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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The Tories' failing programme for probation just stacks up the problems for the future
Napo general secretary Ian Lawrence
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
IT’S been four years since the introduction of former justice secretary Chris Grayling’s so-called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) programme to rehabilitate offenders in England and Wales which has been under heavy scrutiny since before its inception.
If it wasn’t for Napo and our members pointing out the glaringly obvious flaws in these disastrously conceived plans, then it was the successive scathing reports from other quarters which have vindicated all of our predictions that the part-privatisation of probation was never going to fulfil its brief.
It all came to a head in June when the justice select committee’s eight-month inquiry concluded with chair Conservative MP Bob Neill branding the justice reforms “a mess” which left him unconvinced it could ever deliver and demanding an immediate government review.
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