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CAMPAIGNERS are spray-painting streets with “pop-up” bike lanes today to demand that roads remain pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly after the lockdown.
The creative action by Extinction Rebellion comes ahead of a socially distanced protest bike ride to “reclaim the streets” on Sunday in London, Staines, Exeter and Manchester.
The group argues that Britain must not go back to the “polluted, busy and toxic streets” of before the pandemic, when pollution from transport had already been causing 40,000 deaths a year.
After battling hills, rain and injury in a three-day cycle ride ending at the CWU conference, MATT KERR reflects on why class unity remains the answer to injustice
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
