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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Though cowards flinch
We have to rise above the backstabbing and campaign like never before to avoid Corbyn and McDonnell becoming ‘the best government team we never had,’ writes JOHN GREEN
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
MARX famously declared that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce — but this is by no means a fixed rule. History can and does also repeat itself a second time around as tragedy.
In 1980 Michael Foot had been elected as leader of the Labour Party, representing a decisive shift to the left.
A year later, in 1981, Tony Benn challenged Denis Healey for the deputy leadership and was only narrowly defeated.
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A Cabinet clear-out and an apparent rejection of neoliberal orthodoxy have created fresh political momentum, but can entrenched institutional power be overcome by the new PM, wonders ANDREW MURRAY
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT