Your help needed (1956)

Party News from the October 1956 issue of the Socialist Standard

The purpose for which the S.P.G.B. publishes the Socialist Standard and pamphlets is to bring the Socialist case to the attention of workers who so far do not know it. The cheaper the price the easier it is to sell and the aim has always been to keep prices as low as possible. But keeping the price of the Socialist Standard at 4d. necessarily results in a heavy loss. Readers will have noticed that in order to save costs we recently reduced the quality of the paper. Even so the loss is running at well over £20 a month.

The best sort of help you can give us is to push up the circulation. If we sold more copies each copy would cost a little less than it does and the loss would be smaller.

The other help you can give is financial. You can give us donations to help cover the monthly deficit, and thus free our ordinary income to meet other propaganda expenditure.

At present we also need over £200 to reprint our pamphlet “The Socialist Party: its Principles and Policy,” and to publish a collection of articles from the Socialist Standard under the title “Socialist Comments.” Other pamphlets are contemplated. If you want to help, send your donations to the Treasurer, E. Lake, S.P.G.B.. 52, Clapham High Street, Clapham, S.W.4. Postal orders, cheques, etc., should be crossed and made payable to the S.P.G.B.

Blogger's Note:

According to this link on the Libcom website a new edition of “The Socialist Party: its Principles and Policy” pamphlet was published by the SPGB in 1956, and a pamphlet under the title of "Socialist Comment" was also published by the Party in 1956. (It should be noted that "Socialist Comment" wasn't advertised in the Standard until 1957.)