Newspaper/letter Program?

[MilitantAnarchist]

This is a sort of follow on from my previous thread 'Local Class War Leaflet' and i got alot of help getting programs for this... cheers for that for anyone who gave me names of good programs and links for that, im still working on it...
But, now i'm after MORE help (i know, terrible ain't I?)... These programs are great for pictures and posters, but i really want a good program for making a newspaper or newsletter that is easy to use... somthing that would look like the Afed newsletter Resistance or Antifa's NO PASARAN and the like... just basic and easy, does anyone know what they use, or what would be good to use???

Cheers & Beers

[Forward Union]

This is a sort of follow on from my previous thread 'Local Class War Leaflet' and i got alot of help getting programs for this... cheers for that for anyone who gave me names of good programs and links for that, im still working on it...
But, now i'm after MORE help (i know, terrible ain't I?)... These programs are great for pictures and posters, but i really want a good program for making a newspaper or newsletter that is easy to use... somthing that would look like the Afed newsletter Resistance or Antifa's NO PASARAN and the like... just basic and easy, does anyone know what they use, or what would be good to use???

Cheers & Beers

Why make a new newsletter and not just contribute and strengthen an existing one like, oh i dunno, Freedom?

[MilitantAnarchist]

Why make a new newsletter and not just contribute and strengthen an existing one like, oh i dunno, Freedom?

Because i'm making a local one for my area.

I want to avoid 'preaching to the converted' and get others interested in it in my area, and speaking for the Working Class will get people interested.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

I think you're wasting your energy a little bit... too many papers, too many papers...

All the same; microsoft publisher is 'alright' and comes with MS Office. More advanced, we'd be talking adobe indesign.

[MilitantAnarchist]

I think you're wasting your energy a little bit... too many papers, too many papers...

All the same; microsoft publisher is 'alright' and comes with MS Office. More advanced, we'd be talking adobe indesign.

Wasting my energy? What are you nuts!
How the fuck can helping the Working Class community be a 'waste of energy'!

What do you propose we do, sit here and chat about it on the internet? We aint changing a fucking thing by chatting amongst ourselves are we?

There isn't ONE radical newspaper in my town, and i cant think of one that is easilly available anywhere either.

[The Idler]

Wasting my energy? What are you nuts!
How the fuck can helping the Working Class community be a 'waste of energy'!

What do you propose we do, sit here and chat about it on the internet? We aint changing a fucking thing by chatting amongst ourselves are we?

There isn't ONE radical newspaper in my town, and i cant think of one that is easilly available anywhere either.
Reinventing the wheel doesn't help the working class. If you're in England, there are many radical newspapers including The Commune (http://thecommune.wordpress.com/magazine/subscribe-to-the-commune/), The Morning Star (http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/), Socialist Worker (http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/), Freedom (http://www.freedompress.org.uk), The Respect Paper (http://www.therespectparty.net/paper.php), The Socialist (http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/main/The_Socialist) etc. All are for the ordinary worker and available nationwide by order or even download. The Socialist Worker even ran an article entitled Ten Myths About Immigration (http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/graphics/2009/2168/2168_08_09.pdf) barely a month ago. Indymedia is a news service with branches in most towns crying out for help journalistic and otherwise. They might even be amenable to producing an Indysheet. You may have valid reasons for not wanting to use any existing radical newspapers but you have not yet mentioned any such reasons.

If you have valid reasons, and are still seeking software, then look for specifically "desktop-publishing (DTP) software". Publisher and InDesign are the worst and best of the spectrum of DTP respectively. QuarkXPress, Adobe Pagemaker, Serif PagePlus, Corel Ventura, Scribus and PageStream are more alternatives. For ease-of-use you could try using lots of text boxes in OpenOffice.org Writer though its a word processor rather than proper DTP.

[MilitantAnarchist]

Reinventing the wheel doesn't help the working class.
I know

If you're in England, there are many radical newspapers including The Commune (http://www.anonym.to/?http://thecommune.wordpress.com/magazine/subscribe-to-the-commune/), The Morning Star (http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/), Socialist Worker (http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/), Freedom (http://www.freedompress.org.uk/), The Respect Paper (http://www.therespectparty.net/paper.php), The Socialist (http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/main/The_Socialist) etc.
There are

Indymedia is a news service with branches in most towns crying out for help journalistic and otherwise. They might even be amenable to producing an Indysheet.
Good point and good idea

You may have valid reasons for not wanting to use any existing radical newspapers but you have not yet mentioned any such reasons.

There are NO radical newspapers widely available atall. There is nothing to get information out to anyone atall, what i want is somthing that deals with local issues in an anarchist frame of mind, as opposed to the Tory way it is dealt with at the minute. Basically, i know there are all the above papers out there, but you cant pick it up from town one your lunch break or somthing... I want to make somthing that is EASILY AVAILABLE

If you have valid reasons, and are still seeking software, then look for specifically "desktop-publishing (DTP) software". Publisher and InDesign are the worst and best of the spectrum of DTP. QuarkXPress, Adobe Pagemaker, Serif PagePlus, Corel Ventura and PageStream are more alternatives. For ease-of-use you could try using lots of text boxes in OpenOffice.org Writer though its a word processor rather than proper DTP
Cheers, i'll look at 'em

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

How the fuck can helping the Working Class community be a 'waste of energy'!

Once you've 'helped the working class community' I'll buy you a pint.

[thejambo1]

fair play to you, i hope you get to where you want to be. ignore the naysayers and just do what you want to. all the best for it.:thumbup1: