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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Are secret US living weapons alive in our countryside?
PETER FROST discovers the US’s dirty tricks brigade may even be affecting your country walks
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 MY quarter of a century writing for and editing Britain’s biggest-circulation outdoor magazine, I became very familiar with Lyme disease.
Once a year, in spring, just as the bracken started to uncurl its most beautiful fiddleheads, I would remind our half a million readers about the dangers of this nasty, sometimes fatal, tick-spread disease.
Over those 25 years the incidence of Lyme disease seemed to get bigger every year but nobody knew why or even if this was because people like me were simply making country walkers more aware of the risks and symptoms.
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