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80 years ago today the Daily Worker was banned. Are there lessons for us today?
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EIGHTY years ago today, the Morning Star’s forerunner the Daily Worker was banned by ministerial fiat.
The 18-month prohibition was the longest ban imposed on any newspaper by government order in British history.
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison – grandfather of New Labour grandee Peter Mandelson – justified the ban on the grounds that the Daily Worker was undermining the war effort.
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