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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Change UK’s Russian connection
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the centrist party managed to get its own rule-breaking payments from a Russian banker
Independent Group MPs (left to right) Ann Coffey, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Gavin Shuker and Heidi Allen
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
WHATEVER happened to the unlikely lads? What became of the mould-breaking women?
When it launched, breakaway “centrist” party Change UK had incredibly good press. Newspaper pundits were impressed by Labour MPs like Chuka Umunna jumping ship to form a new party.
They called Change UK’s formation a “historic moment” and a political “tipping point.”
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