Off the Rails / On Guard

Off the Rails is a platform for rank-and-file rail workers.

On Guard is a rank-and-file socialist bulletin by and for workers of all grades and companies at Sheffield, and Notts Off the Rails in Nottingham.

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A group of RMT union members and supporters pose outside a railway facility, holding RMT “Official Picket” signs, red union flags and a large green-and-red “Central Mersey & North Branch Liverpool” banner. A red RMT flag, held reversed so it appears to read "TMR", is also visible. The group stands behind a pavement beside a fenced railway area.

Merseyrail cleaners strike

13 August 2026

Cleaners on Merseyrail, employed by outsourced contractor Churchill, struck from 7-8 August.

Purple East Midlands Railway train at a test or maintenance facility, with several railway workers in orange high-visibility clothing standing beside the tracks and equipment.

EMR workers strike for safety

23 July 2026

RMT members at East Midlands Railway plan to strike on 1, 8, and 15 August, in an ongoing dispute over fleet safety.

Yellow-and-black Merseyrail train standing at a station platform, displaying "Kirkby" as its destination, with a footbridge spanning the tracks in the background.

Merseyrail strike threat forces concessions

23 July 2026

Image source here. The threat of strikes over the weekend of The Open golf championships forced concessions on pay from Merseyrail. Workers rejected an initial 4% pay rise, and announced strikes for 18-20 July. The bosses quickly returned to the table with a new offer, proposing a 7.25% backdated...

Smoke rises from two industrial chimneys, forming a large dark-and-white plume against a clear blue sky.

Worker-led transition, not alliances with the bosses to expand drilling!

17 July 2026

RMT has co-signed an open letter, along with several energy industry bosses, demanding the continuation, and implicitly the expansion, of fossil fuel extraction, via drilling for oil.