The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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All power to the posties
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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
THIS week began with a victory for striking workers at Royal Mail’s Hamilton delivery office. It brought to an end the latest of many unofficial postie walkouts to take place in recent years.
Star readers will be familiar with stories of heroic Communication Workers Union members standing up for victimised colleagues or fighting back against bullying bosses at depots across the country.
This weekend, couriers at private parcels firm DPD’s Cambuslang depot in Glasgow will strike over cuts to their per-parcel pay rate, in an action organised by general union GMB.
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