Postal strike over?

[audiotech]

I was on strike in the 70's, 71 to be precise. Then I was a postie. Strike lasted 13 weeks. Inflation was rampant and we still had bills, including rents to pay. Then workers were more confident.

 

[The Black Hand]

I was on strike in the 70's, 71 to be precise. Then I was a postie. Strike lasted 13 weeks. Inflation was rampant and we still had bills, including rents to pay. Then workers were more confident.

Good point. As a difference, one postie I know lives in a house with a mortgage to pay now, back then poerhaps the councils were more tolerant of rent arrears building up too than they are now.

 

[The Black Hand]

We therefore must really be wary of not falling into the ultra leftist illusion that 'all posties want to go all out to win all of the time and the union sold them out, again'.

It simply ISN'T true. Unions, are popular fronts in the workplace, representing all shades of political backgrounds and beliefs. Keeping them all happy is seriously difficult, and what is more, keeping them all, or most of them, ready and able to strike and rely on the union for reasonable judgement in disputes is even harder. This is not say that I am dismissing problems with bureaucracy, but to pretend that everyone is ready to 'all out strike till the revolution' is nonsense.

Butchers, you and your ultra leftist ilk (eg. Limpcok) are the elephant in the anarchists room so to speak. The fact that your politics (and others) are indistiguishable from ultra leftism is a key fact, one that must be got round, usurped or ignored if anarchism is to be at all relevant in the 21st century.