"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work."
―
Gustave Flaubert
Firstly
apologies for the late publication of my article, The Global Attack on Postal workers.
I put it on the website Royalmailchat[1]
, achieving 800-page hits with four comments. The current struggle has started
to get vicious, with Royal Mail starting to push 10,000 redundancies, and this
is just the start of their attempt to Amazonistion the business. One
significant development came out of the CWU's Thursday Facebook meeting. While
it is common knowledge that Royal Mail has held secret talks with the Private
Equity Firm VESA, which is one of the powers behind the throne and is pulling
the strings of the current CEO, Simon Thompson. It is not common knowledge that
Terry Pullinger, the current CWU DGSP, also met with representatives of VESA.
What was the purpose of this meeting, and what was discussed should be made
public?
There
are a few meetings and lectures worth mentioning this week. On Monday at
Bookmarks, The SWP bookshop -Book Launch -Claude McKay -The Making of a Black
Bolshevik-17th October-6.30. On Tuesday at the London Review of
Books Bookshop -Vigdis Hjorth & Shahidha Bari: Is Mother Dead-Vigdis Hjorth
discusses her new novel, Is Mother Dead (Verso) with Shahidha Bari. 7 pm. Writings
of Oliver Cromwell- Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet
Street, London WC1E 20 October 2022, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
A
couple of things from correspondence received this week. F Mami is a regular contributor
to my website. See his latest article[2].
Fouad is looking for paid work for his writings, so if any media people are
reading this, let me know if you are interested. Contact me at the following
email keith@atrumpetofsedition.org.
CT
sent an email regarding the Christopher Hill conference. I think we are both outsiders
to this event, and it would be good if we both did articles on the conference
from differing perspectives. I am reviewing the book A World Turn Upside Down before
the meeting. It would be nice if Verso of Penguinb did an anniversary issue,
but I will not hold my breath. My next review for my website will be David
Caute's The Red List.
A
couple of important articles were published on wsws.org. The People Immortal:
Soviet writer Vasily Grossman's first novel about World War II by Clara Weiss[3]
and Eugene V. Debs and the struggle of railroaders-by Tom Mackaman[4]
Again
a few new books were purchased this week. The People Immortal-Vasily Grossman. A
Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto Hardcover – 12 May 2022-by China
Miéville
