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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Scrap Serco’s Test and Trace: Fund public health not private profit
With Serco’s contact tracing contract ending on May 17, JOAN TWELVES explains why now is the time to apply pressure for it not to be renewed
A Zero Covid rally at Serco HQ in London in December last year
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
THIRTY-SEVEN billion pounds. £37,000,000,000. Yes, that’s billion, not million.
That’s how much the government has thrown at the misleadingly named, centralised, outsourced “NHS” test-and-trace operation.
That’s three times the £13bn allocated to the hugely successful, public-sector-run vaccination programme.
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Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS