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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Tom Mann: fighting until the end
The final extract from PHIL KATZ’s book looks at the great communist’s last years, which saw him still regularly imprisoned, and finally venerated as ‘the most persuasive mob orator in the three kingdoms’
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
TOM MANN now threw himself into the issue of unemployment, becoming president of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement.
It put him in firing sight of the state, which used brutal repression and intimidation against the unemployed. On April 12 1931, he chaired a National United Front Conference.
Given the circumstances and the desperation in the country at unemployment benefit cuts, wage cuts and destitution, the attendance was a large and significant representation of the forces that had managed to survive the defeat of the miners, the capitalist onslaught and the Great Depression.
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