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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‘I predict a riot?’
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT is unconvinced by right-wing scaremongering regarding the inevitability of a 'Brexit betrayal' rampage
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
ACCORDING to a recent front page of Rupert Murdoch’s Times (not a source one should take too seriously) a “senior Cabinet minister” has claimed that there will be civil unrest and riots similar to the gilets jaunes movement in France (whose protests continue largely unreported in Britain) if Brexit doesn’t happen on October 31.
The anonymous source was backed up on a BBC politics programme by right-wing blogger Brendan O’Neill, who not only predicted riots but argued that they should take place.
Predicting riots is not such a simple matter, however.
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