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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
Britain’s political Establishment is bewildered by the rise of Ukip and its charismatic leader Nigel Farage and is pulling out all the stops to discredit them.
This shouldn’t be too difficult since, like all populist movements powering a bandwagon, Ukip has more than its fair share of what David Cameron called “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists.”
Its best-known policies are opposition to the growing powers of the European Union and to unrestricted immigration from the EU.
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues