Why Pay?

A Short History of the Fare Dodgers Liberation Front, London 1994-6
A5 pamphlet

‘For millions of us, riding on the tube is mostly a means of getting to work. Often it’s the most unpleasant part of the working day, and the bosses expect us to pay for it out of our own pockets! The bastards should be paying us!...’

In 1994, in an attempt to crack down on fare-dodging, London Underground, introduced ‘penalty fares’: anyone caught travelling without ticket by one of the Underground’s ticket inspectors, was to be fined on the spot.
The Fare Dodgers’ Liberation Front was created by a small group of London troublemakers to agitate against penalty fares and spreead the word about how to ride the Underground
without paying...