As a trade unionist and socialist I support the current RMT industrial action on job cuts and pensions. It’s a matter of basic solidarity.
These things have a history. E P Thompson wrote about it in his collection of essays Writing by Candlelight. Looking at the 1970 power workers strike and the propensity of letter writers to the Times to condemn strikers. Thompson argued that it was only when rubbish was uncollected or post undelivered that workers began to get a sense of their own power in society.
This is not something that the ruling elite wants to encourage and it continues with the rail strikes. On social media one can find a Times Radio discussion between ex-SDPer Daniel Finkelstein and ex-leftist David Aaronovitch on the best way to articulate that they are of course not supporting the RMT.
E P Thompson was a great letter writer himself and one way of supporting the RMT is to counter the green ink letter writers of Tunbridge Wells and environs
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