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Banned but unbowed – how the Daily Worker was suppressed 80 years ago
PHIL KATZ relates how the Morning Star’s forerunner was banned and the massive struggle to restore press freedom to unban the people’s paper
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WITH media bans very much in the public eye at the moment, few can be better qualified to express a view than the Morning Star, whose forerunner, the Daily Worker, experienced a decade-long struggle with censors, libel suits, grizzly judges — one was described in the paper as a “bewigged puppet” — and eventually, an outright ban.
Today, January 21, is the anniversary of one such anti-democratic measure, and certainly the most serious.
The owners and editorial staff of the paper had seen it coming and made meticulous plans, which included legal and illegal printing, the establishment of powerful support leagues made up of factory workers and readers and even a High Court challenge. The challenge was successful, but the ban stayed in place.
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