On 23 September, a meeting of transport union RMT activists was organised by London Underground Engineering Branch, Bob Crow’s old branch and the largest in the union with 3,200 members, under the title Your Party – What Is The Role Of The RMT? After being expelled from the Labour Party in 2004 for supporting Scottish socialist election candidates, the RMT under Bob Crow’s leadership continued to campaign for an anti-austerity working-class political voice. And it was, of course, an RMT predecessor union, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, that was a key initiator of the Labour Party back in 1900! He went on to argue that the “relationship between unions and the Labour Party… wasn’t always good. Our forebears were involved in founding the Labour Party over a hundred years ago when the Liberals failed to represent our class.