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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Is a new left-wing party feasible or desirable?
As more and more voices on the left contemplate the necessity and viability of a new vehicle for elections to fill the void left by Labour’s violent lurch to the right, JOHN GREEN assesses the terrain — and what not to do
Jeremy Corbyn addresses supporters at a rally in Willen Lakeside Park, Milton Keynes
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
IN recent British history we have never experienced, as we do today, such a clone-like consensus around right-wing orthodoxies between our two main political parties.
This has given rise to a political vacuum on the left, a vacuum that calls out to be filled — and there is no shortage of candidates with ideas about how to do just that.
One of the recurring suggestions is the need to form a new political party of the broad left as Labour appears to have abandoned all those traditions and principles on which the party was founded.
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