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EU corporate leaders worsening conditions for workers in the US South
GFTU leader DOUG NICHOLLS looks at European corporate attacks on unions and workers in America’s southern states
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 European Union’s corporate leaders havn’t just reserved their deregulating, anti-trade union, anti-workers’ rights agenda for their own member states on home turf.
They have been keen to extend this policy on the already fertile ground of the southern states of the US.
They’ve exploited some of the weakest labour laws and strongest pro-business environments in the world.
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