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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Heyva Sor makes urgent appeal for those injured in Turkish air strikes
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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
TURKEY’S invasion of northern Syria has caused a humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands of civilians forced to flee from their homes as they are bombarded by air strikes.
A region which is the most free, tolerant and democratic in the Middle East, where women play a leading role in all levels of society, is in danger of being overrun by the same jihadists that were driven out of Rojava by Kurdish-led forces.
Turkey is Nato’s second-largest army and has allied with a myriad of jihadist groups known as the Syrian National Army — formerly the Free Syrian Army — to invade and occupy the region.
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