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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Labour, anti-semitism and the emperor’s new clothes
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
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S two weavers convince the emperor that his new suit is only visible to those worthy of their positions.
Both the King and his entourage are too fearful of being exposed as unworthy and pretend to see the suit where none exists.
Finally, it is a child, unencumbered by the social forces who exposes the trick. Like the child, it takes a Jewish group outside the entourage to call the bluff.
We know that the wave of anti-semitism in the Labour Party is invisible because, when we ask party branch members — and we have asked very many during this show — if they themselves, personally, have actually seen examples of anti-semitism within the party, rather than having heard reports of it, or seen it elsewhere in the public domain, the answers are overwhelmingly negative.
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