'IT'S the first time I've read a newspaper that puts the working class point of view.' That's how steward from Pride in Manchester Socialist Challenge last week.
Printing the truth naner has been costing £1300 to print each week. This week, we face a rise in typesetting and design costs of £200 per CUT sales Die lu Because we take the side of working peopie, we don t carry expensive advertising There's no Tiny Rowlands or Rupert Murdoch to ball us out creature of any Fleet St magnate.
paper is subsidised sacrifices of thousands of dedicated supcan't another f200. It is beyond our reach.
This is why with great regret we are increasing our price to 25p from our next Our stayed months. We know the burden it places or ; ou. Fleet St haven't held back as we have. in the same period the Mirror has gone up three times, from 8p to 12p — 50 per cent; the Sun, four times from 7p to 12p Royal described rake in profits.
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£900 each week we are not the tame — by ine system.
put this subsidy up tions and subscriptions.
put for lies. They London N per cent; the Star, three times from op to 10p; the Sunday Express from 18p to 22p the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror from 14p to 20p; and the Sunday Times a staggering 22p to 35p.
wress doesn't But it's still squeezed by In the same months Weekly from 10p to 20p, the Morning Star 20р, and Militani and Socialist Worker both from 15p to 20p.
We feel bitter that just when our sales are going up, bringing socialism to hundreds of new readers, an insane economic system forces us to put 5p on the weekly bill of the very people hit hardest by this But we appeal to you not just to keep buying Socialist Challenge but to sell it, and if you can, to help us with your donaEvery hundred papers we sell cuts our loss by £20 and reaches a hundred potential new socialists.
Their pences won't grease the paths of Fleet St barons or help them print their will be working for your cause. They wii be working to get rid of the media millionaires and to build a new society in which freedom of speech 1s -for the first time - really free and pence: organise to house your paper Our thanks this week to: MB £20.00 S Sleath 5.00 Standing order 98.50 laryhill Coppe 5.00 collection Ed Mahood £10.00 Under Freds Bed 5.00 Des Stevens 5.00 Cardiff 75.00 Hackney supporters 150.00 Bath 16.00 Wolverhampton 1.00 Southampton 10.00 .o.b Hemel supporters 32.00 Canterbury 5.00 Total £456.65 Overall total £16,758.88
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