[FOR MILITANTS and socialists who live amidst the…]
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FOR MILITANTS and socialists who live amidst the foul filth poured out by the Fleet street populars' , the notion of a left wing daily is an idea that seduces. Almost any left wing daily.
For this reason the Morning Star (and even the Gaddafi-ite rag Newsline) get a friendly response from many people who stand far to the right, or left, of their politics.
Only a few years ago, even the Trotskyist Socialist Challenge (forerunner of Socialist Action) joined in an appeal to the labour movement to save the Morning Star.
Tribune recently came down in support of the Chaterites who have seized the Morning Star from the Communist Party. It is a question, Tribune thinks, of defending press freedom and independence.
What world does Tribune's editor Chris Mullin live in? Leaving aside any other benefit it may get from the Stalinist states, the Morning Star sends over a third of its present printrun to Eastern Europe and the USSR.
How can a newspaper that chooses to tailor its news selection and presentation to the requirements of the rulers of th totalitarian Stalinist states be an independent labour movement paper? Independent of what?
And the Morning Star does tailor what it says to the needs of its important East European market. It did it before the Chaterites cut loose from the CP's control. For example, during the days of the Gdansk