The Morning Star (Daily Worker) ‘Always Anti-Fascist’? Maybe – Pity It Wasn’t Always ANTI-NAZI!

Amid today’s VE Day commemorations, the most distasteful cash in has to belong to the Morning Star, the former propaganda rag for the now defunct and treacherous Communist Party of Great Britain.

Socialist hail heroes of 1945? Just a pity you weren’t hailing them from the start – quite the contrary!

The Morning Star was founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker, which regurgitated parrot fashion whatever Stalin – one of history’s most blood soaked dictators – wanted them to write. The paper accused the British government’s policies of being ‘not to rescue Europe from fascism, but to impose British imperialist peace on Germany’ before attacking the Soviet Union – much the same rubbish Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists were spouting.

Ah, but not quite. A.K. Chesterton, Mosley’s former deputy and a rabid anti-Semite, had left the party after the Nazis reoccupied militarily the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia in 1938, realising only too well that the fascists’ bête noir, Winston Churchill, had the measure of Herr Hitler all along as someone even less trustworthy that Neville ‘Smarmy Traitor’ Chamberlain.

Some fascists – particularly those who like Chesterton had fought in World War One – swallowed their pride, packed up their idiotic conspiracy theories, and signed up for the war they knew was to come – in Chesterton’s case (and with some irony) leading a largely Jewish brigade in North East Africa liberating Eritrea and Abyssinia from Fascist Italy until the malaria which was to plague him the rest of his life forced him out – not before however a Jewish doctor in the services cured him of his chronic alcoholism, but that as they say is another story.

The vast majority of Britain’s far right however stuck with Mosley and Arnold Leese and their lies about ‘no more brothers’ wars’ – all the while their ‘Aryan brothers’ abroad plotted their and everyone else’s enslavement.

For Britain’s communists, almost all backed the absurd line – with more than a little anti-Semitism behind it – that somehow World War Two was an imperial war they should have no part of.

By 5th October 1939, the Communist Party of Great Britain was demanding that Britain made peace with Nazi Germany and a pact with Soviet Russia – for which it was attacked voraciously by the Independent Labour Party in Parliament.

It justified the dismembering of Poland between the Nazis and Soviets, as well as backing the naked territorial ambitions of the Soviets in Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, of which only the former managed to retain its independence from massive Russian invasion. They even continued to peddle the line as Soviet Russia openly sent fuel and resources to the Nazis for the Battle of Britain.

Only when the Nazis stabbed their Soviet allies in the back did Britain’s treacherous ‘pacifist’ Communists cease being Fifth Columnists – a year after their paper had been banned by Labour’s Herbert Morrison.

World War Two saw the thankful defeat of one set of criminal ideologies – Nazism and Fascism – but it should never be forgotten it was propped up by their fellow ideological totalitarians – until there proved to be no honour amongst thieves. As Winston Churchill remarked, democracy wasn’t the greatest way to run nations and people’s lives – until you witnessed what all the alternatives were in practice.

They fought not for ‘a better world’ – no one believed that crap after the Great War – but to stop a bad one becoming a good deal bloody worse!

‘So we learn from history generations have to fight
And those who crave for mastery must be phased out on sight!
And if that means by words, by fists, by stones or by the gun
Remember those who stood up for your daughters and your sons!’