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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Forde shows Labour has no right to call itself an anti-racist or anti-misogynistic party
The machinations of anti-Corbyn officials bring shame on the party and represent an utter betrayal of the membership and many excellent candidates, says ROGER McKENZIE
VOX POPULI: A 2017 general election campaign rally in Harrow
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
AT LONG last the much-awaited Labour Party Forde report has now been published.
It confirms what many activists have been saying over what seems like the eternity since this report was announced.
Labour, which I recently left after 41 years of continuous membership, is riven with racism; and staff and some senior members believe the organisation is their personal property and that it is therefore permissible to siphon off money to a secret slush fund to use in a shadow election campaign with no hint of accountability.
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Once again, our broad-based coalition outnumbered the anti-migrant protest in Faversham, but tackling the sentiment behind this wave of anger requires explaining the real reasons pushing millions into leaving their homelands, argues NICK WRIGHT