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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
South Africa's well-organised zionist movement is up in arms at what it sees as the revolutionary tripartite alliance's "constant stream of anti-Israel vitriol."
Ben Levitas, who chairs the council of the SA Zionist Federation in the Cape, perceives a "general climate of heightened intolerance" against "the only state that also happens to be Jewish."
He accuses the alliance - the African National Congress, Communist Party and Cosatu trade union federation - of taking this stance in pursuit of the "large Muslim vote" in the provinces of Western Cape, controlled by the opposition Democratic Alliance, and Gauteng.
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state