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The WREE-View, the official publication of Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE), documenting socialist feminist organizing, anti-racist activism, labor struggles, and international solidarity campaigns during the late twentieth century. Published between 1977 and 1988 by a national women's organization affiliated with the Communist Party USA, the newspaper articulated a multiracial working-class feminist politics grounded in labor activism, anti-imperialism, peace organizing, and economic justice. The archive reflects socialist feminist political culture and grassroots organizing networks, illustrating how left-wing women activists connected gender inequality to racial discrimination, class exploitation, militarism, and global liberation struggles. Through movement reporting, political essays, interviews, and international coverage, the publication documents the operational framework of late Cold War socialist feminism while providing primary-source evidence for the study of women-led leftist activism in the United States and transnational solidarity movements during the Reagan era. The WREE-View. United States: Women for Racial and Economic Equality, 1977-1988. Five issues in tabloid and digest newspaper formats, printed on newsprint and illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, activist graphics, editorial cartoons, and movement documentation. [1] The WREE-View. Vol. 1, No. 1. January-February 1977. Includes "Woman's Place is in the Mill," focused on labor organizing among textile workers, reporting on Chilean women resisting the Pinochet dictatorship, historical discussion of the "Bread and Roses" labor movement, and updates from regional WREE chapters. [2] The WREE-View. Vol. 7, No. 5. September-October 1982. Centers on education access, rape culture, labor activism, and international solidarity, including reporting from the Farm Labor Organizing Committee convention and commentary by a Guyanese activist. Front-page slogan declares: "Education: A Right and Not a Privilege." [3] The WREE-View. Vol. 7, No. 6. November-December 1982. Features an interview with Ms. Carthan, articles concerning Native American women described as an "invisible minority," organizing against domestic violence, and critiques of nuclear energy projects in the Pacific Northwest. [4] The WREE-View. Vol. 12, No. 4. July-August 1987. Covers a women's peace march in Moscow, responses to Reagan administration policies, debate surrounding parental leave legislation in the United States, and international reporting from Nicaragua, Southern Africa, and Hiroshima commemorations. [5] The WREE-View. Vol. 13, No. 5. September-October 1988. Focuses on poverty, welfare rights, Indigenous activism, and homelessness among women. Front cover features protest imagery forming a wrench accompanied by the slogan "Wrench Reagan/Bush Out!" emphasizing electoral mobilization against conservative economic policy. The archive documents a strand of American feminist organizing that linked women's liberation directly to labor politics, racial justice, antiwar activism, and global anti-colonial movements. Published during a period of intensified conservative backlash against organized labor, welfare programs, and leftist activism in the United States, The WREE-View preserves the language and priorities of socialist feminist networks operating both nationally and internationally. Its sustained coverage of Black women, Native women, Latina activists, labor organizers, and liberation movements in Chile, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and South Africa reflects the publication's broad conception of feminist solidarity before "intersectionality" entered widespread academic and political usage. Moderate edge wear, light chipping, and expected toning to newsprint throughout; all issues complete and fully legible. Overall very good condition. A scarce archive of late twentieth-century socialist feminist publishing documenting multiracial working-class activism and internationalist women's movements during the Cold War era.