‘The stumbling block to a solution in the post was a small group of union activists in London who seemed to think they were fighting a class war. They were being driven on by the Socialist Workers Party.’A ‘Royal Mail source’ complaining in the Daily Mail that the post bosses didn’t get it all their own way
In 1989 popular revolutions across Eastern Europe overthrew their Communist dictatorships. These countries had nothing to do with socialism. The state and party bureaucracy that ruled society acted as a collective capitalist that exploited the working class.
For Karl Marx, socialism was about self-emancipation. Unlike capitalism, where a rich elite rule, socialism would mean power for the vast majority of people – the working class.
The days leading up to what could be the most important industrial conflict for many years saw one side preparing for all out class warfare – while the other was desperately looking for peace.
Is Labour a friend to working class people?
The Tories and New Labour are no more than bullies who are competing with each other to see who can be the most vile to ill and unemployed people.
The government has dramatically stepped up its war on young working class people. Gordon Brown wants to force young mothers into "supervised homes" where they will be told "how to raise their children properly".
Gordon Brown plans to slash spending on our public services by billions of pounds. Cuts are already hitting working class people – but important groups of workers are fighting back.
