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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
“PEOPLE have suffered here, as they have across the country, as a result of austerity and the way the government has treated the NHS — and especially its shocking treatment of NHS staff,” Richard Burgon told the Morning Star as he prepared for the official launch of his campaign for re-election as Labour MP for Leeds East parliamentary constituency yesterday.
The particular mention of the NHS as well as austerity comes partly because his constituency’s two biggest employers are St James’s Hospital — Jimmy’s of past TV fame — and Leeds City Council.
The Tory government’s butchery of local authority funding and its wrecking of the NHS are having a disproportionate effect on the people of Leeds East.
Unison national officer CLARE WILLIAMS spoke to the Morning Star about the union’s priority campaigns and why they will not let up just because the Prime Minister has changed
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP