About LNN

Sometimes people ask me why they have to own a website in order to get their news up on LabourStart. Often activists will have access to email but will have no website and no web publishing skills.

We're pleased to announce a solution to these problems - the Labour News Network (LNN), sponsored by LabourStart.

LNN allows unionists to post their own news stories, uncensored, unmoderated, on the LabourStart website. Selected news stories will be linked to the main LabourStart page. But ALL news stories will be viewable.

You can also comment on the entries of others and exchange opinions about the newsitem in a posting with others all over the world.

Anyone can become an LNN correspondent. You'll need a user ID and password, but you create these yourself with this registration webform. You put in the registration data yourself and your account will be activated immediately after receiving your activation request.

Once you've created a user ID and password for yourself, you can LOGIN with the link in right column of the LNN homepage. When you are logged in you can use the POST link to publish your own newsstories. You can also comment on the entries after clicking the 'Give your comment »' link of a newsitem.

This does not effect the work of existing LabourStart correspondents who still provide the daily news links which feature on the LabourStart home page.

Obviously, news stories will have to be about the labour movement, will have to be true, not slanderous, and not sexist or racist. They must NOT duplicate material which is already available on the web -- in those cases, submit a link by email or offer to become a LabourStart correspondent.

Submissions which do not conform to this minimum standard will be deleted from the database and correspondents who have submitted them will be blocked from making further submissions.

The current version of the Labour News Network was built by Oskar van Rijswijk using pMachine, a content management system/blogger, and is great improvement over the previous version.

We look forward to receiving your comments on this service which I think will enliven LabourStart and allow rank-and-file activists as well as those in developing countries to play a more active role than in the past.