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Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO explains the financial difficulties the paper has faced in recent months and how it plans to overcome them
Scottish Labour Party leader Richard Leonard with Morning Star’s Business Manager Jimmy MacIntyre at the recent STUC congress at Caird Hall, Dundee
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
LAST August I outlined the reasons why the Morning Star introduced a metered paywall, meaning readers get access to 20 articles a month free but are prompted to buy an online subscription from just £4.99 a month for unlimited access.
Supporters of this newspaper are well aware of our hand-to-mouth existence, with many of you donating each month to the £18,000 Fighting Fund appeal that we need just to make ends meet.
Newspapers across the industry face enormous pressure as readers switch to online sources of information and the circulation of most titles has plummeted over recent years. While the Morning Star has bucked that trend, increasing print sales in 2015-16 and since then maintaining them, it’s undoubtedly true that changing consumer habits has made the increase in circulation we all want to see very difficult.
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