Victory to the postal workers!

An overwhelming vote for action is expected. Jim Moody gives the background

Postal workers are preparing to step up their fight against Royal Mail’s proposed redundancies and speed-up following the expected overwhelming vote for industrial action ... more

Letters
Military angle; Bottom up; Class act; Smash ’em; Sex and power; Rix fix; Disaster

Lisbon treaty gets through
Ireland’s vote highlights the need for a clear, positive working class agenda, writes Anne Mc Shane

New vision for Europe wanted
James Turley argues that the bourgeoisie is incapable of uniting Europe on any secure basis

Work longer for less
The Tory conference gave us a flavour of what a Cameron government will bring, writes Eddie Ford

Rough ride for Serwotka?
Dave Vincent thinks Serwotka’s campaign is utterly economistic

Democracy or oligarchy?
Paul Cockshott critiques Mike Macnair’s Revolutionary strategy and argues for a rethink on the question of a democratic republic

Searing indictment of US capitalism spoilt by nostalgia for Roosevelt’s New Deal
Jim Creegan reviews Michael Moore’s (director) Capitalism: a love story 2009 (no UK release date yet)

Ending of CPB truce
Dave Lynch expects full ‘vote Labour’ mode

Think again
Robbie Rix wants to see some plastic

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Fighting Fund

Keep you posted!

Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

The success of the last few months' fighting funds looks set to continue in November. I can announce a brilliant start, with no less than £387 already in the kitty.

Of course, a good slice of this takes the form of start-of-the-month standing order donations (17 of them, totalling £262, in fact). But there will be rather less of those for the next few weeks. In addition I've just received TR's usual monthly £60 cheque - it's so regular (even with the postal strikes) that it's as good as a standing order.

Finally, we got four handy contributions via our website - £20 each from JS and PJ, £15 added to his subscription to the paper from MZ, plus a tenner from MP. PJ tells me: I've been meaning to make this donation for a while, but have been at the mercy of the capitalists. I know the feeling, comrade. For his part, JS specifies that his is a donation towards the new hardware. I'll be down PC World over the weekend, comrade.

Further good news comes with another increase in our internet readership - we had 16,249 visitors last week. This figure has been increasing steadily since our old website was hit early in the year, but, with the new site gradually being filled out, more and more web readers are now returning.

Most of our archives will be back up hopefully within the next week or so, but unfortunately there is a period of about 18 months that will be missing at first. Their restoration will require a period of "grunt work" from a team of comrades.

Perhaps I shouldn't say this during the current CWU dispute, but I'll keep you posted!

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