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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Twelve days of stupefaction: what next?
Those sickened at the spectacle of sycophancy that has been impossible to escape need only keep one thing in mind — there is no way King Charles III will evoke the support enjoyed by his predecessor, writes DAWN EVANS
King Charles III follows the State Gun Carriage carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, as it leaves Westminster Hall for the State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, London.
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
SO, it is all over bar the mopping up, which of course will be left to the army of invisible labourers which no-one will interview, film, clap or queue to see.
As the ranks of medal-festooned royals slink back to their secretive, shadowy, exclusive lairs where they’ll throw off their fake smiles and public-persona masks and slump into a pampered oblivion, the rest of the British populace will start to emerge from the weird 12 day through-the-looking-glass stupor; and face a reality hangover from hell.
Some may wonder as they groggily surface: “What the hell just happened?”
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