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Royal Mail privatisation: workers prepare to fight 13 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
By a CWU rep Earlier this month, 500 full-time Communication Workers Union reps and officials, gathered in London for an emergency “policy forum”. They voted unanimously for a national strike ballot....
Egypt after the military coup 11 Aug 2013 | 02:22 pm
The July 3 military coup in Egypt, launched by Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, seems to be faltering in the face of intransigent resistance by the mass following of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ha...
Retail workers escalate fight for fair pay in the USA 10 Aug 2013 | 04:39 pm
By KD Tait / Saturday 10 August, 2013 Last week retail workers’ campaign for $15 an hour and the right to unionise took another step forward with thousands joining strikes in seven cities. What bega...
Media’s “NHS needless deaths” smear campaign exposed 9 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
A recent “correction” in The Guardian makes it the first mainstream newspaper to confirm what many activists, bloggers and most of all, health workers have known for months: the so-called “needless de...
Liverpool: council workers set to strike 9 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
Unite and GMB members employed in highways, grounds and maintenance work will stage a 24 hour strike on Friday 9 August after rejecting a below-inflation pay rise. They will strike each Friday until ...
Platform for a class struggle party 8 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm
We have drafted a third ‘platform’ to extend the debate within Left Unity. Having read the two platforms currently circulating – the Left Party Platform and the Socialist Platform – we were struck by ...
Postal union CWU to ballot for a national strike 7 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
Workers need to keep up the pressure for an immediate ballot and active “yes” campaign By a CWU rep An 1 August, 500 full-time CWU reps and officials, gathered in London for an emergency “policy foru...
Solidarity with Bridgwater Delivery Office posties 7 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Postal workers at Bridgwater Delivery Office in Somerset are on strike against imposed “summer savings” (workload hikes) and management bullying. Royal Mail are refusing to suspend a senior manager wh...
Syriza congress: an eyewitness report 30 Jul 2013 | 06:07 pm
By Martin Suchanek, Gruppe Arbeitermacht Before last year’s elections in Greece, Alexis Tsipras was described by the bourgeois press as the “most dangerous man in Europe”. It was said that if he were...
Tories launch “blitzkrieg” to privatise Royal Mail 30 Jul 2013 | 05:55 pm
…only a national strike by postal workers can derail it Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable has confirmed that the Tory-led Coalition will aim to float Royal Mail on the London Stock Exchange t...
