and contempt against all the colored races and the people of the Soviet Union. Differences between reactionaries and liberals; Professional background of Pegler; Information that Pegler had got his first big money as a syndicated sports columnist for "The Tribune"; Role of Pegler in exposing labor racketeers involved in illegal practices; Statement that if Pegler got his journalistic education as a labor reporter instead of a sports writer, he would know that the U.S. owes her public-school system to the labor movement; Promotion of the socialist movements in the U.S.; Views of Pegler on the Communist movements which organized campaigns to influence college students and young professionals; Approach of economist Thorstein Veblen that "business," is incompatible with industry, in agreement with the mind of Pegler.

Presents information on the public hearings of the La Follette Committee that was concluded in California on January 29. Report on the traditional open-shop policy of the community; Recognition of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association (M and M) as one of the most powerful anti-union employer organizations in the U.S.; Information on the members of the special committee which fostered the idea of founding Southern Californians Inc.; Information on the testimony concerning the Neutral Thousands, more popularly known as TNT; Information on the activities performed by TNT; Tactics of the M and M to induce various employers in a particular industry to create open-shop units; Realization of all employer groups, confronted with a rapidly growing, militant trade-union movement in California, that they must control the apparatus of state and count government.

Focuses on the book "The State and Revolution," by Valdimir IIyich Lenin, a revolutionist of the Soviet Union. Views of the author on Marxian tradition; Opinion of the author on Lenin's greatness which according to him lies in his resolutions; Efforts on Lenin to resolve tensions and dilemmas in his own life and rise his social struggle; Information on the book "The State and Revolution"; Report on breaking of strength of Russian workers and peasants after 1905 revolution; Discussion of anti-war rally by Lenin; Information on the book "Imperialism," by Lenin; Effect on Lenin by betrayal of the Marxist tradition; Focus on several books related to economic theory; Report on a set of notebooks that Lenin called "Marxism and the State; Efforts of Lenin to collect materials on revolution for his book after the outbreak of war; Reaction of Lenin on March revolution in Russia; Description of Lenin's arrival at the Finland Station, in the biography by Ralph Fox; Delay by one year in the publishing of the book "The State and Revolution," due to press busy with more important work; Views of Lenin on his book; Information on the contents of the book; Report that the book was amply creative in its elements of synthesis, reinterpretation, and Marxian theory; Negligence of theory of the class struggle in the book; Emphasis by Lenin on the inevitability of the capture and destruction of the bourgeois state power by the proletariat; Views of Lenin on the commune as a political form that replaced parliamentary bureaucracy; Consideration of two principal features in his book by Lenin; Focus on the two considerations being dictatorship and democracy; Emphasis on national traditions; Discussion of reasoning of Lenin on the fulfillment of the promise of a democratic republic; Focus on analysis of the administrative machinery under socialism by Lenin; Importance of Lenin in the success of Russian Revolution.

Discusses the complexity, motives, interests and ideals of the labor movement in the U.S. Physical factors characteristic of all group behavior such as imitation, leadership and personal expression; View that the modern worker is without property; Shift of the worker to better things, after the security of the home and after more congenial surroundings; Basic differences between the present day worker and the peasant and the serf; Impact of competitiveness and the shifting market on the security of the worker.

Focuses on the charges of disloyalty made against the Nonpartisan League, the farmer's movement which started in North Dakota. League's admission that the opposition has been able to cause them trouble on the disloyalty issue; Incorporation of practically all the program of war economics advocated by the League into the nation's war policies; Impact on the organization of the attitude of some of its members immediately prior to and following the entrance of the United States into the war.

Comments on the pitiless scrutiny of trade unionism in Western Europe. Facilitation of the labor movement and social revolution; Continuation of the broadening antagonism of master and man; Acceptance of established institutions; Failure of the directing and possessing classes to create a sympathetic industrial mentality and the conscience to establish a standard of justice; Elimination of the profiteer from the body politic.

