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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
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
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
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is rarely less than smug, and his smugness will have been enhanced by the Prime Minister’s enthusiastic description of his letter to Muslim clerics as “reasonable, sensitive and moderate.”
The main offence in the Pickles letter lay not in its wording but in the assumption that Muslim communities in Britain bear responsibility for actions taken by individuals.
Pickles wrote that imams could show their congregations “how faith in Islam can be part of British identity,” with the implication, through use of the word “can,” that Islam at present does not form part of that collective identity.
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression