The Morning Star's trouble with Gorbachev
The death of Mikhail Gorbachev has caused some difficulty at the Morning Star . That’s because any serious assessment of the man inevitably involves an assessment of the Soviet Union and the Stalinist empire across Eastern Europe whose collapse he inadvertently brought about. And the Morning Star (together with the organisation that controls it, the Communist Party of Britain) isn’t quite sure of what to say regarding the Soviet Union – at least, as it was by the time Gorbachev became leader in 1985. So best to fall back on banality, summed up by the headline of the paper’s editorial (1...