Reports on political developments in the U.S. Proposed plan for reducing British war-debt that would be raised by floating a twenty or thirty-year bond issue in the U.S.; Obscurity related to the proper implementation of the plan; Ratification of the "lame duck" Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; Felicitation of George W. Norris, veteran Senator from Nebraska, for his proposal for government operation of Muscle Shoals; Proposal of the U.S. administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a reduction in interest rates of farm mortgages; Protest raised by the Spanish government against the assassination of her citizens by agents of a bloody Cuban tyrant who retains his place only through the acquiescence of the United States; Strength of the Spanish regime amongst the Social Democratic governments which have emerged from the European revolutions; Sentence given to a Negro Communist Angelo Herndon for imprisonment of eighteen to twenty years in Georgia; Facilities available at two new theaters Radio City and Music Hall which has emerged successful in their performance; Statement of Morris L. Cooke of the New York Power Authority that distribution costs of electricity has become too high; Acknowledgement expressed for contribution of businessmen W.R. Hearst and Cyrus H.K. Curtis to the "Buy American" campaign; Insufficiency in the advancement of the progressive-education movement in the U.S. public schools; Broadcast of undesirable practices in connection with the flotation and subsequent manipulation of real-estate bonds in New York City.

The article provides updates on political and social issues in the U.S. in 1932. The speech of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Commonwealth Club in Francisco is considered the high point in his presidential campaign wherein he declared his views on electric power and utility control. On June 1932, three students at the University of Pittsburgh were arrested on suspicion of planning to exercise their constitutional right of free speech.

Presents fourth article in the series, "Fifty Years of American Labor," which focuses on labor movements. Definition of the term "wage consciousness"; Lack of standards to check that an American worker receives in comparable values more than his German or English confrere does for the same quantity and quality of labor; Failure of radicalism to influence the American labor movement; Ineffectiveness of attempts to overthrow the stalwarts; Efforts of Labor Party leader Daniel DeLeon to redirect the existing labor movement toward an activist and revolutionary orientation; Leadership of labor leader William D. Bill Haywood in combining the method of the Western frontiersman and the theory of Marxian Socialism; Formulation of the concept of industrial unionism by Haywood.

Presents information on the state of trade unions and their impact on the labor movement. Decline of urgency in labor movement; Recognition of the men's clothing workers' organization as one of the most successful trade unions; Importance of developing industrial competence and social influence; Information on the achievements of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Attitude of the organization towards the problem of production and its policy of cooperation with employers for the success of the respective business enterprises; Success in the use of labor banking as a labor organization device; Stand of the Amalgamated with regard to the introduction of technological innovations in the industry; Support for technological innovations if production is made cheaper and the product is made more accessible to the consumer; Recommendations for reduction of labor costs without affecting labor earnings; Suggestion for the elimination of the waste and improved manufacturing policies; Policy of striving for self-sufficient power broadens the scope of a union.

Focuses on an announcement made by communists in the U.S. on their intention of leading a hunger march. Agreement of the city administration to receive a delegation at City Hall; Acceptance of the request to allow Communists to make speeches from City Hall's steps; Environment created in Town Hall for the demonstration; Details of participation of Negroes in the march for the support of unemployment insurance; Speech given by a Negro editor, who was arrested for circulating radical leaflets; Demand of F.G. Biedenkapp, principal spokesperson, for unemployment insurance, free gas, free clothing and the use of public hall for meeting.

Presents views of social philosopher and thinker Herbert Croly on liberalism. Impact of liberal movement of 1920 on American voters, explained by Croly; Factors on which Croly's expression of the liberal aspiration rests; Need for political reforms through liberalism; Significance of the process of liberation, as told by Croly; Views of Croly on American progressives; Statement of Croly that political democracy cannot overcome class government without calling to its assistance industrial and social democracy; Differences in the political thinking of progressives and conservatives; Conclusion of Croly that liberalism must be distinguished from political progressivism; Social status of several liberally-inclined persons.

Comments on the causes of Communist influence in Spain. Tradition of social order outside the Catholic Church; Military and bureaucratic action of the Communist Party; Spanish rule based on the ideological traits of the political movement based on the 18th-century French rationalism, 19th-century German dialectics and the mass mysticism and war psychology of the Russians; Prediction of the rebellion of the army by the President of the Republic, Manuel Azaña.

Focuses on the war in Spain. Description of the city of Barcelona; Political-industrial disorders covered by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera; Separatist movements of Basque and Catalan; Opinion of the author about the Spanish people; Life of the Loyalists; Generosity of the Spaniards; Comparison of the Spaniards with French and British people; Impact of the war on mothers and children; Acceptance of the norm of suffering and struggle by the people.

Presents musings of the author regarding replies received on the questionnaire issued by him on the social change. Assertion that scientist does not act, or even counsel action on the part of others, until the evidence is clear; Suggestion that to be effective, guidance must be based upon a definite plan or on a set of concrete objectives; Assertion that any possibility of purposeful social change depends upon whether or not a fair proportion of the leaders of the country's thought can bring themselves to agree on a limited list of crucial objectives.

Focuses on the incorporation of the social movement Utopian Society in California. Membership of the society; Process of becoming a Utopian; Background information of the organization.

The article discusses the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the U.S. and the efforts by Republican politicians like President Donald Trump, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to campaign against the group. Also cited are BLM's campaign against racism and police brutality, and Trump's claim that his rival Joe Biden also wants to abolish and defund the police.

The author argues that independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has always been an extremist whose paranoia and unwillingness to compromise frequently sabotaged the causes he promoted. As Ralph Nader prepares for another spoiler run at the presidency, liberals are again wringing their hands at the damage he may do not only to Democrats' chances of retaking the White House but to his own reputation as well. The good-man-who-went-wrong assessment of Nader is virtually unchallenged among liberals. But, if you think about it for a moment, it's awfully strange. The qualities that liberals have observed in him of late--the monomania, the vindictiveness, the rage against pragmatic liberalism--have been present all along. Indeed, an un-blinkered look at Nader's public life shows that his presidential campaigns represent not a betrayal of his earlier career but its apotheosis. Nader made his name with the 1965 publication of "Unsafe at Any Speed," an expose of the Chevy Corvair. Few realize that Nader's campaign against the Corvair was only the most visible edge of an uncompromising, conspiratorial worldview. Nader believed not only that the Corvair was dangerous but that General Motors (GM) knew it was. Nader's friends recalled that often he would act furtively, speaking in code, always convinced he was being monitored or phone-tapped. Nader rightly wins credit for spurring progress during the era. And yet, even during his heyday, Nader habitually denounced liberals and their work, sabotaging the very causes he claimed to believe in. For Nader, it was almost axiomatic that anybody who disagreed with him was a corporate lackey.

Considers problems with using gender in the U.S. as a way to determine how public-health dollars are spent. Efforts by men's-health activists to gain parity with spending on women's health; Report that gender activism may cause more problems than it solves; Attitude of the women's movement toward the men's-health movement; Report that women's health gained political prominence in the early 1990s.

Focuses on the slavery-reparations movement in the United States, and the possible economic implications thereof. Purpose of the movement, to demand the U.S. government to compensate blacks for their ancestors being enslaved; Thoughts of Adjua Aiyetoro of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA); Possibility that the movement could materialize into real compensation.

Characterizes the group of anarchists who protested the meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the U.S. Participation of students in the anarchists' movement; Speculation on how the anarchists formed as a result of vanished socialist causes and other declining social issues; Argument that anarchists are affluent college and graduate students who are in a position to tout materialism without risk; Differences between the labor and anarchists' movements.

Asserts that the impeachment trial of United States President Bill Clinton is another example of a morality play in the U.S. political culture. Accusations about morality and character prevalent in the U.S. politics recently; Examples of those accused; Morality plays in which the lead character has violated the norms of a powerful group and must pay a penalty; Battle over the definition of the good and what is worth sacrificing for it; Clash of cultural movements.

The article reports on the political revival of Ukraine. After the 1986 nuclear explosion in Chernobyl, there came a cultural awakening in the country culminating in Ukrainian becoming the republic's state language. Underlying all of it was the desire of the Ukrainians to claim the independence won between 1917 and 1921 by their forebears. The Ukrainian revolution unofficially began last January when as many as 1 million Ukrainians linked hands in a human chain stretching 300 miles from Kiev to Lvov.

Focuses on the political and social situation of South Africa. Conflict between the African National Movement and Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha movement; Problems of drafting of a new constitution and organization and management of economy; Accusations made by the African National Congress against the government of favoring Inkatha; Focus on Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress.

Provides some insights into the anti-pornography proposals by American lawyer, Charles H. Keating citing existing policies on pornography. Reputation and popularity of Keating in protecting the nation's moral standards citing his role as captain of Citizens for Decent Literature; Financial sources of Keating's anti-pornography initiatives; Pros and cons to Keating's efforts; Strategies of Keating in soliciting for political support for his anti-pornography programs.

