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.
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“Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
May no lines pass, except they do their duty
Not to a true, but painted chair?”
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“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”
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