A NEW newspaper is to be launched in the East End of London in the autumn. The paper, East End News, produced a pilot issue on 15 July. So far 8,000 copies have been distributed.
The pilot issue contains a special supplement, printed m Bengali and English, which highlights one of the major changes facing the East End includes published in thirade trys taken by sylvia ranknurst never ocrore trade by employed a Successor ranging from Chinese, and Jews at the turn of the century to the Asian community today OLCH ding them with starvation wages and sweat SAO0 COnCILUIS Now the dec ine business swelling the unemployed in the East End, already high que to cock costes cuts.
The East End News local, weekly alternauve licwspaoci aims to unite a broad front of trade union and local groups on issues like cuts in livand standarus; Lalisi. discrimination.
The structure of the co-operative that will run the paper is daringly democratic. The FEN will be owned by its readers as well as workers. Anybody who buys five £l shares becomes a member of the co-op and is entitied to a vote meetings.
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The launch of the sexual is under discontent Derek mon to most national dailies. al eneral ty, that s wales Imu stand: against the arson campaign.' Passed at its May aggregate, S Wales IMG is now empnasising these positions in its political work, pointing out that bombing an ason bay do bosiuve roic l the class-struggle. Individual terrorism isn't a way forward; it just ment committee to supervise the week-tofrom Tower Hamlets trades council, local shown women's groups, ethnic minorities etc. The aim of the structure 1s press. to avoid control by any one sector of the Already over 400 organisations and individuals have bought shares. The East End News can only succeed with mass sup port from the people of. East London. Tner The format will be lively and profeswide sports coverage and a entertainment in the East End. Ads will events and pilot clash with Last year the East Ender — a weekly owned by the Stratford Express group and • Values policy was taken over by the rival GLEN group and closed down. This left GLEN's own paper, the conservative tast London non-union journalists wilo telt or were ca NUJ around a recent during an NUJ pay dispute produced, a one-off edition that provide last vear that the first East End News Wat East End News comes at a time when the role of the press harsh scrutiny. Coverage of the the sacking and 14 May has demonstrated the bias and distortion comAt the same time, protests from immigrant leaders over racist treatment, direct action such as the occupation of the 1221).
We see it as an essentially pouncal strategy, using concrete policies of immediate relevance to Britain's economic crisis as a mobilising base for pushing the system to its limits and ultimately transforming it (see Geoff Strategy, ILP, 1979).
position on the Ats of the rest of the far left it fails to provide a tangible alternative telving instead on an essentially rhetorical appeal to agitation without a clear programme for fundamental change.
Welsh Labour PETER HAIN, London Evening News office by women appalled anne ones ammuce to isolaus rave that many people are no longer willing to tolerate victimisation by The trade union movement is learning the painful lesson that to counter some of the distortions it must exploit the Press 1o. its own ends. Unions like NALGO have set up media seminars. At the TUC last year Campaign launched to challenge the whole structure of the 'free' 'and privately-owned press. has since adopted the East End News as its project NUJ members have been forced to realise their own role in press bias, through the blind acceptance of established 'news This has led to an intense debate within the union about professional stan dards' and the strength of the NUJ's code or conduct The success of the East End News will be important to these future initiatives particularly given the degree of support it has received from the luc. the unions, other trade unions at national and Labour Party and othe areas of the left. women's groups. sioners, gay groups, MPs, local churches, and so on.
But the co-operative has only raised half its launch target of £25,000, and that extra few thousand pounds might make or break the project. The East End News still needs more money, more members, more supporters, to be sure of success.
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