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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Be full of beans!
Gardening with MAT COWARD
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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
UNLESS we achieve worldwide socialism within the next few weeks — and although I’m not ruling that out in the present climate, it would be improvident to entirely depend on it — it seems possible that we will see food shortages later this year.
I’ve written to my local MP suggesting that Richard Branson, Lord Sugar and all the other pointless tycoons be rounded up, chained together, and made to work the land for us.
But I haven’t had a reply yet, so just in case the government doesn’t take up this idea, my thoughts are turning towards beans.
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