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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Energy giants get out the begging bowl
SOLOMON HUGHES reports from Tory Party conference where E.ON and EDF were calling for government action to preserve their profits as thousands of customers struggle to pay their bills
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
THE chief executive of E.ON UK, one of the “Big Six” British energy firms, told Tory conference it was “imperative” the government step in this winter because people are “struggling to pay” for heating as “a section of our customers cannot pay their energy bill.”
A UK director of EDF also told the same fringe meeting the government had to act as people are “struggling.”
It was a grim message, delivered to Treasury Minister Gareth Davies at a fringe meeting of the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).
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