Internal Party Bulletin or Paper of the Working Class Movement

On 1 January 1930 the Communist Party of Great Britain's (CPGB) new daily newspaper, the Daily Worker, was published for the first time. It was heralded by the CPGB as a maturing of the British Communist movement, and an opportunity for the Party to spread its message to a much wider audience than previous weekly newspapers would allow. With leading Party members in control of the paper, the Daily Worker was very much a Party newspaper; however, the CPGB wanted it to be much more than an internal bulletin. This paper examines the attempts by the CPGB to create a newspaper that spoke both for and with the voice of the working-classes, whilst also spreading the Party's message. It will ultimately conclude that the CPGB's depiction of it as a paper ‘by the working-classes, for the working-classes’ reflected the Party's efforts at locating its own place within the working-class movement

Communism · Depiction · Media studies · Movement (music · New class · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Working class · Australian History and Society · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

• A Proletarian Science

  L P Carpenter, Stuart Macintyre•The American Historical Review•1981

  Añadir item

• The General Election

  Open Access•Peter G Richards•The Political Quarterly•1950

  Añadir item

• The Death of Uncle Joe

  Andrée Lévesque, Alison Macleod et al.•Labour / Le Travail•1998

  Añadir item

• The Balinese Cockfight Decoded

  Open Access•Philip Smith•Cultural Sociology•2008

  Añadir item