In the decades before the Civil War, the movement to abolish slavery printed thousands of newspapers, pamphlets, leaflets and books. The abolitionist press played a key role in helping people understand the moral and practical necessity of ending slavery.
Today we face a similar struggle against a system that is destroying democracy, practicing injustice, driving us toward nuclear war, and denying millions of us the most basic human needs—food, water, housing, healthcare, and more. Just as the abolitionists did, the movement today needs a press to give it a voice, a perspective and a strategy. The People’s Tribune is striving to be that press.
With technology eliminating labor, we are heading toward a jobless economy. The billionaires and corporations need to suppress the millions who are standing up to fight for a new society that will provide for and protect everyone. The billionaires’ efforts at suppression include their massive propaganda machine. A development we should all be alarmed about is that Sinclair Broadcasting, which puts out the ideas of Donald Trump, recently got the ability to reach 72% of American households. The People’s Tribune is needed more than ever, because it publishes the voices of those in struggle, and offers a vision of the just, peaceful, cooperative society that is possible if the people end the rule of the billionaires.
The People’s Tribune needs those in the fight to write for the paper, donate photographs, help us with our website, distribute the paper in their area, and help raise money for it. We are an independent, reader-supported press with an all-volunteer staff.
We have a national audience of those in struggle, but the increasing threat to the people means we need to reach an even larger audience. We need to connect with more writers, bloggers and photographers; reach more people with audio, video, social media, and public events; print more papers, and more frequently; and improve our website and update it more frequently.
Our annual subscription drive begins Oct. 1. Please subscribe and also donate whatever you can in addition. Send us articles about your struggle, photographs, and links to things you’ve published online. A movement is a cause and a press. Help make the People’s Tribune the voice of the movement for a new, cooperative society free of poverty and injustice and controlled by the people.