Solidarity vital from other sections of working class

Not surprisingly there is a clear sentiment for disaffiliation from the Labour Party. However, argues Jim Moody, postal workers need a positive political strategy if they are going to win their dispute with Royal Mail

What worries many postal workers is that Royal Mail’s strategy seems to be one of keeping the dispute bubbling on a relatively low level, putting up with one or two days of strikes and using casual labour to clear some of the backlog. ... more

Letters
Voting and BNP; Not proportional; Stand; Inspiration; Free speech; Next step; Prejudiced; Your call; Open letter to IST; Shaky

Close the scab hubs
Steve Sweeney reports on a regional initiative in support of postal workers

Fatuous, dangerous, utterly irresponsible
We call for the immediate legalisation of all drugs, writes Eddie Ford

Football fan nationalism and ‘anti-fascist’ theatre
Melvin Dawson witnesses collaboration between the UAF and the police

Zionist collaborators with Nazism revealed
Tony Greenstein reviews two books by Francis Nicosia: The Third Reich and the Palestine question London 1985, pp320, £25.50; and Zionism and anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany Cambridge 2008, pp344, £50

Uncanny detective story
James Turley reviews China Miéville’s The city and the city London 2009, pp312, £17.99

Culture fit for a ruling class
Mark Fischer describes the experience of addressing the students of Britain’s most renowned public school

Whatever happened to those green shoots?
Once again, says James Turley, it has not been a good couple of weeks for Alastair Darling and Gordon Brown

Keep you posted!
Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

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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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