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 Science & Society team respond to readers' thoughts on their previous column about sex and gender
ALL INCLUSIVE: March 8 2020
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
AFTER our article on the science of sex and gender (Does science “disprove” transgender identity?, October 25), several readers wrote thoughtful letters in response. Thank you to those who did. We would like to take the opportunity to respond to some critical points that were raised.
Debbie Hayton challenges us that we fail to persuade that “gender theory is the route to liberation.” As several correspondents point out, the route to total liberation is actually emancipation of the working class from capitalism. With this we wholeheartedly agree, but that does not mean critical thinking on gender is not important.
In our article we sought to address a single point: that “science” does not provide a basis for transphobia, something which is occasionally mystified, even in this newspaper.
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