Get ready for the new-look Socialist Outlook

THIS COMING May Day, exactly two years after the launch of our paper as a fortnightly, Socialist Outlook is being relaunched with a new design and format. To complete this revamp, we are taking a short breakour next issue will be out on 28 April. Why are we taking this step? Since the Gulf War, a newspaper-style Socialist Outlook has helped us to reach out to new forces and win greater influence in the labour movement and mass campaigns. We are proud of what we have achieved; with small resources, always much less than we needed, we have managed to build the circulation of a campaigning voice of revolutionary marxism. Virtually alone on the left we have championed united action to defeat the Tories, consistent internationalism and support for the movements of the oppressed. The initiative for a change has come from the newspaper staff. The staff have always been the biggest critics of the weaknesses of the paper, and that's just as it should be. Put bluntly, we think the format of the paper is getting stale, and that we can do much better. So we are buying new computer equipment and design software, revamping our equipment and there will be some stall changes.