League for the Revolutionary Party
Transit Workers’ Information

This page last updated May 17, 2010.

Revolutionary Transit Worker (RTW) is a bulletin for TWU Local 100, supported by the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP).

Latest RTW to be posted on this site:
Revolutionary Transit Worker No. 50 (May 17, 2010), “TWU Leaders – Stop Talking, Start Fighting Layoffs!”

Sign up to receive free RTWs! ... and get a button that says, “Billions for Bankers? – Layoffs for Workers? Hell No!”

Letters of Support for Transit Workers and Revolutionary Transit Worker – January 2, 2006

An Appeal to RTW Readers

RTW 2009 election campaign: Vote for the Candidates of Revolutionary Transit Worker! Toussaint & Co. Must Go, But TBOU Is No Alternative (May 19, 2009)

Response to Spartacist Slanders about RTW

LRP Supporter Wins Transit Union Post

The following links show our long involvement
in TWU/Local 100 Struggles

Eric Josephson for Executive Board Member From Track! – October 1, 2003

How we fought against the 2002 contract sellout:

New York: Union Tops Sabotage Transit Struggle – from Proletarian Revolution No. 66 (Winter 2003).

Fighting for revolutionary leadership:

Vote Eric Josephson (Independent Line) for Track Division Vice-Chair! Put New Directions to the Test – But Don’t Trust Them! – November 15, 2000

New Bureaucracy Threatens Workers’ Militancy: Overturn in New York Transit Union – from Proletarian Revolution No. 63 (Fall 2001).

Revolutionary vs. Reformist Methods in the Unions – from Proletarian Revolution No. 63 (Fall 2001).

The 1999 contract fight:

Showdown in New York Transit from Proletarian Revolution No. 60 (Winter 2000)

As part of the 1999 contract fight, we issued a series of special bulletins addressed to the TWU Local 100 membership:

• Vote Down Giuliani’s and “Judas” James’s Contract! – January 26, 2000.
• No Contract, No Work! No Time-Wasting! No Sellout! Vote to Strike! – distributed at TWU Local 100 mass meetings on December 14, 1999.
• Prepare to Strike! Bulletin #3 – December 7, 1999.
• Let’s Prepare to Strike! Bulletin #2 – November 16, 1999.
• Let’s Prepare to Strike! Bulletin #1 – October 1999.

Other articles about Local 100:

Real Jobs, Not Workfare – Stop WEP Slave Labor! – Written by a shop steward in the Track Division, May 6, 1999.

New York Transit: No New Direction – from Proletarian Revolution No. 57 (Summer/Fall 1998).

Revolutionary Campaign in New York Transit – from Proletarian Revolution No. 54 (Spring 1997)

Transit Workers Railroaded with Slave-Labor Contract – from Proletarian Revolution No. 53 (Winter 1997)

Local 100 Hacks, Old and New, Play Bosses’ Game – Summer 1996, from Proletarian Revolution No. 52

---

The League for the Revolutionary Party:

Capitalism is the Problem: Workers’ Socialist Revolution is the Solution

The League for the Revolutionary Party – Who We Are and What We Stand For

---

Contact RTW!

Let us know what you think of our views.
If you agree, let us know.
If you disagree, let’s discuss it.

Phone: 212-330-9017

Email: lrpcofi@earthlink.net

Write to us:

RTW
P.O. Box 1936
Murray Hill Station
New York, NY 10156

LRP Homepage | Write to the LRP