and actions prometed by its predecessor.
columns of Red Weekly.
Red Weekly was launched on May Day 1973, when the fortnightly Red Mole ceased publication. Before the launch of Red Weekly changes had already ocurred in the Red Mole, These coincided with the miners" strike in 1972 and the subsoquent freeing of the Pensonville Five and were reflected in the changed format of Red Weekly's Iirst edition the paper. Red Weekly made the changes more aystematic. It appeared regulariy ona weekly basis.
And whereas Red Mole reached aut la lts carly days to an audience of radicalised youth — from the student militancy and the Vietnam Solidarity Committee Wenkly looked to a new readerStil 4p This issue of Red Weekly - the 200th — will be the last. In future, Socialist Challenge — incorporating Red Weekly — will continue in the debates, polemics But the format of the new paper, its contents, and its organisation, will all help to ensure that the tasks confronting revolutionaries today are carried out more effectively than was possible through the ship. Mai belated - recognition nature of the vanguard in Britain had changed, Increasingly, the vanguard was comprised of new layers of workers moving into strugele.
It was fitting, therefore, that one of the first campaigns launched by the weekly paper was that to defend the Shrewsbury building workers, In its early months of publication, the Red Freekty was the only paper on the British left which put the need to defend the building workers to-the forefront ofits tasks. Both Socialin Worker and the Morning Star turned to this task only after weeks ystematic campaigning by Rec During the four years of its publication, Red Weekly scored important successes. Atatime of a new upsurge in the world revolubon, Ned Persor stooo acau dod shoulders above other papers on me BAuso lett. its abuity to provide compreensive powerage Di central o clopmenes in ine class strugale on a world scale was guaranteed because the International Marxist. Group, among the groups in Britaia, Is part of a revolutionary sociatist international.
With the march towards victory in South East Asin in 1975, Red that the of Stave Potier — Red Weekly Editor al for weeks on cod to solidarity But it was when the revolutionary process began to unfold on the Iberian peninsula that the Red Weekly surpassed even its previous record. Issue after issue of the alone material, oo-the-spot reports, analysis and polemic.
Including the exchange with the International Socialists that centred on the ultra-left antics of the PRP-BR (the group supported by the IS at thetime, but which has all was filled with factual The pages British working class. this wasthe feature material on tbe work of the ClA in Britain. The publication in March 1976 of the names and addresses of f) ClA agents in this country caused an impact in the bourgeois media on aninternacional scale, and contributed to a carpaigo against the complicity of the Labour Gorof imperialismo to operate in this country against cheinterests of the Consistent coverage and cam paigning around social issues has aso been a featureof Red Weekly. The best instance is the way the weekly paper was able to organise forces against the growing influcoce of the fascists. The march on
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