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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The Covid-19 crisis has allowed us to see the world in new ways and demand a break with laissez-faire capitalism — but will we? asks NEIL FINDLAY MSP
The new temporary NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital at the SEC event centre, Glasgow
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 world has changed. We cannot return to what went before as if the coronavirus crisis was just a temporary blip in a world where capitalism, the exploitation of people and resources and the dog-eat-dog survival-of-the-fittest economics is accepted as the norm.
We have huge questions to ask ourselves and our politicians and decision-makers.
Will we replace our applause for the NHS with more funding, increased staffing, better pay and lasting respect for the staff in our hospitals and communities?
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