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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
THE Oranges of Revolution emerged from the hearth of the Arab Spring and explores its knock-on effect felt around the globe, from Cairo to Kiev — not only politically, but also socially, economically and spiritually.
The collection is divided into five parts: Skin, Pith, Flesh, Pips and Juice, with the consistency of an orange used as a metaphor to depict the various stages of society in its relationship with revolution.
The poems delve into a range of issues across time, from outdated colonial values to despotic trigger-happy dictatorships, financial turmoil and social upheaval.
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine