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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Alina Sanchez: In the footsteps of Che Guevara
MARCEL CARTIER reflects on the recent death of Argentine revolutionary internationalist Alina Sanchez, who fought alongside the PKK and YPJ in Kurdistan
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara at his office as Minister of Industry while being interviewed by Laura Berquist for Look magazine in 1963
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
IT SEEMS that almost daily there is news travelling from Kurdistan to all corners of the world that is sombre in nature. The revolutionary process that began in Rojava, northern Syria, in 2012, and the subsequent fight against fascism in its Islamic State and Turkish state manifestations has seen hundreds of internationalist volunteers pick up the gun in defence of revolution.
Countless comrades have perished on foreign soil in a country often very different from their own culturally — but that is nonetheless free territory, the essence of which is to provide the focal point for the world revolution today.
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