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It is time to take Merseyrail into public hands
After yet more disgraceful price hikes enacted purely to line the pockets of private shareholders, RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY demands that Labour finally does the right thing for rail workers and passengers
Merseyrail trains lined up on the track at Kirkdale Depot
Why is the Labour government so addicted to giving government jobs to Tories when it spent so long trying to oust them? In the hope the favour is returned the next time the Tories return to power, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MARC WADSWORTH reports from the meeting to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre 65 years ago
Despite the US withdrawal from Ukraine and economic self-harm from sanctions, European centrists maintain their bellicosity to justify military spending and distract from neoliberalism's failures, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
Netanyahu’s failed attempt to replace Shin Bet’s chief violates longstanding Israeli political taboos, as the apartheid state’s internal power struggle spirals to a new level of crisis while Gaza burns, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Following the historic ban on companies profiting from children’s care, Unison Cymru calls for transparency in implementing the changes and extending the reform to create a truly national, profit-free care service, says MARK TURNER
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
MERSEYRAIL hiked fares by almost 19 per cent, to cash in on one of the country’s most popular events this past weekend. No doubt there will have been winners and losers throughout the festivities at the Aintree Grand National. But for passengers travelling to the races by train, they will have definitely lost out.
At a time when working people, whether low-paid or well-paid, are seeing a diminishing of their spending power, it is a disgrace that a multimillion-pound rail company is fleecing its passengers in this way.
Merseyrail is a cash machine for its private operators, Serco and Transport UK. Since 2003, they’ve taken over £212 million in dividends out of the railway. That is money which should have gone back into the network — to keep fares down, upgrade infrastructure and improve services for passengers. Instead, it’s gone straight into shareholders’ pockets with much of the money leaving the country altogether.
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