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Victory Over Fascism – But the Battle for Britain’s Future Begins

PHIL KATZ looks at how the Daily Worker, the Morning Star's forerunner, covered the breathless last days of World War II 80 years ago

BY January 1942, hope flickered alive. The Soviet triumph at Stalingrad and Montgomery’s victory at El Alamein marked the turning point. Hitler’s defeat was now possible.

Resistance across occupied Europe, the unity of the Big Three, and working-class mobilisation at home proved decisive. The campaign forcing Churchill to open a second front in 1944, combined with the Soviet Army’s unstoppable advance, sealed fascism’s fate.

The Daily Worker’s Fight for Truth
By 1945, the Daily Worker — forerunner of today’s Morning Star — boldly told its 100,000 readers that victory was coming. But the workers’ paper faced its own battle.

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