Britain’s Striking Rail Workers Are Drawing the Hatred of the Establishment
British rail workers are on strike against austerity. Unsurprisingly, mainstream media has unleashed an all-out campaign to demonize their union, the RMT — because they want to discourage other workers from following rail workers' example and fighting back.
Members of the RMT union on a picket line outside Victoria station in London on June 23, 2022. (Dominic Lipinski / PA Images via Getty Images)
If you had a sense that we were witnessing something quite extraordinary in recent weeks with the campaign of attacks against rail workers and their trade union, you weren’t wrong.
Ever since forty thousand members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union, the RMT, voted for strike action late last month, the barrage from the media and political establishment has been relentless.
At times, it has been almost comical. On his TalkTV show Piers Morgan Uncensored, Britain’s preeminent professional controversialist took RMT general secretary Mick Lynch to task for his Facebook profile picture.
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