More Support From Passengers

I support the strike. Somehow, the message has to get out to the public, but at the moment I'm afraid the right-leaning press, Metro included, is making it all out to be a money-grabbing exercise and people are buying it. Good luck. Eddie de Oliveira

Good luck with the strike. I commute to London from Hedge End and work in the City as an underwriter. I therefore get the Tube from Waterloo to Bank. I've been hoping it would be closed as it would force me to walk. I guess LU prioritise this service and it is easy to keep going as it is just the one stop. The London rags like City AM and London Evening Standard don't do the union any favours of course - it would be helpful to have some information on the safety issues that the proposed job cuts would cause as this gets no mention in the press. Terry Crow

All the best and good luck to all the striking tube workers! Of course the workers have to defend their own interests in a capitalist/imperialist society like Britain waging wars in the Middle East and involving in torture. It is also clear that the tube workers are also striking for the health and safety of the passengers. On the other hand it is good to remind the people that the trains are rolling and the entire tube system is functioning with the labour of the workers and not with robots. In a society like Britain the workers must from time to time (in the age of the massive cuts more severely and militantly) let the people realise the existence of the workers by strike actions and that the "system" would collapse without them. I am a commuter myself and it will probably take 2,5 hours to go to work today. But who cares. It is better to have a long journey while reading books than to work in a boring monotonous office environment Andreas Meinhof, Essex