All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
AS Boris Johnson’s crony regime descends into a vortex of chaotic self-destruction, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has issued a warning to transport workers that the Tory government is using the Covid crisis as a smokescreen to launch a multifaceted attack on working people.
On successive weekends before Christmas, RMT train drivers employed by London Underground (LU) defended their collective agreements and working arrangements by taking strike action to protect their work-life balance.
Our members across LU will soon be voting to defend their pension scheme from a smash-and-grab raid by the London mayor at the behest of the Treasury.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’


