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The first answer to that question is before your very eyes. This sample issue should show you that the new paper will look different. Red Weekly design has improved dramatically in recent months evolution.
In design as in journalism, we have decided to wipe the slate clean and start with a new and unified idea of what the paper should look like.
That in't the most important thing. The big problem facing Socialist Challenge is to build on those aspects of are worth keeping union coverage and its in ternational coverage, for example — while introduc ing a series of important Changes For example, we aim to use the paper to help build an opposition to the betravals of the labour leaders That means a fight for the policies of class struggle rather than class collaboration.
Socialist Challenge will fight for the policies which it thinks are needed to build such an opposition.
So far no difference.
But we will do more than we wil providea forum for workers in struggle, for campaigns agains racism and for women's SHOUO OS DUP SURLE words we will pages to any individual or group which is fighting for that class struggie opposi tion, whether or not they agree with the overall politics of the paper.
More letters This also means that Rea Week/v's column, which has long tried to be a space for frank debate on the left, will be expanded. We want to make the letters pages the place in the paper that everyone turns to This sort of editorial polhome pages, either. International solidarity CaH paigns and emigré political organisations Cal also b given space in the paper, particularly those who have no press of their own.
The main strength of Red Weekly's international coverage - the result of being part of an international organisation — will be extended. There will be more space for up to the minute reports from foreign correspondents and thorough analysis of events in the international class struggle. Well be paying particular attention to those areas — suen as mastern euroDe -where we feel that we ar aDie to orrer a service to une whole of the revolutionary The other main task which Socialist Challenge has se itself is the fight for a Weekly? Where's the dif- everyone is agreed on that -unified revolutionary organisation in britain. Rea Weekly has long argued against the divisions within the British left, explaining that our agreement on poll tical principles and such debates. weekly s Batte or Ideas supplement will continue as a regular bi-monthiy feature. More than that, we are prepared to open our editorial board to any revo. utionary organisation which is genuinely commitSo you can see that Socialst Callenge will be pro duced in a rather different WaY - - and will look ratner different -Weekly.
There will be other changES LOO We want to set up a network of local correspondents for the paper, people who will be responsible for providing coverage of evwe have correspondents from all the major towns and cities But a paper can't have too man) correspondents. you think you can put pen to paper — or even if you're not sure you can - keep us informed of events going on in your ares.
We need other sorts of contributions too. If you take photographs, or draw or nave any other skills which would improve the paper, your help would be welcome.
Of course the big difference which you can't fail to onces mar ane new paper will have 16 pages. This will allow us to fill in a lot of the gaps in the old Red Weekly.
Culture Culture - television, film, theatre and book reviews - have all been neglected in the past. A new series of new regular columns will aim to set that right. And the history of the labour and socialist movement - a rich source of experience for our movement today, which has tended to be ignored - will provide further regular features of Socialist Challenge.
Above all, Socialist Challenge will be an open forum. Not at the expense of Ils pollics Dr course. make no bones about what te polucal une of ine paper will be; it will reflect une ponties or une rourtn International and its British secton.
In that respect it will follow canton. or Red Weekly. Red Weekly has seen that the opportu nities to build a unified revolutionary organisation and a class struggle opposition in the labour move ment are greater than ever But Red Weekly also understands that within its own confines it can't carry out all the steps needed to take advantage of those opportunities.
Socialist Challenge will be able to, progress made weekly And that is the only difference.
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but it is still a mish-mash of various styles of design, reflecting different stages of the paper's