Science for the People

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Science for the People was the left-wing bi-monthly periodical published by Scientists and Engineers for Social & Political Action (SESPA). SESPA, which soon took on the name Science for the People (SftP), emerged from the 1960's New Left in the United States. Shaped by the Antiwar and Civil Rights Movements, SESPA cohered a radical critique of contemporary science out of university-based activism and left-wing caucuses in various scientific professional associations. The organization was closely identified with its member-subscribers' confrontational tactics against proponents of violent and oppressive applications of science. SftP authors made vital contributions to many areas of science activism, including the anti-racist and feminist critiques of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, which had attempted to re-legitimize biological determinism in the 1970's. There have been various attempts to revive the group in different forms, including one effort in 2002 and another that has emerged since a 2014 conference on the history and legacy of SftP. Further materials on the history of the organization can be found at the conference website and in an edited collection of primary sources produced by organizers of the conference. Physical archives are also held at M.I.T. and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The new Science for the People will begin publishing in 2018 at https://scienceforthepeople.org/

1970

Vol. 2 No. 2 (Aug 1970)
Two Views of the Pledge
Bobby Seale at Cold Springs Harbor
Ann Arbor ENACT Conference
Letters from a Political Prisoner
Symposium at Virginia Military Institute
Technical Assistance Program
Scientists and Engineers in Washington
Workers Publish Underground Newspaper
Nerve Gas Next Door
Women Demand Equality in Science
Report from Berkeley SESPA
Boston Museum of Science
Heroes of Our Time
Science for the People and Workers’ Groups
Computer Professionals for Peace
Statistics for the People

Vol. 2 No. 3 (Oct 1970)
Proposed Legislation Threatens to Silence Scientists
Political Action

Vol. 2 No. 4 (Dec 1970)
History of SESPA
Unemployment of Scientists and Engineers
Unemployment in America
A History of the AAA$
Population Control and Organized Capital
Panthers Suggest a “Free Science Program”
Resolutions for the AAA$
Birth Control in Amerika
Address to the Academie des Sciences
Scienza per il Popolo
Statistics for the People
Who Are the Mad Bombers?

1971

Vol. 3 No. 1 (Feb 1971)
Actions at Professional Society Meetings
SESPA Members Persecuted for Anti-War Work
More Readings
SESPA Tells It Like It Is: Opening Statement at AAA$ 1970
Chicago ’70 Actions: Review and Critique
Strangelove Award
Indictment of Seaborg for Crime of Science Against the People
Herbicide or Genocide – Which Cide Are They On
People’s Science
Majority View
People’s Peace Treaty
Actions at Polaroid
Black Revolutionary Scientific Worker Jailed Without Bail

Vol. 3 No. 2 (May 1971)
Social Impact of Modern Biology
Explicit Operational Program (272)
St. Louis Workers Respond to Layoffs with New Organization
Polaroid Struggle Lands at N.Y. APS Meeting
Polaroid Fires Workers – Struggle Continues
Repression Hits the Liberal Fan
Counter-Spy Committee
Discrimination at U. Mass – Woman Scientist Fights Back
Insurgent Press Grows Among Scientists and Engineers
Report from Berkeley SESPA
Statistics for the People
Peoples Science Projects for Vietnam
Help for Science Education in Cuba and Vietnam
Spring Actions

Vol. 3 No. 3 (July 1971)
Manipulation of Men for a War Economy
Actions at NSTA
Science Teaching: A Critique
Cancer: We Cause It, We Cure It!
Raytheon: The Tip of a Stolen Iceberg
A Scientific Visit to Hanoi
Science for Vietnam Conference
Class Struggle in the French Science Establishment

Vol. 3 No. 4 (Sep 1971)
Biological Science in China
Why I Resigned from the National Academy of Sciences
Engineers in the Working Class
Engineer Joint Council to “Study” Engineer Unemployment
Fighting the Police Computer System
Food Additives or 1 + 1 + 1 … Makes Money

Vol. 3 No. 5 (Nov 1971)
Ethnic Weapons
Theater of the Absurd
Woods Hole – Seeing the Forest and Trees
Science for Vietnam
Worship and the Dangerous Life
Statistics for the People
Liberation in the Liberation
But What About those Lamb Chops?

1972

Vol. 4 No. 1 (Jan 1972)
Open Letter – AAAS Philadelphia 1971
Science in the Justification of Class Structure
Inflation, Recession, and Crisis
Free Clinics
People’s Health Movement
Books on War Crimes
Science for Vietnam Report
Press Release from Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement

Vol. 4 No. 2 (Mar 1972)
AAAS Actions at Philadelphia: The Solidarity of the Long-Distance Activists
Summary and Critique of Radical Actions at the Economists Convention in New Orleans
Herrnstein Buffs Rebuff Herrnstein’s Ideological Bluff
The Strange Procedures of Science Magazine’s Editor
Mathematics in China and Vietnam
Brother Hollis Writes from Kansas

Vol. 4 No. 3 (Mar 1972)
Science, Scientists and the Third World
Psychology in the Legitimation of Apartheid
Industrial Health and the Chemical Worker
Harvard Loses Peter Barrer
Using Pregnancy Tests for Hiring Discrimination Against Women
Our Bodies, Our Selves: A Review
Report from the China Collective

Vol. 4 No. 4 (July 1972)
Women in Chemistry
Weather Warfare
SESPA at American Chemical Society Meeting
The US Ethical Drug Industry
Perception, Learning & Science Education
What Do Health Maintenance Organizations Maintain?
Health Bibliography
Women’s Health Center Needs
Women’s Health Literature
Report of Annual Biophysical Society Meeting
Cancer: A Social & Political Problem
Off Control Project
War Research
SESPA at Eastern Psychological Assoc. Meeting

Vol. 4 No. 5 (Sep 1972)
Science Teaching: Towards an Alternative
Up Against the NSTA
Objecting to Objectivity: A Course in Biology
Grading: To Each According to His/Her Need?
Action and Reaction: Teaching Physics in Context
Computer Course Bibliography
A Preliminary Critique of the Project Physics Course
Hasten, Jason, Guard the Nation
News from Viet Nam via Paris that We Don’t Get from Our Press

Vol. 4 No. 6 (Nov 1972)
Occupational Health: Time for Us to Get to Work
European Confrontation Spoils Jason’s Summer Vacation
Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans
Questions from Argentina – Que Pasa en los Estados Unidos?
Colleen Meier, 1946-1972
Rat Control: People’s Science in Philadelphia
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere – A Review
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
SESPA – CPP at the Democratic Convention

1973

Vol. 5 No. 1 (Jan 1973)
SESPA Politics
Toys Against the People
Workplace Politics: Honeywell Capers
Stilbestrol – Cancer-Inducing Estrogen
Midwifery: An Alternative
Runaway Electronics
Controlling Aggressive Behavior (Or Stopping War Research)
A Call to AAAS Actions
A Modest Proposal for Organizing Scientific Workers
American Chemical Society Actions
The Atomic Establishment – A Review
Nuclear Tragedy
Ecology for the People

Vol. 5 No. 2 (Mar 1973)
Rx for the People; Preventive Genocide in Latin America
Pogroms for Progress: Brazil
AAAS: Action and Reaction
AAAS Critiques
The Philadelphia Story: Another Experiment on Women
Book Review: War Without End
Calculus for Conquest
Light in the Sewer
Engineering Unemployment: How to Lie with Statistics

Vol 5. No. 3 (May 1973)
Which Side Are We On? – a forum on the class position of technologists
Political Life in Science for the People? – a discussion on the lack of it
What’s Happening? – reports from groups and chapters

Vol. 5 No. 4 (July 1973)
Technological Dependence: Patents and Transnational Corporations, emphasis on Chile
Environmental Colonialism
Science and THE MAN in the Americas
Fidel Castro on the Universal University
Agriculture in China: An Eyewitness Report
Motivation or Manipulation: Management Practice and Ideology
Women’s Biology in a Man’s World: Some Issues and Questions

Vol. 5 No. 5 (Sep 1973)
Forging Better Words – Science for the People
Actions at Imperial Science Meeting in Mexico
Technical Aid to Indochina
Future Issues
3 Year INDEX (covering Volumes 2-4, in 18 subject categories)

Vol. 5 No. 6 (Nov 1973)
Learning From History: Chilean Struggle and the U.S. Left
Chile: A History of Imperialism and Struggle: Chronology; Coup; Bibliography
Two Chiles
Workers Control: It’s Structure Under Allende
Workers Control: At the Side of the Workers
The Local Struggle: Actions at the International Genetics Congress
Report – West Coast Regional Conf.

