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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Attempts to overturn Brexit are misguided
If Remainers somehow manage to reverse the referendum result, they will have destroyed many Leave voters’ faith in democracy forever, argues CHELLEY RYAN
CLASS INTERESTS: Labour’s Chuka Umunna (left) and pro-EU campaigner, millioneress Gina Miller at the launch of their Brexit ‘Facts Bus’ in London, before its national 8-day tour
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
WHEN people cast a vote in an election or referendum, they don’t just vote with their heads. They vote just as much with their emotions.
But some Remainers are clearly choosing to ignore this fundamental truth in their desperate bid to overturn Brexit.
It’s as if 17.5 million people are just a minor inconvenience, to be swept under the political rug like dirt.
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