A special greeting to those readers who are reading Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly for the first time this week — especially to those who bought this copy at university O-Week, or received it on joining the radical youth organisation Resistance.
You are one of around a thousand people who will buy Â鶹´«Ã½ on campus each week over the next few weeks. We hope you like the paper. We hope you have a chance to read all the articles, and take note of the alternative they present.
Universities should be places of higher learning, providing a chance to express new ideas and to test out new ways. These are the ideas on which Â鶹´«Ã½ was founded.
We like to think that Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly is unique. It's not every paper published in Australia that takes a critical approach to Australian foreign policy in the region, or attacks the government's strategies from the point of view of working people. You're unlikely to read about the alternative economic strategies that Â鶹´«Ã½ presents in most textbooks.
Â鶹´«Ã½ is not here just to be consumed either. It's not here simply to be read. We encourage readers to participate: to send your ideas in letters, articles or reviews. And you might like to help distribute the paper on your campus.
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly is a political project more than a newspaper. It's one that you can become involved with. You don't have to know it all in order to play a part in building the alternative. All you need is a little time and a desire to cut the crap.
If you want to help present an alternative viewpoint; if you want to get involved in the Â鶹´«Ã½ project, contact your nearest distribution centre. The addresses and phone numbers are printed below. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly — it's your paper.