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Socialist wollell Hlay be cirSmith magazines Challenge. you could buy Private Eye (cirJpeg of Lne number alternative Press nearly 100, ranging from Red Cabbage (towards a politics The of radical through to Labour and they admit that this is by often have no means comprehensive.
Changing 1 ne perienced by group in trying to get a wider audience for their press has opened up a auscussion alternatives of radical and publications. The Group points distribution gardening!)
Weekly, The impetus for tioning by frustrations exthis swelling Qn identified the highly di e restrictive private monopoly role. which exists at the moment.
As The Other Secret Service the French system is an in- of terestingly different example.
change in The France came from the requisithe Nazis of the maior French wholesaler, during the Second World War. After the Liberation, Hachette was too closely with the fascist invasion to be left in its former wholesalers, try.
NO! (as company Nouvelles Messageries de l Presse (NMPP), was set up or the principle, dictated by law 'unrestricted distribution of the printed word' same law made it compulsory lot newagcils le take any publication (except those inciting violence) and display it. NMPP was to have complete monopoly of distribution and was by commercial but by the thereb increasing weight collectively distribution by NMPP is on a DaSIS (rarely used in Britain) and though ouousners nave to bay aley on the handling of this means that, if they can af ford it, they can appear on every news-stand in the coun Indeed, the number and variety of magazines on sale in France is far one-ogreater than here. Minority Press Group survey discovered publications on sale in the kiosks of the Boulevard St Michel alone!
This much freer distribution has undoubtedly helped establishment of healthy left thy able predates are four circulations ranging 40,000 to 150,000 and Le satnacal paper, sells 5000000 Canard Enchaine, copies. Discriminates The French distribution system is by no means perfect. Its operations are carried out opposed to being con trolled) by commercial firms who can bring undemocratic pressures to bear. The sale-orreturn system, the massive print runs and returns' levies involves discriminates against smaller publications Socialist Challenge's sister Rouge found this out the hard way when it went daily.
But if a system based on troduced then those who spend all of Saturday looking for a copy of Socialist Challenge and THOSE who spend all Saturday selling it, would both have easier lives.