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MATT KERR ponders the dichotomy of poorly paid Leonardo UK workers unable to stop the production of weaponry employed to kill Gaza's workers and their children
RESISTING GENOCIDE: Protest outside the Thales factory in Govan, Glasgow against arms sales to Israel on May 15 2024

MORE than a decade after leaving the postal service, I still find myself waking up at 5am.

I was in a few months before we went on strike on wages, terms and conditions in a company that had made £400 million, promptly grabbed by chancellor Ken Clarke to help fund the usual pre-election bribe.

It was a different time, as they say.

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