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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
MARY BARBOUR, as no doubt many readers of the Morning Star will know, was leader of the rent strikes in Glasgow in 1915.
At its peak 20,000 Glaswegians, women and men, workers and community activists, took to the streets.
Such was the show of working-class unity that prime minister Lloyd George was forced to introduce the Rent Restriction Act.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government