The formation of the postal workers' rank and file committee marks a qualitative turning point in the relationship between the UK Socialist Equality Party(SEP) and rank-and-file postal workers.
This is publically recognised by even the most boneheaded
and reactionary CWU bureaucrat. The right-wing attack on the World Socialist
Website(see article Communication Workers Union attack on WSWS and UK Postal
Workers Rank-and-File Committee backfires) is a backhanded compliment. It acknowledges
that the CWU leadership has a viable and resolute opposition to its current
betrayal of postal workers' struggle.
Postal workers are fed up with the open betrayal of the CWU
bureaucracy and are looking for alternatives, as a recent WSWS article pointed
out. It quotes one worker: "Is it time we started looking at
alternatives?"
This threw the CWU into a frenzy. Its media attacked the
World Socialist Web Site and the newly formed Postal Workers Rank and File Committee.
The CWU said, "That website is ran by absolute cranks that have zero
interest in the welfare of postal workers (or any other workers). Stick with
the union. It's your voice. Solidarity."
As Robert Stevens replied for the WSWS, "This piece of
red-baiting would not have been out of place in right-wing Tory rags such as
the Daily Mail or Daily Telegraph. The CWU is attacking not only socialist
opposition to its betrayals but the many CWU members who have written to the
WSWS over the last month. The WSWS's interest in the welfare of postal workers"
is clear over eight articles, from March 16-26, containing over 10,500 words
directly from posties. In their comments, they explain in detail the atrocious
situation they face, with many denouncing the CWU leadership for allowing such
backbreaking conditions and the unachievable targets set by Royal Mail. The
slander on the WSWS and Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee backfired on the
CWU, with tens of thousands of postal workers reading the Twitter threads, with
most comments posted pulling no punches in denouncing the CWU apparatus."[1]
The WSWS does not need to apologise over its stance, and its
"interest in the welfare of postal workers" is clear over eight
articles, from March 16-26, containing over 10,500 words directly from postal
workers.
Postal workers, send a message to rmpw.rfc@gmail.com to
contact and join the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
[1]
Communication Workers Union attack on WSWS and UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File
Committee backfires-Robert Stevens- https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/17/ktme-a17.html
