"You can be a communist and not be a member of the Communist Party just like you can go to the British Virgin Islands and not be a virgin." ?
Railway Union leader Bob Crow responding to a right-wing media hate campaign, which attempted in numerous disingenuous ways to paint him as a hypocrite - the irony! ?
(Quote not necessarily in tagged biography, but taken from New Internationalist magazine #539.)
"At Ivangorod on Russia's border with Estonia, several years ago, I was unceremoniously booted off a train and frogmarched down the tracks."
I thought I'd add another #FirstLineFridays as my other one was a bit boring! This is from New Internationalist #539, "Whose Railway is it Anyway?" ????
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The latest issue of New internationalist, #539, focuses on railways, how they can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, their potential to ease cross-border travel, and their role in anti-capitalism, all relevant as a wave of strikes, including rail workers, sweeps the UK as the cost of living crises deepens and our government is ripping itself apart. Other stories include a cartoon history of Thomas Paine, and Palestinian skateboard resistance.