Describes the anti-communist movement that led to the overthrow of communist party rule in Czechoslovakia. Participation of millions of Czechoslovaks in demonstrations across the country; Credit to the dissident community for the turnaround; College students clubbed by police at a march in Prague; Dramatic liberalizations in the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, and East Germany; Czechoslovak public primed for rapid change; Shock over the zeal with which security forces bloodied unarmed students.

Provides some insights into the views and strategies of Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev relevant to the emergence and political actions of nationalist movements in the Baltic States. Possibilities of a civil conflict and mass street clashes; Views of the U.S. government on the issue; Aspects of Soviet liberalization; Process of constructive engagement; Indications of domestic politics and foreign relations.

Reports the life and work of South African political activist Winnie Mandela. Involvement of Mandela in the slaying of a 14-year-old boy by her bodyguards; Struggle of Mandela against racism; Marriage of Mandela to the imprisoned leader of a revolutionary movement; Problems faced by Mandela in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the African National Congress was effectively suppressed; Rivalry between Mandela and a black leader Albertina Sisulu.

Focuses on the struggle of Martin Luther King for racial equality in the U.S. Achievement of political consensus necessary to establish a national holiday; Commitment to the spirit of nonviolence; Contribution to the struggle for racial equality; Attention to the success of the civil rights movement; Information that the passage of civil rights legislation had shifted the focus from purely racial concerns to the broader and less tractable issues of political empowerment and economic justice.

Focuses on the cult movement led by South Korean businessman and religious leader Sun Myung Moon. Role of Reverend Sung Myung Moon in U.S. politics during the administration of President Richard Nixon; Information on the criminal charges filed against him and his cult movement; Impact of the movement on the youth; Creation of mass media enterprises aimed at advancing the ideals of the cult movement.

Focuses on the U.S. military aid to El Salvador. Details of the improvements in political conditions in El Salvador due to the U.S. aid; Conflict between President José Napóleon Duarte and the labor movement; Information on free trade unions, and Communist trade unions in the country; Comparison of the political conditions in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Describes an emerging form of social activism in the U.S. that focus on celebrities. Susceptibility of Americans to vague demonstrations of pride under corporate sponsorship; Information on events of celebrity fundraising; Comparison of the power of celebrities and politicians.

Focuses on the emergence of self-esteem movement in U.S. education as of August 1996. Concept of the self-esteem movement; Stand of liberals and conservatives on the movement; Findings of studies regarding the impact of the self-esteem movement in solving social problems; Question on the relevance of academic achievement to one's self-esteem; Problems with the concept of self-esteem.

Features the Earth Changes millennial movement. Doctrines of the movement; Contrast between the theological escape clauses offered by fundamentalist Christianity and Earth Changes; Difference of Earth Changes survivalism from right-wing survivalism.

Argues that African American religious leader Louis Farrakhan is a racist. Comparison of Farrakhan's October 1995 Million Man March to other social movements; Opinion that the greatest revitalization movement in African American history was the United Negro Improvement and Conservation Association; Failure of democratic liberalism to combat the economic despair and spiritual alienation being experienced by African Americans.

Focuses on the revival of the civil rights movement in the United States. Degeneration of the civil rights movement into an endless power struggle among organized groups; Surrender of the Democratic Party monopoly on the minority vote; Comments on the failure of the Republican Party to regain the high ground on the civil rights debate; Role of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the revival of the civil rights movement; Proposals of President Bill Clinton on crime, welfare, education, health care, tax regulations, and housing.

Focuses on Colombia's militias, bands of young vigilantes who have decided that eliminating drug dealers and thieves is the only means to eradicate violent crime. Support expressed by many citizens for the militia's services; Information on the prevalence of gang and drug violence; Claims made by militia members that killing is not their main method of social cleaning; Educational background of some militia members.

Discusses the notion of backlash, which involves forcing someone or something to take an untenable position, thus provoking a predictable overreaction, when applied to the position of women in society. Information on the things that provoke women's anger; Pressure on women not to exact revenge for being terrorized and insulted; Men's typical reaction to provocation; Men's views on feminism.

