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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Starmerism and the Guardian’s sleight of hand
A recent article by Claire Ainsley conceals more than it reveals about current Labour thinking, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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
IF YOU want an example of how British politics is a sealed system, designed to keep out popular demands for change, a recent article by Claire Ainsley in the Guardian is as good a starting place as any.
Ainsley was writing as Keir Starmer’s former policy chief, but the fact she is also a corporate lobbyist working for a Tory-run firm was hidden.
Starmer’s former “brains” was lecturing Labour supporters that Starmer was right to offer little to workers, while working for a firm offering to help corporations with “influencing” the government.
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