It goes without saying that any realistic effort to improve our press, must operate within the framework of a larger political program. Only a program that understands the necessity for curbing the huge monopolies--even within the limits of the capitalist system--can seriously approach the problem of press freedom. None but a program of independent labor-progressive political action can even aim at this goal. Only a program that takes Socialism as its ultimate objective, will consistently understand and face the problems along the way. This places the heaviest responsibility upon Marxists and class-conscious workers, manual and intellectual, newspapermen not least among them. FOOTNOTES [A] Banks, oil companies, etc., still have experts stationed in key cities abroad to keep them posted on specialized business developments of the greatest ultimate general political significance. “This kind of intelligence service, which many foreign chancelleries might envy, has been of great service to America’s foreign trade,” says O. W. Riegel, in _Mobilizing for Chaos_. The vital news gathered by these private agencies is withheld from the press, except when calculated “leaks” will serve the interests of industry or of the State as a whole. The press never howls about this kind of censorship. [B] Published April, 1946, under the title of _Peoples Speaking to Peoples_. [C] Word doctoring is a national industry. The award for the best public relations trick of 1945 went to Dr. Claude Robinson for helping industry in its biggest job: “The proper interpretation of profits to the public.” _New Publications_ WHO OWNS AMERICA, by James S. Allen $ .10 PEACE OR WAR. THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE WAR-MAKERS, by Eugene Dennis .03 SOCIALISM--WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU, by A. B. Magil .10 THE CASE AGAINST DAVID DUBINSKY, by William Weinstone .30 THE PATH OF A RENEGADE, by Robert Thompson .05 WHAT AMERICA FACES, by Eugene Dennis .10 MEET THE COMMUNISTS, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn .03 WHY NEGROES ARE JOINING THE COMMUNIST PARTY, by Doxey A. Wilkerson .03 TELL THE PEOPLE HOW BEN DAVIS WAS ELECTED, by Robert Minor .05 COMMUNISTS ON THE WATERFRONT, by Herb Tank .35 WHAT ARE WE DOING IN CHINA?, by Joseph North .05 AMERICA’S HOUSING CRISIS, by Louise Mitchell .05 ENEMIES OF THE PEACE: PROFILE OF THE “HATE-RUSSIA” GANG, by Sender Garlin .10 THE FIGHT FOR A NEW CHINA, by Mao Tse-tung .25 NEW CENTURY PUBLISHERS · 832 Broadway, New York 3, N. Y. Transcriber’s Notes