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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Orgreave showed that authoritarianism is integral to Tory rule
Ahead of the 2021 Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign online rally tomorrow, KATE FLANNERY puts into context the repressive nature of the British state
OVERKILL: Police outnumber strikers at Orgreave
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
NINETY-SIX football fans were unlawfully killed as a result of the Hillsborough disaster. After 32 years, the hope that justice and accountability would follow the truth was recently snatched away when a judge ruled there was “no case to answer” against the police and their solicitor.
Throughout this the Hillsborough survivors and families have been tormented and silenced by the British judicial system and media. We also learned that police notebooks from the disaster were discovered at South Yorkshire Police HQ in 2018 more than four years after the then Tory home secretary Theresa May had told police to disclose documents relating to the disaster previously unseen by investigators. How much more information is being hidden?
We will never have the full truth about Hillsborough until we get the truth about Orgreave.
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