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Eversholt’s great train robbery
If you want to see how our taxes end up lining the pockets of billionaire businessmen based in Hong Kong, look no further than the latest accounts of one of the three companies that own our privatised trains, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
EVERSHOLT is one of the “rolling stock companies” or “Roscos” created when British Rail was privatised — like Porterbrook, which I wrote about a few weeks ago. These private companies own the trains which roll on British railways.
Eversholt’s accounts, published in April this year, show that in 2020 and 2021, the years of the pandemic when the rail industry was entirely dependent on a vast, publicly funded bailout to keep running, the firm paid a total dividend of £83 million.
The money from Britain’s railways was shunted to its owners, based in Luxembourg.
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