This is hardly enough to make you rush out and buy the thing, but it is significant that the Daily Star is still keeping its The Star is, as you would expect, a thoroughly disgusting the term is used this is the loosely, since it carries very whose most *Full how thes enthusiasm for capturing the lower' end of the market it has come out with It handed over the front page to NUPE's Alan Fisher during the public sector dispute and centrespread to Arthur Scargill when the miners put in Editorials frequently denounce both major parties for their attitude on low Christine The Star is owned by than a Tory vote. We asked its editor, Peter Grimsditch, to let us know what's in store.
It turns out that he thinks it's wrong for newspapers to tell their readers how to vote. On 3 May the line will be: *This is what Labour's offering, and Tories" package.
Decide what you want.
Grimsditch didn't say exactly policies would be presented. He did add, though, that when the Daily Mirror gave heavy front-page promotion to Labour in one of the "74 circulation apparently dropped by 150,000.
And it's circulation that the Star has uppermost in mind.
on *The cartoon which illustrated weeks article the election and the media was by Roche and firs appeared in Labour Research. our readers the new double issue of New Left Review. It contains passionate and moving tribute to Trotsky by Norman Geras.
The continued existence of anti-Trotsky prejudices among sections indication eligentie indication ideological impact of StalinGeras" restores Trotsky to his real stature: that of a giant.
He does so by concentrating the literary quality Trotsky's writings. It is a fitting tribute to print in Trotsky's centenary year.
Left No 113-114, £1.75, available from all left bookshops.
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