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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If governments won't defend human rights, then we'll have to
Donald Trump’s quitting of the UN human rights council is one sign of his wilful attempts to make the most racist ideas respectable, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
US President Donald Trump
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 decision of US President Donald Trump to quit the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this week has hardly contributed to improving his image as someone who cares about these questions.
His ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has described the UNHRC as “a cesspool of political bias.”
Haley has form for abusive and confrontational behaviour in the UN, defending Israel to the hilt and using every opportunity to attack those the US deems its enemies, from Iran to Venezuela.
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