The next step

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The next step (for some time abbreviated to tns) was the review of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency, initially published every six weeks, becoming a monthly and then (in 1985) the weekly paper of what was by then the Revolutionary Communist Party.

'Victory to the Irish hunger-strikers!', sticker produced by the RCP newspaper The next step, 1981.
Collage from The next step from p. 12-13 of Ireland's Victory Means Britain's Defeat: the Role of the Labour Movement (Revolutionary communist Pamphlets) Revolutionary Communist Tendency 1980 Junius Publications Ltd 24p.
The next step in the early days after its launch as a 'review' in 1979 by the Revolutionary Communist Tendency
Advert for The next step from the RCT/RCP's theoretical journal Revolutionary Communist Papers, Issue 7, July 1981, p. 21.

The next step was first published in December 1979 as a six-weekly review and was wound up at number 57 in March 1985 when it became a weekly, just after the end of the 1984/85 Miners Strike.[1] According to the British Library (BL) the weekly version of the paper began publication in 1985. The first edition held by the BL is that of 26 April 1985, [2] though according to RCP sources it went weekly on 19 April.[3] The BL notes that the name was changed in 1988 removing the abbreviation from the title along with the reference to the RCP. The review continued publishing until 25 February 1994 around two years before the dissolution of the RCP in 1996.[4] In its launch edition in December the next step had articles on 'Smash the PTA!' (p. 1), 'Leyland: the Crunch' (p. 1), 'Fighting racism in Britain & Europe' (p 4), the 'Labour Party Conference' (p6), 'SWP Blues: whatever happened to trade union militancy' (p 8), 'Up against imperialism in africa' (p 9) and 'AUEW strike...broad left..' (p 10).



Notes

  1. ↑ British Library catalogue Revolutionary Communist Tendency, accessed 24 September 2010:
    • Title: The next step : review of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency.
    • Contributor: Revolutionary Communist Tendency.
    • Other Titles: Key Title: Next step
    • Subjects: Political science -- Periodicals ; Politics Serials ;
    • Dewey: 320.05
    • Publication Details: London BCM JPLTD,WC1V 6XX : Janius Publications Ltd, [1979-1985]
    • Language: English
    • Description: No. 1 (Dec. 1979)-no. 57 (Mar. 1985)
    • Identifier: ISSN: 0144-350X; BNB: GB8027892; System number: 010548623
    • Related Titles: Later Title: TNS
    • Notes: Published at irregular intervals. - 12p. in 1st issue.
    • Physical Description: v. ; ill., ports. ; 42 cm.
    • Holdings Notes: General Reference Collection P.2000/743 No. 1 (Dec. 1979)-no. 57 (Mar. 1985)
    • Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection P.2000/743
  2. ↑ British Library data The Next Step., accessed 24 October 2010:
    • Title: TNS: The Next Step : Revolutionary Communist Party Weekly.
    • Place Name: England London.
    • Identifier: System number: 013918926
    • Related Titles: Later Title: Next Step 29 April 1988-25 Feb.1994
    • Creation Date: 1985
    • Holdings Notes: Newspaper Library :26 April 1985-22 April 1988.
    • Shelfmark(s): Newspapers 1985 5448 [1985], Newspapers 1986 1424 [1986], Newspapers 1987 720 [1987], Newspapers 1988 242 [1988].
  3. ↑ Date included in advert for The next step at the back of: Mike Freeman, The miners' fight for jobs: Our day will come, London: Junius Publications, March 1985, p. 59.
  4. ↑ British Library data, The Next Step., accessed 24 October 2010:
    • Title: The Next Step.
    • Place Name: England London.
    • Identifier: System number: 014638811
    • Related Titles: Earlier Title: TNS: The Next Step : Revolutionary Communist Party Weekly 26 April 1985-22 April 1988
    • Creation Date: 1988
    • Holdings Notes: Newspaper Library :29 April 1988-25 Feb.1994.
    • Shelfmark(s): Newspapers 1989 1412 [1989]
    Newspapers 1988 242 [1988], Newspapers 1990 1437 [1990], Newspapers 1991 1037 & 1231 [1991], Newspapers 1992 569 & 1134 [1992], Newspapers 1993 979 & 1025 [1993], Newspapers 1994 1094 [1994].
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