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The Morning Star is Britain's only communist newspaper and a prime example of Moonbattery in action. Founded in 1930 as The Daily Worker, it changed its name in 1966. It follows a tabloid format and predominantly covers social and trade union issues, written from an agrarian-socialist and quasi-religious perspective.
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[edit] Early years
In its salad days as The Daily Worker, the paper functioned as the mainstream political organ (so to speak) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Its illustrious history includes celebrating the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Josef Stalin, describing Trotsky as a "Counter-Revolutionary Gangster" for not being far-left enough for their liking in that he wanted the people to have greater say in the political process and was against Russian isolationism. They opposed the war effort during World War II, describing the British invasion of Nazi Germany as "imperialism", never mind that Hitler had already invaded Poland. They changed their tune when Hitler surprised all by invading the Soviet Union, when all of a sudden they came out in full support of the war effort.
[edit] Post War
Still going by the name, The Daily Worker, it supported the show trials in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland in the late 1940s as well as the split between Josip Broz Tito and Yugoslavia in 1948. To put the whole, ahem, supporting the Nazis thing behind them, in 1966 they changed their name to The Morning Star.
Proving that old habits die hard, they supported the suppression of the Polish Solidarity trade union movement and the Polish government's declaration of martial law, vehemently denouncing the Executive Committee of the British Communist Party for denouncing the government's actions. This was the beginning of The Morning Star's schism with the British Communist Party. This was exacerbated by the CPGB's support of Eurocommunism, a movement to create greater independence from the Soviet Union for communist states in Europe. The Morning Star also supported the Kim dynasty in North Korea and has defended Kim Jong-un's political purges against repudiation by the CPGB.
[edit] Editorial stances
The paper claims to support a "Two-State Solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and they support the Nationalist movement in Ireland. They showed support for Slobadan Milosevic, opposed NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia and also opposed the Iraq War. They are euroskeptic and call for peaceful protest and civil disobedience to improve quality of life for workers.
[edit] Notable contributors
- Uri Avnery
- John Pilger
- Derek Wall
- Ken Livingstone (a surprisingly moderate chap for The Morning Star)
- Jeremy Corben
- John McDonald
- Caroline Lucas
- George Galloway (surprise, surprise)
- Alan Simpson
- Martin Rowson
[edit] See also
- Pravda.ru
- The Huffington Post
- Propaganda
- Lucifer — The fallen angel who prior to becoming the Devil was also known as the Morning Star, coincidentally.
- The schismatic Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
- Genocide