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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
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
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
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
KNOWING chuckles in Dundee’s Caird Hall yesterday as Scottish Labour deputy leader Lesley Laird said: “No doubt that you will have much to enjoy, debate, eat and, yes, drink! But only in moderation.”
Party conferences are not best known for delegates exercising health-conscious self-control.
Scottish Young Labour activists were gearing up for their conference karaoke night. In the spirit of the kinder, gentler politics, organisers were prepared to put on any backing track requested — with one exception: D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better.
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart