Workers' Liberty

Listening to the news, we are told that Ken is secretly cheering that this strike is calling into question the Public Private Partnership. We are told that he opposed PPP from the outset and that his hands are itching to get hold of the Metronet contract.

But Ken has not mounted any form of campaign to reverse the PPP, and is seeking to extend privatisation on the tube by privatising the East London Line.

Why are the media willing to give Ken the credit, rather than the workers who are on strike over the principles of public ownership? If this strike produces any results, it will be a victory for the workers, and not Ken Livingstone, whose agenda remains in opposition to that of the union.