Rail Against Privatisation Rally: Photos and Report
On Saturday 30 April, RMT organised a spectacular march for re-nationalisation of railways through central London. The march was part of RMT's mobile demonstration, 'Rail Against Privatisation' which started on 16 April in Glasgow and passed through Edinburgh, Newcastle, Durham, York, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Hull, Derby, Nottingham and Milton Keynes, and included public meetings in Exeter, Bristol and Cardiff.
(left to right) Robin White, Branch Chair and Brendan Kelly, Secretary relaxing before the Rail Against Privatisation march set off from Central London, on the final leg to Camden.
A colliery brass band led the RAP march through central London playing 'Colonel Bogey'.
25 RMT members marched from Glasgow to London on the RAP mobile demonstration...
... shoppers in Tottenham Court Road, tourists in Trafalgar Square and hotel workers in Bloomsbury heard the noise and came out to applaud the RAP marchers
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Trade union members from all over Britain came to support the RAP marchers on the final leg of their journey and to join them at a political rally and social in Camden
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Bristol Rail branch members carried our banner on the RAP march
There were lots and lots of RMT branch banners from every part of the country...
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French railway workers' union, SUD-Rail (Solidarity, Unity, Democracy) joined the RAP rally too