1974

Vol. 6 No. 1 (Jan 1974)
Energy
Under the Green Thumb: Imperialist Uses of Ecology
Population Control: Letters
Not Better Lives, Just Fewer People: The Ideology of Population Control
The Struggle Against Army Math: Trial of Karl Armstrong; Exposing Mil. Math; AMRC Papers
The Northeast Regional Conference
Cable TV

Vol. 6 No. 2 (Mar 1974)
A New Battle in an Old War
Unmasking the IQ Lie: IQ and Class Structure; What is the IQ Test?; Heritability, a Snow Job
Look What They’ve Done to My Score
A History of Eugenics in the Class Struggle
The Inherited Ideology of Science
One Battlefront
Science Teachers Report

Vol. 6 No. 3 (May 1974)
Genocide of the Mind
Violence Center: Psychotechnology for Repression
Prisoners’ Verdict: The Prisoners Are the Crime
Solitary is an Old Story
Now Kids…
Science for the People Activities
This Magazine Ends Where America Began

Vol. 6 No. 4 (July 1974)
Philippines the Next Vietnam?
Health Care: (Several Pieces)
Book Review: Complaints and Disorders – The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Fascist Junta Strangles Chilean Health Care
SftP Activist Rejects National Academy
Pushing Professionalism [or] Programming the Programmer
Science for the People Activities: (Several Pieces)
Science Teaching
Future Directions

Vol. 6 No. 5 (Sep 1974)
Science: Political and Personal
Women as Objects: Science and Sexual Politics
Book Review: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Women’s Column: Natural Birth of a Women’s Group
Aiding Workers Struggles
Technicians and 1199
Health and Nutrition Column: What You Do/Don’t Know Can Harm You
XYY: Fact or Fiction?
Report from the Genetic Engineering Group
Science Teaching Column: Inside Prison Walls
First Our Land, Now Our Health
Report from the Boston Science Teaching Group
Something Old, Something New

Vol. 6 No. 6 (Nov 1974)
Evolution or Revolution: Lessons from Chile
Women Hospital Workers
Local 1199
Health and Nutrition Column: Is David Rockefeller Pissing His Calcium Away?
Book Review: China: Science Walks on Two Legs
Engineers and Unions
Computer Workers as Professionals
Reflections on the May Issue
Northeast Regional Committee Membership Survey and Conference Call

1975

Vol. 7 No. 1 (Jan 1975)
Actions on XYY Research
Energy Crisis: Immediate Causes; Structural Causes
Population: Bombast in Bucharest
AAA$: Then and Now
Health Care Politics: A Report from the A.P.H.A. Conference
Health and Nutrition Column: Agribusiness
Soybeans in India?
Northeast Regional Conference Report and Resolutions
INDEX to Science for the People Vol. 5 #5 to Vol. 6 #6 (18 subject categories)

Vol. 7 No. 2 (Mar 1975)
Concentration of Power in the Food Business
Economics of Hunger
Weather: Calamities of Nature; Weather Modification as a Weapon of Imperialism
Eater’s Digest: Consumer’s Guide to Food Additives
Nutrition and Malnutrition
Behind the Busing Crisis: An Analysis of the Political Forces Involved

Vol. 7 No. 3 (May 1975)
RN’s Strike
International Women’s Day 1975
The Limits to Capitalist Growth
Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar
Science and Technology in Brazil
Book Review: The Energy Crisis and the REAL Crisis Behind It
Corporate Connections of Notable Scientists
AAA$ Actions 1975
Science Teaching: A Science and Society Course

Vol. 7 No. 4 (July 1975)
Imperialism: The Common Enemy
Science Versus Ethics
Small is Beautiful as a Book and a Bum Steer
Five Years of Science for the People: A Political Analysis
Their Victory is Our Victory
Women’s Work in Vietnam
The XYY Controversy (Continued)
Food for Thought: The Effects of Nutrition on Brain Development
Science Teaching Column: Plants: Food for Thought

Vol. 7 No. 5 (Sep 1975)
An Introduction to OSHA
Asbestos: $cience for $ale
OSHA Inspectors
Diagnosis: Work-Related Disease
Reports from Worker-Oriented Health and Safety Projects: New Haven; St. Louis; San Francisco
XXX at Vinylex
Industrial Safety and Health in Puerto Rico
Occupational Health and Safety Resources
Science Teaching Column
Report on Boston SftP-Sponsored Panel: Discussion on Research Ethics
Ann Arbor Chapter Report

Vol. 7 No. 6 (Nov 1975)
The New Robots
Milking Profits Out of Cows
Detente: Superpower-Supersham
Vietnam Rebuilds: Dialectics and Diodes
Cancer Prevention – Peoples Science
Science Teaching Column
Book Review: Sociobiology: The Skewed Synthesis

1976

Vol. 8 No. 1 (Jan 1976)
Scholars for Dollars
Organizing in Silicon Valley
Ann Arbor Conference
Hardin’s Lifeboat Adrift
SftP and AAAS: 1976
Discontent at the National Labs
N.E. Regional Conference
SftP Sessions at AAAS

Vol. 8 No. 2 (Mar 1976)
AAAS: Bicentennial and Beyond
Sociobiology: Tool for Social Oppression
Gene Implantation: Hazards of Genetic Engineering
In the Land where Coca Cola is Queen
Agribusiness: Feeding Profit Rather than People
The Structure of American Health Care
Biomedical Research, Politics and Health Policy
Women in Science: “Women Drink Water while Men Drink Wine”
Science Teaching
Science and Technology in the Third World
Review of Research and Revolution
Social Science Research: A Tool of Counterinsurgency

Vol. 8 No. 3 (May 1976)
Nuclear Power: Who Needs It?
MassCOSH: Organizing for Occupational Health
The Politics of Scientific Conceptualization
Review of SftP AAAS Activities …
Current Opinion: Battling on Energy
Movie Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Vol. 8 No. 4 (July 1976)
Epidemic! The Cancer-Producing Society
Male Contraception
Nonverbal Communication and the Social Control of Women
Racism at Harvard
Jobs and the Environment: A National Conference

Vol. 8 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1976)
Three Views on Alternative Technology: Is Less More?; Possibilities and Limitations; Not a Revolutionary Strategy
Women and Health: A Review of the Literature
Sexism at Cancer Lab
Nuclear Power Hazards
Jungle Law: Stealing the Double Helix. A Review of Ann Sayre’s Rosalind Franklin and DNA
Current Opinion: Recombinant DNA Research

Vol. 8 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1976)
M.D.s in the Drug Industry’s Pocket
Economics and Population Control
Current Opinion: Seabrook, Nuclear Power, and the Clamshell Alliance
Workers Demand Production for People
Fighting People’s Art in N.Y.C.
Book Review: Food for Naught
Back Issues Available

1977

Vol. 9 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1977)
Turning Prescriptions into Profits
Birth Control: An Historical Study
Fighting Sterilization Abuse
U.S. Medical Research Abroad: For the Power Not the People
Book Review: Woman on the Edge of Time
Eastern Regional Conference

Vol. 9 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1977)
Birth Control and the Eugenists
A Declaration of Nuclear Resistance
Human Experimentation: Who are the Guinea Pigs?
Community Organizing and Institutional Expansion
The Chemical Industry’s Travelling Circus
Come to the Regional Conference

Vol. 9 No. 3 (May-June 1977)
Brown Lung Blues
Don’t Breathe the Air on Morningside Heights
Recombinant DNA: Does the Fault Lie Within Our Genes?
Thoughts on Long-Term Membership in SftP
Clinic Workers Strike for Your Health
Sack Saccharine, Defend Delaney
Sociobiology: A Sexist Synthesis
Midwest Regional Conference Report
China: A Trip Proposal

Vol. 9 No. 4 (July-Aug 1977)
Exporting Infant Malnutrition
Repression of Scientists in Argentina
A Review of: Eat Your Heart Out
Fighting Nukes at Seabrook
Are Sex Roles Biologically Determined?
Voluntown, 1977 – The SftP Conference
Inequality and Schools

Vol. 9 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1977)
Using OSHA
Carter’s Energy Plan: Our Cloudy Future
Current Opinion: Abortion Legislation
Blaming the Victim: Hyperactivity and Social Control
Announcement of Biology as a Social Weapon
An Open Letter to E.O. Wilson
A Reading List on Biological Determinism
Dealing with Experts: The Recombinant DNA Debate
A Review of Man & Woman, Boy & Girl
Santa Cruz Chapter Report

Vol. 9 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1977)
Seveso: Zona Infestata
Oppose the Neutron Bomb
Laboratory! An SftP Play
So Much for the Myths of Hunger
Protecting Women Out of Their Jobs
A Review of The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home
Biological Determinism as an Ideological Weapon

1978

Vol. 10 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1978)
The Lily Connection: Drug Abuse and the Medical Profession
Naturizing What We Do – A Review of the Film Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally
No Hands Touch the Land: Automating California Farms
Mining Spectre Haunts Northern Wisconsin
Why Boycott Nestle?
References for “Biology as a Social Weapon”
Progressive Scientists Needed in Mexico

