Career
Milne was the business manager of Straight Left, a monthly publication of an orthodox factional group within the Communist Party of Great Britain. Milne worked as a staff journalist for three years on The Economist before joining The Guardian, where he has been a news reporter, Labour Correspondent (Europe), Labour Editor, and Comment Editor (for six years, 2001-7).
Milne has reported for The Guardian from the Middle East, Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe and South Asia, and also written for Le Monde Diplomatique and the London Review of Books.
Milne has been described as a "staunch socialist" in the Evening Standard. Following an article he published in September 1995 in The Guardian, Milne "became characterised as a 'far-left activist' and member of the Socialist Workers Party". Peter Popham argued that connecting Milne to the SWP was a "smear", but "there is no mistaking that Seumas is on the far left of the Labour Party, of which he has been a member for 20 years". Milne served on the executive committee of the National Union of Journalists for ten years. He was joint winner of the 1999 What the Papers Say Scoop of the Year award.
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