Report of the 2013 Conference for Morning Star Readers and Supporters Groups in Scotland

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.