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End of an era? The Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall
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
FOR those who seek the radical transformation of society, the public displays of grief since the death of Elizabeth Windsor have been difficult to endure.
This is partly because the official national response is a direct affront to our views on what a genuine democratic society should look like.
But, also, because we are reminded of the extent to which ideas of deference to a hereditary head of state, and the incredibly limited notions of democracy that underpin this, are deeply embedded in the minds of large sections of the population.
JENN FORBES of Your Party says many will welcome the end of Keir Starmer’s leadership, but it’s time we stopped leaving politics to the politicians
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
