Still, such demands are not very radical compared with what we really want. We want to reclaim all our stolen time, time stolen by commuting, time stolen to pay for fares, time stolen by work. We want another world. Whenever transport workers go on strike the Standard and other rags talk of 'Misery on the Roads and on the Rails'. But we know the reality is the opposite.
Strikes are good for the spirit.
Commuters get the day off work, tube workers get to socialise on the picket lines and down the pub instead of working. It is about lots of people working hard just to survive while making profits for others to live at their expense. We want to damage that which damages us. The economy is a human misery. Anyway, only by using their economic muscle can the tube workers defend their own interests against the attempt to make them work harder for less, which is what privatisation is about.