1950s

Volume/Number/Date of IssueLead articleDunayevskaya's "Two Worlds -- Notes from a Diary"Editorials
Vol. 1, No. 1, Jun 24, 1955Strikes Against Auto ContractsLetter Writing And New PassionsWhy We Appear; After A Year of Waiting . . .
Vol. 1, No. 2, Jul 8, 1955White and Negro Southerners Change Relations in the SouthThe Revolt in the Slave Labor Camps in VorkutaThe Gulf Between Leaders and Ranks; Time to Plan Their Own Lives
Vol. 1, No. 3, Jul 22, 1955A Second Look at Polio and the VaccineNew Stage of Struggle Against Labor BureaucracyWhat Kind of Problem? They Never Trust the People
Vol. 1, No. 4, Aug 8, 1955Something New in Coal'Socialism or Barbarism' -- On the Problem of a Workers' PaperThe Government Indicts the UAW
Vol. 1, No. 5, Aug 19, 1955Conflict Behind Peace TalksNew Turn to the 'Popular Front'Ten Years After V-J Day; Not in Churches, Restaurants or Ball Parks
Vol. 1, No. 6, Sep 7, 1955Workers Are Restless in All Industries and UnionsOn Bert CochranIn the Wake of the Hurricane
Vol. 1, No. 7, Sep 21, 1955What Future Belongs to Youth?Tensions Within the Soviet UnionA Point of No Return; There Is an Undercurrent
Vol. 1, No. 8, Oct 5, 1955The Terrible Shame of America (Murder of Emmett Till)'Underground Ways'Two Mothers, Two Sons, Two Lives; The Credit Boom; Whose Heart Attack?
Vol. 1, No. 9, Oct 26, 1955Women in the News the World OverTensions in the Russian ArmyBack To 'The Good Old Days'?
Vol. 1, No. 10, Nov 11, 1955A Look at East-West RelationsAttitudes to AutomationWho Is To Control Production?
Vol. 1, No. 11, Dec 9, 1955What's Become of the 8-Hour Day?Eugene Victor Debs: American SocialistWords Not Deeds; And More Words . . .
Vol. 1, No. 12, Dec 23, 1955Growing Crisis in the Middle EastThe Great Divide Between Thinking and DoingThe Political Slide-Show in America; For A New Way of Life
Vol. 1, No. 13 , Jan 6, 1956Gap Between Leaders and Ranks Widens as Southern Tension MountsTowards a New Unity of Theory and PracticeThe Life & Security of Workers; The French Elections
Vol. 1, No. 14, Jan 31, 1956The American Economy in Human TermsA Little Bit MadA Gasp of Fear; Civil Rights and Labor Bureaucracy
Vol. 1, No. 15, Feb 29, 1956Where Does the Money Go??'The Frenzy of Self-Conceit'The Sham of 'Gradualism'
Vol. 1, No. 16, Mar 30, 1956After the 20th CP Congress: Where Is Russia Going?Without a Past and Without a Future (On the Russian CP Congress)Easter [Rebellion] Forty Years Ago; The Struggle Continues [Montgomery]
Vol. 1, No. 17, May 15, 1956'Unions at Dead End,' Worker SaysThree Datelines (including Montgomery)To Control their Own Destiny
Vol. 2, No. 1, Sep 18, 1956Campaign Is Off to a 'Sickening' Start Ethel DunbarA Second Look at KhrushchevEditor's Conference Speech, Charles Denby
Vol. 2, No. 2, Oct 2, 1956Automation Brings ChaosNegro Struggle & Labor BureaucracyOutside Agitators Down South; Life's Cheap -- Automation's Expensive
Vol. 2, No. 3, Oct 16, 1956'Healthy Man Is Difficult To Find'Life Magazine Rewrites American HistoryBulging 'Pockets of Depression'; The 'New' (Pie-in-the-Sky) Nixon; Sneak Attack
Vol. 2, No. 4, Oct 30, 1956UMW Convention Ignores Rank & FileThe Absence of a Mass Labor Party in the USThe Reality of Automation; The Algerian Revolution
Vol. 2, No. 5, Nov 13, 1956Pressure and Tension Pile UpRevolution and Counter-Revolution in HungaryThe Threat of War; Full Production
Vol. 2, No. 6, Nov 27, 1956'Moderation' Is a Trap -- Looking Back at Elections as World Crisis MountsDeath, Freedom & the Disintegration of CommunismRefuge . . . With Strings Attached; The Burden of Production
Vol. 2, No. 7, Dec 11, 1956Two Worlds . . . In The One World CrisisItalian Communist Party Faces Revolt Dec. 8Don't Turn Victory Into Defeat
Vol. 2, No. 8, Dec 25, 1956What's the Next Contract?Automation and BrainwashingHeroism That Lives On; The 'Progress' of Automation
Vol. 1, No. 9, Jan 8, 1957Preparing for War?Hungary and Kenya: Two Fights for FreedomPills, Automation and Production
Vol. 2, No. 10, Jan 22, 1957Report from the SouthYouth and Workers in Present RevoltsWhat's in Store Now?
Vol. 2, No. 11, Feb 5, 1957Rebels With A CauseThe Confidence Man in Literature and LifeProsperity, Depression and War
Vol. 2, No. 12, Feb 19, 1957Our Lives in the BalanceThe Terrible Split in the Scientist's PersonalityOnly the Workers Care
Vol. 2, No. 13, Mar 5, 1957Chrysler Production Workers Jubilant as Rank & File Opposition Sweeps to Victory Over Reuther's 'Green Slate' in Election by A Group of Trim Shop WorkersExclusion of Negroes Warps Mind of WhitesRank & File Opposition; Hungarian Refugees
Vol. 2, No. 14, Mar 19, 1957'Coal Is Already Saturated With The Blood of Too Many Men'New Passions & New Forces'Right to Work' . . .
Vol. 2, No. 15, April 2, 1957The Case of the Rank and File Against Walter Reuther and Chrysler by Chrysler Production WorkerOn Both Sides of the Iron CurtainRacketeers, Capitalists and Government Investigations
Vol. 2, No. 16, Apr 16, 1957Both Sides of the H-BombNew Crisis in RussiaWho Will Watch the Watchdogs?
Vol. 2, No. 17, Apr 30, 1957What's Next for Labor?The Shorter Work-week, Productivity & ProfitsAgain We Ask: Who Will Watch the Watchdogs?; 'Defense' of Whom, for What?
Vol. 2, No. 18, May 14, 1957The Bridge to the Future'We Need a Clean, Clean Sweep'Workers' Security Is More Than Jobs
Vol. 2, No. 19, Jun 18, 1957Our Future & Our Children's. . .Scientists, Civil Rights, War & PeaceTax Burden Falls on Workers; Khrushchev -- Holier Than Thou
Vol. 2, No. 20, Jul 16, 1957Only Freedom Can Solve The Crisis DunayevskayaInflation; NAACP Convention
Vol. 2, No. 21, Aug, 1957Lay-Offs & the '58 Model Change'Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom . . . But Only One Party Rule'Reuther Gives Away What Isn't His; Disarmament Conference & War Preparations
Vol. 2, No. 22, Sep, 1957Marxism and Freedom: What Kind of Work?A Challenge and a PromiseSchool Integration and Human Rights
Vol. 2, No. 23, Oct, 1957Little Rock, USADjilas' New ClassOuter Space or Total War?
Vol. 2, No. 24, Nov, 1957Unemployment and War PreparationsRussia's Internal CrisisNorthern Industry & Southern Tradition
Vol. 2, No. 25, Dec, 1957Things Look Worse for '58An American in ParisDisorganizing the Organized
Vol. 3, No. 1, 1958Reuther Turns Against Jobless Workers, Scuttles Short Week for 'Profit-Sharing' Two Worlds (No title)Promises Won't End Unemployment; Negro History Is American History
Vol. 3, No. 2, Mar, 1958World Tension Grows As Unemployment MountsUnemployment And Organizations To Fight ItThe Unemployed Reserve Army; The Fraud of Gradualism
Vol. 3, No. 3, Apr 30, 1958Ike Says The Depression's 'Minor,' But Workers Know It's Getting WorseOne-Half Hour From Total DestructionNuclear Powers Play At Peace
Vol. 3, No. 4, Jul, 1958France at the Cross RoadsWhither Paris?Termination of UAW Contract: Management Lashes Out Against Union & Worker
Vol. 3, No. 5, Aug, 1958What Auto Workers Want In Union ContractResponsibility of IntellectualsOil for the Bombers of World War III?
Vol. 3, No. 6, Sep 30, 1958War Clouds Over ChinaColonial Revolts and the Creativity of PeopleUAW Versus Auto Workers; The World Is Divided Into Two Parts
Vol. 3, No. 7, Oct 28, 1958What Kind of Labor?: Recession, Automation and Steel'The Confederacy, The Confederacy'The Planned Recession
Vol. 3, No. 8, Nov 28, 1958Education Bows to War Plans Robert ElleryAmerican Socialism and Eugene V. DebsNegroes Fight Southern Barbarism; Election Afterthoughts
Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan 1959Weird Economy and Weirder Democracy: Unemployment and World CrisisThe African Revolution, IThe Inhumanity of Automation; Revolt in the Belgian Congo
Vol. 4, No. 2, Feb, 1959Cuba's Revolution Highlights Mass Unrest in Latin AmericaA Forgotten Page in America History: Role of the Negro in Populist MovementUnemployment and the Labor Bureaucracy
Vol. 4, No. 3, Mar, 1959The Workweek and The Kind of Labor: Unemployed to Meet in WashingtonConditions of Labor in RussiaThe Rank and File Speak
Vol. 4, No. 4, Apr, 1959Nasser and the Communists Fight to Control IraqKhrushchev talks on and onBureaucrats and the Unemployed Army; Thieves' Kitchen: A Preview of the Summit
Vol. 4, No. 5, May, 1959Steel Corporations and Administration Line Up Against WorkersMay 1 and the Shorter Work DayThe White South
Vol. 4, No. 6, Jun 7, 1959By-Products of Automation: New 'Boom' Means Cut in Wages and More Unemployment for Workers Angela TerranoSpecial Supplement: Nationalism, Communism, Marxist Humanism and the Afro-Asian RevolutionsH-Bomb Warfare
Vol. 4, No. 7, Aug 9, 1959Workers Prepare for Steel Crackdown as Ike-Nik Talks Herald New CrisisNuclear 'Personal' DiplomacyThe New Anti-Labor Law
Vol. 4, No. 8, Oct, 1959Fight for Integration Brings Attacks From North and SouthEisenhower-Khrushchev SpectacularStrikes Throughout the United States
Vol. 4, No. 9, Nov, 1959Youth Conflict Exposes Delinquent Society Robert ElleryExclusion of Negroes Warps the Mind of WhitesSteel Workers and Taft-Hartley

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