EVERY TIME a revolutionary organisation wants to produce a leaflet, do a poster, or turn out a pamphlet it can run into a lot of trouble. Unless it has its own equipment and trained staff, plans and deadlines are liable to confront a blank wall.
Unsympathetic print managers concerned money and politics SCreH you up.
They decide when you the final copy. They decide HOW much they will charge you. They even decide whether your material 'acceptable'.
Shortly after its launch, Socialist Challenge decided it woud re-print Ene so-called blasphemous poem from Gay News. When the paper came back from the printers there was a blank space on the back page.
The Editorial Board workers offended' and had therefore refused to print it.
Capitalist firms will always be like that. They have a deepseated - and perfectly understandable objection about doing well produced jobs on papers or leaflets that advocate ending a system on which they get depend for men existence.
That is why the International Marxist Group is devoting part of its development fund drive to building apparatus.
We have to be independent of capitalist firms. We have to make sure that equipment that strikes and struggles; and help to build the anti-racist movement and the autonomous women's movewas ment. were We also have to make sure that the typesetters, designers, and printers are about the work that they are doing.
The only people who will be to keen to do such work are the ones who they are in favour socialist revolution. the ones who will put in the time beyond the hours 'normal duty'.
They are the ones who will printing put their energies into doing work. who will 300K have equipment, because they know can service that it is, like their skills, weapon the overthrow capitalism.
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You can back up their work and make sure that your class interests are served - D digging into your pockets to typesetters, cameras, design equipment, and so on.
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You will also be freeing us capitalist print boss, as well as saving us thousands of pounds Remember our last buy an A2 press — made it possible Brian Grogan's Insurrection in Tehran. We did this in two shows So let us build on your donations to:
Development Fund PO Box 50, London
Socialist Challenge