Some Labour MPs have joined post workers on their picket lines – to their credit. It is also remarkable that the government has retreated into sudden silence over the postal strike.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has put itself in the bizarre position of brokering talks to try and end the dispute.
Escalating the strike is the best way for postal workers to win. CWU rep Mick Chambers, from Chiswick delivery office in west London, speaks for many when he says that the union must increase the tempo of the action.
Royal Mail wrote to all its employees last week to offer them "protection" should they choose to break this week’s strike—but just how far will Royal Mail go to shield scabs from the company’s own managers?
Today saw the beginning of the second wave of national strikes at Royal Mail. Tens of thousands of postal workers in mail centres and the company’s network drivers and depot staff took to picket lines. CWU union activists across Britain told Socialist Worker that their action remains absolutely solid.
Chants of "Where’s our post?" directed at striking postal workers by pro-management demonstrators in Ipswich today no doubt brought much glee to Royal Mail bosses.
At 5am this morning, a group of around 20 workers and students gathered in Dartford.
There are few more contentious topics in science than the question of whether genes determine human intelligence – particularly whether different "races" have different levels of intelligence.
Britain’s ruling class has united behind Royal Mail bosses to pour vitriol on striking postal workers.
London NW2 office in Cricklewood was a gourmet picket line, with sandwiches, noodles and spring rolls.
The strikes at Royal Mail are a clear sign of the growing bitterness in working class Britain.
