I’ve been reposting some of my articles dealing with globalisation from the 1999 – 2002 period over the last week or so. Among them are a few short cover stories I wrote for Workers Solidarity in those years.
I’ve been reposting some of my articles dealing with globalisation from the 1999 – 2002 period over the last week or so. Among them are a few short cover stories I wrote for Workers Solidarity in those years.
I was doing the layout work back then which as often as not meant being the person to slot something onto the front page at the last moment. Globalisation tended to feature quite frequently as at that time this was what a lot of mobilisations, even in Ireland were around.
Looking back at the cover stories I think the layout is awful (thank god we recruited people who actually had some skills in that area) but the text isn’t so bad. I was trying for something short and somewhat outrageous that would invite interest in what lay within. As far as I’m concerned this is pretty much the only function of the front page of a publication. Some of them eg ‘The globalisation we demand’ expanded into far too much text.
As people following this blog may have noticed I’m not very good at being brief. Another of the articles I posted during the week which I wrote late last week is a great example of this. I set out to do a five minute / 500 word review of the union SIPTU’s response to the capitalist crisis and ended up with 3,000 words in the article ‘Thoughts on the crisis, what is planned for us and the alternatives‘ – even the title is too long.
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