Partial online archive of Inside Story, a London based radical news magazine founded by Wynford Hicks. 13 issues were published between March 1972 and December 1973.
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Inside Story #1 1972
Debut issue of Inside Story with several features on Blood Sunday in Northern Ireland and related media fallout. Also potential closure of steel plants following entry to the Common Market, resisting expulsions in South London schools, satire.
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Inside Story #1 1972 wrote:
The fight against the political role of the mental hospital is an important part of the class struggle.
Inside Story #2 1972
Contents include: access to abortion controversy, unequal pay for women at Cussons, how the miners won - inspite of the NUM, teacher training critiqued, Marsha Rowe on working for Oz and International Times, resisting the census, journalists who earn too little to join the NUM, "woman's page".
Inside Story #3 1972
Including: Special Branch spying on political activists, police raids and repression, photographer Quentin Jacobson jailed in South Africa, Sheikh Karume's rise to power in Zanzibar, the end of the Womens' Industrial Union, in-fighting in race relations organisations, letters, satire page, etc.
Inside Story #4 1972
Including: shooting of activist Pierre Overney outside a car factory in France, APL news agency fights repression, update on struggles in Italy, arrest of Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader in West Germany, Nicolas Walter on the Stoke Newington 8 trials, Republic of Ireland against republicans, letters, small ads, etc.
Inside Story #5 1972
September 1972 issue including: Islington squatters, social workers and squatters, squatting in France, whistleblowing and town planners, compulsory purchase orders in Lambeth, Building Workers Charter, trial round ups including Stoke Newington 8, Roddy Kentish trial, education book reviews, pamphlets reviews, letters, contacts.
Inside Story #6 1972
November 1972 issue including: Phone phreaking, censorship, Russian dissidents and psychiatry, repression at Broadmoor, radical psychiatry/psychology, Stoke Newington 8 trial, Bookchin's "Post Scarcity Anarchism" reviewed, pamphlets, news, notes, letters, contacts.
Inside Story #7 1973
Including: conditions in British prisons, prisoner groups, Stuart Christie's account of being fitted up, Broadmoor, the Harlem 4 trial, reviews, letters, contacts, etc.
PDF courtesy of Sparrows Nest Archive, Nottingham.
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Inside Story #8 1973
Including: Spies For Peace, the British state vs Welsh Nationalism, nationalist movements in Europe, relief workers prosper in Bangladesh, conditions in British prisons, National Association of Schoolmasters critique, book on squatting reviewed, pamphlets, news, notes, letters.
Inside Story #11 1973
Including: investigation of media expose of British soldiers assisted by pacifists to desert, libel news (including threats against Inside Story, Pat Arrowsmith book), poor medical treatment of women inmates in Holloway prison, trade unionist Walter Morrison blacklisted, many book reviews, mainstream media notes, prisoners, Nicolas Walter vs Black Flag, etc.
PDF courtesy of Sparrows Nest Archive, Nottingham.
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Inside Story #13 1973
Including: National Union of Journalist disputes round up, Socialist Worker and libel, feudal corruption in Galway, mining and minerals in Ireland, prisons and prisoners round up, Nicolas Walter reviews Pluto Press, trouble at Peace News, Time Out vs Oz, Time Out vs Nicolas Walter, etc.
With thanks to Kate Sharpley Library for providing a copy to be scanned.
This was the final issue.
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Don't know much about this one. Interesting investigative/radical journalism with an anarchist slant.
Might have gone on to merge with the London based Wildcat as some of its publications are titled "Wildcat Inside Story" with a similar font?
https://libcom.org/article/wildcat-1-army-supplement-september-1974
Edited to add: Actually this is all explained here: https://libcom.org/article/insulting-behaviourand-other-misdemeanours-wynford-hicks
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