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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A free nation on March 29 — or the far right will rise
DOUG NICHOLLS argues if Parliament does not secure leaving the EU on March 29 as already agreed, sinister new political dangers will emerge
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
THE working-class vote to leave the EU is holding MPs’ hands like a teacher with a crocodile of infants behind it. No matter how much the anti-democratic Remainer MPs throw tantrums, refuse to walk, pout, sob and seek to break ranks and bolt off, we will lead them out of the mess they have created and set the country free on March 29.
As all trade union negotiators know, when you are caught between a rock and a hard place you can’t wish your way out of it.
The government will not call a general election under any circumstances pre-Brexit. The favoured position of the government is to sit out its term of office under the Fixed-Term Parliament Act.
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