Vol. 10 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1978)
The Myth of Intelligence
Farming Out the Home: Women and Agribusiness
A Review of Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Report on the West Coast Regional SftP Conference
AAAS: Sociobiology on the Run
Health Care in Zimbabwe
The University/Corporate Connection to South Africa

Vol. 10 No. 3 (May-June 1978)
Lesbian Health Care: Issues and Literature
The False Promise: Professionalism in Nursing
S.T.G. Goes to School
Summer at Seabrook – Clamshell Will Return in Force

Vol. 10 No. 4 (July-Aug 1978)
Notes from England: The New McCarthyism and the Rise of the National Front
How Scholars Play with the Poor
The False Promise: Professionalism in Nursing, Part II
SftP at the National Science Teachers Association Conference
Back Issues Available

Vol. 10 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1978)
Atomkraft – Nein Danke! The Anti-Nuke Movement in Germany and Western Europe
The Dollars and Cents of Nuclear Power
Twilight of the Nukes in the Land of the Rising Sun
Sanrizuka Farmers vs. The New Tokyo International Airport: Who’s at the Controls?
Songs from Seabrook
Current Opinion: Beyond Seabrook
Second SftP China Trip: Itinerary Report

Vol. 10 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1978)
The Worcester Ward: Violence Against Women
Medical Care and Socialism: Problems and Prospects in Tanzania
Organizing for Community Health
A Marxist View of Medical Care

1979

Vol. 11 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1979)
Common Air, Common Ground
Book Review: For Her Own Good
AAAS Deceived by Argentine Junta
Science for the People – A Ten Year Retrospective
Redirecting Contraceptive Research
Reports from the SftP Midwest and Eastern Regional Conferences

Vol. 11 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1979)
Here Comes the Sun: The Government Discovers Solar Energy
Society May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Sociobiology: The Controversy Continues
Current Opinion: The Federal Government and People’s Needs

Vol. 11 No. 3 (May-June 1979)
Migrant Workers, Farmers and Mechanization of Agriculture: The Tomato Industry in Ohio
Book Review: Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America
Food as a Weapon
Food Producers Speak: Interviews with Farmers, Farm Workers, a Food Corporation Executive and a Farm Labor Organizer
Del Monte-Move Over
Book Review: Robert van den Bosch’s The Pesticide Conspiracy
Food and Agriculture in China, Part I
Current Opinion: Which Way for the Food Movement?

Vol. 11 No. 4 (July-Aug 1979)
Love Canal: Chemical Wastes Back Up
Three Mile Island and Nuclear Power
Anti-Nuke Resource List
Current Opinion: Defend Affirmative Action
The First Science for the People National Conference
SftP West Coast Regional Conference
Scientific Research and Education in Vietnam: A Speech and Interview with Nguyen Van Hieu
Food and Agriculture in China: Part II

Vol. 11 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1979)
Political Gynecology: Gynecological Imperialism and the Politics of Self-Help
The Amsterdam Science Shop: Doing Science for the People
Factory Workers of ZhuZhou: A Photoessay
Changing the Face of Health Care in Mozambique
Organizing Miners: An Interview with a Mexican Copper Miner

Vol. 11 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1979)
Education and Capitalism: An In-Depth Review of Bowles and Gintis’ Schooling in Capitalist America
Testing: The Competency Controversy
Dick and Jane Meet Scientific Management: An Analysis of Reading Management Systems
Sharing Science in the Classroom: An Alternative Teaching Method from China
Jonathan Kozol’s Tactics for Teachers: How to Challenge the School System
Discovering History of Women in Science: A Course Outline
Teaching Science for Humane Survival: Basic Skills and More
Feed, Need, Greed: The Politics of Food in Bite-Size Morsels
Tale of a Substitute Teacher: Teaching or Social Control?

1980

Vol. 12 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1980)
Reclaiming Reproductive Control: A Feminist Approach to Fertility Consciousness
Is there a Gay Gene? Does it Matter?
Textbook Sexism: Women in College Biology
Book Review: Contested Terrain
Blueprint for Disaster: Westinghouse Brings Nukes to the Philippines
Mailing Lists and Technophobia: Report from the Boston SftP Computer Group
Current Opinion: Two Viewpoints on Disarmament

Vol. 12 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1980)
Danger: Women’s Work
Dying for a Job
Mass Psychogenic Illness
Industrial Genetic Screening
Molly Coye: Health Activist for the OCAW
Black Workers and Occupational Hazards
Nonionizing Radiation: Unsung Villain?
Review: Death on the Job: Occupational Health and Safety Struggles in the United States, by Daniel Berman

