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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Keir Starmer and the mystery of the missing policies
Will a forthcoming conference on ‘national conservatism’ provide some inspiration for the hapless Labour leader, wonders ANDREW MURRAY
'Commentators are starting to express concern at the absence of any transformative plan coming from the moonlighting police officer leading Labour'
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 WHAT is Keir Starmer’s big idea?
You’re thinking this is a trick question. Intellectual explorers have been trekking into the void signposted “Labour thinking” for some time without bringing anything home.
However, commentators are starting to express concern at the absence of any transformative plan coming from the moonlighting police officer leading Labour. What will a Starmer-led Britain look like? Silence echoes.
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BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT