https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Steps-forward-in-free-access-to-public-transport https://internationalviewpoint.org/Steps-forward-in-free-access-to-public-transport 2018-10-19T06:15:16Z text/html en Łukasz Ługowski Estonia Poland <p>Thirty years of neoliberal domination, culminating in the economic crisis that began in 2008, have resulted in the introduction of charges for public service throughout Europe, particularly for education and health services. But this is not the case in all public services. In recent years there has been a renaissance of free public transport, particularly in Eastern Europe. While in Hasselt in Belgium or Colomiers in France - cities that were until recently symbols of the success of free public transport in Western Europe - tickets have been reintroduced as part of the neoliberal trend to charge for services, in the East candidates for local power compete with each other in many cities on the basis of free public transport. Currently, it is possible to travel free of charge in more than 100 cities around the world. And Poland and Estonia are at the forefront in this field.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV525-October-2018-" rel="directory">IV525 - October 2018</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Estonia-+" rel="tag">Estonia</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Poland-+" rel="tag">Poland</a>