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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Why ‘no war but the class war’ is a necessary cliche
It isn't easy rhetoric — it is simply the best answer: as our government indicates its desire to join the war in Ukraine, we must tie them up at home with a furious escalation of class struggle against the cost-of living crisis, writes JAMES MEECHAN
Young Communist League, Glasgow
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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
UKRAINIAN and Russian workers lived side by side through the 20th century. Millions laboured and fought together as comrades and sacrificed themselves to defend Soviet socialism from the Nazis.
Thirty years after the tragic dissolution of the Soviet Union, which was hailed by many in the West as the “end of history” and the start of a uniformly liberal, peaceful world, the restored capitalist class of the Russian Federation now dredge up medieval historiography to justify a pointless war in the present.
Opinions on whether we should take Putin’s casus belli of “denazification” at face value, whether we stand in solidarity with a Ukrainian government that has been liquidating the Ukrainian left from 2014 to the present day, or whether “our own” Western militarists and media pundits have our class’s interests at heart, when they flirt with escalating the situation into a full-scale international war between Nato and Russia, is beyond the scope of this article. Leave it to the armchair pundits to pore over the deluge of misinformation and judge which group of workers most deserve death.
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