is there a SWP 'Socialist Worker' newspaper archive/resource (1970s issues) ??

[chico enrico]

just found out that issues of Socialist Worker from around 1977 - 1979 have a load of photos of fights with the NF/BM that a mate of mine who wrote a book about his (nazi-bashing) exploits over this period features in.

Just wondering if there is any way of going through copies of the paper from this period? If they have an archive...or even if any library might have a collection?

Any suggestions most appreciated.

 

[free spirit]

british library should have them I'd have thought.

 

[the button]

Hull University library has the complete run of SW (and Militant). Although one loyal comrade has torn out the famous "Troops in!" front page.

 

[butchersapron]

I wonder who that might be!

They'll surely have a paper archive - check your pms in a sec.

 

[chico enrico]

british library should have them I'd have thought.

good suggestion, but don't most libraries transfer their periodical archives to microfesh? I was wondering more if there was some sort of left wing resource/media archive type place that might have them so copies could be made of certain photos .

 

[ernestolynch]

The Trots will do their utmost to destroy any evidence of their u-turns.

 

[Griselda]

"The Trots will do their utmost to destroy any evidence of their u-turns"

Unlike the Stalinists and photos, of course - oh dear, why did I bother replying....... .

 

[JWH]

good suggestion, but don't most libraries transfer their periodical archives to microfesh? I was wondering more if there was some sort of left wing resource/media archive type place that might have them so copies could be made of certain photos .

You can still print from microfiche, can't you? Mind you, a print of a photo of a photo in a 1970s B&W hot metal newspaper...

 

[Matt S]

LSE Library should have most of them, they've got most of the libertarian socialist magazines from that era.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Looks like the Marx Memorial Library in Farringdon has some copies but they seem a bit confused about it...

http://marx.soutron.com/InmagicGenie/opac_report.aspx?ReportName=OpacBrief&AC=QBE_QUERY&Type=opac

 

[imposs1904]

just found out that issues of Socialist Worker from around 1977 - 1979 have a load of photos of fights with the NF/BM that a mate of mine who wrote a book about his (nazi-bashing) exploits over this period features in.

Just wondering if there is any way of going through copies of the paper from this period? If they have an archive...or even if any library might have a collection?

Any suggestions most appreciated.

Maybe you could check under the bed of your local long time SWP stalwart?

Failing that, the back of their wardrobe.

 

[Pickman's model]

oxford, cambridge, national library of scotland, glasgow university.

 

[Pickman's model]

Looks like the Marx Memorial Library in Farringdon has some copies but they seem a bit confused about it...

http://marx.soutron.com/InmagicGenie/opac_report.aspx?ReportName=OpacBrief&AC=QBE_QUERY&Type=opac

they aren't confused; you are.

Title Socialist worker
...
Holdings No.534 (2 Jul 1977); No.576 (29 Apr 1978) cover only; No.681 (17 May 1980); No.906 (13 Oct 1984)
No.1028 (14 Mar 1987) - No.1932 (18 Dec 2004). Incomplete
Current issues
...
Card suggests 1969-1979 held, but these were not found during cataloguing - reserve?
2001 - nos.1752, 1772; 2002 - no.1792; 2003 - no.1857. Other lacks in earlier years

it appears some of them have gone missing/been binned at some point.

 

[Pickman's model]

and the british library up in colindale would appear to have the ones you're after

http://catalogue.bl.uk:80/F/F572KT4...set_number=116119&set_entry=000004&format=999

 

[fiannanahalba]

Its a wonderful catalogue of political gymnastics with some spectacular and wonderful somersaults. I read it for excitement in the bog.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

1) Warwick University Modern Records Centre worth a try

2) I have many SWs from that period--but not catalogued yet, nor in the front of queue for such..