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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When will we have justice for spycop victims in Scotland?
The SNP has refused to listen to calls for an inquiry into political policing, says NEIL FINDLAY
We now know that 18 undercover police officers posed as protesters during the 2005 protests against the G8 meeting in Gleneagles
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
THIS week has been a bad week for justice in Scotland.
Tilly Gifford, an environmental campaigner who was spied upon, followed and approached to be recruited to report on fellow social justice activists, had her case for judicial review of the Scottish and Westminster governments’ failure to allow Scottish victims access to a public inquiry rejected by the Court of Session.
Her lawyers argued that the decisions by both the Westminster and Scottish governments breached her human rights and were unlawful.
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KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN