TOT une to become much more accessible worker militants and first time readers.
Let me put it simply.
Recently a member of our direct editorial board went to an Socialist Challenge will be IMG branch to discuss the just as revolutionary, just • A miner comrade as internationalist. said: 'OK, I take Socialist Some people like it, bit.
Some people like it, some people bring it back and say they can't understand it.
That's the situation we've got to change. need a paper which comrades are much more con- of the fident of taking into the labour movement.
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No. It's a question of explaining our political ideas In a simpier and more But Is it really possible to produce in which everything will be understood by the first time reader?
No. Our paper has to serve We a variety of needs.
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and those who support its 10 per cent of it, then ob- Socialist Challenge was viously they're not going It's the balance that paper was wrong?
of determines the whole way *6 months £6.50 prioritise great strengths of Socialist ing class to have a united realistic. Socialist Challenge an be the that doesn't exist.
other revoutionary forces, in par! ticular the Socialist Workers Party, have slammed the door on unity with the IMG. That's very bad - bad for them, bad for us.
Take this 'Beyond the Fragments' development. These people are drifting, going nowhere. They have no organisation, no no perspectives, nothing.
If there were serious I moves towards revolutionary unity, the best of these people would be won over. But there no Socialist Challenge is sponsored by the IMG and we're going to defend our line in it.
Let me also say that we want Socialist Challenge to be open in a much more fundamental way to the rank and file leaders of struggle, to speak out and express their views on the way ahead This is something we tried to do with the steel strike.
So there's going to be a dramatic change?
Yes and no. We're going to change the way the paper looks, and a lot of its features. Bat whethe there's going to be a sustained change depends on what the IMG does in the next period. Ultimatelv. a revolutionary newspaper will reflect the organisation which takes responsibility for producing it.
you Dave an organisation Waler "chronically sectarian, then of brilliant journalism will save the But if the organisation . continues to focus its activity around the key features of the class struggle, rooting itself more deeply the workers movement, then the preconditions are created for a more vital workers' Changing Socialist Challenge is going to be a long term process.
What do you mean by the 'key features of the class struggle that Socialist Challenge will cover?
64,000 dollar ques The tion! In terms of the broad sweep of the British class struggle, what's most ob• viouș today is the way in which the struggle in the unions increasingly bound up with what is going on in the Labour Party.
good example something the paper has been campaigning on in a big way - is the fight over Cruise missiles the Whom do 'gang of three Williams, Rodgers and Owen — approach for an alliance but union leaders Terry Duffy and Frank Chapple! The fight inside the party immediately links up with the fight against Duffy - in the Engineering Union.
Socialist • Challenge is going to have to focus a lot of attention on the emergence of the new left wing in the Labour Party.
should Socialist Challenge supporters be 'doing to promote the new More than ever, the revolutionary press has to be at the centre of building a - revolutionary party.
opportunities are opening up all the time to expand our influence.
So we hope that all comrades, whether the are members of the IMG or just supporters of the paper, will feel a new confidence about taking it to contacts in the labour movement.
We particularly want to run a campaign for new subscriptions, to firm up our base of regular sales.
There's also one other thing. We want IMG branches and other supporters to be discussing where they sell Socialist Challenge.
If there are new opportunities for selling the paper in the labour move ment, then comrades have to be thinking about more factory gate sales, regular sales at trade union branches even have no supporters - and so on.
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