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The Morning Star |
| Date: |
12/08/01 (74 review reads) |
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Disadvantages: Based on BRS
First of all let me get one thing straight - I am a Socialist. However to present the Morning Star as some sort of daily paper of the left is deeply misguided.
First of all, the Morning Star's party, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is based on a program part written by Stalin in the 1950's - British Road to Socialism. This program was based on the principal that the Soviet Union would overtake the western capitalist countries in terms of production and that the Labour Party would deliver Socialism through parliament.
Anyone who hasn't been asleep for 10 years would have noticed that the USSR ceased to exist in December 1991 and the Labour Party is more rightwing than the liberals nowdays - are they serious that Blair will deliver Socialism?
Both pillars that held up this program (and the old CPGB) have gone, yet this theory still survives in the form of the remenants of Official Communism, the CPB.
So what? its written on a false program - I might hear you say. However it is the principal that the paper is written from, and with further developments on the left (i.e: The Socialist Alliance) being virtually ignored by the Morning Star editorship for anyone to describe it as the 'daily paper of the left' is very naive.
Inside the paper, theres news from the labour movement, sport, tv features and more. However in terms of high politics it is kept to a minumum - that is the main problem I have with it. If you expect the working class to rule the world you don't have to dumb down your paper into a tabloid style rump.
For readers interested in socialism I reccomend the WeeklyWorker available at: http://www.cpgb.org.uk
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