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The Morning Star hits the road
Editor RICHARD BAGLEY reports back from his whistlestop tour round Britain where he met and heard feedback from readers at five People’s Press AGMs
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
THERE’S no other newspaper quite like the Morning Star. Not just for its unique position as the world’s only socialist English-language daily, backing trade union, activist and policy struggles that put people first day in, day out.
It’s also a member of Co-operatives UK, the umbrella organisation that brings together around 6,000 co-ops across Britain.
In fact many remain ignorant, or wilfully overlook, the fact that while the Morning Star’s editorial line may be guided via an annual democratic endorsement of Communist Party of Britain strategy document Britain’s Road to Socialism — an argument for a popular trade-union-centred alliance to challenge economic rule by big business, global finance and their Establishment backers — the paper is in fact a co-op owned by its readers for its readers.
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