Structure
The paper is typically around sixteen pages long (after having been eight till the mid 1990s). Rarely it incorporates publications by other attached groups such as Communist Students. The basic structure is:
- Front Page: typically of magazine format, with large striking image and overlaid text. The image tends to be artistic, examples include Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly delights to a picture of Barack Obama titled 'World's No 1' Terrorist'
- Letters Page: one or two pages of letters sent to the paper during the week.
- Action Column: a column containing upcoming events
- News: the next few pages typically contain Marxist interpretation of World News
- Left Politics: this tends to be followed by articles outlining developments with the left-wing political sphere
- Theory and Reviews: towards the end of the paper there are articles dealing theoretical issues in Marxism, historical points and reviews of recent plays books etc.
- Final News Item: the paper typically ends with a Marxist interpretation and response to a world event.
The paper runs a weekly section 'What we Fight for' outlining in bullet point the core programme of the CPGB-PCC.
It also has 'Fighting Fund' section where 'Robbie Rix' attempts to cajole readers into donating to the paper whilst providing an update on readership levels. In September 2008 the paper decided to increase its monthly fund raising targets from £500 per month to £1,000. The party is reasonably successful in raising these small, for political party, amounts. The Fighting fund is replaced during the main fund raising drive, the Summer Offensive, with updates on the offensive. Typically the party set themselves the task of raising around £25,000. The paper vigorously denies other sources of funding, priding itself on being solely funded by the membership of the party and readership.
Read more about this topic: Weekly Worker
Famous quotes containing the word structure:
“I’m a Sunday School teacher, and I’ve always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself—a very high and perfect standard. We all know the fallibility of man, and the contentions in society, as described by Reinhold Niebuhr and many others, don’t permit us to achieve perfection.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, “Be tolerant—even of evil.” Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth’s criminals, “I disagree that it’s all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion.” Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 2 (1962)
“Each structure and institution here was so primitive that you could at once refer it to its source; but our buildings commonly suggest neither their origin nor their purpose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)