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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
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
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
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
AFRICAN National Congress branch delegates have completed their provincial general council (PGC) meetings to nominate candidates for ANC president and five other leading positions and the forecast is cloudy.
While current ANC deputy president, multimillionaire businessman and former trade union leader Cyril Ramaphosa received 1,861 branch nominations against his leading rival Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's 1,309, their contest remains on a knife edge.
Ramaphosa was backed by five provinces — Gauteng, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Limpopo — while Dlamini-Zuma has majority support in North West, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, the latter two provinces which will send the largest delegate numbers.
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII