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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In broad daylight
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
IT WON’T astonish Morning Star readers to hear that in the great houses of the Victorian and Edwardian period the use of broad beans was governed by the class system.
The family — that is, the employers — would eat the broads just for the first few weeks of the season; as soon as the beans grew much bigger than peas, they became food fit only for the workers.
They would no longer appear on the family table, but there’d be plenty of them in the staff kitchen. You can’t help suspecting that this daft rule of snobbery was invented by a cunning member of the below-stairs classes.
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