 Hello Comrades and welcome back to Marxist Voice, the podcast of The Communist. My name's Jack Ty Wilson and I'll be your host for this episode. So this week we're going to be continuing our series towards the Revolutionary Communist Party by discussing the Communist press and how you can build it. As our listeners will surely know, The Communists in Britain recently launched a brand new newspaper in January of this year and we're currently on to issue three. And around the country, branches and cells have thrown themselves into the task of promoting and selling the paper, writing for the paper and most importantly, using this paper as a tool to build the Revolutionary Communist Party. So for this episode we're joined by Adam Booth, who is a member of the editorial board for The Communists. Hi Adam, how's it going? Hey Jack, thanks for having me on this morning. I'm pretty good thanks overall, bit tired after a long night in the office yesterday trying to send off the latest paper, issue three of The Communists. But I'm also buzzing with excitement and adrenaline because it's just arrived. So we've actually got it right in front of us, maybe rustle some noises in front of the microphone you can hear. That's the sound of issue three. And yeah, it's a very striking paper I would say. I've said this every single time, but I think that this could possibly be the best issue of The Communists yet. I think it is. I think it's particularly powerful I think as an issue because well, comrades will hopefully see the physical copies soon. But yeah, the front cover is particularly powerful this time round. We've gone with the image that's online of Aaron Bushnell, this US Air Force personnel staff member who set himself alight in front of the Israeli embassy, I believe it was. Yeah, in protest against the war in Gaza and US imperialism's complicity and that. And it's a very powerful image that's obviously shocked a lot of people but also kind of tapped into the mood of anger that exists across society and acting as a bit of a catalyst if you like for the radicalization. So that's what we've gone with on the front cover of this issue. And I think for that reason I think it's going to be a particularly well selling issue because I think it is going to really tap into that mood of anger that exists not just in the US but in Britain as well. And I think what's really striking about this whole story, this tragedy really is what it is, is actually the enormous levels of support and sympathy that this act of protest has had. I just want to read out actually a couple of quotes from social media that are featured in the paper. So someone said, I have felt how you feel. No one seems to be listening or caring enough to stop this genocide. Another said, shame on you Joe Biden, shame on you Blinken, you murderers. And the last moment I think is very good. I think it really gets to the heart of things. It said the ignition of your body will be the beginning of a volcanic revolution to stop injustice and support the oppressed. I think this really gives you a flavor of the mood in society, not just the anger but the desperation, the feeling of a need to do something essentially. And I think this could definitely spark, it could even reignite the Palestine movement I think on a higher level perhaps. Definitely. I mean the article inside the paper makes the point that it was a similar act of self-immolation in 2011, January 2011, that really lit the fuse on the Arab revolution. And today, I think you could see, like you say, there's already big protests taking place in the US, kind of sparked by this latest, very defiant and kind of desperate act of protest if you like. And a lot of people feel that desperation, that frustration, that there has been these huge protests in Britain, a million people out on the streets and yet what has actually been accomplished, what have the politicians done? We've seen last week in the House of Commons, a complete pantomime taking place inside parliament when they're discussing the issue of Gaza and whether or not to have a ceasefire. The SNP put forward a motion trying to call for an immediate ceasefire and then Labour and the Tories kind of fell over themselves, trying to water it down, trying to make it as light as possible, whilst also still trying to appear caring and concerned about the tragedy that's taking place, the humanitarian crisis, the suffering and so forth. But none of them actually doing anything to try and stop the war, to try and stop the slaughter, to really oppose Israeli imperialism and instead just trying to score petty political points with one another and the whole thing was just nauseating, it was sickening. And I think this is really something you see throughout this whole issue of this paper is from front to back, I think you can really get a feel for the mood and the anger in society. I think that's what we're trying to reflect in this page, in the pages of the Communist is that real kind of subterranean mood that we're seeing bursting out into the surface every so often and you're seeing it over every issue, whether it's obviously the question of Gaza or yeah, these theatrics that's fast that plays out in Westminster or also you're seeing it also in this series of by-elections as well, the complete disgust with the Tories on the one hand but the complete lack of enthusiasm for Labour on the other and I think what's taking place in Rochdale this week, tomorrow, on Thursday the 29th of February, it's going to be a real shock I think for the political establishment because yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Galloway wins that on the basis of yeah, partially kind of in a distorted way again in an opportunistic way as well in Galloway's sense but actually yeah, it will be a reflection of that anger in society and that desperate attempt to try and find a real alternative to all the kind of cynicism and the hypocrisy and the lies that just spew out of Westminster and the traditional political parties and once again, I think there's a quote from the paper from your editorial actually on page 3 which I think really gets across the complete collapse in support for the establishment parties and particularly the Labour Party as well one Labour canvasser in Rochdale said the message on the doorstep was the same everywhere I went voters hate all of us and I think yeah, that really gets to the heart of things so yeah, is there anything else you think coming up in the next week of you know, politics of class struggle that we should mention before we move on? Well I think just that mood of anger is just going to get worse and worse it's going to get bigger and bigger yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there's very big protests around Palestine in London and elsewhere in Britain this Saturday on the back of the Aaron Bushnell case but I think yeah, as we head towards a general election that kind of discussed with the political establishment it's just going to get bigger and bigger I think and you'll find it bubbling up to the surface in a number of different ways next week for example, Jeremy Hunt the Chancellor is going to be presenting his latest budget it's going to be no doubt some attempts to give tax cuts for his chums and big business and his banker friends and so forth trying to appease the kind of rabid ranks of the Tory party trying to kind of curb the comeback of Liz Truss and all these other headbangers who are screaming about lower taxes and so forth what do they mean? They mean obviously trying to also cut away at public services trying to slash away at any welfare spending and so forth so that's going to just really create a kind of more of a them and us feel as well which again you've already seen in Britain a lot over the last few months and years and I think there'll be a lot of other events taking place like that there's going to be more by-elections because there's yet more scandals in the Tory party more people being suspended I think I lost count of how many by-elections there's been I think it does say in the editorial but I've already forgotten the number I think the Tories have lost something like ten seats just in this parliament which is the worst in the last five decades of any government so you can just see that every one of these is like a little mini referendum on the popularity of the Tories but the point is in all of them there's no real alternative and that obviously is what we're trying to provide as we head towards the founding congress of the RCP, the Revolutionary Communist Party yeah I think that leads us then quite nicely to the next thing that I'd like to discuss why is it that you know we the communists in Britain have decided to launch the communists obviously before we had the paper Socialist Appeal we had that for I think over 30 years I think we got to issue 400 actually which is a nice round number to end on I think but now we have the communists so why is it that we've decided to relaunch our paper and what makes it different from Socialist Appeal well I think it flows really from the discussion you had with Ben on last week's podcast obviously that was about why we're launching the RCP and there's an article in this issue of the paper by Ben again on that question on what is the RCP, what kind of party are we launching what kind of vehicle are we trying to launch with the RCP and the communists is inherently tied to this it's a stepping stone towards the RCP and we're launching it for the same reasons that we've launched the RCP in the sense of understanding that mood out there that we just talked about understanding that yearning for a real alternative understanding that there's a desire for a voice to express all of that anger to express that mood in society and obviously we've tried to do that over the past 30 years with Socialist Appeal but the situations moved on you know times have changed when Socialist Appeal was launched in 1992 it just had the collapse of Stalinism the kind of so-called end of history according to Francis Fukuyama and all the kind of neocons, neoliberals and you had the Tories similar today actually been in power for a long time increasingly discredited but you know at that point the left was kind of in retreat and the working class had just experienced some heavy defeats like the minor strike which we're also covering in this issue of the paper it's 40 years since the beginning of the great minor strike in 1984 but the situation today is completely different now we can see that you know the collapse of Stalinism was really the prelude to the collapse of capitalism it's much greater collapse actually and that started in 2008, it's continued now for 16 years since and now there's a new generation that is looking towards the ideas of communism and we want to tap into that we want to connect with that mood and say look there is an organisation out here that reflects the anger in society that feels the same that you do and is a genuine communist organisation that is going to put forward the perspectives, the programme that's needed to overthrow capitalism and you can join that and you can help us build you can help us spread those ideas and this paper is the way to do that but it's more than just a rebrand isn't it we haven't just slapped a new logo and a nice big hammer and sickle on the front page it's more than that right? yeah I think some people might see things like this as a kind of cynical rebranding exercise you get this in the corporate world if your sales are down and you're having tough times then you have a bit of a relaunch but this is the complete opposite actually our organisation is growing and it's going from strength to strength we just passed our revfest last year the 1000 membership mark in fact 1,100 members and we're actually increasingly yet we are connecting with that mood out there that new generation that's looking towards the ideas of communism but the point is we need to do it faster we need to get there quicker big events are impending in Britain and internationally and we need to build a much more rapid pace and the whole point of the paper is to be a lever towards that but it's also in order to do that we're going to have to change not just the form of the paper but the content you know in the past up till now with the 1000 members really you could describe us as more of a propaganda organisation an organisation that was really just looking for kind of ones and two small groups of people who were kind of a bit more head of the curve if you like in terms of their radicalisation the kind of conclusions they were coming to politically but now as we get bigger we're looking towards the 10,000 you know in terms of our membership and at that point we want to just be not commenting on events but intervening in them and actually trying to influence them trying to lead movements trying to you know actually initiate struggles and campaigns and in other words we've got to be more of a paper that's not just providing ideas and analysis we're still going to have that in the communism you can still see that in the first few issues the really strong emphasis on theory, on history on really clear perspectives and editorials but that's all going to be supplemented a lot more by more agitation if you like by real reports from the situation on the ground you know letters and all sorts of other content giving a full picture of the life that ordinary workers and youth face and that's the kind of material that we're including more and more in the paper now we're getting sent into us organically from our readers our sympathizers, our comrades and that's the kind of stuff we're trying to put in the pages of the communists to really bring to life the events that we're talking about and that we're analysing to really show in practice what it looks like and to really therefore give a full picture that you won't find obviously in any of the bourgeois mainstream media which is just full of lies and I think what really strikes me there is that what we're trying to do right here building a worker's press it's exactly what Lenin and the Bolsheviks were doing over 100 years ago I've recently been reading about the Bolshevik press and apparently Pravda their paper at its height in the 1910s half of it was reserved basically for letters for questions, for thoughts from ordinary workers, factory workers working women, youth and so on and it feels like that's exactly what we're striving to do today just looking through the paper here we can see this word on the street feature where comrades are recording interviews with people on the street who they meet on recruitment stalls and so on we've got letters from trade unionists and so on all of these different things allow us to keep our finger on the pulse and really see where the mood is going where consciousness is going I think it really adds a life to the paper wouldn't you agree? Definitely, I think sometimes just a short, sharp little story or anecdote can actually say a lot more than a whole article like you pointed out earlier just one or two quotes that we've included in the paper really summarize the entire process that's taking place and those are the kind of things that we want to include obviously as an auxiliary to the analysis to draw out the processes to draw out the fundamentals but yeah I think there's a lot of enthusiasm from the feedback we're getting for these shorter articles that are being sent into us quite organically, quite naturally and in fact we're being inundated with material, we want more actually Lenin said yeah not only include that kind of material but you said you should really have far too much material to include in the paper you're doing well if you can only include about 10% of what you get in so yeah I would say please keep sending that material into anyone listening do get those quotes from the interventions at the demos from the discussions you're having on the street or in your workplace and please yeah send us those stories that give a real graphic vivid portrayal of what life under capitalism is like for ordinary people and just to let our listeners know that if you want to submit something it's very easy you can just head to our website communist.red forward slash submit and there's guidance on all these different categories that will help you draft and write what you want to write so yeah is there anything else that you'd like to say on this question of you know why we've launched the communist well yeah I think the other thing that comrids and readers will hopefully see that's more prominent in the communist is to emphasize that this is the paper of an organization this is a mouthpiece of well of the future RCP that's going to be launched in May I think that identity wasn't so clear with the socialist appeal before you know now it's very bold it's very out there in the open we're very forthright about the fact that this is an organization first and foremost not simply a newspaper and therefore we've got a lot of reports actually coming in from the branches from the comrids showing the initiatives they're taking to try and build showing the successes we're having in starting up new cells and also highlighting the work of the international because that first and foremost we're not even just members of the RCP but hopefully soon to be the revolutionary communist international that's a decision that will be made at the upcoming World Conference in June but all of these highlight behind these pages is not just an editorial board but an entire organization of communists that is looking for other communists to get organized and therefore this is a paper as an organizer it is going to be not just trying to give people news and analysis and also the theoretical tools they need but giving them the organizational ideas the inspiration to go out and build showing you know how it can be done in practice and what kind of initiatives comrids can try wherever they are yeah thanks for that I think again to bring it back to Lenin you know what did Lenin say he said the workers paper is a collective propagandist a collective agitator and also a collective organizer as well he likened it to the scaffolding around the building and obviously the building that we're trying to build is the revolutionary communist party but some might say I'm going to play devil's advocate here maybe some might say that papers are outdated what do you say to that well I think the first thing we should point out is that we are more than just the paper as well we have lots of other forms of media hopefully people are listening to this podcast that we're recording right now and I don't know the statistics but I think we've built up a decent following of our podcast as well as our videos on YouTube and all sorts of other more modern forms of media if you like you've got a tiktok as well I wouldn't know about these things I'm far too old for them but the point is yeah we use social media we use every form of technology we can we're talking about potentially launching an app later this year as well very exciting these things together around the education the newspaper, the podcast and so forth so we're always trying out new technologies and using every means available to spread our ideas we've obviously got a website that's updated daily as well as well as obviously our social media showing all the activity of the branches and the comrades so we've got the full range of media at our disposal and we're utilizing it to full effect but I would say the paper has to be central in all of this as you said it is the scaffolding around the whole organization and that is just as true today as it was when Lenin wrote that over a hundred years ago because I think the point that's often missed in this discussion when this question of papers and modern media gets brought up kind of on the left is really a misunderstanding of what we're actually trying to achieve or what should be the purpose of our paper and our material that we're putting out I think a lot of other left wingers trying to produce kind of media in this day and age a lot of them I think fall into the trap of just trying to be a slightly more left wing version of the Guardians which in this day and age isn't that difficult because the Guardian is more and more obviously a mouthpiece for the kind of liberal establishment and for British imperialism in turn but I think the point is that is not our role as kindness is simply to just provide a kind of new service others portray it in a kind of more post-modernist way talking about trying to change the narrative and the discourse and this sort of thing and seeing the role of kind of influences and so forth to be putting out YouTube videos putting out podcasts trying to set the terms of the debate and this kind of thing push the overton window exactly there's all sorts of trendy ways of trying to describe it but again I think that misses the fundamental point it's events that are going to shift people's consciousness what is needed is a paper that as I say not only puts an explanation out there for why these events are happening that gives a clear understanding grounded in theory and Marxist theory but also that says look don't just be a mouth trying to change the narrative but here join an organization with hands that can actually intervene that can change the world around it because otherwise you're just a disembodied voice speaking through a microphone what we are trying to be is not just a voice speaking to people over the airwaves or over the internet but actually an organization that can go back out and intervene in those struggles and meet people not just through a screen but actually in person and get them organized I think it's very telling actually that some of the most popular material on social media is not just the articles on current events the key articles responding to the latest big events but it's the activity as well it's the comrades selling the paper actually that is very popular in terms of views and likes from what I understand on our social media in terms of what people are actually engaging with is seeing an organization out there doing something about all of this and I think therefore the paper as an organizer as well as a mouthpiece is really essential for that you can't to show people your Twitter feed or X feed when you go on a demo you need to be able to show them this uniform this banner and that's what the paper is it's something that brings all our activity together and shows the people we're meeting out on the streets what we're really about and shows them there's an organization an analysis that they can join and they can build an organization that is ultimately those ideas well I think that brings us very nicely on to the next question that I'd like to ask which is how can the listeners at home, the comrades that are in our branches how can they use this paper to build their existing branches to build new branches and cells wherever they find themselves well that's it the paper is the key really I think to this it is our uniform as I said it's our banner it's our toolkit it's our arsenal of weapons the paper gives you everything you need to go and build in reality it shows you the reports of other comrades and their activity and how you can successfully get out there and meet other communists and get them organized it gives you the ideas it gives you the arguments it gives you the full picture it gives you the explanation it gives you the facts the figures, the arguments that you're going to need to go out there and answer the points that are going to come up not just over what's happening now but about history about the ideas of communism and revolution and Marxism and it can basically show you how to build and so I think the key thing and not just as an individual but as a collective go out there get in touch with the other communists in your area if you're not already go and join one of our recruitment stalls where we use the paper to start conversations with other people who are interested in communism who are interested in what we have to say and yet the paper is the tool to starting those conversations and those conversations in turn should then be the basis for discussing what we're trying to build the RCP and why people need to get organised and really you can see some great examples of this if you go on our social media some great examples of comrades using the paper on these recruitment stalls not just selling the paper trying to flog it like you would the evening standard on these people who hand out these free papers outside tube stations in London and elsewhere that's not what we're trying to do we're trying to get the paper circulated as much as we can we want a bigger circulation we want more people to read it but mostly we want to actually start more conversations we want to use it to engage workers and young people in a dialogue and say look here's what we have to say what do you think use it to listen to what people have to say and then try and get those voices then reflected in the paper itself we're doing that really well there's great videos of comrades in West London for example getting up on a megaphone on a street sale and just giving these impassioned speeches that put forward our ideas that put forward the ideas in the paper and using that then to draw people towards us to show what the communists have to say I think we can actually play a clip of that on the podcast right now so our listeners can hear an example of the boldness, the audacity of our adopting to go out and just stand on a street bench and give an agitational speech we'll play that right now Are you a communist? then join your party today we're in the middle of founding the revolutionary communist party and we're doing this because the world is on fire literally and metaphorically the bankers, bosses and politicians sacrifice our health housing, happiness jobs and the planet for their profits we're angry at the capitalist system it can't be fixed we're going to overthrow it and we want revolution most of the left in Britain today isn't interested in revolution they aren't going to do it look at Sir Kit Starver leader of the Labour Party he has nothing but a wet presentative for the ruling classes he will most probably win but will he change anything? no, he has backed down on almost every single promise he has made so if you are a communist this is your party if you stake with anger at every injustice around the world this is your party complaining isn't enough it's time to do something it is time to take action so join no whether you stake communist party today and come speak to our comrades and fight as well as that, just a reminder that these recruitment stalls they don't need to be these big flashy events with 10, 12 comrades out at the same time we can use the paper flexibly as well all you need is two comrades even just one individual communist as well can stand outside of a tube station or a train station for half an hour during rush hour in fact many of the best sales and the best recruitment stalls that I've had have been the ones that take place at rush hour for 30 or 40 minutes you can easily speak to 1, 2, 3 even get 5 contact deals of people who want to join a branch near them essentially so yeah we can definitely be flexible about this and also as I said earlier, ideally comrades should be getting out there and selling it collectively at these recruitment stalls to engage with people on protests on picket lines on the streets and so forth but there is, as you say, nothing stopping comrades and in fact we actively encourage comrades to get out there and sell it individually, not only in these flash sales that you talked about just there but also in their workplaces in their schools in their colleges, in the universities in their communities we've got lots of examples coming in of comrades going door to door knocking on student halls of accommodation going along the street in their neighborhoods and just talking to people in their block of flats or whatever and also in their workplace just going around talking to colleagues and it's a great way of starting conversations about politics or vice versa if you get into conversations with politics with your friends, with your family with your neighbors it's a good way of tying it into something concrete to say, let's not just be angry about the events