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What policy should revolutionary socialists adopt towards the communications media? This is not a new question for the working-class movement. However, the enormous explosion in the communications industry over the last fifty years, the introduction of radio and television in particular, has simply brought it into sharper focus for socialists today.
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Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media ( London: Sphere Books, 1967 ).
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, ‘Constituents of a Theory of the Media’, in Raids and Reconstructions (London: Pluto, 1976).
V. I. Lenin, ‘The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat it’, in Selected Works, vol. 2 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1964).
Leon Trotsky, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (New York: Pathfinder, 1971).
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© 1979 Carl Gardner, Tariq Ali, Dave Bailey, David Glyn, Gary Herman, Ian Hoare, Claire Johnston, Mandy Merck, Roger Protz, Chris Rawlence, Leon Rosselson, Geoffrey Sheridan, Gillian Skirrow, John Thackara, Raymond Williams
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Bailey, D. (1979). Workers’ Control and the Media. In: Gardner, C. (eds) Media, Politics and Culture. Communications and Culture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16136-2_13
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