The disciplinary action taken against CWU union activists in Exeter must be made a national issue among postal workers.
Two bitter disputes have been settled, a sign that Royal Mail bosses can be pushed back by determined action.
A legal challenge has halted a strike ballot among 10,000 HGV drivers working across Britain for Royal Mail.
Council care workers in Southampton picketed six care homes as part of a three-day strike over proposed pay cuts from last Saturday.
Some 20 teaching assistants and secretarial staff at Holbrook primary school in Coventry were set to strike for three days from Wednesday of this week over a single status pay deal.
Thousands of Rotherham council workers in South Yorkshire could strike in response to the council imposing a single status pay deal.
More than 5,500 Hampshire County Council workers are set for a pay cut, with a number of employees losing several thousand pounds a year as part of a single status job re-evaluation.
There is hardly an area of Britain that is not suffering the prospect of savage cuts to local health provision. In towns and cities there are protest rallies, marches and campaign meetings to save local hospitals and facilities.
The strike by quarter of a million civil service workers in the PCS union against job losses on Wednesday of last week had a huge impact.
US Army lieutenant Ehren Watada is facing four years in prison for "missing movement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman".
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The occupation forces and their Iraqi allies last week claimed they had crushed a doomsday cult outside the Shia holy city of Najaf. This was, they said, the first victory in George Bush’s "surge" against the resistance in Iraq.
