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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
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
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
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
THERE is a common understanding inside the Westminster media bubble that Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership on a deliberately false manifesto.
But they don’t think it’s worth reporting — they think deception for that election was all good and normal.
Democracy means more than just having votes every now and then. It needs a democratic spirit in key institutions, including the media and political parties, which is absent on this point.
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Against the backdrop of the Durham Miners’ Gala, Matt Kerr talks to ANDY McDONALD MP about Labour’s mistakes, Burnham’s leadership and why raising living standards must come first
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart