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national aggregate meeting of the Workers Socialist League voted this weekend to produce the first weekly edition in October of this year.

A resolution from the WSL National Committee emphasised the fact that the limitations of fortnightly publication were now holding back the development of ine League, and restricting the influence of the movement in the mounting struggles of the working Class.

Workers are faced with a historic crisis of leadership. While the Labour leaders do a coalition deal with the Liberals and pave the electoral road for the return of a Tory government, the TUC bureaucrats are hell-bent on imposing a third round of wage control on the working class.

And at shop floor level a whole layer of former militants have been sucked into management roles through "workers' participation" schemes and collaboration with full-time officials.

As workers move into struggle now they fight both the employers and these treacherous "leaders" The need for a new leadership with a principled programme of struggle is continually raised.

In response to this crisis of leadership our movement has cannot now carry the material necessary.

In particular the recent extensions of regular international coverage and political work, bringing material from Greece, Lurkey, Denmark, the USA and Pakistan, demand column space not available in a fortnightly paper.

And in Britain itself the work of the movement has extended widely beyond the trade union base that initially formed the bedrock of the moment, to involve work in a wide range of unions, work amongst youth and students, and work amongst women.

To adequately follow through and develop campaigns in these varied fields the WS seeds the more up-to-the-minute coverage o: a weekly publication.

The new weekly will concentrate on combining this kind of coverage with the current high standard of theoretical and educational material, along with reviews and polemical discussion articles.

But the result will certainly be a very different type of paper-more varied in content and presentation; more s short, easily assimilated articles; and much more immediate coverage and impact.

A series of meetings both for WSL members and for readers will be held over the next five months The launching of the weekly is a major project. With inflation at 207 annually, and new equipment needed, it is essential in the successfül launching of the new paper to raise the resources not only to produce the first edition, but to sustain it thorugh its first few editions.

For this reason the National Aggregate meeting voted to raise a Special Fund of £3,000 between now and October 1, specifically for the launching of the weekly Socialist Press.

A collection at the meeting raised £170 to start off the Fund drive over the next 20 weeks.

We call on all readers and supporters to assist us in this fight TO exPand and improve the paper as pat o: the ever! the work it :10 5225 League.

Help us wiSe 120:3 raising activities *= it = :70ising during the summe: 2020 Send us a donatios is Fund for the Weekly Paze:. 120 help us raise our £3.000 This is the largest target *= =te ever set ourselves to : 302 every donation. big or sta. =I be gratefully received Socialist Press Weekly Paper Fund. 31, Dartmouth Park Hill. London NWS IHR

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SULTALISI PKESS, Weanesday, 1 IIn May, 1911.