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.

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.

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

• 32 Questions on the freedom of the press. OCLC 83666530
• Science in the atomic age ..., 1947 OCLC 48116435
• William Rust, The people rule in Yugoslavia OCLC 70486395
• Eudoras Joannides, Inside free Greece : exclusive reports of the Greek situation from Evdos Joannides OCLC 29106948/OCLC 83899756
• Alan Winnington, I saw the truth in Korea ... facts and photographs that will shock Britain!, 1950 OCLC 29770700/OCLC 24843675
• E. P. Thompson, The struggle for a free press, 1952 OCLC 19959607
• Derek Kartun, USA '53; the truth behind Eisenhower, 1953 OCLC 11696827/OCLC 60699631

External links

• People's Press Printing Society records at National Library of Wales