On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain spoke to the nation on the BBC, at which time he announced the formal declaration of war between Britain and Nazi Germany. The first eight-page Daily Worker was produced on 1 October 1935. In January 1934, the Daily Worker 's offices moved to Cayton Street, off City Road. : 117 The paper's first editor was journalist William Rust, while the paper's assistant editor and manager was Tom Wintringham, and was printed at Wintringham's Unity Press. The Daily Worker's first issue contained a children's cartoon titled 'Micky Mongrel the Class Conscious Cur', drawn by artist Gladys Keable, which would become a staple of the early paper. : 12 In the first few decades of its existence, the Daily Worker contained cartoons for children. The first edition was produced on 1 January 1930 from the offices of the newspaper in Tabernacle Street, London, after a meeting the day before by nine British communists, including Willie Gallacher, Kay Beauchamp, Tom Wintringham, Walter Holmes, and Robert Page Arnot. The Morning Star was founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker, the paper representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and was immediately preceded by and grew out of the Weekly Worker ( - ) and Workers Life ( - ) newspapers. Unlike many socialist newspapers, the Morning Star does not concentrate on politics to the exclusion of other topics: the paper also includes pages covering arts reviews, sports, gardening, cookery, and book reviews. The paper prints contributions by writers from a variety of socialist, communist, social democratic, green and religious perspectives, with some of its famous contributors including Jeremy Corbyn, Virginia Woolf, Angela Davis, Len Johnson, : 102 Wilfred Burchett, Alan Winnington, Jean Ross, and Harry Pollitt. Despite these difficulties, the paper has lasted to become the longest-running socialist newspaper in British history. The Morning Star has survived numerous attempts at censorship, being banned by all British wholesalers for nearly 12 years, : 13 being the victim of police raids and politically motivated libel suits, being banned by the UK government between 1941–1942, : 13 and threats by the British government to have its journalists tried for treason and executed. ĭuring the Cold War, the paper gave a platform to whistleblowers exposing numerous war crimes and atrocities, including publishing proof that the British military were allowing Dayak auxiliaries to headhunt suspected MNLA guerrillas in the Malayan Emergency, publishing evidence of the use of biological weapons by the United States during the Korean War, and revealing the existence of mass graves of civilians killed by the South Korean government. The paper describes its editorial stance as in line with Britain's Road to Socialism, the programme of the Communist Party of Britain.

The paper was then renamed and reinvented as the Morning Star in 1966. Originally founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), ownership was transferred from the CPGB to an independent readers' co-operative in 1945. The Morning Star is a left-wing British daily newspaper with a focus on social, political and trade union issues.

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