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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
BORN in Harlem, New York, on October 17 1915, Arthur Miller was raised in a wealthy Jewish immigrant rag trade household until his family lost almost everything in the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
The family moved from the upmarket Upper East Side in Manhattan to the wrong side of the tracks on the Brooklyn waterfront.
After graduating from the local high school, Miller worked in a few odd jobs around the docks. It was here in the Red Hook area that Miller first came across communists and radicals — most of them dockers and longshoreman trade union activists.
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
MARY CONWAY applauds the timely revival of Miller’s study of people fatally deformed by the economics of survival
MARY CONWAY is spellbound by superb performances in Arthur Miller’s study of the social and personal stress brought about by Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht
The daughter of a legendary blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter has spoken out against the reactionary move, says MIKE SCHNEIDER