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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Zelensky does the anti-corruption dance for the corrupt EU
Turning on his old allies, the Ukrainian leader’s campaign against inequity has still not done enough to impress the EU assessors — but who are they to pass judgement, asks DENNIS BROE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses for a photo with soldiers after attending a flag-raising ceremony in the recaptured city of Izium, Ukraine, on September 14, 2022
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
IN THE later part of the 16th century, Henry Navarre, the first French king from the house of Bourbon, wanted to ascend to the throne. Henry was a Huguenot, a Protestant, nearly assassinated in the Saint Bartholomew day bloody massacre of Protestants by Catholics in Paris.
The pope, backed by the Spanish monarchy, opposed Henry’s accession. Henry then decided to convert and when asked why the conversion, is supposed to have shrugged his shoulders and said: “Paris is worth a mass.”
Volodymyr Zelensky desperately wants Ukraine to be accepted into the European Union. However, Ukraine is universally characterised, and perennially ranked, as one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, so Zelensky, in an attempt to further Ukraine’s candidacy, is supposedly cleaning house, proclaiming new reforms that “will change the social reality.”
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