WHY READ THE MORNING STAR?

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: april 2015 :: RMTnews 26 T he Morning Star is the only daily paper that actively campaigns for working-class politics. The only paper that reports accurately on strikes and industrial disputes. The only paper that supports the People’s Assembly and reports authoritatively on what is happening in Cuba, Palestine, Ukraine and elsewhere. The Star offers a unique, non- sectarian perspective on national and international industrial and political issues, not offered by the mainstream media. We are a reader-owned co-operative, supported by a range of trades unions: Unite, CWU, NUM, POA, UCATT, FBU, Community, GMB and RMT. No other daily newspaper carries such a range of voices from the left — trade union leaders and activists, left Labour MPs and the Communist Party, the Stop the War Coalition, the anti-fascist campaigns Hope Not Hate and Unite Against Fascism, the Green Party and more. We also feature distinctive arts and sports coverage unavailable elsewhere. The Morning Star has just reached its 85th anniversary. It was founded in 1930, in a country mired in the Great Depression that followed the Wall Street Crash, to act as the voice of working people resisting a ruling class determined to make them pay for its crisis. The parallels with today are obvious, and the need for our paper — the voice of the organised labour movement, the only daily paper committed to anti-imperialism, peace and socialism — is more acute than ever as we approach the general election. Austerity is not an accident. It is not, as it is sometimes portrayed even on the left, a misguided economic policy aimed at reducing debt and fostering an economic WHY READ THE MORNING STAR?