Internal Party Bulletin or Paper of the Working Class Movement
The Communist Party of Great Britain and the role of the Daily Worker , 1930–1949
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12604792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lewis Young (New York Times, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-134 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8804 • E-ISSN: 1469-9729 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688804.2015.1081559 |
| OpenAlex | W1884673644 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
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
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |