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Tory Environment Secretary Michael Gove
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
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
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
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
OUR political system is stuffed with odd conventions. Many, like the much-abused pairing system of excusing MPs from votes — which this week forced Labour’s Tulip Siddiq to postpone a Caesarean section — deserve to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
One that should survive, though, is the practice that closing speeches in votes of confidence are given not by party leaders, but by their seconds in command.
It allows us to see normally overshadowed figures as if they were the centrepiece, with a dash of hope or warning.
When the Labour government fell in 1979, Michael Foot, then deputy Labour leader and Lord President of the Council, delivered one of the finest orations in British parliamentary history.
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Trump’s Gaza deal is a transient, self-aggrandising spectacle that barely distracts from the West’s outright complicity in the massacre in Gaza and our slide into warmongering, writes MATT KERR