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In Praise of Direct Action (and More)
Street, Paul http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/28/in-praise-of-direct-action-and-more/
Publisher: CounterPunch Date Written: 28/01/2019 Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article
The speed with which air traffic controllers' work stoppage put an end to the government shutdown shows the power of direct action especially when it threatens capitalist profit.
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As the shutdown ground on, I started wondering when federal air-traffic controllers and other key and strategically placed air-travel workers would flex their capacity to disrupt the continuous flow of airline flight operations? The answer came last Friday when a sick-in of New York City controllers led to the stoppage of flights at LaGuardia Airport. Delays began piling up across the nations integrated air-travel system, a quarter of which moves through New York....
The nation's critical and capital-intensive air-travel system, upon which the nation's business and professional classes depend, would have crashed, helping move Americas Trump-saddled capitalism from zero to negative growth.
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