Construction Rank and File meeting this Saturday

British industry is undergoing yet another acute phase of decline – as one signature factory after another shuts its gates. Yet despite the anger this demise is causing, the trade union leaders have put up very little resistance. Workers desperately need militant leadership.

Royal Mail has announced 2500 job cuts at head office. Meanwhile, roughly 400 postal workers are quitting each week! All the while Royal Mail’s service continues to worsen and decline. Perhaps the real sack needs to go to Royal Mail’s Czech billionaire owner.

The closure of the Saltend chemical plants in Hull is a damning indictment of British industry. Capitalism is literally a dead end for young people in deindustrialised areas across Britain. No politician has any solutions – the whole system has to go.