THE RISE and fall of Hull News, the weekly launched by Trades Council, has been tiscusscu l lest pages.
Preston Trades Council, however, adopted a rather different approach to bringing out its journal, Preston Worker. Trades council JOHN PARKINSON HAMMONDS explain below.
WE first discussed bringing out a journal after Labour lost the election. The demoralisation and confusion in the movement caused by the Labour government made it clarify and debate why the occurred. We needed a vehicle to develop the struggles and campaigns of working people in Preston.
Of different tendencies have their how the journal should be developed. But all are agreed on the need for an active working class DaDer. issue contains a number of different viewpoints from the left and labour movement - something we see as vital to create the type SECUECU At the moment producing the journal quarterly and bringing out special supplements to deal with immediate problems like the wave on have to prove we can do our own thing Hull ist media. much cracks of the system members JIM have alternative SYSECHI technology, under our control.
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develop media and educational — using our skills and their Some on the left would call our approach amateurish, but we don't You have to take it slowly. trying launch grandiose weekly paper we obtained a printing press for £25. We made the platemaker ourselves for £1S, and we were quite surprised at the response within the movement to our appeal There really is a lot of latent skill. Once we showed that the journal was proposition provided training operation in media techniques which the stewards involved began to take Take the Fire Brigades Union, for Through their involvement with Preston Worker they have now can operate a press themselves and produce their leatlets.
What you need is someone who understands the whole process and can nurture the skills required. At the beginning there was a lack of people help in writing, lay-out production, but this is being resolyed as we train people up.
There has been very little problem on distribution. We.printed 3,000 of