The RMT passes motion saying ‘Britain continues to play a belligerent role’ by supplying arms
Telegraph Reporters29 June 2025 8:11pm BST
The RMT transport union has called for Britain to stop giving military aid to Ukraine.
A motion titled The Labour Movement Stands for Peace was submitted by the union’s Paddington branch, urging Labour ministers to “commit to work for a diplomatic, negotiated, lasting peace settlement”.
Passed at the RMT’s annual meeting last week in Manchester, it said: “Despite the defeat of the Conservative government by the Labour Party at the 2024 general election, Britain continues to play a belligerent role in international relations by supplying British-made weapons, military support, credit and billions of pounds in public funding in trying and failing to achieve a military defeat for Russia in Ukraine.
“We reject the politics of lower living standards and cuts in living standards to fund a policy of unending and escalating war that last year took us to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.”
The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign said news of the motion passing was “very bad” and added on X: “This is a union with an unusually strong Stop the War and particularly Communist Party of Britain influence in its leadership and apparatus.
“In the run-up to the AGM, we helped pro-Ukraine RMT members renew and extend contacts with rail workers in Ukraine.”
A spokesman for the RMT said: “The motion was calling for a de-escalation of war zones across the world from Gaza, Yemen and Iran as well as Ukraine.
“As many commentators from Left and Right have commented, pouring billions into the Ukraine war zone will not create the conditions for peace negotiations but simply make them harder to achieve.
“The RMT does not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine but pouring weapons into one side against the other is counterproductive to creating the conditions for a peaceful solution.”
Posing with pro-Putin separatists
Eddie Dempsey, who replaced Mike Lynch as general secretary earlier this year, has faced questions after posing with pro-Putin separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Mr Dempsey visited eastern Ukraine in 2015, where he posed for a picture with Aleksey Mozgovoy, a commander in the “Ghost Brigade” of pro-Russian separatists branded a terrorist organisation by Ukraine’s supreme court.
At the time, an RMT spokesman said: “The union does not support either Vladimir Putin or his actions in Ukraine, and we are backing global union pressure for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.”
Mr Dempsey said: “I fully agree with the union’s position.”
Meanwhile, Mr Lynch was in 2024 accused of peddling Kremlin propaganda after he claimed the EU had provoked trouble in Ukraine before Russia’s invasion.
In an interview with the New Statesman, he said: “There were a lot of corrupt politicians in Ukraine. And while they were doing that, there were an awful lot of people [in Ukraine] playing with Nazi imagery, and going back to the [Second World] War, and all that.”
This story is more concerning than it appears.
The leadership of the big trade unions in the UK has been dominated for decades by Irish communists.
Why do we allow it?
Because we are fucking idiots.
These cunts are Tankies. With the return of a Labour government, they are flexing their muscles. They effectively own Labour because they bankroll them.
Although Sir Kier Starmer and his DefSec John Healey are both pro-Ukraine, the Tankie wing; the gormless far left equivalent of the magas, is on the rise.
In fact Starmer’s far left deputy; Angela Rayner, is thought to be plotting a takeover.
If that happened, the UK’s aid for Ukraine would be at risk.
The Tankies are back in strength.
The far left and far right are united in their support of the putinaZis.
Comment from :
Valerie Paynter
This is the most brain-dead act from the union I have ever heard of. What they factually call for is suicide on the part of Ukraine.. Their ignorance about Russia is beyond belief. Speaks volumes for their educational level of comprehension.
My reply was: They are putin-lovers. Notice how far left dolts like these put out the same talking points as far right kremlin propagandists like Peter Hitchens?
Comment from :
Brian Reay
Unions taking instructions from Moscow as usual.
The Unions opposed our fighting Hitler – until he attacked Russia.
Russia funded the miner’s strike, via Poland, which destroyed the Coal Industry eventually.
Russia was behind the founding of the PLO – look at the problems that has caused.
My reply was :
There is not a terror gang in the world, from the IRA to Hamas, this isn’t sponsored by russia.
Sniveling POSs.
A wretched parroting of kremkrap psychobabble. How immensely revolting their soulless characters are.
[…] https://ukrainetoday.org/cancel-military-aid-to-ukraine-says-transport-union/ – Ukraine Today reports that the RMT union has called for Britain to cease providing military aid to Ukraine. A motion titled ‘The Labour Movement Stands for Peace’ was passed at the RMT’s annual meeting, urging for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. The article also touches upon Dempsey’s 2015 visit to eastern Ukraine and his meeting with pro-Russian separatist Aleksey Mozgovoy, which has been a subject of controversy. […]