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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Who is Starmer's pledge breaking for?
The Labour leader's doublespeak is politics-as-normal, but it makes him untrustworthy to Labour voters and a sitting duck for Tory media
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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
DOES it matter Keir Starmer tore up the “10 pledges” that got him elected Labour leader? His centrist defenders say this is just grown-up politics-as-normal. It’s just some sad butthurt lefties moaning.
But this is precisely the problem: Starmer abandoning his pledges is politics-as-normal. But relentless Tory victories are also politics-as-normal.
Working people paying for every crisis is politics-as-normal.
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