A further weekend of action (10-11 December) has continued to disrupt management’s plan to re-open Night Tube while abolishing the Night Tube driver role. The reballot closes on 20 December, and there is further action on 17-18 December, including a full 24 hour strike on all existing Night Tube lines on Saturday 18th.
As well as voting yes in the all-grades ballot across London Underground for action against cuts across the board, drivers need to prepare for further action in the specific Night Tube dispute.
• With the election of Alex Gordon, a member of the Communist Party of Britain’s Executive Committee, as National President, the Broad Left faction — an alliance between supporters of the Communist Party and Morning Star and other Stalinists, and a traditional “Old Labour” element — has further consolidated its power within rail union RMT’s structures. Workers’ Liberty supporters in RMT have published a detailed argument about why a solid rank-and-file network needs to be developed in the union, and how.