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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Leading the way on social partnership in Wales
MICK ANTONIW explains how Welsh Labour is pursuing a policy of constructive participation and engagement that could become an exemplar for the rest of the UK
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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
THE Covid pandemic has exposed the gross inequalities in our society that have increased year on year over several decades, accelerating over the past 10 years of Tory austerity.
During the years of the Blair government, Welsh Labour decided to distance itself from some of the more centrist polices by adopting a more radical and socialist “clear red water” agenda.
The strategy was devised by Mark Drakeford, then an adviser to first minister Rhodri Morgan. Mark, of course, is now first minister of Wales.
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