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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‘Cleaned out’ — the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Rojava
Trump is now actively aiding the Turkish-FSA occupation and annexation of northern Syria, killing hundreds and displacing thousands, writes MARCEL CARTIER
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
THERE is little about Donald Trump that one can truly be surprised by at this stage in his presidency. Buffoonery and delusion — not to mention racism and incitement to violence — have become normalised during his time in office to a frightening degree.
Still, even if we take the most jaw-dropping quotes of his more than two-and-a-half years in office into account, there is something remarkably horrifying about the comments he has made in recent days since he de facto supported Turkey’s offensive into northern Syria.
That green light was one thing. Another altogether was the so-called “ceasefire” brokered between his administration and Turkey on October 17 several days after the invasion began, and hundreds of casualties later.
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