Battaglia Comunista 10 (October 2007) · The powerful struggle that the Egyptian proletariat is waging shows yet again how the conditions of life for workers around the world are increasingly unbearable. · The situation in Egypt has been made worse by the policy of privatisation of public services and has revealed once again how the union organisations openly side with the bosses.

The following letter was received by our comrades in Italy and printed in Battaglia Comunista 10. It deals with a small but significant episode of class struggle in which the workers for once broke out of the union cage, and were thus able to put the defence of their own interests first. Their anger had built up in the long period in which they had to put up with vicious attacks on their wages...

As we go to press, the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) have called off the latest one day strike by postal workers planned for August 9th. They have entered into a deal with management to halt all further action until September 4th. In the meantime, the CWU leaders have committed themselves to reaching a “negotiated settlement”. · In some ways this is a surprising turn of events.

(From Prometeo Series IV # 10, December 1986 - Translated by the CWO in 2006) · 1986 is a year of anniversaries and memories which, though sad, are rich in lessons for the proletariat: it is the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, and the thirtieth of the movements in Poland and Hungary.