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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Taking the long view
In the first of two articles, VINCE MILLS examines the structural weakness at the base of the Corbyn movement which prevented socialist advance
DAYS OF HOPE: Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader ahead of its annual conference in Brighton, 2015
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
THE recent vindictive and factional assault on Jeremy Corbyn by the Labour Leader Keir Starmer, part of a wider attack on the Labour left, has intensified calls for a new workers’ party, as have the “dog-whistle” attacks on the Tories on crime. It is difficult, given the situation, not to feel sympathetic to this, but socialists need to take a long view.
The Corbyn Project
The proximate cause for calls for a new left party is the collapse of the “Corbyn Project,” although that description gives it a sense of uniqueness, purpose even, that do not match its origins.
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