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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Brexit is a chance to for a better relationship between the Scottish and English parliaments
Regardless of the Brexit outcome, it is important that the UK looks at its constitution from top to bottom, or better still from bottom to top, writes PAULINE BRYAN
Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh
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
LOCAL authorities across the UK are being starved of funding but also have a list of statutory duties.
Councils in Scotland have fared no better. The traditional powers excised by local government over decades have not been safeguarded.
The Scottish government is bypassing local authorities, and in the name of giving more powers to head teachers, taking more direct control of schools, which effectively takes education out of local democratic control.
This follows the centralisation of Fire and Rescue and Police Scotland.
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