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Editor BEN CHACKO welcomes new readers and explains why there’s never been a better time to get behind the people’s paper

IF YOU’RE reading this bumper edition of the Morning Star for the first time, welcome to Britain’s only national daily socialist, co-operatively owned newspaper!

After over two years of lockdowns, Covid waves and a shift to online only events, we’re very pleased to have worked with one of our 11 national shareholder unions, the CWU, to ensure a mammoth distribution today at the TUC’s We Deserve Better demo and elsewhere around Britain.

It’s all to get the message across — that however timid the parliamentary opposition to a government whose policies are deliberately driving down pay and allowing inflation to let rip, there is real opposition to this government in the trade union movement and it’s our job to build it into a force capable of forcing change.

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