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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There is no ‘acceptable’ level of virus transmission
Ian Sinclair asks ROY WILKES from the Zero Covid campaign to explain what ‘zero-Covid’ actually means, whether other nations have had success following this strategy and what concerned citizens can do to support the campaign
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
ON JANUARY 13 official figures showed a record daily 1,564 new Covid-19 fatalities in the UK, shamefully taking the total number of deaths from Covid in the country to over 100,000.
In response to this ongoing government-made national catastrophe, the Zero Covid campaign was established in October 2020, supported by trade unions, academics and health experts.
What, exactly, does “Zero-Covid” mean? The total suppression of the virus?
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