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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Connecting the Labour party in Scotland with community campaigns and grassroots struggle
ALISTAIR CRAIG talks to Conrad Landin about Scottish Labour Young Socialists’ plan to put Labour back at the centre of domestic politics
YOUNG BLOOD: GMB Scotland branch secretary Rhea Wolfson with 2,000 paper boats, made from copies of the SNP manifesto, as part of an appeal on behalf of 2,000 equal pay claimants
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
IN the first four months of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour doubled its membership in London to 81,000.
In Scotland, however, the story was very different. The party, then led in Holyrood by Kezia Dugdale, put just 2,000 new members onto its grand total.
Though Corbyn had been well received at rallies north of the border, it seemed like it would take more than a left-wing Westminster leader to challenge SNP hegemony.
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