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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The Labour Files: where is the outrage, where is the action?
LEAH LEVANE looks at the shocking revelations from a recent investigation into the anti-Corbyn conspiracy and asks if Labour cannot act on this now, how can it be trusted by its members in future?
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
YOU would not know it from the mainstream media — or the Labour Party — but Al Jazeera has produced four devastating films about machinations designed to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.
The mainstream media amplified every criticism, every stumble and every allegation until the narrative of Corbyn’s unsuitability and Labour’s anti-semitism became accepted as “the truth.”
The station’s investigative unit has scoured huge quantities of internal party documents, social media data, emails and covert recordings that reveal the concerted campaign to discredit Corbyn and his supporters, to undermine the democratic procedures of the party and much more.
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GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes, and recommends a a candid, evidence-based record of Britain’s role in the slaughter visited by Israel upon the Palestinians
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE