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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Women’s organiser CAROL STAVRIS delivered the main political report to last weekend’s Communist Party executive committee
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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
SINCE the Hamas attack on October 7 and Israel’s response of an all-out assault on Gaza, there has been an unparalleled rise in the scale and strength of worldwide solidarity actions demanding a ceasefire.
In Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other organisations have organised 10 national marches so far. There have been pro-Palestine vigils, marches, rallies, sit-ins, petitions and protests in towns and cities up and down the three nations. This broad movement includes people from all age groups, from different religious communities and cultural backgrounds and from every section of society.
We have seen a huge demonstration of unity in action seeking justice for the Palestinian people in their long struggle against occupation and oppression.
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