Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
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There’s one paper with a difference – one that’s owned by its readers, says Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER. And if you’re at Labour conference why not drop by the stall for a special subscription offer?
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READ the one that’s different! That was the punchline to a social media meme that showed the Queen’s face splashed across the front page of every national newspaper bar the Morning Star, which led on the Tory handouts to the fuel fat cats.
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After 10 days of state-organised mourning, the theme of the Morning Star fringe meeting at Labour conference: Media Monopolies and the Assault on Democracy, could hardly be more timely and relevant.
How did we end up with a media that is so supine, so uniformly pro-big business and anti-union, that when Mick Lynch from the RMT does nothing more than politely challenge the official narrative, the TV presenters are reduced to bumbling wrecks? Perhaps more importantly, what can we do about it?
Beginning at 12pm on Tuesday in Grace Suite 2 at Liverpool’s Hilton Hotel (and livestreamed on the Morning Star Facebook page), delegates and visitors to conference will hear from a stellar panel of journalists, MPs and trade unionists, including the paper’s editor Ben Chacko, Richard Burgon MP and Unite’s Gail Cartmail.
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