Daily Worker/Morning Star and PPPS

• <corpname>People's Press Printing Society, 1945-</corpname>
• <corpname>PPPS 1945-</corpname>

The Daily Worker was established on 1 January 1930 as the organ of the Central Committee of the CPGB. It continued in this capacity until 1945, when a co-operative society, the People's Press Printing Society, was created in order to raise capital for the Daily Worker from beyond the CPGB. Ownership of the Daily Worker was transferred from the CPGB to the PPPS, although the CPGB retained editorial and political control of the paper. A further organisation, the Daily Worker (after 1966 - Morning Star) Co-operative Society, was established in 1951 to act as the nominal publishers of the paper. The mechanisms of party political control over the politics and management of the paper began to break down in the early 1980s, when the editor of the Morning Star was able to use the legal position of the PPPS in order to move the paper away from CPGB control. This resulted in a lengthy struggle between the leadership of the CPGB and the Management Committee of the PPPS for political control of the paper between 1982 and 1986. Both the CPGB, and the then existing PPPS Management Committee attempted to secure the election of their nominees to the committee at the AGMs of the PPPS. The struggle for control of the Morning Star, which mirrored the factional struggles that were taking place within the CPGB, was won by the existing PPPS Management Committee, and the CPGB effectively abandoned its attempts to regain control of the Morning Star after 1986.