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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Underneath the arches: Manchester during 'regeneration'
Councillor SAM WHEELER, recently re-elected, speaks to the people of the rapidly changing heart of his home city
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
I SAT with my ward colleague Jon in the Marble Arch on Rochdale Road and listened. The very nice, very thoughtful people around me lived in the tumble of renovation and new build developments that had sprung up around Angel Meadow, a place once both home to some of the monuments of the co-operative movement, and an Irish slum Friedrich Engels termed “Hell on Earth.”
I often wonder whether, when flogging flats in the Far East, the slick, multilingual video realtors mention that the angels of this meadow are the children who died in the sort of squalor we can’t imagine. I also wonder whether they know that there are no red squirrels in the park — the ones on the corporate identity brochures must be day-trippers from Formby.
Still, as the group of young people clustered around my table sat and sipped the very decent beer, the echoes came through.
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