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Published by Salma Yaqoob, Respect, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU .
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22/10/2009
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"The last people who want a postal strike are the workers who will lose pay," says Respect MP George Galloway.
"Of course it will massively inconvenience the public as well - I already have constituents who are not receiving benefit cheques or important correspondence from the Home Office and other government departments.
"But, as I tell them, the people to blame squarely are the management of Royal Mail and those politicians who want to make an example of the postal workers in an effort to drive down wages, slash jobs and lay the ground for yet more privatisation.
18/10/2009
We're backing our postal workers?
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Royal Mail's millionaire bosses are out to break the postal worker's CWU union. That can be the only explanation for the decision to begin recruiting a 30,000 strong alternative workforce to undermine the forthcoming strikes by postal workers.
Adam Crozier, the Royal mail boss who has pocketed some £6 million in pay and bonuses since 2003, has decried the unions for their "appalling and unjustified attack on customers." But we should remember that it is the Royal mail's own bosses who have been cutting back the service to customers for years - no doubt hoping to get even richer with the privatisation of a run-down postal service.
It is the postal workers themselves who have stood up for our service - and faced bullying and intimidation from managers for their troubles.
Disgracefully, Royal Mail's attacks on their workforce are being fully supported by New Labour's ministers including the unelected Lord Mandelson, no doubt still smarting from his failure to privatise Royal Mail earlier this year.
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07/10/2009
Why is this fascist provocation being allowed?
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The decision by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, allow the fascist thugs of the English Defence League (EDL) to hold a demonstration in Manchester on 10 October has rightly caused anger and consternation in communities across Manchester and towns in the North West. Many are asking why this ‘protest' is being allowed to go ahead.
The Home Secretary preaches a ‘right to protest' but this group has nothing in common with this right. Its actions are a provocation and incitement to racial hatred. Its leaders are fascist thugs with links to football hooliganism and the British National Party (BNP). Its intention is to launch a confrontation with young Asians and replicate the rioting in Oldham in 2001, which it hopes will strengthen support for fascists.