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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
WHEN I was growing up in North Derbyshire, we all knew a good joke. “Why did the village cross the road?” Actually, it was a bad joke — it didn’t even have a punchline.
The village was Arkwright, a former mining community just down the hill from where I lived, in Dennis Skinner’s constituency.
Six months after Arkwright colliery closed in 1988, a leak of methane gas was discovered in a fireplace and villagers were evacuated from their houses.
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko about the PM-in-waiting, the threat of Reform and the radical change of direction this country needs
Plaid Cymru’s Caerffili by-election win raised hopes on the left — but the complex realities of Wales suggest the Senedd election may be far less predictable, argues CATRIN ASHTON