1 RECENTLY RETURNED Cyprus where a population of 650,000 supports cleven daily newspapers plus assorted wecklies Every political party has its own daily newspaper and no political faction goes without its substantial journalSECTOILE In Britain we chanter blithely about the diversity of the press when in fact most of Fleet Street offers much the 30170 outlook on the serprising if you look interTing with hitchet he Col ownership, career structure, and full-time trade union bureaucracy that is so pervasive in our national and provincial press.
To get the truth about rank and file struggle, about Uster, about many international suc alternative set of facts from which truer deductions can be made — one has to turn to the socialist press.
The problem has been the formal party connections of the left-wing ress. Reading Labour focialist Worker is an enjoyable trea each week as one disentangles the party line from the reporting. though even my gorge rose last week when I read in one of the Labour Party orientated weeklies that there was some socialist virtue in Terry Duffy The treat has been extra-special in he efforts of the comrades who produce it to keep IMGism to a minimum. Toa large extent they have succeeded, and that is why Socialist Challenge is such a marked bonus on the left Journalistic scene.
They have scooped the world more than once. For my money the best journalist in Britain is Paul Foot, but think that even Foot's Socialist Worker would allow that Sociulist Challenge has had a triumphant first The Dobson tapes will go down in journalistic history. I can'i think of a Fleet Street paper that has toppled an quivalent pillar of British capitalisn I there was any honour in that of pals act responsible for dishing ou the annual Socialist Challenge should be top of the list for the Dotson story alone!
excellent that to a minimum, especially in new-found suppor: for the Anti Nazi League. Militants everywhere take their cue from socialist journalism, and newspapers that sectarianism gournalistically sectarian division on the ground. 1 hope your advance Smiths. ground where Private Eye. Guy News and other left papers are DOL allowed tread, successful - though not at expense of combative journalism The moment a WH Smith lawyer tells oute spice a story you wobt to posts you should be out of its shops and back onto the streets exclusively The past tweive months has been crucial for the rank and file of the labour movement from Grunwick 1o the Anti Nazi march at the end April. Workers are recovering their confidence and strength after the depression of TUC policed wage NORTH WEST GREATER MANCHESTER Socialisi Challenge school stucate wr SOCIALIST CHALLENGE CONFERENCE adequately by a nasional weekly lit the present contest of British left politics While deepering and improving its industrial intervention, such a paper should set itself the tusk of reaching