Report: How Private Rail Companies Are Trying to Slow Down Nationalisation
Polly Smythe
The longer renationalisation is delayed, the longer profiteers have to lobby the government, reports Polly Smythe.
Tag: railways
Novara Live: Chaos on Railways, Truss & Sunak Take Aim at Solar Power
Despite what Grant Shapps might believe, London to Manchester train timetables have been cut by 66%. Can the reputation of Britain’s privatised services get any lower? Plus Truss and Sunak’s bizarre hatred of green energy and Owen Jones explains perfectly why blaming the young for Britain’s economic woes is a mistake.
Report: ‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: RMT President Hails Public Support for Strikes
Polly Smythe
Alex Gordon, President of the RMT, told Novara Media that the privatisation of railways needs to be 'swept away'.
Opinion: A Spanish Company is Building an Apartheid Railway in Israel – Now It Wants in on HS2
Zakaria Odeh
Companies abetting human rights abuses shouldn't be rewarded with lucrative government contracts - they must be boycotted until they end complicity with apartheid, writes Palestinian organiser Zakaria Odeh.
‘Macron is attacking everyone, and everyone is fighting back’: Interview with a Union Organiser in France
Joe Hayns
Over past few months there's been an upsurge in worker resistance across multiple sectors in France. Joe Hayns spoke to union organiser Tiziri Kandi about the Clichy hotel strike, outsourcing, and the rail workers fighting Macron’s labour reforms.