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FORMER Morning Star editor Tony Chater died on Tuesday after a lengthy illness, his family announced yesterday.
Mr Chater, a former lecturer in physical chemistry who became a full-time worker for the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1969, took up the reins at the Morning Star in 1974 after serving as the party’s head of press and publicity.
He remained editor for 21 years, stepping down only in 1995 when he retired.
His stint at the paper covered the political turbulence of the 1970s and 1980s when a Eurocommunist trend within the CPGB sought to undermine the class orientation of party and paper.
Mild-mannered Mr Chater displayed a backbone of steel in resisting pressure to fall in line with this trend.
He was expelled from the party and was instrumental in re-establishing it as the Communist Party of Britain in 1988.
Funeral details and an obituary will follow in due course.
