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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Whenever Israel’s crimes make the headlines, they are swiftly effaced from the public narrative as military and commercial interests take precedence over justice for Palestinians, argues JENNY KASSMAN
A mural depicting slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank city of Bethlehem
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
LAST WEEK marked two months since the killing of the Palestinian-US journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin refugee camp as she, together with colleagues, were covering a raid on a Palestinian house by the Israeli occupation forces.
For once, the killing of a Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the West Bank — a territory occupied by Israel since 1967 — drew media attention, possibly because she was also a US citizen.
We also witnessed the horrifying scenes at Shireen’s funeral cortege where the Israeli police attacked mourners, including the pall bearers, almost causing her coffin to drop.
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