Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Rail companies are using Covid as a veil for cuts
Rogue employers are seeking to exploit the pandemic for their own purposes, warns RMT leader MICK LYNCH
Rail workers rally in defence of train guards in 2019
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
RMT has been warning for months that unscrupulous employers in the transport and maritime industries would use the cloak of the Covid crisis as a cynical opportunity to hammer down on our jobs and wages and in the past weeks that co-ordinated attack has gathered pace.
On our railways, Scotrail, South Western Railways and LNER have all begun mapping out savage cuts agendas that we know will hit jobs.
Network Rail is grinding on with its own plans that we have repeatedly warned will have severe consequences for services and safety. Our pledge to fight these cuts with every tool at our disposal remains top of the trade union’s agenda.
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