The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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The EU was no friend to RMT members
by Gordon Martin
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
IT’S often said that to live in interesting times is a curse. Politically and industrially the last two or three years in Scotland have been very interesting and only history will judge whether working-class communities and organised workplaces were blessed or indeed cursed.
It would be entirely understandable if “voting fatigue” was to be found across the electorate in Scotland with the independence referendum, Westminster election, Holyrood election and now the EU referendum, all happening within the space of a couple of years.
What is clear is the boss-class-inspired political cuts, austerity and industrial attacks on workers have not petered out and continue to be relentless.
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