WRP mystery
Socialist Press1979 1979-09-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Keeping track of the WRP's. extraordinary political twists and turns can be a tiresome task at the best of times.
Over recent weeks readers have had to cope with an additional problem. It appears that the mighty Healyite press machine is going on the blink.
One of the first signs of. problems came on July .18, when the Newsline appeared bearing the number 992, the same as the day before.
By August it was evident that something peculiar was happening. The August 13 issue appeared without a date on the front page.
Then we had 2 issues in a numbered 1016 and the 162. 2 • Da 1018 Sacerd ly some effort to put things right, because Monday 20th's paper was number 1021.
The improvement did not last long. Papers from Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th were all numbered 1023.
Things have not yet been put right. September 4th and 5th were both graced with 'Newsline 1034'.
The whole mysterious affair is reminiscent of the Chinese propaganda radio station which for 4 years broadcast reversed tapes of news programmes.
One can only hope that tie newspapers section of the British Library can make sense of it all.
A cynic might be led to regard it as just one more symp. tom of the WRP's problems in testing with its on history.
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Saris: Press. heiresis 19 Sertember 19°9 daringe