![]() When done, I’d pass it along to fellow travelers who always appreciated the gesture.īut, like records and photographs, newspapers have become a victim of new technologies and tough economics. ![]() Over the week that the paper was current, I’d bring it to work, to lunch, and even to the laundromat, where I’d read it - cover to cover - at my leisure. Holding a newspaper in your hand is a very different experience than reading text on a computer screen. Having read PWW (and its predecessor) for more than 30 years, I was sorry to learn of your decision to terminate publication of the print edition. I welcome all who are interested in sustaining the PWW, plugged and unplugged, to send in stories, letters opinion pieces, photos, cartoons, videos, poetry, songs, money and ideas that keep the flame alive. And I know there are people of all ages - even under the age of 30 - who read books and newspapers and zines and graphic novels. When workers want to have a print edition of the Paper, nothing will stop them. I think that when our working class really wants something, we get it. But now it seems we have been nickeled and dimed to death. Later the New York office of the Daily World was bombed. I know that during the scoundrel times of the 1950s the Daily Worker was forced to shut down for several years. The history of the independent press in our country contains stories of presses being smashed and editors killed. When slaves wanted to learn to read, a dangerous undertaking, they set up schools to teach reading. We are living under an economic and social system that savagely attacks literacy and our national treasures: public education and public libraries. has pww.org for their homepage and subscribes to the PWW e-mail news alerts. The fact that the PWW is now a daily source of Marxist news and information is a tremendous achievement and should be celebrated! I certainly hope that everyone in progressive movements in the U.S. For I think that the coming loss of our print edition is a profoundly sad event.Īt the same time I welcome the technological advances that have allowed the PWW to reach thousands of new readers across the country and around the world with fresh, new writing every day. It breaks my heart that the PWW is forced by this blood-sucking economy to make these changes. Is there a better paper than the People’s Weekly World? Is there a better group of journalists than PWW writers? A better source for news analysis, commentary, features, opinion pieces? Is there a paper more consistently on the side of the working class and peoples’ struggles? Is there a more attractive paper than the People’s Weekly World?
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