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
Latest editorial
Meat industry propaganda and the climate crisis
We are familiar with the damage tobacco and fossil fuels do — and know that they have spent billions on hiding this. But we largely do not realise the pernicious effect of the meat industry on obscuring the drastic need to reduce animal consumption to fight global warming, writes IAN SINCLAIR
DIRECT ACTION: Environmental protesters from Animal Rebellion blockade a McDonalds distribution site in Hemel Hempstead, May 2021
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
IN RECENT years UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has made increasingly strong statements about the climate crisis. His latest warning came at last month’s major economies forum on energy and climate in the US, organised by the White House.
“We seem trapped in a world where fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat,” he said.
“For decades, many in the fossil fuel industry have invested heavily in pseudo-science and public relations — with a false narrative to minimise their responsibility for climate change and undermine ambitious climate policies.
Similar stories
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE