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All power to the posties
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
THIS week began with a victory for striking workers at Royal Mail’s Hamilton delivery office. It brought to an end the latest of many unofficial postie walkouts to take place in recent years.
Star readers will be familiar with stories of heroic Communication Workers Union members standing up for victimised colleagues or fighting back against bullying bosses at depots across the country.
This weekend, couriers at private parcels firm DPD’s Cambuslang depot in Glasgow will strike over cuts to their per-parcel pay rate, in an action organised by general union GMB.
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