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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Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation
The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
AFRICAN HERO: A Walter Rodney poster in Georgetown, Guyana
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
I AM in the final throes of writing a new book. It will be called The Rebirth of the African Phoenix: A View from Babylon.
The new book, which will be published in May by Manifesto Press, widens the scope of my last one, African Uhuru, which was primarily focused on the importance of black communities of resistance in Britain.
This one looks forward to the rebirth of Africa as one of the defining aspects of the remaining three-quarters of the 21st century following centuries of humiliation and exploitation.
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