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‘If this was happening in other countries, it would be condemned’
Matt Trinder talks to RMT leader MICK LYNCH about the threat to our freedoms posed by the government’s strikes Bill and the problems facing the privatised rail industry
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch
Ben Chacko pays tribute to the author of our much-missed Frosty’s Ramblings column, a champion of the countryside and working-class culture
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The ferocity with which Labour in power has cracked down on protest within its own ranks and also on the streets is unprecedented — and championing those protests is the only way we can turn this ship around, argues ALAN SIMPSON
ANSELM ELDERGILL is a member of Your Party and he suggests how the new party should reform Britain’s constitution
Trump’s Gaza deal is a transient, self-aggrandising spectacle that barely distracts from the West’s outright complicity in the massacre in Gaza and our slide into warmongering, writes MATT KERR
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch is on characteristically bullish form when asked about the Tory government’s widely condemned anti-strike Bill, which passed its final hurdles in the Commons on Monday night.
“I think everyone outside of Grant Shapps’s head is uncomfortable with this legislation. I’m not sure employers like it, and even business organisations don’t understand how it’s going to work.”
The Business Secretary claims the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, which is expected to face stiff opposition in the House of Lords, is a “proportionate” response to the biggest strike wave to sweep Britain in decades.
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