Read the PDF report here http://www.scottishcommunists.org.uk/docs/article/270/MorningStarReport2013.pdf .
Chair welcomed the broad attendance from readers and supporters
groups and from the trade union movement. The conference was
organisational. It was about
how to increase the sales and profile of the paper and was the first to have been held.
More readers were crucial for the paper’s survival, and even more important, for its development. This task could only be achieved on the ground through
local groups, trade union branches and trades union councils all working together.
An immediate priority was to promote the Cooperative Stores half price
offer for new readers which ended very soon – at the end of June. But
the
drive for readers must continue afterwards and match the urgency of the political situation.
Working people faced a class onslaught.
The jobs massacre at RBS was an immediate example - as was tax dodging
by the big corporation at the same time as the government was robbing
the poorest and most vulnerable.
Only the Star exposed the class character of these attacks.