Vol. 12 No. 3 (May-June 1980)
Cancer: Some Notes for Activists
The Risk of Cost/Benefit Analysis
Coke Over Cancer
The Politics of Cancer Research
Why There is No Cancer Prevention
Book Review: The Politics of Cancer, by Samuel S. Epstein

Vol. 12 No. 4 (July-Aug 1980)
Your Body or Your Job
The Pesticide Connection
Organizing for Job Safety
The Anti Nuclear Movement
From Eugenics to Population Control

Vol. 12 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1980)
Biotechnology Becomes Big Business
Sowing the Seeds of Destruction
Perspectives on Biotechnology
Powerline Assaults the Prairie
Epoxy Boycott in Denmark
Dumping for Dollars
Vietnam War Legacy

Vol. 12 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1980)
Old Bones Shatter Hunter Myths
Is a Fetus a Person?
The Politics of Female Genital Mutilation
People Unite for Survival
Mirrors of Reality
Book Review: The Bias of Science, by Brian Martin

1981

Vol. 13 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1981)
Agricultural Research and Social Conflict
Technology and Productivity
Bottle Babies and Managed Mothers
Book Review: Overcoming Math Anxiety, by Sheila Tobias

Vol. 13 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1981)
Taking Back the Land
Science Policy Changes in China
Medical Industry Thrives, Health Care Fails
Western or Indigenous Science
Cuban Science: Meeting the People’s Needs
U.S. Military Supplies Salvadorean Regime
Book Review: Aid As Obstacle, by Collins, Kinley and Lappe

Vol. 13 No. 3 (May-June 1981)
Workers Face Office Automation
The Politics of Alternative Technology
Update from Grenada
If the Swedes Can Do It …
Earth Day at Livermore Is Like Brotherhood Week at Auschwitz
Cook County – Back to Coathangers
Book Review: Marx ForBeginners & Freud For Beginners & Einstein For Beginners

Vol. 13 No. 4 (July-Aug 1981)
Resurgent Militarism in Academia
What Constitutes “Adequate” Defense?
The Basic Economics of “Rearming America”
Biological Weapons and Third World Targets
Challenging the Weapons Labs
U.S./U.S.S.R. Strategic Policy
Laser Fusion: Image and Reality of a Military Program
Space Militarism: A Debate

Vol. 13 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1981)
Girls, Boys and Math
Born Again Creationism
Tampons: Looking Beyond Toxic Shock
Women Empowering Women
“Disabled Doesn’t Mean Unable”
Disability, After the Revolution
International Meeting of Radical Science Journals
Book Review: Birth Control and Controlling Birth & Custom-Made Child

Vol. 13 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1981)
Robots at G.E.
Chips Are on at Left Mags
Where Is Automation in Manufacturing Headed?
The Terminal Secretary
The Pentagon’s Computer Game
Book Review: Microelectronics: Capitalist Technology and the Working Class

1982

Vol. 14 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1982)
CIA Psychological Warfare Operations
Agricultural Research and the Penetration of Capital
Education and Research on Occupational Health
Medicine By the People

Vol. 14 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1982)
A History of the Concept of Race
Are the Races Different?
Nazi Science and Medicine
A Black Psychiatrist Examines Racism
Science Education: The Haverford Experiment
Book Reviews: Bad Blood & The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism

Vol. 14 No. 3 (May-June 1982)
War of the Wards
The Present War
Health Care Under Siege: El Salvador
Making Science Socialist
Ford Foundation and Social Control
The Next Generation of Biological Weapons
Book Review: Mismeasure of Man

Vol. 14 No. 4 (July-Aug 1982)
A Feminist Critique of Scientific Objectivity
A Collective Experiment in Women’s Health
Science, Women, and the Revolution in Russia
Keeping the Workers in Line
Fighting Cancer and the Medical Establishment

Vol. 14 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1982)
The Economic Impact of the MX Missile
Women, Work & the Scientific Enterprise
Asbestos in the Classroom
Nature, Natives, and Technology
Book Reviews: Sexual Preference: Its Development in Men and Women & Circle of Poison

Vol. 14 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1982)
The Wonder Drug We Should Wonder About
Radical Therapy: Living from the Inside Out
Institutionalized Racism in the Medical Profession
Steering Clear of the Medical Mainstream

1983

Vol. 15 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1983)
Academia Incorporated
Teaching Radical Math
Fighting Pesticides on Long Island
Alternatives in Agriculture
New Directions in Science Education
Sex and the Bomb
International Meeting of Radical Science Journals
Book Reviews: The Death of Nature & Science and Liberation & Architect or Bee?

Vol. 15 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1983)
Computerized Big Brother
Psychiatry as a Tool of Repression
The Culture of Violence Against Women
New Police Technologies
Towards a Nuclear Pearl Harbor?

Vol. 15 No. 3 (May-June 1983)
Lessons from Mondragon
Resource Wars in the Lake Superior Region
The New Eugenics
Human Embryo and Gene Manipulation
Women and Technology
Book Review: What Difference Could a Revolution Make?

Vol. 15 No. 4 (July-Aug 1983)
Toxic Waste and Citizen Action
PCBs and Warren County
A Toxic Legacy: Industriplex-128
Science By the People
Dioxin and Dow Chemical
Water Diversion and Water Policy
Book Review: Report on the Lands of the Arid Region

Vol. 15 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1983)
The Military History of the Space Shuttle
Ecological Warfare
Seveso Update
Reagan’s Nuclear Proliferation Policies
Symbols Over Substance
Book Review: The Technological Woman

Vol. 15 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1983)
Agricultural Research in Nicaragua
The IPM Revolution in Nicaragua
Trail Blazing on the Atlantic Coast
Towards a People’s Science
On the Road to Energy Self Sufficiency
Medicine Behind the Lines
Book Review: A Bitter Fog

1984

Vol. 16 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1984)
Nuclear Power’s Financial Meltdown in the U.S.
Sociobiology and Rape
Knowing About Workplace Risks
Teaching Peace
Book Review: The Second Sickness: Contradictions in Capitalist Health Care

Vol. 16 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1984)
Fetal Rights and the New Eugenics
People Power Works
Infant Formula Practices in the U.S.
Making Healthy Babies
Infant Mortality in the U.S.

Vol. 16 No. 3 (May-June 1984)
“Strictly Anti-Human” Chemical and Biological Weapons
Organizing Textile Workers
U.S. Militarization of Micronesia
Hydroelectricity vs. The Cree
Book Review: Hazardous Waste in America

Vol. 16 No. 4 (July-Aug 1984)
Towards a Democratic Strategy for Science
Statistical Propaganda and the Nuclear Arms Race
How Magazines Cover Sex Difference Research
Whose Health and Welfare?
SftP Looks at Popular Science Magazines
Book Review: Against the State of Nuclear Terror

Vol. 16 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1984)
The Pentagon in the Pacific
Euromissiles and U.S. Scientists
The Politics of AIDS
The World Bank and the Philippines
Book Reviews: Antipsychiatry and What’s Up in Artificial Intelligence

Vol. 16 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1984)
Worker-Scientist Cooperation
Midwestern Farmworkers Support the Farm Labor Movement
The Limits to Science
Technology and Human Freedom
Nuclear Secrecy and National Security
Book Reviews: Not in Our Genes and Waiting for an Army to Die

1985

Vol. 17 Nos. 1 & 2 (Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr 1985)
COMPUTING THE FUTURE
The Chips are Falling: Health hazards in the microelectronics industry
ET Go Home: The revolution in not-so-conventional weapons
The Definitive Guide to High Tech: How to floppy to that disko beat
The Strategic Computer Initiative: The military’s double-edged sword
Computers in Uniform – A good fit?
Control Data and Apartheid: PLATOnic control of South Africa’s Blacks
Whose Computer Is It Anyway? Schools embrace computers without knowing why
Taking Control of Educational Technology: How to use computers productively and progressively
Computers in the Classroom: Social stratifiers or liberating equalizers?
Reviews: Technostress: TheHuman Cost of the Computer Revolution and The Rise of the Computer State
Vol. 17 No. 3 (May-June 1985)
DECODING BIOTECHNOLOGY
Framing the Issue
Biological Warfare and the New Genetic Technologies
Emerging Technologies
Ice Minus and Beyond
Genetic Engineering and Human Embryos
The Corporate Capture of Genetic Technologies
Safety and Health Issues Revisited
Setting Priorities in Biotechnology
SftP and rDNA
Who’s Involved
In Brief

Vol. 17 No. 4 (OUR 100TH ISSUE, July-Aug 1985)
SftP: Impact and Challenge: A Science for the People Retrospective
Exporting Lung Cancer: The cigarette industry and the Third World
The Silent Epidemic: Lead poisoning hits the poorest hardest
Special Update Section: Science at the Museum; The Jason Project; Automating the Office; Toxic Shock; Long Island Pesticides; Superfund in Woburn; Dioxin and Dow; Past Quotes and Future Visions
Reviews: The New Our Bodies Ourselves and What Will It Take to Prevent Nuclear War? and Test-Tube Women

