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 scientific future
Forecasting, predicting and manifesting the future is a fraught occupation, but we can’t afford to abandon the scientific endeavour to capitalists, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
THE PRESENT THAT BLIGHTS ALL FUTURES: A call for climate reparations across the African continent at the COP27
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
A COMPELLING feature of science is its ability to predict the future: theories ought to generate testable predictions that can be borne out.
Claiming that analysis is “scientific,” such as the motivation behind historical materialism in its original form, is a way of saying that data and theory from the past are being used to make claims about the future.
It is exactly this same predictive capacity that drives the contemporary fascination for data, algorithms and AI.
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP