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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TORIES PLAIN WRONG ON RIGHTS ACT
The government needs to get its facts straight – it’ll struggle to get its human rights-curbing scheme past Holyrood, writes BILL BENFIELD
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
THE poor old Tories may have won a majority in the Westminster Parliament, but in certain fields they have some fairly restricted choices.
For Scottish Secretary, for example, they had pretty limited choice — their only MP to hold a seat in Scotland, one David Mundell.
Single-candidate selections generally don’t produce the shiniest and best of options and such would appear to have been the result here.
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ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
