Rishi Sunak's idea of a national service that includes civil service jobs, like nursing or firefighting, isn't necessarily bad. The problem is that it's poorly planned and seems designed to fill positions without improving wages and working conditions. Some of the civil service roles are actually not even including a wage.

In a planned economy, being run by the workers and for the workers, this type of national service could be excellent. It would be implemented with proper training, fair wages, and good benefits. It could fill menial roles, free up time for fully trained workers, and give young people valuable exposure to these jobs.

However, under reactionary governments in a capitalist system, whether Tory or Labour, this would likely be used to enforce work, undermine union power, and further promote a bourgeois ideology.

On May 4th 1970, the National Guard shot and killed four students and injured nine others at Kent State University, Ohio.

The students were protesting the Vietnam war and the approval of invading Cambodia, which was passed on 30th April 1970.

The four students killed were: Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer.

In 1979 the Ohio National Guard agreed to pay $675,000 to those injured.

The same nations telling the world that we must risk World War 3 with Russia🇷🇺 and China🇨🇳 to protect freedom around the world are the same nations arming and enabling a genocidal slaughter against the people of Gaza for the sole crime of being Palestinian.

RAFAH HOLOCAUST: After the ICJ ordered Israel to stop its Rafah offensive, Israel relentlessly bombed Rafah, burning Palestinians alive and beheading children from the air using US-UK-EU weapons

Israel and its backers know the ‘rules-based order’ was never meant to target them

Here's an interesting podcast about the trials and tribulations of a working class lad in football. As a fan and a player.

Disclaimer

Karl Colley discusses his past involvement in football-related fights. We do not condone football violence, nor are we naive enough to pretend it doesn't exist. The vast majority of football fans are not violent, despite what Thatcher claimed. While hooliganism was indeed prominent in the 1980s, the Tory government's attacks on football were not just about hooliganism; they were as much an assault on working-class culture as their attacks on trade unionism.

Violence is a part of working-class life, whether it comes from above or beside. It is pervasive. We should direct that energy toward our resistance of the ruling class's violence.

Labour’s Rachel Reeves says she wants to lead the most “pro-business treasury our country has ever seen”, while pledging not to increase corporation tax.

Not too far off good old Labour leader Ramsay Macdonald, who said in 1924 that the aim of the first-ever Labour government was to demonstrate to the ruling class that ”the empire was safe in our hands”.

Is there really anybody left who thinks the Labour party is the party of the working class? (Apart from the state agents leading the Trotskyite SWP and the revisionist cretins leading the CPB, I mean ...)

The Enemy Is Labour – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/12/12/the-enemy-is-labour/

Join us at 18:00 on Wednesday of this week where the comrades will be talking about the general election and the miserable "choices" on offer from the ruling class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx7Edc5-pfM

True to its word, and in blatant defiance of the order issued by the International Court of Justice to cease its assault on Rafah immediately, the zionist entity is now bombarding the tent city that surrounds Rafah, home to one and half million refugees who have been forced out of their homes elsewhere in Gaza.

Graphic and horrific images are circulating on social media of mutilated children, who had been sheltering in tents next to an Unrwa centre in an officially-designated ‘safe zone’. This has been entirely enabled by the west’s unqualified support for the genocidaires.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/05/28/news/pflp-usa-joint-responsibility-zionism-rafah-holocaust/

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