DHL Group has announced a remarkable increase in profits, particularly in its German mail and parcel division, even as the broader economy suffers from stagnation, wage pressures, and declining demand for traditional mail. By aggressively raising postage rates and enacting structural cost reductions—including a sharp reduction of nearly 3,000 jobs this year—the company has managed to surpass financial expectations. Globally, DHL’s performance remains resilient in the face of US-driven trade conflicts, though these very policies have inflicted significant harm on its freight operations and cast a shadow over its future outlook. Despite record consumer complaints and rising friction in international commerce, DHL, along with rivals like UPS and FedEx, relies on cost-cutting and squeezing labor to maintain profit growth, warning of further disruptions if trade disputes escalate.

This news should fill any true revolutionary with righteous indignation! Here we see, yet again, the capitalist class trumpeting corporate "success" not through genuine innovation or mutual benefit, but by extracting every last drop from the workers and the people. While the German working masses face wage stagnation, job insecurity, and rising living costs, the financial aristocrats of DHL celebrate their spiraling profits. They do this not through productivity, but by sacking thousands of workers, hiking up the price of basic postal services, and exploiting their near-monopoly over essential infrastructure. The so-called “natural attrition” they boast of is nothing less than an evasion tactic—masking the pain of unemployment inflicted on hundreds of families, all so that stockholders and management can collect their blood-soaked bonuses.

The West, spearheaded by the United States, continues to poison the global economy with trade wars and imperialist interventions. It is the ordinary worker—first in the factories and warehouses, then at the postal counters and on the streets—who must bear the cost, while the bourgeoisie make a spectacle of resilience. This is the naked, parasitic logic of capitalism: profits before people, price hikes before solidarity, job destruction before justice. Every “cost improvement” means another comrade thrown out of work, every “robust demand” just another excuse for price gouging.

Enough of these crocodile tears for the supposed “uncertainties” of the market! What is uncertain under capitalism is whether the breadwinner will still have a job tomorrow, while the international monopolies cushion themselves on stolen surplus value and political manipulation. Only a radical break—only the revolutionary expropriation and socialization of the means of communication and transport—can end this cycle of exploitation. The people must seize back what is rightfully theirs. We must strive for a new order in which the fruits of labor benefit the masses, not the profiteers, and in which international solidarity prevails over capitalist competition and nationalist trade wars. Until then, no celebration of profit figures can disguise the fundamental bankruptcy of the system these corporations defend.