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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Rule Britannia – a much disputed part of British history
KEITH FLETT explores some little known aspects of the patriotic song
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
AFTER something of a media and social media furore – largely confected as a culture war by the right, it might be suggested – the BBC has determined that Rule Britannia will be played at the Last Night of the Proms this year but without the words. Apparently the words will be back next year.
This suggests that the BBC is still on the page of thinking that Black Lives Matter is a moment not a movement.
Objections to the song came not just because of the words but also because of the nationalistic context it is now sung in.
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