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The RMT dispute shows the government wishes to emulate Thatcher and strike a devastating blow to the labour movement. That’s why full solidarity is needed, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
RMT general secretary, Mick Lynch, on a picket line outside outside Euston station in London. Picture date: Saturday June 25, 2022.

LAST week saw the largest industrial action on our railways for more than 40 years. Let us hope that this is the moment the working class in this country realises its strength and power. 

The rail strikes must be the beginning of a mass movement in this country against our broken economic model, which preserves the obscene rich of the few at the expense of the basic necessities of the many. 

I was proud to stand in solidarity with striking RMT workers on their picket lines last week. While every working person regrets the disruption these strikes caused, they were an absolute necessary action of last resort — and therefore the blame can only be with bosses and government, not striking workers. 

Claudia Webbe joins the pickets
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