MTA Temporarily Averts Austerity. A Wealth Tax Could Save It.

The full MTA budget includes anticipated funding from a yet-to-be-passed coronavirus relief package. Cuomo could easily solve the MTA’s budget problem by taxing the rich.

Police are Not Essential Workers

As most facets of daily life in NYC grind to a halt due to COVID-19, racist police violence against Black and brown New Yorkers on the subway continues. MTA workers who are organizing for their own safety in the face of high rates of infection could join those necessary calls to demands that would keep all New Yorkers safe. The NYPD is inessential during a pandemic and at all times. 

Protesters Demanding Free Transit Face Arrest and Beatings by NYPD at Grand Central Station

Last night, FTP3 converged on Grand Central Station to protest the police presence in the subways and to demand free public transit. The cops responded in full force.

NYPD, Hands Off Street Vendors

The NYPD has been steadily ramping up police presence in New York City’s subways, claiming that they are trying to reduce fare evasion. Unsurprisingly, this increase in police has coincided with a rise in police violence and the persecution of working class people, specifically people of color.  Several incidents of excessive force against fare evaders […]

NYPD Out of the Subway

In the past week there have been two horrendous examples of police brutality on the subway. We do have the right to a clean and safe subway. The cops won’t help with that. 

MTA: Fares Are Up, Safety Is Down

The MTA raised fare prices this weekend, while the subway continues to have major problems.

Buenos Aires Subway Workers Strike Against Repression

After a month-long struggle the militarized police clamped down on striking subway workers in the tunnel and arrested 16 of them. In response to the government’s repression, subway workers called for an indefinite, city-wide transit strike until their fellow workers are released from jail.