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RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on a picket line outside Euston station in London
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
Clarence Darrow: Trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organisation of men that ever existed.
Margaret Thatcher: I can’t help but spit nails when just thinking about trade unions.
RARELY does there come along an individual who captures the imagination of working-class people in the process of stripping away all of the accumulated verbal detritus and obfuscation that we have come to expect in our political discourse.
In the course of the current rail strikes, organised by the RMT Union, the union’s general secretary Mick Lynch has made verbal mincemeat of assorted Tory MPs, mainstream commentators and representatives of the rail companies with a combination of sarcasm, plain speaking, grasp of detail, intelligence, but most of all defiance.
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
MARY DAVIS welcomes a remarkable documentary about the general strike — politically spot on, and featuring accounts from the strikers themselves — that is available for screenings
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The once beating heart of British journalism was undone by technological change, union battles and Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping coup – leaving London the only major capital without a press club, says TIM GOPSILL
PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics