Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
Rail profits make a mockery out of working people
The government claims that there is no money in the industry, yet international investors are falling over themselves to get in on the act, says RMT leader MICK LYNCH
IT SEEMS an age ago that the Tories claimed to be the voice of the working class.
Since the fall of the so-called “red wall” when workers lent them their vote to get Brexit done as many saw it, this rotten Tory government has relentlessly attacked workers by slashing services and driving down wages at the height of a cost-of-living crisis.
In the transport sector the government’s so-called levelling-up agenda has involved bulldozing through a wave of cuts not seen for a generation.
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