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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John Guest is an example we need to follow today
JON TRICKETT MP looks back at the history of the early Labour Party, where working-class people took to Parliament only to represent the communities where they lived and died, without concern for their careers or personal enrichment
The Yorkshire working class is rooted in the coal mining industry
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 week is the anniversary date of the first general election after the end of World War I.
There is much to learn from that period about the death of an old party — the Liberals — and the growing strength of Labour as an electoral force.
The first woman to be elected to the House of Commons was returned that day, though she never took up her seat.
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