that are taking place let's get organized and using it as the basis to encourage people to join to say, look, you can join you should join this organization, the RCP that this paper is the paper of and then encourage those people as well to send in material send in their stories, send in their reports send in their anecdotes and letters and so forth, you know that's really a good way to develop the conversation further so yeah, I really encourage comrades get out there, be really creative with how you're selling it but also creative, yeah, with the way in which you get the material for the paper into the editorial board so that we can try and have it in the paper in future issues and every week I think branches and cells should, yeah, discuss what's going on around them any sort of local stories strikes that are taking place, demonstrations and they should plan to send communist reporters correspondents to go there, interview people get quotes and through breaking the ice in that fashion you can then, of course, yeah have a more broader conversation about perspectives about politics, you can sell them the paper invite them along to a meeting or another activity and so on it's the perfect tool to establish that dialogue with a wider periphery of people and yeah, you can encourage your colleagues your friends and family, anyone who's sympathetic to the ideas, essentially to, yeah, submit a letter to submit their thoughts and you could even as well write for one of the regular columns in our paper, we've got many new features now things like broken Britain where you can complain about how everything feels like it's falling apart hospitals and schools and so on transport, things like this we've got Readers Recommends which is also a feature where people can give their thoughts on the latest TV show a film, a book that they've read any sort of piece of culture, the theatre and so on, I think that's been a very popular feature so far and yeah, there are other popular ones as well like Bastard Boss of the Week if you've got a boss who's been pushing you around hours have been cut, conditions are getting worse your coworkers are getting pissed off you should write about that and let us know about it and we will feature it in the paper I think the important thing with all those columns that you just described is they're not just an opportunity to complain the paper isn't here to just vent our anger but as I say, it's there to show to others there are people out there feeling the same way as them showing the injustices of daily life under capitalism and yeah, the bankruptcy of British capitalism in particular so it's a way of actually jarring out the political points, the political lessons and as I said it should also be submissions shouldn't just be individual anecdotes or anything like that but they should also be, as you say the comrades coming together to think about the activity they've done the lessons they've learned from discussing with others from intervening in certain struggles participating in certain campaigns yeah, it should try and generalise the lessons of that so that it can help other comrades other branches to actually think about the work they're doing and how to build more successfully in all parts of the country Yes, so before we move on is there anything else that members and supporters can do to help build the communist press? Definitely, I think we need a solid foundation really to keep keep afloat obviously to increase the circulation of the paper as much as possible as I said and to have in particular a regular source of circulation income coming in and what we mean by that is subscriptions, having our regular readers subscribe is very useful because obviously it gives us that steady income that we can use to expand upon for the paper so really encourage all comrades, all readers to take out subscription try and encourage those around you to take out subscription and better yet take out a bulk subscription don't just get a paper for yourself get a bundle order 5 or 10 we've got these communist sell starter packs as well that we're advertising in the paper where comrades not only get a bundle of papers but some posters some stickers our new Leninist handbook explaining how to be a communist and I think all of that together it really gives you all the tools you need to go out and build build a communist group wherever you are a communist sell of the RCP so yeah, subscriptions are really essential bulk subscriptions even better and donations obviously are always welcome and we're having a push as we approach the RCP a £20,000 target for an RCP founding congress campaign fund that's going to help us launch the RCP and bring out all the banners and the material that we need to launch ourselves as this new party so yeah, donations are very essential and all of that's necessary because at the end of the day we don't have any other real source of income to be producing the paper we're producing we don't have any big corporate sponsors we don't have any big business backers we're not a billionaire own press like the mainstream media is we're completely reliant on our readers our supporters, our sympathizers our comrades and yeah, so we really encourage as much support as we can from anyone listening in terms of subscriptions and donations, give us those solid foundations that we can build upon as we go forward with the RCP and the communists down the rest of the you know, the issues to come some reactionaries and liberals online have accused us of being funded by the Russian state but we can assure our listeners that that is not true we are funded entirely by the sacrifice and the determination of our own members and supporters and you can help support us as well if you go to communist.red forward slash subscribe or forward slash donate you can find the links to set up a donation and also take out a subscription as Adam mentioned and yeah, our comrades have already been doing some excellent work building the communist press establishing that strong foundation that Adam mentioned I just want to give a shout out to those that have been selling an excellent number of copies of issue one I mean, so first of all we've sold over 5,000 copies of issue one which is a record breaking number London West the London West region has sold 333 copies the North West region so branches like Manchester Salford and Lancaster and so on have sold 327 and the top branch in the country is London Stratford branch that managed to sell a whopping 162 papers of issue one in fact one comrade managed to sell 105 papers all on their own which is incredible so the next and last question that I want to ask you Adam is where next for the communist? Well as I said, we've got big plans we are launching the RCP this May and anyone listening to this should obviously try and join the organization and join and come along to that congress but really that is just the launchpad for much bigger targets we want to be an organization of 10,000 really is the next aim for us 1,000 comrades is a great start but it's nowhere near enough in order to really intervene and have an impact on the kind of titanic events that we're seeing right now and that we can expect in Britain and internationally in the years to come so yeah this founding congress of the RCP the launch of the communist it's really a stepping stone towards that 10,000 and the paper we've got at the moment I think really is not sufficient actually the communists is a great improvement on the socialist I think there's extremely enthusiastic response to it that we're seeing as reflected in the sales figures you just gave there but we need more, we need a weekly paper actually and so I'd say the target in the not too distant future is for the communists to go weekly but that obviously requires more of an apparatus here at the office that we're recording in we need more comrades who can edit the articles, who can commission pieces who can lay out the paper and keep that excellent design quality high we need more comrades helping at the centre in terms of the distribution of the paper collecting in the the reports and the money and all of that means getting the finances to be able to fund more full time staff here at the office and that in turn will require getting the sales up of the paper having a greater circulation that's where the subscriptions come in that's where the sales and the initiatives we can take to sell the paper come in and that's where also the donations will help getting the finances to be able to pay for all of this so a weekly paper I think it's not too far down the line to be honest I think we could be seeing that potentially even by the end of the year hopefully by the time that the general election is called potentially in October or whenever that will be but even that is really just a stepping stone we want a daily paper we want to be with 10,000 members that's the kind of target we should sell ourselves to be a daily paper which we as I say we kind of already have online and we'll supplement more and more the paper and the website all the other material the more podcasts more videos more educational material the app that I talked about earlier all of that is I think in the pipeline but yeah as I say that really requires first and foremost build up the membership build up our forces build up our circulation build up our apparatus and and if we do that then yeah we can reach a daily paper in print and through that reach every corner of society with communist ideas become a household name before long hopefully hopefully I think if we carry on at this rate we've already got some of our videos going viral we've already attracted attention as you say online and from our other sections in other parts of the international have come under attack from the bourgeois press for their launches for their initiatives and I think yeah we would welcome all publicity in that respect yeah well on that note if our listeners want to share this podcast on social media please feel free to do so so yeah I think that really brings us to the end of this discussion so thanks very much for joining us on the podcast Adam thanks very much for having me here Jack yeah and next week we're going to be covering the events in Port Talbot and the campaign that our comrades in south Wales have been doing calling for an occupation of the steelworks and for the nationalization of Tata so yeah make sure you stay tuned to the Marxist Voice podcast to hear weekly episodes from now on covering many different aspects of party building you know past that we're going to be discussing Marxist education revolutionary finance all of these different aspects and yeah just once more a reminder to our listeners that if you want to submit a report or a question to the towards the RCP series then please feel free to do so go to communist.red forward slash submit an option to submit to the podcast you want to record your question or record your report in the form of a voice recording and then yeah please please do so we want to make this lively and interactive podcast series if you will so yeah we'll wrap it up there thanks very much to our listeners once again for tuning in and make sure you stay tuned to Marxist Voice for regular episodes covering Marxist theory revolutionary history current events and party building brought to you by the communist