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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
Delegates to STUC Congress are now well accustomed to our annual gathering taking place during one election period or another. However, there was little expectation that we would be convening at the start of a general election campaign.
Entrenching power is the name of the Tories’ game. With the country still divided — not just over Brexit but what kind of Brexit.
Theresa May has seized the opportunity to pursue a one issue election at a time that she perceives Labour to be weak.
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
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE