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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Retraining not reoffending
PHIL BEADLE speaks to former prisoners who found a new start in life thanks to an innovative programme in the prison gym
A member of staff at Maghaberry Prison
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
BRITISH political life in the current moment appears filled with storybook villains and villainesses: a parade of self-interested pantomime dames and asset-strippers.
Thankfully, though, in places people know little about, heroes and heroines also exist, working tirelessly for others.
One such hero is Arthur Furness. Along with accompanying heroines Megan Knowleden and Emma Tustin, Furness, a lecturer at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, set out to find out why rates of reoffending are so high, why those who have been incarcerated often end up back in the same place. They’ve come up with a solution.
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