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Permalink Reply by Pete Martin on December 11, 2010 at 16:20

The Morning Star is owned and run by its shareholders among whom are many trade union activists and leaders as well as members of the Labour Party, the CPB and no party at all. So not sure what your point is really - apart from the fact that you have may have some issue with the CPB?

Permalink Reply by Trish Lavelle on December 11, 2010 at 17:12

Quite honestly without members of the CPB promoting, selling and distributing the paper over the last decade the paper would cease to exist. Not sure what is 'sentimental' about a working class supporting  daily paper promoting progressive ideas and giving coverage to working class struggle and campaigns. Take a look at today's coverage of Thursday's protests at www.morninstaronline.co.uk and tell me what is sentimental about that.

Pete Martin said:

The Morning Star is owned and run by its shareholders among whom are many trade union activists and leaders as well as members of the Labour Party, the CPB and no party at all. So not sure what your point is really - apart from the fact that you have may have some issue with the CPB?

Permalink Reply by Steve Silver on December 12, 2010 at 1:14

Trish is right, if it wasn't for CPB members supporting, selling, buying and invariably funding the paper over the years, it doesn't really seem feasible that it would still exist.

Unions like RMT place adverts in the paper and buy bulk editions for conferences etc. But, I'm not sure even Bob Crow could justify large scale funding of the paper from his union members' pockets, or if he would even want to. And anyway, what would happen when there is a leadership change in the union?

The fact that the CPB has made the Star its no 1 priority is to the party's credit.

 

Permalink Reply by Phil katz on February 7, 2012 at 18:31

Pete Martin said:

The Morning Star is owned and run by its shareholders among whom are many trade union activists and leaders as well as members of the Labour Party, the CPB and no party at all. So not sure what your point is really - apart from the fact that you have may have some issue with the CPB?

Permalink Reply by Phil katz on February 7, 2012 at 18:37

Time to ditch the CPB [?]

Sorry but I had a good laugh at that one. The capitalists have been trying to dump the CP for 90 years.  If you read Christopher Andrew's excellent official history of MI5 you will see they spent about 70 per cent of the book trying to dump the CP too. And let's not forget the blacklisters, the Murdochs etc. So Millwallb - you keep good company. But without the CP and its supporters you would have no non sectarian newspaper of the Left to fret about and nothing to move in to the mainstream. But good luck all the same.