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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Fresh priorities ahead for CND
RAE STREET reports on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s virtual AGM
DESTRUCTION: A photograph of a mushroom cloud from a British nuclear weapon test near Christmas Island (Kiriimati) in the central Pacific in the late 1950s, is featured in an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London in 201
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
LAST Saturday the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament held a successful online AGM under the banner, “NHS Not Trident.”
Resolutions that were passed included “Covid-19 and Trident,” calling on the government to redirect the current £205 billion spend on replacing Trident towards health and welfare services.
On a “New Cold War With China,” it was agreed to prepare a briefing and simple fact sheet about the US-led aggression towards China.
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