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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
Former Labour Health Minister Lord Warner's call for everyone to pay £10 a month fees to use the NHS got very wide press coverage.
The Mail, Telegraph, Times, Guardian and Independent wrote 500-odd-word stories on Warner's charge-for-the-NHS call.
The Mirror, Sun and other tabloids chipped in with 200-word pieces on Warner's fees, including his extra demand that patients pay an extra £20 a night for hospital stays.
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people