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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The left in Scotland must move beyond slogans
Real future planning is needed that moves debate beyond the primacy and comfort zone of Yes v No, says GORDON MUNRO
One of six purpose-built 130,000 litre fermentation vessels, built in the Netherlands, is craned into position after arriving at Celtic Renewables' new biorefinery plant in Grangemouth near Falkirk. The plant will produce over half a million litres each year of Biobutanol biofuel, made using whisky residue
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
“ARISE ye starvelings from your slumbers,
Arise ye criminals of want,
For Reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.”
– The Internationale
The problem is that Scotland is still in its slumbers. The diminution of debate to the primal level of Yes v No has a debilitating effect, but suits the protagonists on either side as it does not raise questions of power — who has it, who wields it and to what purpose.
There are attempts to tackle this void, with the Red Paper Collective publishing writing and material that should be used for political education in parties and trade unions.
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