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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
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded once more last week that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas end his unity agreement with Islamist resistance group Hamas.
His latest appeal followed the identification by the Shin Bet security service on Thursday of two well-known Hamas supporters as prime suspects in the case of three Israeli teenagers missing on the occupied West Bank.
The men, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh, are from Hebron and have both served time in Israeli prisons.
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
Thousands strike to ‘save hostages and stop military escalation’ in Gaza
Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated