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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
Culture was politicised, workers were striking, the youth were out of work and out of luck, but the reggae was blaring and the drinks were cheap. In some ways a lot has changed since the Ethiopians’ 1968 hit Everything Crash hit the airwaves, in other ways it’s a fitting title for Tim Wells’s new poetry collection.
Wells is a necessary voice of dissent amongst a narrative dominated by austerity, high rents, funding cuts and Tube strikes.
His poetry, rooted in the politically charged aspect of reggae culture, resonates with the “people’s music” which provided the soundtrack to a disenfranchised black youth growing up in the ’70s and ’80s.
by Mike Jenkins
by Rosie Jackson
Two inspring books — that’s your New Year’s musing from me on January 2 2026
TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote