If you think the Guardian is too conservative...

...here's the newspaper for you:

Many newspaper readers might be surprised that the Morning Star is still published, others might dismiss it as a historical anomaly. But - somehow - the paper lives on even after the collapse of its beloved communism.

It's a sign of the times for old-style left-wingers that when they click on morningstar.co.uk they get a financial services website.

But the Morning Star, the left-wing daily newspaper, hasn't disappeared - it's still flying the flag in its 75th year. The political landscape might have changed utterly - and Soviet-style Communism might have been swept away - but the newspaper is still appearing each morning on the news stands.

Not without a struggle. Because unlike the other daily papers on the news racks, it depends on fund-raising drives by its readers, needing £16,000 in monthly donations and the proceeds of "jumble sales and second-hand book sales" to keep the paper afloat.
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The newspaper is still linked to the Communist Party - but the editor says that the paper now appeals to a much wider spectrum of the broad left, rather than a narrowly dogmatic set of followers.

This includes contributions from people like Ken Livingstone, Jon Pilger and George Galloway, he says. This follows other famous writers including Virginia Woolf. [emphasis added]

Posted by damian at March 23, 2005 05:54 PM