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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Passengers and a Northern train at Newcastle upon Tyne railway station
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
LOOK at the meltdown on Northern Rail and most people will think somebody should be sacked for this. But what is actually happening is somebody — meaning a top, connected Tory — is getting hired.
Faced with their own failure to run trains, Arriva is hiring David Cameron’s former adviser Ameet Gill. The company hasn’t hired somebody that’s better at running trains. It’s hired somebody, a key insider, for “strategic communications.”
Arriva needs to communicate with a Tory government and persuade it that it should keep the contract despite its terrible performance. So it has hired a former Number 10 adviser.
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