The Spark: Transport strikes, the bin men, British steel and more

Public transport highlights

Trade unions / The Spark: Transport strikes, the bin men, British steel and more

The first issue of our industrial news sheet examines recent cases of trade union leaderships failing their members and the wider working class.

1 Oct 2025 , Proletarian
Disputes / Bus drivers need decent pay; passengers need a decent service!

First Group’s profits vanish without drivers – the exploiters can’t do without workers, but the workers could do fine without an exploiting class!

18 Sep 2025 , Proletarian
Trade unions / No deportations! Defend the TfL workers!

The ruling class is working overtime to pit worker against worker. We must not allow it to succeed in its aim of neutralising our resistance.

17 Sep 2025 , Proletarian

Trade unions / RMT union launches new campaign to end outsourcing on the railways

It is not their inability to think logically but their dedication to profit-generation that leads our rulers to destroy public services.

7 Jun 2025 , Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures / Are we about to see the end of railway manufacture in Britain?

The government seems uninterested in diverting any of our public funds to this genuinely useful purpose.

20 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
Economy / HS2: they should have gone to ChinaSavers!

What does it say about our decaying system that our rulers can spend decades debating and spending to deliver precisely nothing at the end of it?

24 Nov 2023 , Lalkar
Pollution / ULEZ: a ~~green~~ greed initiative

Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit.

18 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
Social wage / Nationalise the buses!

Covid was the last straw for thousands of Britain’s remaining bus routes, and the profit motive won’t save these essential services.

28 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
Industry / A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam

The proposed railways ‘solution’ is less a plan for renationalisation than it is a promise to provide further subsidies to monopoly capital.

24 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
Lay-offs and closures / RIP FlyBe

The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.

9 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
Capitalist crisis / FlyBe farce exposes lunacy of privately owned transport

A hefty subsidy to the airline’s private owners may not be enough to save a vital service and thousands of jobs.

22 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
Disputes / Stand with rail strikers defending passenger safety

Railway bosses have abandoned the deal that was struck a year ago and are refusing to restart talks without preconditions.

9 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
Disputes / Support the South Western Railway strike

Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!

3 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

19 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain

Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.

25 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

19 May 2018 , Proletarian
Leaflets / Support the northern trains strike!

Shareholders get richer while workers and the public suffer.

18 Mar 2018 ,
Disputes / Rail strikes multiplying

The government and rail operators are continuing to force unsafe driver only operation onto staff and passengers.

1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
Trade unions / Aslef’s ‘shabby deal’

Rail bosses use divide and rule tactics to weaken resistance to safety-cutting measures.

1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian

1
Stand with those being criminalised for opposing genocidal British imperialism

The example of repression and state criminality in Britain must be used to show the necessity of opposing and dismantling the entire imperialist system.
2
The Communist Party of Venezuela enters a new stage
3
Labour party ‘patriotism’ is racist and imperialist to the core
4
Model motion: Oppose the arrest and intimidation of journalists and activists
5
The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin
6
Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages
7
Pro-imperialist alliance attacks communist symbols at Bristol university
8
The worst ever capitalist crisis can only be solved by a socialist planned economy
9
The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
10
Andrei Zhdanov: On the principles underlying Soviet literature and art

Public transport highlights

Trade unions / The Spark: Transport strikes, the bin men, British steel and more

The first issue of our industrial news sheet examines recent cases of trade union leaderships failing their members and the wider working class.

Disputes / Bus drivers need decent pay; passengers need a decent service!

First Group’s profits vanish without drivers – the exploiters can’t do without workers, but the workers could do fine without an exploiting class!

Trade unions / No deportations! Defend the TfL workers!

The ruling class is working overtime to pit worker against worker. We must not allow it to succeed in its aim of neutralising our resistance.

Trade unions / RMT union launches new campaign to end outsourcing on the railways

It is not their inability to think logically but their dedication to profit-generation that leads our rulers to destroy public services.

Lay-offs and closures / Are we about to see the end of railway manufacture in Britain?

The government seems uninterested in diverting any of our public funds to this genuinely useful purpose.

Economy / HS2: they should have gone to ChinaSavers!

What does it say about our decaying system that our rulers can spend decades debating and spending to deliver precisely nothing at the end of it?

Pollution / ULEZ: a green greed initiative

Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit.

Social wage / Nationalise the buses!

Covid was the last straw for thousands of Britain’s remaining bus routes, and the profit motive won’t save these essential services.

Industry / A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam

The proposed railways ‘solution’ is less a plan for renationalisation than it is a promise to provide further subsidies to monopoly capital.

Lay-offs and closures / RIP FlyBe

The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.

Capitalist crisis / FlyBe farce exposes lunacy of privately owned transport

A hefty subsidy to the airline’s private owners may not be enough to save a vital service and thousands of jobs.

Disputes / Stand with rail strikers defending passenger safety

Railway bosses have abandoned the deal that was struck a year ago and are refusing to restart talks without preconditions.

Disputes / Support the South Western Railway strike

Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!

Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain

Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.

Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

Leaflets / Support the northern trains strike!

Shareholders get richer while workers and the public suffer.

Disputes / Rail strikes multiplying

The government and rail operators are continuing to force unsafe driver only operation onto staff and passengers.

Trade unions / Aslef’s ‘shabby deal’

Rail bosses use divide and rule tactics to weaken resistance to safety-cutting measures.

Public transport topics

popular content

Stand with those being criminalised for opposing genocidal British imperialism

The Communist Party of Venezuela enters a new stage

Labour party ‘patriotism’ is racist and imperialist to the core

Model motion: Oppose the arrest and intimidation of journalists and activists

The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin

Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages

Pro-imperialist alliance attacks communist symbols at Bristol university

The worst ever capitalist crisis can only be solved by a socialist planned economy

The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

Andrei Zhdanov: On the principles underlying Soviet literature and art