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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We have to set out the long-term vision of radical change
RICHARD LEONARD explains how the industrial work of the labour movement is being translated into the political priorities of the Scottish Labour Party
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard
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
AS the 122nd Scottish Trade Union Congress assembles in Dundee, the conference agenda reads as a guide to all those areas of Scottish society that demand change.
From anti-austerity to anti-racism; from a charter of trade union rights to public-sector pay; from peace in the world to an industrial strategy at home, the STUC’s decisions at the Caird Hall will demonstrate how vital the labour movement remains in our public life.
William Morris famously wrote of “How we live and how we might live.”
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