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[Felicity, I guess so]

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btw, TonTon, how does the Morning Star come into money? A legacy, a fundraising campaign, borrowing, more sales (which you'd expect in this political climate)?

Well in the past the answer was 'Moscow Gold', of course. I used to travel a fair amount in 'the former' E. Europe, and you could get a copy in the most out-of-the way backwaters, so these bought-and-paid-for copies (you could always get the English version of the Cuban 'Granma', too) must've been a huge part of the regular income.

Nowadays the only remaining part of that funding is from British trade unions who still donate a fair amount and then, like almost every other left paper, it relies on fundraising from its readers and supporters.

I'm a big supporter oif the Newcastle 'Morning Star Bazaar', held in a church hall, for example-where else can I get old left books (and Left Books) at jumble sale prices?!

This year's Socialist Worker appeal, btw, has gone the route of amusing kitsch xmas gifts: Lenin and Trotsky in a snowglobe, anyone?

[Guest]

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Damn! Why didn't we think of that one :-) Made in China though I don't doubt......

Not to worry TI, I know the paper's not perfect. And me being a perfectionist that's a stressful thing often... We'll get there in the end. Just give it a try here and there. Solomon Hughes on a Friday is generally very good, for example. In fact tomorrow's paper isn't TOO bad, especially considering we had a technical bug which mucked us up all day...

www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/229

Will be updated shortly.

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Duncan Gardner wrote:

I even wrote a couple of them for him.

In your imagination maybe. And you massively overstate my involvement. About 10 games in total in 5 years.

As for the usual dissenting voices;sure you could all do better, so why not do it...

In all seriousness, there are areas/clubs where you'd probably get a regular gig?

[EIM]

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Toro: Count On It wrote:

'there' was a 'fitb'match'' on sat. watched it, thought Paks were 'unlucky' to lose Tinkers. think Pks were 'robbed' by Law Of Moral Theft which even the UN! recognices...............
...........
.. like a 'certain' team genocidal protestant racists 'in scotlad!'

Proper laugh out loud. Mainlt at the law of moral theft bit, which I'd forgotten all about.

I should write about FC United for the Morning Star. I could let loose. It'd be ace.

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EIM wrote:

I should write about FC United for the Morning Star. I could let loose. It'd be ace.

Yes, it'd be fantastic. The nation awaits.

[EIM]

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If by 'the nation' you mean the seven people who read the Morning Star, I reckon they'd be made up, yeah.

*cough*I'm an award winning writer*cough*

*cough*twice, actually*cough*

[Anton Gramscescu]

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Communist Party of Great Britain coasts to electoral dominance based on revolutionary style of football writing in the Morning Star.

"I owe it all to the squirrels", says ace reporter. "And the Greggs. There'd better not be any fucking nationalization of Greggs under the new regime, or I'm going straight to Murdoch."

[EIM]

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Hahaha.

But nah, I couldn't. I couldn't write for any organ that published that, well, organ.

[DCI Harry Batt]

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Communist Party of Great Britain coasts to electoral dominance based on revolutionary style of football writing in the Morning Star.

Schoolboy error, Gramsci. The CPGB publish the Weekly Worker.

It would seem that none of the recent cash injection came from the most obvious likely source.

As far as I recall, it was around half a million quid, and the consortium putting it up kept schtumm about their identity/ies

I am getting me a snowglobe, Felicity. Very excited I am about it too.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Anita Halpin seems to be to the right of the Duke of Sutherland on the public's right to see great art.

[Anton Gramscescu]

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I thought the Morning Star still considered itself aligned to the CP, no?

My dad told me a story about the Morning Star (or posibly its predecessor). When, as a 16 year-old he took off to England for a few months he read in the Star about how the Russians had launched Sputnik. But the Morning Star jumped the gun by a few hours, apparently - they had the text about the creation of an artificial satellite in advance from Moscow and published it before the thing actually went up.

At least, I think he told me that. Strange memory to have if he didn't.

[DCI Harry Batt]

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The Communist Party of Britain. Not the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Totally different kettle of ball games.

[Gangster Octopus]

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[Anton Gramscescu]

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OK, I'll bite. What's the difference?

[Brandenburger Toro]

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Tsk...

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All a bit before my time I'm afraid but here goes...

** yawn **

1920 - CPGB established.

1988 - CPB formed by some members of 'official' CPGB.

1991 - CPGB dissolves by leading figures, who go off and set up a Blairite think tank.

1991 - 'CPGB' (actually CPGB (Provisional Central Committee)) set up by a small sect which specialises in somewhat inaccurate left gossip via Weekly Worker.

[Guest]

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Weren't there 2 competing papers being published every day for a while? Or did I invent that?

[Felicity, I guess so]

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I think RB has missed a few out of the list, actually:

for example there was the NCP (late 80s?) and their paper The New Worker. They split over the leadership's revisionist position over car parks.

(OK-Afghanistan, really)

[DCI Harry Batt]

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Isn't the NCP, rather bizarrely, what ended up becoming the new CPGB?

[E10 Rifle]

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Aren't the NCP the ones that still big up North Korea? There's about four of them.

I quite enjoy the Weekly Worker. It essentially exists to denounce other parts of the left and flag up where they're going wrong, and does very little in terms of its own grassroots organising (I've never met a CPGBer active in a union, for example), but if there's a role for a sectarian gossip sheet, it fills it well.

Anyway, welcome RB. Was drinking with a couple of your Star colleagues up in Southport at the weekend at NUJ conference. Talking of which, have I played football against you in the past BTW?