Are we about to see the end of railway manufacture in Britain?

Public transport highlights

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

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Public transport highlights

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.

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