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Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER encourages friends and comrades at Tolpuddle and beyond to be sure to subscribe to the people’s paper
The Morning Star and friends at Tolpuddle 2018

IF YOU’RE reading this column in the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, the chances are you’ve picked up one of the thousands of Morning Stars we’ve handed out for free at this great celebration of trade union struggle.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs were transported to Australia in 1834, almost 100 years before the first edition of the Morning Star’s predecessor the Daily Worker rolled off the printing presses. 

But if we had been publishing at the time, I have no doubt that our headline would have been the defiant rallying cry of George Loveless: “We raise the watchword, liberty. We will, we will, we will be free!”

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