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Rallying to save the railway
ALISON BANVILLE travelled to London last week to join a wave of public outrage at plans to shut ticket offices across Britain
IN SOLIDARITY: People take part in the RMT protest against the proposed closure of railway station ticket offices outside Downing Street, August 31 2023
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
A FEW days ago I joined a large crowd gathered outside the Department of Transport in London. There were ornate union banners being held aloft proudly emblazoned with “Manchester RMT,” “Liverpool, Branch No 5 est 1913,” “Wigan RMT” — and, most movingly for me as a girl from the Rhondda mining valley — “South Wales and West Region RMT retired.”
The rest of the crowd held banners declaring “Save Our Ticket Offices!” and as the march set off towards its destination in Downing Street we were heartened by a torrent of toots of support from passing traffic, the loudest and longest coming from the iconic red double-decker buses.
Cyclists went by waving or holding aloft a fist of defiance and the few pedestrians who weren’t bemused tourists gave us affirmations of support, which begs the question: who on Earth is in favour of this scandalous move to rid our stations of their vital ticket offices?
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