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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The day Canadian parliamentarians spat on the graves of the WWII dead
The Western Establishment has a warped and shameful history of sympathy with fascism, warns JOHN WIGHT
The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons Anthony Rota delivers a speech following an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday
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
THE conflict in Ukraine is in microcosm a continuation of World War II, in that it has exposed the extent to which Western ideologues are willing to collude with open Nazis and fascists in service to the rabid Russophobia that has over generations developed deep cultural roots in the corridors of power west of the Vistula.
It should not be forgotten that right up until Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovakia, Hitler and Mussolini were viewed by a section of the ruling classes in France, Britain and the United States not as adversaries but as allies in the “noble struggle” being waged by big business and their political bag carriers against the rising tide of communism and its growing traction among their own workers.
In Britain sympathy with the Nazis and their barbarous ideology extended all the way into Buckingham Palace, where Hitler enjoyed the support of King Edward VIII and his US wife, Wallis Simpson, prior to and after the former was forced to abdicate the throne over the fact that Simpson was a divorcee and thereby, following the tradition of the day, deemed unsuitable as a king’s consort.
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Poland’s anger over Ukraine’s celebration of the Nazi collaborationist UPA reflects more than historical grievance, says KENNY COYLE
