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 vaccine must be distributed equally, at home and abroad
Throughout the pandemic, the government has proved that its priority is not to keep people safe but to protect the interests of the few. When it comes to the vaccine, they must abandon this unequal approach, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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 vaccine must be distributed equally, at home and abroad.
Britain currently has the highest coronavirus death rate in the world. For 10 days in a row, we have tragically lost over 1,000 people a day to the disease, with this figure hitting 1,820 last week.
Britain has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, and each of these countries have at least double the population of the UK. Indeed, in one day Britain has recorded more deaths than the total Covid-19 fatalities in Taiwan, New Zealand, Thailand and Australia put together, despite these countries having a combined population nearly twice the UK’s.
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