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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Starmer’s housing pipe dream: a gift to fat-cat developers
Taylor Wimpey’s eye-watering profits expose Labour’s ‘affordable homes’ plan as a joke. Cushy incentives for private sharks won’t build houses – just bigger exec bonuses, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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
IF you want to know why Labour will struggle with their housing promises, it’s worth taking a look at the annual accounts of Taylor Wimpey.
Labour says it will “get Britain building again” and will “deliver affordable housing.” But it won’t do it by the traditional Labour method of building more council houses. Instead, it hopes to cajole the private housebuilders to build more houses.
Labour hopes the extra supply will lower house prices, and this might filter down to lower rents — and that it can do side deals with the private housebuilders to include some social housing in their developments.
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CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