Vol. 17 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1985)
Reaching for the Stars: Reagan’s SDI
Why Are Africans Dying?
Myths of African Hunger
Fighting Radiation Hazards in Fernald, Ohio
Cuba Report
Brain Asymmetries

Vol. 17 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1985)
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT and the THIRD WORLD
The Inevitability of Bhopal
Accountability Is Bad for Business
Secrecy Was Bhopal’s Real Disaster
Urban Third World Children
Industry and Health in Nicaragua
Review: The Export of Hazard

1986

Vol. 18 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1986)
Women and Science
Stopping Star Wars
Moving Toward Independent Agriculture
Automation Madness
Review: Alan Turing: The Enigma

Vol. 18 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1986)
Radiation Workers
Food Irradiation
Facts and Feminism
Corporate Energy Futures
Review: The Dialectical Biologist

Vol. 18 No. 3 (May-June 1986)
Risk
Assessing Risk
Asbestos for Sale
Science for Nicaragua
Review: Crime and Human Nature

Vol. 18 No. 4 (July-Aug 1986)
SPECIAL SECTION SCIENCE AND JOURNALISM
Are There Genes for Crime?
Science Writing
Biology Is Not Destiny
Interpreting Statistics
Not In Anyone’s Backyard
Gesundheit Institute
Review: Sex and Germs

Vol. 18 Nos. 5 & 6 (Sep-Oct, Nov-Dec 1986)
SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE: CAREER OPTIONS & ALTERNATIVES
Careers in Science
Kicking the Military Habit
Not Without Us
Why Work for Occupational Health?
Review: Holiday book ideas

1987

Vol. 19 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1987)
Science for Human Rights
Ecology and Immunology
The Epidemiology of AIDS in Africa
Environmental Mismanagement
Review: Myths of Gender & Empty Promise

Vol. 19 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1987)
A Win at the Nuclear Starting Gate
Bringing Up Biotechnology
A Psychiatric Holocaust
Review: The Science Question in Feminism

Vol. 19 No. 3 (May-June 1987)
Pollution and the Pentagon
Alternative Policies
Selling Science
“Surrogate Mothering” Exploits Women
Review: To Win a Nuclear War

Vol. 19 No. 4 (July-Aug 1987)
New Reproductive Technologies
A Womb of One’s Own
Technology and Cooptation
Diagnostic Dilemmas
Review: Consuming Fears & Microcosmos

Vol. 19 No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1987)
Choosing Technology
Responding to Technologies
AZT: Your Money or Your Life
The Nature-Nurture Controversy
Microwaves Versus Hope

Vol. 19 No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1987)
The Waste Land
Eliminating the Inferior
Bewitching Science
Review: Sarcophagus, by Vladimir Gubaryev

1988

Vol. 20 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1988)
SCIENCE AND THE MILITARY
Swords Into Sheepskins
Publish & Perish
War U
Biology Goes to War
After the Boycott
Political Constraints
Working Around the Military
Economic Conversion

Vol. 20 No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1988)
Junkyard Radiation Release
After the INF Treaty
Fuel-Air Explosives
Repression in Malaysia
Review: The Open Secret, by Eric Stover

Vol. 20 No. 3 (July-Aug 1988)
Creating a Culture of Science
Teaching Physics in Tanzania
Liberating Education in Brazil
In the Shadow of the Cloud

Vol. 20 No. 4 (Sep-Oct 1988)
Computational Reticence: Why women fear the intimate machine
Preserving Our Environment: Preventing hazardous waste
Human Subjects: America’s nuclear guinea pigs

Vol. 20 No. 5 (Nov-Dec 1988)
Farm Research on Trial
Science for the People in Action
Navy Alters Course at Berkeley
Uncovering the Pentagon Connection
Bittersweet

1989

Vol. 21 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1989)
Introduction: Rethinking Environmental and Occupational Cancers
The Environmental Cancer Debate: Updated
The Biology of Cancer
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Carcinogens
Cancer and the Workplace
Quantitative Risk Assessment: Public Health Prognostication
Community Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment
Corporate Influence on Chemical Exposure Levels
Review: The Apocalyptics, by Edith Efron

Vol. 21 No. 2 (May-June 1989)
Nukenotes
Into the Spotlight – Pantex
Blessed Assurance
Nuclear Economics