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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Some fresh thinking for democracy in We the People
MICK ANTONIW MS spotlights a new report that explores what ‘radical federalism’ might look like for Wales and the other nations of the UK
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
WHEN the Sunday Times tells us that the UK is at risk of breaking up, we know the Tory government and the ruling class are worried.
They should be. Change is coming and it becomes the responsibility of the left to take the lead in the debate on reform, to put forward a progressive socialist alternative to our current archaic and dysfunctional system.
During the current public health emergency, it is understandable that constitutional reform is not an issue on many people’s minds.
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