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Resist to recover: battling the Tory bid to downgrade our transport network
TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes looks ahead to his union’s annual conference by promising to fight Tory plans for cuts to our railways 

IN THE sinews of crisis there are always those who do well – despite the hardship of the many. 

Think no further than the many prominent individuals and companies who profit from war, both today and in the past.

This is just as true when we consider the last 18 months and the terrible pandemic which has claimed and blighted so many lives – and continues to do so. 

This wretched Conservative government has willingly looked the other way, some would say been complicit, in the vast profiteering and corruption at the heart of the daily battle against the virus. 

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