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Mick Lynch has skelped the arse of the entire political and media establishment
The RMT leader has shown what is possible in terms of public support when class politics are explained plainly and unapologetically by working-class militants — we need more of this, writes JOHN WIGHT
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on a picket line outside Euston station in London
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RARELY does there come along an individual who captures the imagination of working-class people in the process of stripping away all of the accumulated verbal detritus and obfuscation that we have come to expect in our political discourse.
In the course of the current rail strikes, organised by the RMT Union, the union’s general secretary Mick Lynch has made verbal mincemeat of assorted Tory MPs, mainstream commentators and representatives of the rail companies with a combination of sarcasm, plain speaking, grasp of detail, intelligence, but most of all defiance.
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