A group of more than 20 CWU activists came together last Saturday to discuss Royal Mail’s offer and the union’s response to it.
The small revisions to last week’s Royal Mail offer are paltry compared to what could have been won with more action.
I have been a post worker in Galashiels, Scotland, for the best part of ten years and in that time the changes in the job have been horrendous.
The deal discussed by the union’s postal executive on Monday and Tuesday would sweep away crucial rights, steal our pensions, clear the way for more bullying, and give managers even more power to order us about.
George Bush’s attitude toward the poverty-stricken East Asian country of North Korea demonstrates the contradictory stance of the US government.
Central to the project of socialist revolution is the idea that working people should run every aspect of society, developing their own democratic organisations as a new form of power.
The agrarian reform enacted by the Russian soviet government in 1917 challenged the thinking of the world Marxist movement.
On Tuesday 8 October Marou Awanis was driving through Baghdad when she accidentally got too close to a convoy guarded by "private security contractors". The guards opened fire on her car, killing her and one passenger, and injuring others in the back seat.
British charity War On Want has been tracking the growth of private military contractors over the last few years. In a report released earlier this year, Corporate Mercenaries – The Threat of Private Military and Security Companies, the charity condems what it describes as the "privatisation of war". The major corporate mercenary firms are:
Royal Mail has set up a sorting office in Southgate, north London, which is entirely staffed by non-union scab labour and managers.
The postal workers’ determined resistance to Royal Mail and Gordon Brown has inspired hundreds of thousands of other workers who are facing similar attacks over pay, pensions, and terms and conditions.
The fierce battle between Royal Mail and the postal workers’ CWU union has seen management forced to make a new offer, despite them having repeated "the offer is the offer" throughout the dispute.
