We urge delegates to vote against the following motion at 2017 Conference from 10:30 on 29-30 April (item scheduled for Sunday 30 April) and for members and supporters to attend 52 Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UN and/or express their opposition by e-mail to spgb@worldsocialism.org for the attention of the chair calling for ‘every new issue of the Socialist Standard to continue to be printed and distributed each month as usual’. “That the print Standard be discontinued from January 2018 and the online Standard become the Party’s official journal.” “ We are aware that this is likely to be an unpopular motion in some quarters, however socialists are nothing if not realists, and will recognise the grim inevitability of a resolution like this. Print sales are in terminal decline right across the news media, and we have been carrying the print Standard for years at a subsidy of around £1,000 per issue. Whether we can afford it now or in the future is beside the point.
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