Despite claims to the contrary, the Legion has embodied right-wing, establishment politics from its foundation in the early 1920s. The Legion is the most monolithic of the military charities. More recently, the RMT has come into conflict with the Royal British Legion (RBL). Mick Lynch is back schooling journalists as the RMT goes on strike.Global death firm BAE Systems to set up factory in Ukraine.We cancelled the strikes because many of our members would want to do that. In fact, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch himself explained at The World Transformed in Liverpool in October 2022:
Recently, the RMT – which is doing great work in other areas – backed down on a strike day following the death of the Queen. In effect, this is lobbying for the arms industry. Some go as far as campaigning for defence spending hikes. They are often conservative and aim to tweak the economy a little, rather than ending the extractive violence of capitalism. The big British trade unions are, of course, status quo organisations. It chews up generations of young people in wars, it allows for massive defence budgets which would be better spent on human needs, and it normalises state violence as a way of resolving problems. When that blind spot is visible, we should all pay attention – accepting the militarist status quo is a major weakness. British trade unions and a section of the broader labour movement have a military-shaped blind spot.
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