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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The autumn budget: the hard facts paint a bleak picture
JAMES MEADWAY sizes up a Budget which has driven a coach and horses through the government’s green rhetoric
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
RISHI SUNAK has delivered a Budget that confirms the turn inside the Tory Party away from austerity spending cuts.
It confirms that this is Boris Johnson’s government, eager to spend and intervene in the economy in a way that we have not seen Conservatives do for a very long time.
To win a new consensus on government spending and investment is an important victory for anti-austerity campaigners.
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The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
