The new description of the organization, magazine, and editorial policy, on page 2, is intended to introduce the magazine to a wider audience and spell out important aspects of its operation. Because readers of the magazine are urged to submit material for publication, we felt that ready availability of the guidelines...
Category - No 3
Continuing a six-year tradition, SftP organized activities on a variety of fronts at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston, Feb. 18 - 25. Because of the range of important issues raised, the extensive media coverage, and the participation of many science...
Critics of the nuclear establishment, among them many highly respected independent scientists, point out that a number of safety plans have not yet been tested and a number of “half-disaster” accidents have already occurred in operating nuclear power plants. The history of the nuclear safety debate records numerous...
This essay is reproduced here as it appeared in the print edition of the original Science for the People magazine. These web-formatted archives are preserved complete with typographical errors and available for reference and educational and activist use. Scanned PDFs of the back issues can be browsed by headline at...
This essay is reproduced here as it appeared in the print edition of the original Science for the People magazine. These web-formatted archives are preserved complete with typographical errors and available for reference and educational and activist use. Scanned PDFs of the back issues can be browsed by headline at...
Regular readers of Science for the People are already familiar with some of the ways in which science is inescapably political. And yet there is a more fundamental, less familiar, intrinsic link between science and politics, the implications of which we have barely begun to discern. In its most basic aspects, the...
A collective bargaining agreement which recognizes the right of the union to represent and protect its members is of paramount importance. It gives the union the right to demand that management provide complete information concerning the materials to which workers are exposed and all other hazards of the workplace. It...