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Is Victor Matthews trying to pass himself off as a Communist?

It is true that he looks like a capitalist strong-arm man.

He owns shipping lines, he owns property companies.

He owns newspapers. He owns workers-shuffling them in and out of jobs as he wishes.

But his plans for a new newspaper in Manchester have brought a bizarre law suit from the Communist Party of Great Britain.

The Morning Star has issued a High Court writ against Express Newspapers to stop them calling the new paper The Daily Star.

Afficianados. of the Morning Star refer to the paper simply as the Star' and-despite the many local papers around the country which include 'Star' in their title-the Morning Star co-operative fears confusion.

But it is not just confusion that they cla The writ seeks an injunction preventing the Express "passing off any national daily paper as the Morning Star."

What kind of animal then will this new newspaper be?

It has been launched to compete with the Sun and Mirror.

Politically, Express editor Derek Jameson claims, it will be left of centre' which presumably means in favour of hanging strikers but with Callaghan, not Thatcher working the gallows.

Jameson, defending the 'seriousness of the Express told Time Out:

«We ran two weeks of articles on the Common Market, ten days on unemployment, we've done housing, we've done the The dummy issue of the Daily Star had just two stories on its front page.

One was about the couple shot while making love in a field. The other was about Roddy Llewellyn.

Inside there vas a full page nude.

Is it with this new gutter rag that the Morning Star fears confusion?

Is it in those clothes that a capitalist venture dresses