While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Royal Mail’s management is trying to destroy the postal service
KATE OSBORNE MP, a former postal worker, explains that the current attacks by CEO Simon Thompson aim at turning post into a gig-economy nightmare of self-employed owner-driver chaos, not 'modernisation'
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
DESPITE taking record-breaking profits of £758 million in 2021 and paying £547m to shareholders, Royal Mail’s incompetent management wants to cut services and tens of thousands of jobs in their efforts to run down and asset-strip our postal service and diminish the value of postal workers’ jobs.
As Ian Lavery pointed out to Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson during the BEIS select committee this week, to not even think about rewarding those who provided the profit and instead immediately dole it out to shareholders, is extraordinary.
The board is set on turning a beloved national institution into a gig-economy-style parcel courier, complete with self-employed workers carrying tracker devices instructing them to go further and faster.
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