Subway

Capitalist Copaganda and the NYC Subway Shooting
Eric Adams, and the New York political establishment is trying to use the subway shooting to increase support for the police. Don’t buy into the copaganda.
Emma Lee
April 28, 2022MTA 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.
Zed Simon
December 20, 2020Police 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.
Rebecca Margolies
April 17, 2020Protesters 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.
Tatum Regan
February 1, 2020NYPD, 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 […]
Enid Brain
November 19, 2019NYPD 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.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
October 28, 2019MTA: Fares Are Up, Safety Is Down
The MTA raised fare prices this weekend, while the subway continues to have major problems.
Signý A.
April 23, 2019Buenos 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.
Leo Zino
May 23, 2018