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 climate crisis is a crisis of capitalism’
Writer and campaigner CHRIS SALTMARSH talks to Ian Sinclair about why socialist state intervention is the key to saving the planet and what we can do to bring it about
Insulate Britain climate activists take part in a demonstration on Vauxhall Bridge in central London
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
PUBLISHED at the end of last year, Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice is the first book from Chris Saltmarsh, socialist climate campaigner and the co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal.
With top climate scientist James Hansen recently noting “the 1.5°C target certainly will be exceeded and the world will almost certainly blow through the 2°C ceiling,” I asked Saltmarsh about capitalism and the climate crisis and the role played by established NGOs and new grassroots campaigns such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) and the youth strikes.
Your analysis in the book is unashamedly anti-capitalist. Why?
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