Socialist Resistance

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Fight - and you can WIN!

Socialist Resistance no11  |  page 24

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The postal workers have shown T us what to dot Get organised,

stand up and fight back. The Royal Mail Management was hand picked by Tony Blair to take on the Communication Workers' Union.

Its ordinary members took one look at the letters warning them that taking industrial action without a ballot was illegal. Then they threw them in the bin, continued their fight back and brought their bosses to their knees within a few days

Their defiance showed that the antiunion laws can be broken and the bosses can't lay a finger on you.

That's the sort of determination we need. Firefighters and Heathrow baggage staff can repeat the postal workers' success. UNISON members could win their Printed by East End Offset Ltd (TU), London E3. = 020 7538 2521 3. London weighting campaign by doing what CWU members did. Organised workers have real power to change the

There weren't many Labour MPs having their pictures taken with strikers. Most of them wouldn't dream of doing it. The photo of George Galloway with the CWU pickets shows there is something new in the air.

One of the figureheads of the anti-war movement and striking workers coming together. Here is something that needs a political voice

It needs a new organisation that sup ports working people and is supported by working people. Socialist Resistance is here to try and help create that organisa tion.