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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New thinking needed - not nostalgia for the past
We must go to the warehouses and call centres where modern working class are today, not where yesterdays workers were, writes JOHN GREEN
The final shift leaves Kellingley Colliery on the last day of production at Britain’s only remaining deep coalmine
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
WITH the Labour Party leadership election now well underway, the soul-searching and breast-beating will no doubt continue unabated.
In an attempt to learn from recent events, a number of correspondents to the Star have called for the need for “a proper class analysis” of the situation, but none has attempted to define what they mean by this.
There have been many words written in castigating the loss of “Labour’s heartlands,” of the “working classes deserting Labour” but who has attempted to describe the changes that have taken place, not suddenly at the last election, but over decades under our very noses?
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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
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
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape