Jet fuel shortages, a consequence of Trump’s war in the Middle East, have meant around 13,000 flights have already been cancelled, around 2 million seats booked! Surely we can get compensation for this? After all, it is not our fault. However some airlines have even sought to avoid paying compensation to travellers affected. UK airlines have requested that the Civil Aviation Authority act to make working-class people lose between £220 to £520 in compensation each. How dare the likes of easyJet, which made £665 million in profits last year, take our compensation away!
While the big bosses try to pass the costs of their wars onto the working class, instead of that, let’s make the bosses pay! We need to nationalise the energy companies and the airlines under democratic workers’ control and management, so decisions are made by us, not for what makes them a profit. Compensation should be paid only on the basis of proven need – the big bosses have made oodles of profits already.
The democratic nationalisation of the transportation industry would mean we can make public transport such as high-speed rail free, and invest in infrastructure to make them environmentally sustainable and good quality for us all. A socialist world, in which the working class makes the decisions democratically, would mean we could build a world free from war, conflict and climate change once and for all.
Adam Gillman, south east London Socialist Party
