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Royal Mail’s reported annual profits have doubled to £321 million, but the government is still determined to push ahead with privatising it.

Over 250 postal workers in Scotland struck last weekend over changes to working practices.

The crisis in the Labour government has opened up the issue of the privatisation of Royal Mail. While the opposition to the plan – which would see thousands of jobs lost – is growing. Labour seems determined to push ahead.

Royal mail bosses have announced a pay freeze for all workers at the company. The CWU union has told the company there is no possibility of its members accepting this.

Business secretary Lord Mandelson claims that the only way for Royal Mail to "modernise" is to privatise it.

Union reps from the postal workers CWU union across London agreed a timetable last week for a ballot for industrial action and strikes that would follow.

Postal workers in Watford are demanding a strike ballot after Royal Mail managers suspended the CWU union’s safety rep Bob Kennedy in a dispute about unsafe working practices.

The possibility of a London-wide strike at Royal Mail grew this week after bosses refused to back down from plans to slash jobs at offices around the capital.

Postal workers in Woolwich, south London, delivered a massive show of solidarity to a sacked colleague by taking strike action on Tuesday this week.

There is a new sense of urgency in the battle to save Royal Mail from privatisation and to stop tens of thousands of job cuts.

Comrades,

Delivery workers in Upper Edmonton, north London, are in a militant mood following a successful strike last Saturday. Leading CWU union activists say their action could soon spread across London.