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 know this election is the fight of our lives
The stakes could not be higher – we know what another five years of the Tories means to this country, says CHELLEY RYAN
Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Middlesbrough today
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
BACK in May 2015, we lost our second general election under a safe centrist leader putting forward a bland centrist manifesto.
The right of the party jumped eagerly on the defeat as an excuse to push Labour back to the “good old days” of Tony Blair when Britain backed illegal wars, PFI, privatisation and tuition fees.
An era when five million Labour voters became politically homeless and Scotland became essentially lost to us.
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