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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
In just over a week’s time ballot papers will start dropping for the ninth — yes, ninth — Scottish Labour leadership election since the Scottish Parliament was reconvened in 1999.
I would argue that this is the most important of them all. Following a decade of Scottish Labour woe, the party showed at the recent general election that we are very much back in the game.
From a historic low in 2015 when we were reduced to one MP we now have seven MPs and are breathing down the neck of the SNP in at least 20 seats across the country with the Tories and Liberals in our sights too. There are no “no-go” areas in Scotland any more.
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
