Background
Ben Chacko was born around 1984. His father is an actuary and his mother is a software engineer who studied for a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
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Ben Chacko was educated at Pate"s Grammar School, Cheltenham, and Street John"s College, Oxford, where he studied Mandarin Chinese.
Career
He joined the newspaper in 2010, becoming editor in 2015. He later spent time in China. Chacko found the Star "a real revelation".
Chacko"s time in China influenced his thinking and he cites it as evidence that "you can run a society without surrendering to the idea that the market is always right".
Russia, on the other hand, he describes as "a gangster capitalist state run by oligarchs". Chacko was appointed editor of the Morning Star in May 2015, the youngest editor of the paper since its founding editor, William Rust.
He joined the paper as a sub-editor in 2010, and was subsequently deputy features editor, assistant editor and deputy editor before being appointed acting editor in July 2014.
Politics
He credits his conversion to communism to a recommendation from his mother when he was a teenager that he abandon the Socialist Worker newspaper, published by the Socialist Workers Party, for something more genuinely "leftie", such as the Morning Star.
Membership
Chacko is a member of the Communist Party of Britain and serves on its ruling national executive. He edited Challenge, the journal of the Young Communist League and was a member of the student union council at Oxford.
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