Socialist Worker
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Editor | Charlie Kimber |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Political alignment |
Socialist Trotskyist |
| Website | socialistworker.co.uk |
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| Type | Monthly newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Political alignment |
Socialist Trotskyist |
| Website | socialistworker.org |
| Type | Monthly (bi-weekly from 1995-2006) newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Founded | 1968 (as Workers' Action) |
| Political alignment |
Socialist Trotskyist |
| Website | www.socialist.ca |
Socialist Worker is the name of a number of newspapers currently or formerly associated with the International Socialist Tendency (IST). It is a weekly newspaper published by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the United Kingdom, a monthly (and daily web site) published by the International Socialist Organization (ISO) in the United States, a monthly published by the International Socialists in Canada, a biweekly published by the Socialist Workers Party in Ireland, a quarterly published by the International Socialist Organisation in Zimbabwe and was a monthly published by the former International Socialist Organisation in Australia. Socialist Worker was also the name of an IST political group in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Although Socialist Worker sales/circulation data is not publicly available, John Molyneux estimated the circulation of the paper in 2006 to be under 8,000. Special "bumper" issues have a circulation approaching 10,000 it was claimed in an article containing an interview with Judith Orr in April 2013.
Originally titled Industrial Worker, and then Labour Worker, it was founded by the Socialist Review Group (which became the International Socialists, then the SWP) in 1961 in London (Cliff 78).
The newspaper was renamed Socialist Worker in 1968 and moved to weekly production; its first editor was Roger Protz (Higgins 90). Its language and general approach was modelled on The Daily Mirror but aimed to provide a very different set of ideas (Harman 40). Writers included Paul Foot, Duncan Hallas and Eamonn McCann plus reports of strikes and other struggles from across the country sent in by readers. The editor from 1974 to 1978, Paul Foot (Foot xii) later went to work for the Mirror, though he continued to contribute to Socialist Worker until his death in 2004. It was edited between 1982 and 2004 by Chris Harman.
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