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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Is Britain really a democracy?
If we truly have our preferences realised best by voting, why is Parliament at odds with the public on nationalisation, rent caps, climate change and everything else which may eat into corporate profit margins, asks IAN SINCLAIR
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
APPEARING on BBC Radio 4’s the Moral Maze in January, Jeremy Black, professor emeritus of history at Exeter University, strongly opposed the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in June 2020.
“Since 1928 we have had a full, equal parliamentary democracy … We do have democratic processes in Britain, both in local government and in national government, to change the law or to give effect to the law,” he argued.
“I’m not happy with the way of using force and violence in order to effect change when there are democratic processes there.”
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