I WOULD agree with many of Big Flame's points about the content of Sociallet Challenge. is a committed revolutionary: on reading Issue 24, I can find no motivation to read either For "Surplus alue the latter has featured some interesting articles tike the recent one on Irsh Rebubcanism. The cutting of Under Raviow would allow an extra were actually better in the old Red Weekly.
limited space: in "Comment appeare to give the editorial board the excuse not GROG BIR CRESTS HE make resoonga to criticism is one of its most imitating features.
What about the axcellent that the paper should run regular articles exploding Who are our readers?
bourgeois economic COLLICO RE THE SULADEO this suggestion might Just as well have tom his lelter up and TOWN TO MA DIN TORETE response It elicited. The other half of the Under Review page So, area of small prin side. which are frequenty actually difficult to read, large tracts of actually waste 11 would be better to be mone concise and more readable. Likewise, some look more like 'accidants". The comment that at the price of 308. Sociellet Charanoe was as good value as The Guardian any (or words to that effecti tells us editors conception of the paper as it does about their тивое то arcig- по many working ciass militants buy Guardian?
and certainly plenty of room for Improvements in content and production.
Does this mean that Big Flame's analysis 10890n9 for these problems 15 accurate? When the project of small print, according mean that analysis of paper are conjuncture, and with specific revolutionary regroupment and struggie left wing. As part of this, the IMG SOOTSCAS weaknesses. tne devolutiona get se HOUCHE Tomorona! resdership a ne. per had no assessed the likely Illusions that it could become a mass paper overnight.
There It the great majority of the TOM VAVDIOLICAAIY INT expect to bypass the the state we are all at.
WES done unity in action ve. the present this question create a class BIT OL Socialist Challeng:
realistically the streneths and CONE HERE stage areas of could way forward regroupment. run.
organisation.
to small, changes would examples that followed up reviewr of as a lorm Imelerant In provides the ment, whilst Trotskyist Arts VIRUSIN precondition for support.
Socseems lo them and reach straight out to the broad should be messes: une response or te IMG would in general be that we could not. So the political on a realistic assessment af As for the counterposition of debates on procramme. Bie Flame's latter contains the answer itself or firat editor The developgroups convening of a STRE suggested, the drawing up of a revolutionary possible.
activity all offer TOE CHOSE ARE the Fonger davalooment or including properly democratic centralist filled by journal ialism.
MAVO SHE SAR COLA be prepared lo reconsider the Immediate alms of Socialist Chailenge and perhape re appraise the sort of readership we are aiming at. I teal that the not only improve the paper in an abstract way, but go some popularising It in the manne dicated dy Big Flame, As to socialist of organisation that unity in action neceasary to lead to regroup the support of groups like Big Flame is success cannot be a missed most moonon enticimEn made of Socialist Worker. This is not that 'some BEEN directed solely towards party building', true as that may be, but that Its political lavel is abysmally low This is not accidental, but a Imposed on the paper when its Roger Protz that sWp's audience is primarily young workers without political or SW has therefore to be brash. simple and sensational as The lack of serious political analysis or discussion In the paper means that it presents littfe challenge to serious SWP DUSCEIPHOL members leaving a gap which Is hardly the rather irregular SocUnless the revolutionary more than one well-produced weekly paper [and it is obvlous that no single organisation or section of the left is in that fortunate position| then any Tre to appeal ou try to appeal to a number different audiences. There is t modest popular audience for among men and black as well white, who are not involved in THOR UNION. alone political, aclivity.
must be relevant There is also a sizeable of audience of trade union and knowindge and experience. A must be relevant o them. And finally there ans the manition, aspecialy ry organisations, especially the POUCHE has important role to play In HUNC them, too, and providing means for some sorts of discussions.
Maybe il is utopian to think that a single paper can till the roguiremenis of these Is too uniformly heavy lor thi first audience, as l am told of the paigns found - to that extent Big Flame and Tony Heal ang But for the third audiences Socialist Challenge is tilling a vital role it is true that aren this framework, there is rather Vol a biae towarde the sense. should be careful aboul saying this that sort of articie should not appear, a position which oilen that trade union BROUTE interested in painting. or serious flims, or whatever indeed patronising and philistine.
The key question all th time is that of the balanc within the This Isnt quite right at the moment, but NOT FOSE OUT DAMACI altogether in emulation of Socialist Worker. Rather, Tony Hag! CUEH spondents have argued Flame and others should now join the USOE WES BE ASH building on real achievements MARTIN SHAW. (Hull).
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