Royal Mail
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Privatisation, a very British disease? By Joe Guinan and Thomas M. Hanna
Britain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness to sell everything that isn’t nailed down. Time and again the British public is ripped off and sold out by its leaders. Continue reading
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Video: UK's Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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Video: UK’s Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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How we are impoverished, gentrified and silenced – and what to do about it By John Pilger
Surveillance is normal in the Age of Regression – as Edward Snowden revealed. Ubiquitous cameras are normal. Subverted freedoms are normal. Effective public dissent is now controlled by police, whose intimidation is normal. Continue reading
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Are you listening yet, Mr Crozier? By Paul Haste on the picket line
Standing in solidarity with striking post workers on the picket line at central London’s huge Mount Pleasant mail centre, Mr Ward explained that ‘post workers have already lost 60,000 jobs and another 60,000 are at risk, while the remaining full-time workers fear being forced to accept part-time positions.’ Continue reading
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A Postal Strike In Britain Is The War At Home By John Pilger
The postal workers’ struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war. If the privateers running the Post Office are allowed to win, the… Continue reading
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“Royal Mail secret plot with ‘the Shareholder’ (ie. the Labour government)
17 October, 2009 — Red Postie BBC Newsnight on Thursday revealed a leaked confidential document spilling the beans on a Royal Mail plan to impose cuts, provoke a strike and smash the union. This blows a hole in their spin over the past couple of weeks about an uncooperative union! The document, marked ‘in strictest Continue reading
The New Dark Age 