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Why we have to raise the cover price of the Morning Star at the end of this month
Editor BEN CHACKO says the cumulative impact of a couple of years of very high inflation have now hit the people's paper despite modest rises in income
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
With politicians dismissing constituents’ fears of global war, the peace movement must look beyond Parliament to prevent catastrophe, writes TOM MORRISON
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
PERIODICALLY I have to be the bearer of bad news. That bad news is that the price of the printed Morning Star will rise at the end of this month.
From Monday September 30 your weekday paper will cost £1.50, while from Saturday October 5 the larger weekend edition will cost £2.
Price rises would be a poor response to falling sales, entrenching the cycle of decline we have seen in print sales across the newspaper industry in the last decade.
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