Daily Worker (UK)
Front page of the Morning Star from 4 December 2014
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | People's Press Printing Society |
| Editor | Ben Chacko |
| Founded | 1930 (as Daily Worker) 1966 (as Morning Star) |
| Political alignment |
Socialism Left-wing politics Trade unionism |
| Headquarters | William Rust House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, London E3 2NS |
| Circulation | 10,000 |
| Website | www |
Morning Star is a left-wing British daily tabloid newspaper with a focus on social, political and trade union issues.
The paper was founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Since 1945, it has been owned by the People's Press Printing Society. It was renamed the Morning Star in 1966. The paper's editorial stance is in line with Britain's Road to Socialism, the programme of the Communist Party of Britain. Articles and comment columns are now contributed by writers from socialist, communist, social democratic, Green and religious perspectives.
The Morning Star was founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker, the paper representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The first edition was produced on 1 January 1930 from the offices of the newspaper in Tabernacle Street, London, by eight Party members including Kay Beauchamp. In January 1934 The Daily Worker's offices moved to Cayton Street off City Road. On 1 October 1935, the first eight-page Daily Worker was produced.
On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain spoke to the nation on the BBC, at which time he announced the formal declaration of war between Britain and Nazi Germany. Daily Worker editor J. R. Campbell, backed by his political ally, Party General Secretary Harry Pollitt, sought to portray the conflict against Hitler as a continuation of the anti-fascist fight.
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