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From International Socialism, No.42, February/March 1970, p.2.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
One anniversary the left won’t spend much time celebrating this spring is the 10th year of International Socialism as a printed journal. Yet we have managed not only to appear regularly over this period, but to increase our frequency and size. We have outlived journals that used to provide us with healthy competition: both Labour Review and International Socialist Journal have long since ceased to appear. Nor have we undergone the convulsive transformations in style and political line that have characterised, for instance, New Left Review. We are still recognisably the same product with the same politics as when we started.
One feature in particular has remained unchanged over these 10 years. Our price has remained at half a crown. Despite escalating printing and paper costs and the increased average size of the journal, we have done our utmost to keep it as cheap as possible. Unfortunately all good things come to an end sometime. The disappearance of the two and sixpenny coin has robbed the old price of whatever rationale it had. From now on IS will be 3s or 15p. Subscribers will continue to receive IS at the old price until their subscription runs out and those who renew their subscription before the next issue may do so at the old price.
An innovation in the present issue is the printing of two of the documents that will form the basis of discussion on political perspectives at the forthcoming conference of the IS group. We do this because we feel that they will be of interest to many readers who might otherwise never come across them.
Most of our writers will already be known to many readers. Nigel Harris and Peter Sedgwick both teach: at the Centre for Urban Studies and York University respectively. Andrea Savonuzzi is an Italian socialist at present studying in London. Chris Harman is currently unemployed. As for future issues of IS, we already have on stocks an article from a Detroit reader on Mao as a philosopher, as well as a promise from a northern supporter of a study of The politics of unemployment. And the second part of Peter Sedgwick’s George Orwell, International Socialist, is still a real, if distant, prospect.
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