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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No to another wave of austerity after Covid-19
Workers paid for the 2008 crisis – we can’t let that happen again, says MATT WRACK, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union
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
FOR the first time since the second world war, the Durham Miners’ Gala has been cancelled, due to the Covid-19 crisis.
But we cannot let this day pass without laying down a marker; if the events of recent months have proved anything, it is that our movement is more vital now than ever.
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the reality of the injustices and inequalities that plague our society.
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