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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Jeremy Corbyn is right, Brexit will be what we make of it
Membership of the single market does not permit the rebalancing of the economy Britain needs to get back on its feet, writes DOUG NICHOLLS
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
TRADE Unionists Against the European Union has welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s speech in Coventry outlining the Labour Party’s approach to Brexit and rebuilding and transforming Britain with a new internationalist spirit.
Coventry bore the full brunt of Thatcher’s onslaught and her deepening of EU membership. She destroyed more industrial jobs in Coventry than Hitler did in the blitz and the EU ably abetted her by subsidising companies to move factories out of the city to low-wage areas of the EU.
Coventry symbolised the fortunes of the whole country, a workshop of the world turned into a network of foodbanks during the period of EU membership.
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