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- Title
Combining Legality with Illegality: the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Daily Worker, and the battle to lift the ban, 1941-1942.
- Authors
Young, Lewis
- Abstract
By banning the Daily Worker, the organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), in January 1941, the British Government hoped to silence a vocal critic of the war effort. In reality, it failed, simply forcing the CPGB to carry out new methods of disseminating its message, while also handing the party a new issue on which to campaign. This article explores the ways in which the CPGB sought to circumvent the ban, and build a coalition of support against it. This article will also examine how Daily Worker ban transcended two distinct political positions held by the CPGB - anti- and later pro-war - and how the narrative evolved from one of the creeping authoritarianism of the State, to that of a counter-productive act damaging morale. Ultimately, this article will argue that the CPGB's campaign played a significant role in forcing the Government to lift the ban.
- Subjects
COMMUNIST Party of Great Britain; DAILY Worker (Newspaper); BRITISH politics &; government; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Socialist History, 2018, Vol 53, p32
- ISSN
0969-4331
- Publication type
Article