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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Interview: ‘How arrogant they are to think we will forget’
John Haylett talks to Labour stalwart, trade unionist and sport fanatic JO STEVENS as she fights
to win Cardiff Central amid Lib Dem smears and dirty tactics
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
WHEN Cardiff Central Labour Party members met to select their general election candidate two years ago, the Liberal Democrat anti-trade union dirty tricks team had started work.
They put out a story telling Labour supporters that Unite leader Len McCluskey had chosen their candidate.
They followed up that allegation with phone canvassing, after Cardiff Central members had plumped for Jo Stevens as their candidate, with teams in London ringing up people in Cardiff and asking: “Did you know that your Labour candidate is in the pocket of the trade unions?”
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