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
Labour mired in the lobbyists’ world
By hiring a former TikTok PR man as its new head of comms, Labour shows that corporate wheeling and dealing rather than principled politics will be the party’s priority, says SOLOMON HUGHES
QUO VADIS? James Lyons He made friends with the Labour right in that period (2014-2017) by carrying many stories they cooked up to try undermine the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
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
TWO weeks ago Keir Starmer reorganised his top team because his “honeymoon” ended before it had even begun. But what do the new members of his team tell us about where the government wants to go?
The newly appointed head of communications James Lyons suggests Labour might retreat further into the corporate-sponsored world of Westminster lobbying.
Starmer’s government expected to get a honeymoon period, a wave of popularity because they finally ended Tory rule. But Starmer’s mix of Labour right politics, minimal reform and obvious enthusiasm for corporate freebies mean there was no honeymoon, with polls showing a crash in public approval.
Similar stories
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests