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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Rebutting Tory attack lines: Anti-semitism and Labour
How widespread is anti-semitism in the Labour Party? IAN SINCLAIR unearths some some surprising facts and statistics
Activists outside a meeting of the Labour National Executive Committee in London which is expected to decide on whether to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism
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
“JEREMY CORBYN’S anti‑semite army,” read the Times headline in April. “Labour is riddled with anti-semites,” announced the Sun last year. A Corbyn-led Labour government would pose an “existential threat to Jewish life in this country,” argued the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Telegraph in a joint editorial.
With the press having waged an intense campaign against Corbyn and the Labour Party since 2015 over anti-semitism, it was only natural their political opponents were going to use it as a stick to beat the Labour leader with during the general election campaign.
First up was cabinet minister Michael Gove, who earlier this month started trolling leftist figures on Twitter, including Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar, asking them to denounce anti-semitic tweets sent by a Labour Party and Momentum member (the person was neither a member of the Labour Party nor Momentum).
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