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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For those who say we can’t afford to make lasting changes, I say we can’t afford not to
A year from now Scotland heads to the polls to decide the future of the country. Scottish Labour leader RICHARD LEONARD gives his view on the choices that lie ahead
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
IN EXACTLY a year’s time, Scotland will have the chance to determine its future.
It is a choice between business as usual on one hand, and a radical transformation of our society and economy on the other.
It is a choice between a vision of a decade of investment and another decade of austerity.
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