It is critical that drivers speak out and oppose the unprincipled efforts to silence the WSWS. Its political censorship is an attack on drivers’ right to know information being suppressed by the mainstream media, the bus companies and Unite the union.
The London Bus Rank-and-File Committee is a militant faction of drivers committed to the principle that workers’ interests must take priority over corporate profit.
On the day of the strike there was virtually no coverage expressing nervousness over industrial action by workers as price gouging by the oil corporations leads to a further round of hikes in the fuels costs and energy bills that are provoking social anger over the rising cost of living.
If it were not for the trade unions, the cost-of-living crisis fuelled by thirty-year high inflation of 8.2 percent would already have resulted in a strike wave across all sectors of the economy.
Faced with the rejection of its proposed agreement with management at Arriva London South, Unite the Union is attempting to save face to maintain control of the dispute.