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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Two of Wigan’s finest – from Gerrard Winstanley to Harry Chadwick
EILEEN TURNBULL looks at the similarities between two struggles for justice, three centuries apart
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
WHEN asked to write about the Shrewsbury pickets for the Diggers Festival I started to think about what both had in common.
I soon realised that it was about fairness, equality and sharing for the benefit of the many, not the few.
Gerrard Winstanley who, with others, formed the True Levellers during the English Civil War, was born in Wigan in 1609. Harry Chadwick, a carpenter, has been a lifelong trade unionist in Wigan throughout his working life. He is the chairperson of the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign.
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