Tony Chater

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Tony Chater (born December 21, 1929 in Northampton , † August 2, 2016 ) was a British journalist and communist politician .

Life

Chater became a member of the British Communist Party while still a student . He studied chemistry at Queen Mary University London and received a PhD . After several years abroad, he taught at the University of Bedfordshire . In the 1960s he ran in Luton several times unsuccessfully as a candidate for parliament.

From 1969 Chater worked as a full-time party functionary for the KPGB and in 1974 became editor-in-chief of Morning Star , the party newspaper. In the 1980s there was a power struggle in the CPGB for control of the council of Morningstar. The central committee of the KPGB wanted to remove Chater as editor-in-chief, but could not prevail. In 1988 Chater was instrumental in founding the British Communist Party . In 1995 he resigned as editor-in-chief of the Morning Star.

Tony Chater was married and had three sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tony Chater, editor of the Morning Star - obituary ( English ) In: The Telegraph . August 14, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Graham Stevenson: Chater Tony. In: Compendium of Communist Biographies.
  3. ↑ communist-party.org.uk
  4. ^ Keith Laybourn: Marxism in Britain: dissent, decline and re-emergence 1945-c.2000. Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-32287-1 , pp. 116-118.
  5. ^ Phil Katz: A Disciplined & Democratic Organization. August 18, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Chater, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Northampton
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2016