Socialist Worker in Decline?

national | arts and media | news report Wednesday September 06, 2006 11:24 by Mediawatch

The newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party seems to be reducing its publication runs.

The Socialist Worker, newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, was substantially revamped in the last year with colour being introduced and layout being improved, but one of the larger changes seems to be a reduction in editions, or at least substantial irregularity.

Traditionally, the Socialist Worker was a regular fortnightly publication.

But a glance at its archives for 2006 raises questions as to whether this is still the case. In the eight months that bring us to the end of August, 10 editions have been published, with the time between each new edition gradually increasing so that with one edition in each of June, July and August, the paper is now more or less monthly.

The paper now also routinely carries an appeal for donations to the 'paper fund' to enable it to keep going and possibly to expand.