IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

The other Star

Socialist Challenge No. 71, 9 November 1978 · p. 12 of the scan · 247 words

The scan: sc-n71-nov-9-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

"NEWS from Nowhere' is certainly an apt title for a column in which you publish stories about the Communist appear to be pulled out of thin air. Party and the Morning Star which information now reaching Incates that the leaders Communist Party of Great Britain are schousty consacting aispensing with their daily organ' and Morning Star 'could become a weekly in the new year.

Some such item of pub apparently also reached The Times, but that capitalist journal did at any rate have enough sense to ring us up and ask if it was true. It is not.

The leadership of the Communist Party has considered croposal that the Star should become a weekly paper. The recommendation of the executive committee earlier this year was that an enlarged paper should be produced on saturdays as a weekend edition, but this would not voive ccasinz broducion on ouc days of the week.

But perhaps you are just trying to challenge Private Eye's hitherto unrivalled reputation for unreliability. GEORGE MATTHEWS (Press & Publicity Department, CPGB)

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