Parks explains that this revised and more actively political mission, which justified changing the Institute's name to New City Writing and creating a publishing arm, New City Community Press, was to a large extent modeled on the United Kingdom's Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (
FWWCP), a coalition of working-class writing groups that brought an anti-capitalist vision to publishing by involving "writers in all parts of the writing process, from first draft to laying out text for publication." This process allowed
FWWCP to keep the "representation of working-class life..