31. "If you fight you won't always win..." - Talking with comrade Alex Gordon RMT

from Trademark Belfast · host A Worker's Guide To Everything

A discussion about the history and the potential of organised labour in Ireland and Britain with guest Alex Gordon, train driver, former president of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Worker's Union (RMT) and Trustee of the Marx Memorial Library. Also with the Seán Byers and Stiofán Ó Nualláin of Trademark Belfast. https://www.rmt.org.uk/home/ https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/

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