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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Universal basic income and the end of ‘democratic capitalism’
The idea of UBI is becoming popular on some parts of the left, but SEBASTIAN MULLER believes it would herald the final death-blow to the gains of the post-war era
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
IN MUCH of the Western world the period immediately following the second world war saw major changes in the nature of capitalist economic management and planning.
In response to the threats of renewed economic depression and of socialism (from both within and without), several of the major capitalist states expanded the role of the state in their national economies.
From interventionist fiscal and monetary policy to ensure full employment to outright nationalisations, the remit of governments to determine the broad parameters of the national economy expanded significantly.
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