Find out more about the history of SW, the rich tradition of publishing left-wing and socialist newspapers--and our plans for spreading the socialist alternative to a bigger and bigger audience:
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Read excerpts of articles from past issues and find out what Socialist Worker had to say about some of the most important events of the past 25 years--and about the struggles you only read about here.
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SUBJECTS BELOW:
Our goals for Socialist Worker
Newspapers of the movement
Marxism and the revolutionary newspaper
OUR GOALS FOR SOCIALIST WORKER
Why we sell Socialist Worker
The revolutionary newspaper is a central weapon in the arsenal of those fighting for a better world.
A tool for organizing
SW digs beneath the surface of important stories and exposes the lies that the politicians and their media helpers tell us. But Socialist Worker aims to do more. For a revolutionary socialist who is building an organization, a newspaper like SW is also a central organizing tool.
Agitator and organizer
Producing a socialist newspaper is about more than telling the truth. We want to convince readers not only about what's wrong with the world--but that they need to act to change it.
From the editor of Socialist Worker
A voice for our side
When Socialist Worker announced our plan to begin publishing weekly in October, we said that the pace of political events was developing rapidly, faster than a biweekly newspaper could keep up with. Little did we know.
NEWSPAPERS OF THE MOVEMENT
"A movement has to control its own voice"
Dan Georgakas, co-author of the book Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, talks about the vital role that newspapers played during the organizing of the 1960s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement.
Building the struggle against slavery
The abolitionists and their papers
The terrible crime of slavery in the U.S. South is at least taught in high school history classes. But the struggle to end slavery--launched decades before the Civil War began--gets little attention.
MARXISM AND THE REVOLUTIONARY NEWSPAPER
A socialist newspaper to fight for our side
The role of the mainstream press, to quote Karl Marx, is to reflect "the ruling ideas of society." New York Times journalist John Swinton put it more colorfully at his retirement party.
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