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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Scavenging energy on the radio waves
New research shows that energy could be extracted from the wifi waves that surround us, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Radio City Tower viewed from across the Mersey with Albert Dock in the foreground
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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 use wireless internet, you may have noticed that there is a lot of it around.
Almost every square metre of space in cities is covered by multiple wifi router ranges.
The proliferation of overlapping, jealously password-protected wifi provision rakes in profits for internet companies that are able to charge several separate people who could instead share the cost and use of a single wifi router.
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