By the late 1950s the paper was down to just one sheet of four pages. The last edition of the "Daily Worker" was published on Saturday 23 April 1966. An editorial in that final issue declared:"On Monday this newspaper takes its greatest step forward for many years. It will be larger, it will be better and it will have a new name... During its 36 years of life our paper has stood for all that is best in British working-class and Socialist journalism. It has established a reputation for honesty, courage and integrity. It has defended trade unionists, tenants, pensioners. It has consistently stood for peace. It has always shown the need for Socialism. Let all Britain see the "Morning Star", the inheritor of a great tradition and the herald of a greater future".