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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
Actor Warren Mitchell, lifelong left-wing socialist, yet best known for his Tory voting, racist, sexist, grumpy old man London docker character Alf Garnett, has died aged 89.
Playing the balding bigot with his Kipling moustache and West Ham scarf, Mitchell became the vehicle for some of the hardest-hitting satire ever seen on television.
Indeed, so believable was Mitchell in the role that even years after the sitcom’s success, the star was often stopped in the street by people who really thought he was the working-class, anti-semitic Tory bigot he portrayed.
MARY CONWAY applauds the timely revival of Miller’s study of people fatally deformed by the economics of survival
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a fascinating, revealing, superbly acted evening of theatre
MARY CONWAY is spellbound by superb performances in Arthur Miller’s study of the social and personal stress brought about by Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht
For generations black women have shaped Britain’s activism, arts and public life despite exclusion and discrimination. ZITA HOLBOURNE pays tribute to these political trailblazers and cultural icons, whose courage continues to inspire