Why Hull News should be based on militants

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By Noel Hibbert, member, Hull Trades Council THERE were just two issues of Hull News, a weekly paper launched by Hull Trades Council on 19 October, before suspended because of advertisers and media.

The role of Hull News was to challenge the bourgeois press monopoly and to articulate the interests of tne working class connullyl a popular fashion. Class struggle politics were at the centre of the paper's politics and its finances came from the unions and advertising.

Over 16,000 copies of the first two. issues were sold, but the local business community refused to sit back and development. First, from the same stable as the Daily Mail -offered reduced advertising rates to the clients. of Hull News. initiated over the local radio and television saying we were a characterisation that the editorial committee did not adhere to.

The consequence was executive publication was by local watch such a the Hull Daily Mail Then a smear campaign 'communist Lual leading advertisers began withdraw venture, in particular large car dealers. The trades council discussed several responses to this attack: to reduce circulation and dilute the politics; ask the dockers in Hull, among the main financial backers of the paper, to impose a car embargo; or to find alternative Hull Trades errors that of a "council' an obstacle potential.

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