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We must be proactive in organising against this imposition, in the workplace, and in our communities, argues MICK LYNCH

THIS year’s TUC Congress has witnessed a resurgence in trade union militancy across a wide variety of sectors, and on the railways we have a national dispute that is continuing after 18 months.
Although workers have won pay deals through strike action, including RMT in other parts of the railway, the national rail dispute with the train operators which is orchestrated by the government is far from over.
It has become a political and ideological priority, for this zombie Tory government, to try and keep unions like RMT in a straitjacket.
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