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Lee Anderson. Suella Braverman. The Tories are likely to lose a general election in 2024, but their response is not to soften their line. On the contrary. They are rushing to push through as much as they can: Public Order Bill, Minimum Service law, EU regulations bonfire, Rwanda plan, block on Scotland’s gender-recognition law. They do that both because they want the measures through in the limited time they have, and to rally their political base.

The new law allows the mass firing of <em>all workers involved in strike action</em> if a union is deemed not to have taken reasonable steps to ensure the specified workers comply with work notices.

Lynch, hailed as a militant workers’ leader by the media and pseudo-left groups, is working intimately with the rail employers and the government on a sell-out deal while rank-and-file workers have been kept in the dark.

The refusal of KALPA and other unions to oppose the criminalisation of pilots at Kenya Airways points to the need for workers to develop rank-and-file committees to seize power from the union bureaucracies.

The scale of the government’s class war offensive is underscored by the Public Order Bill—one of the most draconian pieces of legislation in British history.