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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Syria’s solution has always been in Damascus
Are we witnessing the beginnings of a new reconciliation process in Syria, with a pivot away from Washington, asks MARCEL CARTIER
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
CEMIL BAYIK, second-in-command in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has set off a firestorm in recent days.
After granting an interview to Lebanon’s al-Nahar newspaper, in which he spoke of the “close and warm” historical ties between the PKK and former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, as well as the “legitimate” demand of the Syrian government to expel foreign occupying forces, including the United States, a paradigm shift has occurred in north-east Syria.
Responding to Bayik’s comments, Aldar Khalil, a leader in the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has said: “The solution must be with the regime, but not in Geneva but in Damascus. What is wrong with us sitting and deliberating as Syrians and proposing possible solutions to reach a formula for a solution to all issues in Syria?”
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