People's Press Printing Society

The People's Press Printing Society (PPPS) is a readers' co-operative to own and publish a left-wing, British, daily newspaper Daily Worker, known as The Morning Star from 1966. It was established in 1945, with shares sold at £1.[1]

On the 6th January 1946, at the Albert Hall in London, Bill Jones, the leader of the London busmen's trade union, handed over the formal document of transfer to William Rust (editor of the Daily Worker). Ownership of the Daily Worker was transferred from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to the PPPS, with CPGB retaining editorial and political control of the paper until in 1951, the Daily Worker Co-operative Society was established to act as the nominal publishers of the paper.[2]

In addition to its role in the newspaper, it has published other material, such as:

References

  1. ^ Kevin Devlin (June 14, 1983). "RAD Background Report/137: Morning Star Publishers Challenge British CP Leadership". http://archivum.ws/files/holdings/300/8/3/text/137-4-9.shtml. 
  2. ^ "The Papers of the Communist Party of Great Britain". http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03122303.html. 

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