Labour’s rail plan is not a programme of “renationalisation” but an effort to save a collapsed privatisation strategy and to safeguard the interests of British capitalism.
Promoted as “left” unions, workers are experiencing firsthand that the RMT and CWU are no different from any other union in their collusion with the employers and their sabotage of any effective fightback against the corporate-government assault.
Despite an unambiguous strike vote by rail workers the biggest since the railways were privatised in 1994 the RMT union has once again handed the political initiative to the government, appealing for negotiations.