Happening now: Protesters have taken over the Luis Vuitton HQ in Paris, owned by the richest man in the world, Bernard Arnault. Footage shows protesters charging into the building with red flares. The storming of the Louis Vuitton HQ comes only a week after protesters occupied the BlackRock corporation office in Paris.

It comes on the 12th national day of protests and strikes against French President Emmanuel Macron's anti-democratic pension bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets across the country, with clashes already erupting in multiple cities

Justice for the 37 Cammell Laird strikers | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/justice-for-the-37-cammell-laird-strikers

Apologies to Pete Seeger. – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/05/23/apologies-to-pete-seeger/

The events outlined in the above article from my comrade Rick at the Class Consciousness Project are a tragic indicator of what is to come in Britain. The problem for working class communities is that when fear gets whipped up of the the cops "going soft" and "losing control" as is being whipped up at the moment by the a section of the bourgeois press, the result is that the cops come down like a tonne of bricks on low income areas like Ely in South Wales. This is just how policing is designed under capitalism and always has been. What'll happen is more repressive laws and more out of control cops who end up killing or injuring people and eventually we'll have another situation like the riots which kicked off in 2011, and I think there's greater anger now then there was back then.

At their recent conference the PCS Union passed a motion on the Ukraine war which is a disgrace to the working class movement. The attached statement is our response to that.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/05/26/project-statement-on-pcss-ukraine-motion/

How to write motions – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/05/27/how-to-write-motions/

152 years ago, on May 28, 1871, the Paris Commune, the first working-class government in history, fell.

In the bloody week of May 21-27, 1871, thousands of armed defenders of the Paris Commune were forced out by Versailles troops from most of Paris to the northeastern quarters. To the last drop of blood, defending each quarter, the heroic defenders of the Commune fought. The last to fall was the barricade on Rue Ramponneau.

The last defenders of the Commune were shot in the Père Lachaise cemetery on 29 May. During the fighting and executions, 25 thousand Communards were killed, about 40 thousand were thrown into prison or sent to hard labor in New Caledonia and Algeria.

After the massacre of the Commune, Thiers self-confidently declared: "There is no more talk of socialism, well, that's fine! Now we have got rid of socialism." But at the same time, the poet of the Commune, Eugene Pottier, hiding from the brutalized Versailles, seemed to answer Thiers and his henchmen, creating a prophetic anthem of the proletariat: "We are ours, we will build a new world. Who was nothing, he will become everything." A few days earlier, K. Marx, speaking at a meeting of the General Council of the International, declared that “The death of the Commune will only delay the continuation of the struggle. The principles of the Commune are eternal and cannot be destroyed; they will again and again declare themselves as long as the working class won't be released."

The cause of the Commune, in a different situation, in a different country, was continued by the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

Vive la commune!

https://internationalmagz.com/articles/global-britain-and-king-charles-great-reset

The Crown controls nearly the entire seabed (and half the seashore) around the UK with any business wishing to build offshore windmills as part of the Green New Deal forced to rent their sea beds from the Crown Estate.

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/30/journalist-kit-klarenberg-british-police-interrogated-grayzone/ 🚨🚨🚨

The main stream media is trying to turn people against the striking rail workers because of the dates in which they are set to strike.

This same narrative used for the cup was used when strikes clashed with the Liverpool Eurovision without explanation of why this occurs.

The Eurovision clash was claimed to be chosen maliciously. Mick Lynch dispelled this by explaining it was chosen because it was the last day of the mandate.

The limitations imposed on trade unions are what create these issues.
The union has to serve the company with notice 7 days prior to ballot and 14 days prior to strike action.
After which they have a mandate for 6 months to strike before having to return to ballot.

None of this is ever explained in the media when accusing striking workers of causing disruptions!
These anti-trade union laws are created to make trade unionism as difficult as possible.

Or strike action could be avoided entirely if workers were paid adequately for their labour!

https://twitter.com/Class_C_Project/status/1663822210807607297?t=mmxgPGQ1Fj6Fh6P3WPdFIw&s=19