CHEMINOTS OF FIRE

BOB CROW

General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT)

UK

From his election in 2002 till his untimely death aged 52 in 2014, Bob Crow was known as the UK’s most militant – and most successful – union leader. A media hate-campaign targeted Crow as a ‘football yob’ as well as a ‘champagne socialist’, but he was unapologetic about his beach holidays and refusal to move out of a socially-rented house in Essex. ‘If I moved out of my house tomorrow the first thing you’d say is “Comrade Crow leaves his roots”,’ he said. ‘Council houses are not just for