Workers Win Free Public Transit in Kansas City

The workers and transit riders of Kansas City, MO, have won a major victory: soon, all public transportation there will be free. In 2016, the city started a streetcar that was free to all riders. Now, bus rides and other forms of public transit will no longer cost workers $1.50 per ride. Kansas City is now the first major U.S. city to offer a fare-free system. Meanwhile, the New Orleans RTA continues to underserve the working people of New Orleans with inadequate services for locals and unnecessary lines for tourists. The workers of Kansas City have proved that public transportation can serve the people, not the business community. We must organize in our cities to demand access to a free, efficient mass transit system. Our livelihoods as working people depend on it.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

We are workers, employed and unemployed, youth, students, and seniors. We are multi-racial and multi-national and organize for the unity of the working class. We are funded by and for workers, for the liberation of all workers and oppressed people.

We organize for jobs and higher wages, against racism, women’s, and LGBTQ oppression, and for solidarity with immigrants. We organize for community schools, lower rents, and food on our tables. We organize for workers’ power so that everything will one day be removed from the capitalists’ private ownership.

We oppose the Pentagon, which is looting our tax dollars and handing them over to war-profiteering private companies, while social programs are gutted. We oppose war for empire which is pursued only to lower our wages and plunder the world’s resources while destroying the environment. We reject the monopoly media who feed us lie after lie.

The labor of workers produces enormous wealth here in Louisiana, the U.S. and the world– so much wealth that everyone could have housing, meaningful jobs, education, healthcare, and genuine equality. But this wealth is stolen and privately owned by the capitalist class for their greed and profit. We believe that we, the workers of the world, can unite in revolution to overcome capitalism and build a better world.

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