So RTS closed down a train station and someone set fire to a police van. I can't see how it helped secure public funding for the Tube either. So I find myself wondering whether RTS has existed for too long. They have clearly lost the plot. The nastiest cops would be selected for revenge.
Any message is lost when the punch-up begins.
People get hurt, people get arrested. What those in charge of RTS never realised about Paris '68 etc. is that the French working class smash cars up and set fire to things whenever their interests are threatened. It happens so regularly that it hardly registers in the UK media. It also brings its opponents to the surface, so they can be identified and controlled. They imagined that RTS are the inheritors of a tradition of popular protest going back hundreds of years.