Each week we need to pay or approximately £1,135 to get the paper to you. spend this, expenses freelance who do a lot of the editorial work for the paper; on bills for the bourgeois press to keep us in touch with their media; on phones — essential to an journalist; for the lawyer who reads the paper for libel; and on rent and voreen of the ottice space we use in Upper Street.
Once we've paid out this much we've got the copy articles you read. But to turn this into a newspaper we have to photos, cartoons, and printing. Even after Feb Edge, printers, have delivered the bundles of papers to us we still have to pay British Rail to get the paper to the sellers in the localities, and for post to send out the subscription copies.
How do these down? Our overhead and essential running costs, including rent, phones, Rail and postal expenses, design, typesetting and printing costs for approximately quarters of £1,135 expenditure.
other ACCULE about quarter of expenditure. This is the area think we could cut back on. But we are already running very close to the bone, and you can't cut the editorial weekly income has been a good deal less than this figure of £1,135. Of the supporters at 15p a copy, bringing in £495, and 400 are sold through shops ponding to 500 sales, from shops that NORTH WEST MOSS SIDE Socialist Challenge supporters sell the paper at Moss Side Centre, Saturday, 11-1. MANCHESTER SC Centre has Decause of nre damage, our wtll be reopening shortiv. All mail/enquiries should meanwhile he sent via the paper's national office in London. OLDHAM Yorkshire Bank, High St. For further SC sales every KKHRANI Cleveland Centre STOCKTON-ON-TEES Socialist Challenge and Revolution from readers Books stall market, Stockton High St SCUILANYS For information about the vueen or ulascow. Upen wed thurs. Hri an afternoons. for arrangement (221 748l). Wide range of Fourth International publications.
John Ford, 553. Eliot Crescent, Hamilton.
Socialist Challenge 28 June 1979 Page 14 first on journalists — the stories and pay for design and our and get break ers, or £50 a week.
weekly £945 a week.
that gradually, the total These innocent for design and even more in to keep deficit, you might ask?
basis fiscal SOCIALIST CHALLENGE EVENTS 4400 lor derats been St) each Saturday 11am-2pm.
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BIRMINGHAM Spencer Hall indoor IOTTINGHAM Challenge regularly -reathcote St.
LEAMINGTON YORKSHIRE •colland HUDDERSFIELD alternative Trades Club, Northumberland St.
Westminster Bank. 12.30-2.00pm.
LEEDS Socialist Challeng солн we distribute to nationally. We sell about £150 worth of subs every week, about £20 worth of advertising. We receive £200 a month from bankers' orders from supportOur regular quarterly fund drives have been bringing in about £1,550, which is £120 in a week; and we make DaDcI sources. All of which adds up to about As can readily be seen, this leaves us short by about £190 a week. It's been like this since the beginning of the year, and before — with the result week by week, we've been piling up huge debts. The biggest of these is for design etc, for £3,650.
looking four figures mean in the real world that there are problems every week paying typesetting, and belling lo SCHLICE supplies to keep producing the paper.
Isn't it just a little bit irresponsible running months and months at a £190 a week to try.
We haven't been working on the irresponsibility and "waitine tor something to come un Keeping the paper going has been and is a political choice based on definite EDINBURGH Socialist Challenge supporter roup meęts regularly. Phone George at 031-34 outside Boots (corner of Reform sellers group monthly Highfields Community Centre. Paper on sale at supporters sell outside New street stanon every balurday, Ju-4 Phone 643 9209 for details of SC activities readers Mushroom buy BOOks, Socialist BRISTOL Salutady.
eets fortraghtly on Thursdays at the Friendly d DEWSBURY Socialist Challenge sales regularl on Saturday mornings in Westgate at the Nat sales every Saturday information about where this deficit comes from. There are two particular problems.
Individual sales by supporters of the paper have fluctuated wildly and gone down quite à lot recently. sales through shops and subscriptions have stayed stable, and if anything gone up slightly. The audience of the the Sallie, larger anything; our problem is the activity of our supporters.
We've had a very similar problem our regular fund Donations from individual readers keep coming in, but the income from events organised by our supporters has been very erratic. This is why we haven't met our last three fund drives.
If we had f54 a week more coming in from the fund drive which would only be meeting the f2,500 target, and only 910 extra sales by individuals over the whole country, we would be breaking even {leaving accumulated debts). We've assessed that it is possible to achieve these aims, and that it is our responsibility assessments political. The finances of a paper like Socialist Challenge matter of business management. believe and still believe that Socialist Elland Rd - when Leeds Utd are playing at HUDDERSFIELD socialist Chanenge regularly Saturdays 11am-1pm in the Piazza. YORK Socialist Challenge is on sale at the Yron Community 73.50-1.45) 0 Yor (11.30-3.30) at Coney Street FOR INFORMATION on activities write to koy t? cio rumarks. 110 Cheltenham Rd, Bristol 6 SOUTHAMPTON Socialist Challenge Socialist Challenge Hole in th all loll Wround, raymarker Shallenge irom the Shop, can nion StRad 'hallenge from the Oz Shop, 4 outside Macfisheries. 20298 for further details.
Kegent. 3 Challenge can and must continue and develop because of the relevance and urgency of the policies it fights for.
We predicted that Labour would lose the election if a vigorous socialist But alternative was not built. to build such an victory of the most reactionary Tory government since the war not only contirms reinforces the campaigning, political, internationalist socialist weekly. drive. The need for Socialist Challenge underpins the existence; if it did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
We need, essentially, two things. The first is £5,000 by September. This includes £4,350 to let break over (including what we'd get in from a regular fund drive); and £650 to towards the most urgent back debts.
To help us achieve this, the IMG has decided to merge its £20,000 fund drive with ours. Most of the organised supporters of the paper members and sympathisers what we'd aimed for, but it's a fact nonetheless.
Since launched, these militants have been faced with competing loyalties. The IMG fund drive has PORTSMOUTH Socialist Naturaays Precinct. sale.
SOUTH FAST Nokwin socalist enallenge Sauday Place COLCHESTER SC ror delals onone sieve on wivennoe 2949 BRICHIU. Tuesdays. Contact Micky on 605052. SC Ine fortnight (phone 247 sell the paper every Saturday at noon at junction Portobello Rd/Westbourne Park Rd every at Kilburn Sa. Kilburn High Rd, London NW6 HEMPSTEAD ragtary on sunday evenines. ror derans baon‹ Mick on Hemel Hempstead 41037.
sales Saturday mornings in Times Square.
NFORD We-fought alternative. The best results it need for we don't under. If we do, the developed. possibility of the extra money. the end of quarter country.
go gates. movement are IMG the IMG fund drive was gained at the Challenge Commercia Road sales "Thursdays at University of East market TOWER Supporter • supporteis mec Iccularly SHALANCI outside Sainsbury's mornigntly on WIl Saturday, 2.30 Pare 12-2 every Saturday supporters JACC • Also DaDe.
Crusuits LouD. Mare surcer. co. expense of ours. Now the IMG has recognised that if Socialist Challenge fails it stands to lose as much as any of the paper's readers. A common effort for £20,000, of which £5, 000 will go to Socialist Challenge, will bring in the You, the readers, can help us keep afloat with your money. Over the next weeks we'll be depending on you get the money in we'll go and then meet our fund drives regularly every re-stabilised and can be If we don't meet these targets we will end up having to raise the price of the paper in order to get in A thousand extra sales isn't such an immense target over the whole know many areas have reduced their orders for the end of the student term. We need them to seek out new sales, on estates, at factory shopping Calle labour meetings. We'll be publishing targets for a sales drive in the next few weeks.
Sales kits, posters, and suchlike distribution office. available the paper's Take advantage of them — and if you've any ideas for boosting sales, write in and tell us. But above all — get in the money.
WALTHAMSTOW readers can buy Socialis Sheridan's News Socialist Challenge HAMLETS every Dam, Brick Lane (corner of Buxton 51).
sunporter sell every Saturday, 12-zpm, in kingsland High st, Lalston — mee HARROW Socialist Challenge supporters me egularly, details from Box 50, London N1 2X Seven Sisters tubes, ales are see and HAKINGLY paper sales at rinsbury Park available Musie lane, B and Bookmarks, Finit Vares SOUTH LONDON paper sales at Brixton tube Also available at Oval tube and Herne Hill BR kiosks S.E. LONDON SC group meets. note. Watch this spot for details of nept st in market. All local supporters pleas HACKNEY SC group meeting "No to school Speaker Mike Colley (NU1 , Clissold 28 June, 7.30pm, Britannia
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