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 impact of the Truss regime on rural and coastal communities
DAWN EVANS looks at the prospects for the local class struggle from remote south-west Cornwall, where pay is poor, union membership is low, second-home speculators plague communities — but the fightback is growing
CORNISH RESISTANCE: XR activists march through St Ives, June 2021
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
THERE may be one good thing to be said about Britain’s latest Tory Prime Minister: Liz Truss doesn’t hide that she’s an enemy of the working class.
Her predecessors Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron did — to an extent. Johnson hid it behind the jovial clown image, May behind a benign blandness and Cameron behind his “big society” One Nation Conservatism nonsense.
All of them liked to claim they were the torchbearers of Margaret Thatcher’s legacy — but Truss is the one who has truly been channelling Thatcher’s dogged resolve to crush the unions and disempower the working class.
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