For some time now the people who produce +The Week - who are acti of the Labour Party, Young Socialists, Vietnam Solidarity zat eg me uniens, workers control campaign, etc, — have been considering ite future It has been felt that the original aim of the journal, that of becoming the expresSion of an organised left inside the Labour Party and trade unions, is unlikely to be achieved in the near future. The main reason being that the mass left wing epposition to right wing policies of the Labour leaders — which we all expected in 1964, when The Week was launched — has net materialised, On the ather hand, the failure ef the left to stop Wilson's evolution to the right has raised many problems of theoery, strategy and tactics. The balance sheet since 1964 shows many successes, in which The Week has played a vital rele, The workers' contrel movement has grown up to become a national presence, There has been the remarkable growth of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign which has brought abeut structural changes in the anti-war movement in Britain, There is the growing influence of the Cuban revolution upen the left “| which is inspriring an increasing number of yeung people and attracting them te é! ocialism, Most important of all we can note that more and mere yeung pesple eat are being attracted towards revelutionary politics, especially in the universities,»
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We must also note that a number of other journals have come on the scene and are now doing much of the work that The Week sought te de in its early days. In the field of international reporting, World Outloek is doing an extraordinarily good jeb of presenting the British left with news about the "third world" and other radical movements, The Vietnam Solidarity Bulietin is giving excellent coverage to the war in Vietnam and the international movement of solidarity with the Vietnamese people. Later this year, London Labour's Voice will be launched and will provide a facus of expression fer the most lively and dynamic left wig forces inside the Labour Party. Other Voice editions - local and industrial are doing good consistent work. One can never forget the work. of Engineering Voice in heiping to reverse the right wing's dominaticn sf the A.E.U., or the work dene by such papers as Nottingham and Humberside Voices in building solida~ rity with the busmen and other trade unionists. |, Taking all these consideratiens into account the group of people who bring out ) The Week have decided to change the frequency and the general approach of the | oly journal. We shall. cease to bring it out as a weekly on March 31st and we will BI replace it with a printed monthly, entitled Internatienal. The new ‘ournalwill | i) concentrate on the examination ef politics in depth. We will discuss such Z | questions as the strategy of the "left" in face ef the continued evolution to the right by the Labeur Government; the new political problems posed by the ' rise of nationalism and the black pewer movement; the tactics cf the anti-—Vietnam war movement and its corollary: the solidarity mevement with national liberation movements; and, of ceurse, as internationalists we will endeavour to examine tle the implications for British secialists of important political developments abread, in particular, the development of the Cuban revolutien and the werldwide national’. liberation struggle. As partisans of socialist democracy we will devote attention te the movements struggling against bureaucracy in the communist world. We still feel that there is a need for a substantial printed weekly to help to lay the basis for a movement which will be capable of this considerable journalist undertaking. The Week has had an honorable history but its
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