I’m always slightly stunned when I see the Morning Star on the shelf in my local newsagents. Whatever you think of the politics, a daily communist newspaper for the UK is kind of impressive. I mainly avoid it like the plague, not wanting to read about the ins and outs of trade union bureaucrats and how shite Labour is. But they do occasionally come up trumps with a good feature or review. More recently things have come on apace with some great articles by Michael K, which he now has archived at http://www.marginreleased.net.

Similarly, the fortnighly anarchist newspaper Freedom has improved by about 17 million percent since the last time I saw a copy in the 90s…