Discusses the Western feminist view of the nature of male and female identity. Background on the egalitarian feminist which holds that there is a single, generic human being; Details of the feminism of difference; Qualities linked to women; Areas where the argument from difference has made major inroads; Portrayal of the social world of the radical feminist.

Focuses on U.S. President George Bush's strategy of turning to the agenda of the Republican branch of the New Paradigm Movement which advocates reform. Bush's citation of five reforms in his address; New Paradigm's call to Bush to take two unilateral steps to boost the economy and reduce the tax on capital gains by exempting the amount of gain due to inflation and assert inherent presidential authority to employ a line-item veto; Bush's final statement on the issue.

Focuses on the issue of sex-selection abortion; Overview of positions of geneticists, medical ethicists and feminists on the issue; Sophistication of prenatal genetic screening; Suggestion from pregnant women to perform amniocentesis or the newer chorionic villus sampling of placental tissue to determine fetal sex for reasons unconnected to transmitting a gender-linked disease such as hemophilia; Deduction that abortions appear to occur among women from Asian countries where preference for male children is exceedingly strong and outright female infanticide not unheard of; Opposition to sex selection.

Focuses on the political crisis and insurgency in Burma. Strength of the opposition movement Democratic Alliance of Burma, an alliance of 20 ethnic minorities and political groups opposing the Rangoon government, based in the province of Manerplaw; Efforts of the government's Tatmadaw army to capture most of the bases held by the opposition; Claim that students have been at the forefront of Burmese protest movements since British colonial days-and have paid the price for their activities; Role of Burma's military junta in brutally suppressing the pro-democracy movement.

Comments on the murder of Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko and its impact on Poland's internal politics and church. Protest expressed by the Polish trade union Solidarity and its leader Lech Walesa; Speculations about the murder of Popieluszko; Link between the police and security services and a Communist state; Internal party struggle; Energy and direction provided by Popieluszko's martyrdom to the Solidarity opposition; Grass-roots social activism.

Focuses on the status of the peace movement in Europe. Reasons why, despite massive public protests, the decision to install missiles in Western Europe still pushed through; Failure of the peace movement to influence the outcome of elections in the region; Factors that hinder anti-nuclear protesters from succeeding in their campaign; Common crisis factors present at the creation of anti-nuclear protest waves; Historical evidence that explains why peace and protest movements disappear or fail.

Points out that the political climate in Czechoslovakia in 1984 may be compared to a lake permanently covered by a thick layer of ice were nothing stirs on the surface but under the ice things are on the move. President Gustav Husak's regime which urges the people to forget their democratic traditions and their rights and duties; Social movement called "Charter 77"; Efforts of the Chartists to salvage Czech history from the regime of forgetting.

Assesses the success and failure of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Objectives of the PLO movement; Role of the PLO under the leadership of Yasir Arafat; Concern of the PLO towards the rights of Palestinians; How Arafat had a chance to lead a national movement, bringing Palestinians both peace and justice; View that Arafat's fantasy of liberation has ended up betraying his people.

Comments on the wave of strikes and protests that swept through Chile. Dissipation of General Augusto Pinochet's base of civilian support; People's reaction to years of rampant human rights violations, Pinochet's erratic personal behavior; Economic conditions; Strong but divided opposition to Pinochet since he took over in 1973; Demands that Pinochet abandon his inflexible application of monetarist theories, which had led to massive bankruptcies, a decline in production, and unemployment; Growth of the Popular Unity coalition and its realignment with left-wing parties that has opened the way to closer relations with the Christian Democratic Party.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comments on the article "The Peace Council and Peace," written by Ronald Radosh, published in the January 31 issue; Response to the involvement of the Soviet Union with the U.S. peace movement; Commitment of the freeze movement to bilateral nuclear disarmament; View that the most valuable assets of the freeze movement is its wide range of political support.

Analyses the strength of the labor movement in the U.S. in the light of coming out of Lane Kirkland as the accepted leader of American labor. Information that Solidarity Day, the huge demonstration in Washington, was a signal of the new direction in which Kirkland is taking the AFL-CIO; Information that Kirkland's first convention marked the return, after 13 years of separation from the AFL-CIO, of the United Auto Worker; Fact that more than 43 percent of the civilian labor force is now made up of women, but only 16 percent of them are unionized.