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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
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
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
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
IT’S time for a “phase II” of our anti-austerity campaign — a sustained campaign of mass action by trade unions and communities not only against the deprivation and suffering caused by austerity economics, but for the alternative — policies designed to irrevocably shift wealth and power from the tiny economic and political ruling class to the mass of the people.
Of course, there are many within Parliament struggling to achieve that too — and many who are struggling to maintain the status quo of neoliberal capitalism.
What we have seen over recent months and years, though, is that when push comes to shove such struggles cannot be won solely from within Parliament.
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Our charter’s demands for fair pay, affordable housing and environmental security will recruit working-class youth into the political struggle for socialism, emulating the success of the Women’s Charter, writes YCL general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS
The only way to develop and build a party of a new type that in any way threatens capitalism is at the same time to develop and build the mass movement around it, argues BILL GREENSHIELDS