In Praise of Direct Action (and More)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/28/in-praise-of-direct-action-and-more/
Date Written:  2019-01-28
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23353

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 nation’s 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 America’s Trump-saddled capitalism from zero to negative growth.