“What’s going on immediately within the UK is similar that is occurring in the USA of America, the identical bloody factor.”
United States senator Bernie Sanders has arrived within the UK to again placing employees of their battle for higher pay and circumstances, calling for ‘working folks everywhere in the globe to face collectively’.
The veteran democratic socialist joined placing employees on the Save London’s Public Transport Rally within the capital on Wednesday night time. The rally had been organised by numerous commerce unions, together with the Nationwide Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Staff (RMT), in central London.
Different audio system at yesterday’s occasion included Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell, RMT chief Mick Lynch and Miatta Fahnbulleh of the New Economics Basis.
Sanders advised the viewers: “What’s going on immediately within the UK is similar that is occurring in the USA of America, the identical bloody factor.
“The folks on the highest are phenomenally wealthy and they’re changing into richer. You’re seeing a center class proceed to shrink, and tens of millions reside in abject poverty.
“Within the yr 2022, we can not permit that to occur.
“We’ve got obtained to get our priorities proper and get a authorities that works for all and never only a few.
“There’s a rising focus of possession, massive multinational firms have a lot management of the markets.
“A small variety of billionaires have huge energy… our problem is to convey folks collectively and stand towards the demi Gods who need to divide us up by the color of our pores and skin, or the place we had been born, or what our sexual orientation is.
“It isn’t radical… Our job is to tackle these oligarchs and welcome a world of justice. Each employee ought to be entitled to a good lifestyle. It isn’t a radical thought to entitle everyone to respectable, reasonably priced housing.”
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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