Daily Worker

The Daily Worker was a newspaper that was published by the Communist Party of the United States from 1924 to 1956 in New York. She presented mostly represent the opinion of the party, but also tried now and then to open up another left discourse. In the best of times, it reached a circulation of 35,000 copies.

The 1930s

At the time of the Popular Front in the 1930s, when the Communist Party announced that the would be " communism of the Americanism of the 20th century " and placed himself in the tradition of Washington and Lincoln, the newspaper broadened its spectrum on Arts and Entertainment. In 1935 under the editorship of Lester Rodney added a sports page. Here the level of enthusiasm was connected with social criticism - as a desegregation ( abolition of the division between black and white ) of professional sport was often required.

The McCarthyism

The Daily Worker had recurring difficulties with the financing and distribution. Many kiosks refused to sell the newspaper. The sharp anti-communism of the 1950s under the Senator Joseph McCarthy strengthened these problems yet.

In response to Stalinism and for fear of persecution by the local authority HUAC ( House Un-American Activities Committee ) membership in the Communist Party in 1956 was reduced to 20,000.

The Hungarian uprising

The final out of the sheet came with the rating of the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Firstly, the Hungarian revolution was advocated. The editor John Gates opened the sheet for discussions. The fact that the sheet ultimately to pressure from the party leadership, however, approved the suppression of the uprising by Soviet troops, led to a split in the Communist Party, in which there were strong differences of opinion on the assessment of the Soviet invasion. About half of the members left the party in this regard, including Gates and many employees of the newspaper.

The party survived the division, the newspaper was discontinued on January 13, 1958. The reason for this is also stated that therefore the comparatively liberal conception of the publisher Gates, who advocated Khrushchev's critique of Stalinism, thus was no further spread.

From 1958 to 1968, she published a weekly newspaper called The Worker, 1961-1968, a Tuesday edition called The Midweek Worker. In 1968 there was again a New York-based newspaper called The Daily World. In 1986, she was merged with the party - weekly newspaper the West Coast, the People 's World. The new People's Daily World appeared from 1987 to 1991, when it ceased production of a daily newspaper. Today the Communist Party of the USA publishes the weekly newspaper People's Weekly World.

Daily Worker in the UK

A newspaper called the Daily Worker was founded in 1930 by the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1966 she was renamed the Morning Star, which appears to still daily.

  • Communism
  • Newspaper (United States, show set )
  • Communist Party (United States)
  • Party newspaper
  • English-language daily newspaper
  • First publication in 1924
  • Posted in 1958
  • Media (New York)
George Washington Morning Star (British newspaper)
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