CIS readership consisted chiefly of activists.

Its main distribution effort was directed at rank and file trade union organsations, and the network of shop stewards that operated semi independently in most of the large employers in the UK.

It prioritised for investigation those sectors and organisations with large unionised workforces.

        Rio Tinto Zinc        Consolidated Goldfields

        GEC                      British Leyland

        Ford                       Unilever

        NHS                       British Telecom

        Hotels & Catering  Nuclear industry

        Oil                          Banking & Insurance

CIS worked with the numerous campaigning bodies and the revolutionary socialist groups that had a presence in the workplace of many UK companies.

For a number of years CIS was also affiliated to the Transnational Institute (TNI) an international network of  scholar activists exposing issues of globalisation.

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