The Socialist Worker has been condemned for a story appearing to make fun of the death of a schoolboy.
The inquest into the death of 17-year-old Eton pupil Horatio Chapple, who was mauled to death by a polar bear while on an Arctic expedition in 2011, began this week.
The Socialist Worker said in a diary report of the incident: “Now we have another reason to save the polar bears.”
Written in the Troublemaker diary section, it said:
Here are some tweets in response to the article:
The @socialistworker thinks it's ok to laugh at a child dying, because he went to Eton. Vile. pic.twitter.com/JRDp7Ws9jA
— Bobby Friedman (@BobbyFriedman) July 10, 2014
Is this real? wwyt RT @RhodaBuchanan: Incredibly tasteless headline in Socialist Worker: pic.twitter.com/9feEkByLs9
— Richard Moynihan (@richjm) July 10, 2014
The Socialist Worker has so far declined to comment and did not tell Press Gazette whether the article will be removed from its website.
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