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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Scotland needs a government that will work with the trade union movement for change, not simply blaming Westminster for problems we have the powers to solve, argues NEIL FINDLAY
Rosa Gatta and daughter Millie Sordillo has a picture taken with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after he spoke to party members in the Red Lion, Winsford while on the local election campaign trail, yesterday
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
THIS year has been one of significant victories for Scotland’s labour movement — the Glasgow equal pay settlement and the teachers’ pay award being the most notable examples.
But it has also been one of industrial setbacks with major body blows to workers at Michelin in Dundee, the Caley railway works at Springburn, HES in Shotts, McGills in Dundee and Kaiam in Livingston.
This is not to mention the year-on-year job losses across the public sector, especially in Scotland’s beleaguered councils. While headline employment figures may paint a rosy picture the reality for many working people is quite different.
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Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP