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Postal workers across Britain in all sectors of the industry have voted overwhelmingly for a strike to defend their living standards and the postal service.

Taking liberties is a new political documentary film that traces how civil rights in Britain have been systematically dismantled under ten years of New Labour.

A US warship fired missiles on a village in north east Somalia on Friday of last week – a bombardment that was almost completely ignored by the British media.

What an example for British workers to follow! On Friday South African public sector workers launched the biggest strike since the end of apartheid in 1994.

A group of exiled islanders who the British government forcibly removed from their homes won another victory in the court of appeal last week.

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"A flood of Romanian gypsy children has left a British town facing financial crisis," screamed the Daily Mail last week. "Roma children flood into Slough," said the BBC.

The government announced last week that it was to close 2,500 post offices across Britain.

Remploy was set up in 1947 to provide jobs for people with disabilities mainly as a result of the war. Remploy is not the only provider of supported employment in Britain, but it is the largest by far.

Postal workers from across Britain have been contacting Socialist Worker. Here is a selection of their views:

Sixteen years of US and British intervention in Iraq has resulted in a 150 percent increase in Iraq’s child mortality rate.