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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We’re showing how socialists in regional government can deliver for the working class
The notion that leaving industrial strategy to the free market is somehow good value for money is nonsense, says North of Tyne Mayor JAMIE DRISCOLL
People take part in the Durham Miners Gala
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
THIS summer we’ll see Tory leadership hopefuls vying to outcompete each other in a neo-Thatcherite race to garner votes from their faithful. The risk is Labour sits back: “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.”
Wrong. If the labour movement abandons the field of ideas to the Tory competitors, we’re giving them a free run.
Yes, stay out of their squabbles. But this summer the people of Britain are facing a cost-of-living crisis.
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