Relaunch appeal

Our paper will go daily during the ESF. We will put out four issues of the Daily Worker to coincide with the four days of the forum - October 14-17.

We shall combine up-to-the-minute reports of all the main plenaries, seminars and workshops with current news items and features along the theme of European and working class unity. While this is an ambitious undertaking for our organisation, we are confident in being able to provide an invaluable service to the many thousands of participants in the ESF, who will be looking for information, debate and perhaps even communist answers.

The original Daily Worker, first launched by the CPGB in 1930, was distributed nationwide by a tireless army of volunteers. It recorded all the highs of working class struggle, as well as the lows of the popular front and class collaboration. The liquidation of the Daily Worker, in favour of the 'broad labour movement' Morning Star, in 1966, was bound up with, and reflected, the long drawn out death of the CPGB under one set of opportunists leaders after another. The final blow was struck by the Marxism Today Eurocommunist faction in 1991.

However the Leninists of the CPGB never accepted the right of opportunists to close down the party or to deprive us of our rights and duties as party members. Indeed after 1991 our duties as party members necessarily increased dramatically. We did everything we could to rebuild the party organisationally, but this time from firm programmatic foundations.

During the 1994 general election campaign the Daily Worker hit the streets once again - under the control of the Provisional Central Committee of CPGB. These 1994 editions, which supported our four candidates, consisted of just a single, double-sided A3 sheet. Ten years later, however, the Daily Worker will be rather bigger at eight full pages.

Clearly this undertaking will demand organisation, planning, initiative and hard work - and not only from our usual Weekly Worker team, but from all CPGB members and supporters. They must perform miracles as reporters, distributors and sellers. But there is another vital ingredient: finance. Even if you cannot be in London for the ESF, you can still help by giving our finances a boost.

Send donations, made payable to 'Weekly Worker' and marked 'Daily Worker appeal', to the usual address ♦

Peter Manson

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