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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Uniting the trade union left
Groups in five unions are working together to build unity, write Alex Gordon (RMT Broad Left), Matt Gould (United Left in Unite), Libby Nolan & Andrea Egan (Time for Real Change in Unison), Lucy Coleman & Phil Clarke (NEU Left) Fran Heathcote & Martin Cavanagh (PCS Left Unity)
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
OVER the past year, Britain has been racked by a cost-of-living crisis which has seen working-class living standards plummet while profits go through the roof.
This is an economic crisis in which wealth is being directly transferred from the vast majority of the population to the super-rich — and the key to fighting back and protecting working-class communities is action on pay.
As socialists and trade unionists, we believe that militant, co-ordinated, union action is needed to protect workers in the workplace, to have a voice in society, and to push back against this rotten government’s plans for working people and for those that rely on public services.
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