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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How Serco grew fat on Covid contracts
By its own admission, through ‘aggressive behaviour,’ the outsourcing company has cashed in on public pandemic services – leaving behind a litany of botched and inadequate provision, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Campaigners outside the Department of Health and Social Care office in London protesting against Serco. Picture date: 25/9/2020
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
TOP privatisation company Serco admits that it and other outsourcers built their businesses by “extracting value” from government contracts, with “aggressive behaviour” and too much power in corporate hands.
Serco makes the admission in a potted history of privatisation at the start of its latest annual report.
The report, covering the 2021-22 financial year, shows the firm had a good pandemic, squeezing hundreds of millions from the government for Covid privatisation.
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If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP