THE ROYAL Court of Justice ruling in favour of Royal Mail’s bid to ban strike action that has the overwhelming support of its workforce exposes the judiciary’s determination to defend corporate power against any challenge from working people. It looks like class warfare by the courts.

The CWU’s assessment that the decision is an “utter outrage” is if anything an understatement. The ruling makes it clear that Britain’s anti-union laws make it virtually impossible to hold a legal national strike. 

The nightmarish obstacle course placed in front of workers trying to exercise their right to withdraw their labour is designed to guarantee their failure. And the removal in practice of this fundamental democratic right calls into question the idea that Britain is a free country.