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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The ‘great hack’ – data-scraping for the far right
In our condemnation of Cambridge Analytica we must not rebuke its methods more than its motives, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
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
THE Cambridge Analytica scandal blended together many modern worries: powerful computing technology, oversharing on social media, whistleblowers and shadowy figures undermining democracy around the world.
How information was harvested on you and your friends, perhaps even without your consent, before being used to influence the outcomes of elections was a huge story in the media. It was summarised recently in the documentary on the subject, The Great Hack.
Yet the media’s focus (which is replicated in the documentary) on the supposed uniqueness of the technology deployed by Cambridge Analytica means that it loses sight of the fact that the capitalist class has always had various means of disseminating propaganda to influence elections, of which this is merely the next generation.
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