Foot's first stint at "Private Eye" lasted until 1972 when, according to Patrick Marnham, Foot was effectively sacked by Richard Ingrams who had come to the conclusion that Foot's copy was being unduly influenced by his contacts in the International Socialists. Ingrams has denied this: "It was said at the time that he and I had fallen out over political issues. In fact, we very seldom disagreed about such things, the only tension arising from Paul's belief that whenever there was a strike he had to support the union regardless of any rights or wrongs." In October 1972 he left to join the "Socialist Worker", the weekly newspaper of the IS, "confident that a revolution was coming", as he explained decades later. He became editor in 1974.