# Why trade unions should not support the Morning Star — Pamphlet

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Podcast: [Solidarity & More](https://stenobird.com/podcast/solidarity-more-85055)
Published: 2024-01-25T14:23:28+00:00
Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/why-trade-unions-should-not-support-the-morning-star-pamphlet
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## Resource

This short pamphlet explains why trade unions should not be giving political and financial support to a newspaper which is not the "daily paper of the left" but the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB). More online and buy: https://workersliberty.org/morningstar The Morning Star is not an effective way for unions to gain support for their disputes and campaign. And the political cost of backing the Morning Sar is immense: in effect, presenting a vision of “socialism” in which the totalitarian police state of China is held up as desirable, military coups (as in Niger) are hailed as legitimate means of achieving progressive change, and nationalist illusions of “socialism in one country” are promoted as the way forward for Britain. And it’s not even true that the paper allows genuine debate on issues where there are differences on the left.

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