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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Blame Westminster: the great money trick
The cash is there to properly fund Scottish councils, yet over six years since the emergency situation we are in was made plain, the Scottish government plays evasion games, writes GORDON MUNRO
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
SUCCESSIVE Scottish government ministers have kept to their annual Christmas tradition of acting like Scrooge to Scottish councils’ role as Bob Cratchit.
Councils had the temerity to ask for “fair and flexible funding” and instead got a real terms cut of £377 million from the SNP-Green government.
This was done despite the praise for work by ministers for councils’ response to Covid and the fact that councils work Christmas Day — every day of the year, in fact.
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It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
