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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How to make your dreams take flight
Taking to the skies alone like birds has long been a human obsession - and we are still discovering so much about flight from nature, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
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
FLIGHT is one of our most coveted superpowers, vying with mind-reading, teleportation and invisibility in the fantasy of “if you could do anything…”
It’s a curiously mundane ambition: the power of flight is enjoyed by millions of species on Earth (mostly insects), including even ourselves in the form of flying vehicles.
Perhaps it’s not so strange — after all, it’s easiest to want pleasures we can most vividly imagine. We’re surrounded by birds and insects flying majestically around us, so it’s natural that we wish to join them.
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