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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
Proletarian Poetry is a new project which aims to show all aspects of working-class life, from historical and contemporary poems of struggle, through to the everyday experiences of people enjoying life beyond the means of production.
The aim is to get a more rounded picture of the lives of working-class people.
The title is a tribute to the “proletarian poets” of the 1920s that included Langston Hughes. Hughes was part of the movement whose writing had a class consciousness to it, that didn’t hold back in its description of the plight of black working-class people during the interwar decades of the early 20th century.
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
by Mike Jenkins
A lifelong communist and community organiser, Pinder helped shape anti-racist and anti-colonial activism in Britain while dedicating himself to youth work and collective struggle, writes David Horsley
ALAN MORRISON celebrates life and work of the late Tony Harrison, 1937-2025