All this only came as a surprise to those who had not been paying attention to the words and actions of the Labour party's founders.

As far back as 1901, the man who would go on to become Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, told an audience in London:

So far as the underlying spirit of imperialism is a frank acceptance of national duty exercised beyond the nation's political frontiers ... it cannot be condemned ... the compulsion to expand and to assume world responsibility is worthy at its origin.

The Fabian Society was the home of the chief theoreticians of the Labour party. Leading Fabians Beatrice and Sidney Webb were the authors of the Labour manifesto's clause iv, which was supposed to gull the general populace into believing the party had socialist intent.

Of course, clause iv was never acted on by the party in office, it remained a piece of paper until such time as the Labour party of Tony Blair in 1996 decided that such a genuflexion before the socialist-leaning sentiments of the masses was no longer necessary.

The Webbs wrote the following in an article in the New Statesman (which they founded) in 1913 discussing the falling birthrate amongst the upper stratum of workers and intelligentsia, which they plainly considered a disaster:

Into the scarcity thus created in particular districts, in particular sections of the labour market, or in particular social strata, there rush the offspring of the less thrifty, the less intellectual, the less foreseeing of races and classes – the unskilled casual labourers of our great cities, the races of eastern or southern Europe, the negroes, the Chinese possibly resulting, as already in parts of the USA, in such a heterogeneous and mongrel population that democratic self-government, or even the effective application of the policy of a national minimum of civilised life, will become increasingly unattainable.

If anything like this happens, it is difficult to avoid the melancholy conclusion that, in some cataclysm that is impossible for us to foresee, that civilisation characteristic of the western European races may go the way of half a dozen other civilisations that have within historic times preceded it; to be succeeded by a new social order developed by one or other of the coloured races, the negro, the kaffir or the Chinese.

Once again Patriotic Alternative hijacked a sensitive issue and turned it into a riot.
Reminiscent of the Knowsley suits riot where false information was given to stir up racial hatreds.

https://open.substack.com/pub/liverpoolpost/p/southport-mourns-then-burns?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=hv410

Unity of the Working Class Against Fascism – Marx Engels Lenin Institute
https://marxengelsinstitute.org/2024/08/03/unity-of-the-working-class-against-fascism/comment-page-1/#comments

Join me at 2pm today where I'll be discussing the recent riots in Britain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4BuKxtNYE

⚡️The far right have broken into a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, England

These hotels are not only used to house "asylum seekers" but vulnerable people who are getting over drug addiction, long stays in hospital, homelessness and/or prison release.

Islamophobia has been systematically stirred up for more than 20 years as part of the imperialist propaganda campaign to justify its aggressive wars in the middle east.

Having made this the ‘acceptable’ face of racism also serves to keep the working class divided and impotent as our rulers wage a relentless attack on workers at home and ramp up their vicious war drive abroad.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/08/03/news/how-achieve-unity-working-class-against-fascism/

Any restrictions on democratic rights are always targetted at the working class. The government will usually not say this, they will hide behind the boogeyman of the minute to justify their clampdown, but it always the case that it is workers who get hit hardest by these things. All trade unions should oppose any attempts by Starmer to restrict freedom of speech or the right to protest.

We stand in solidarity with the Birmingham bin workers who are under attack from the Labour controlled city council. Notice how in the denunciation of the employers behaviour though the Unite official statement fails to mention that it is the labour party (many of whom are members of Unite) which is carrying out this attack in the bin workers.

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2024/august/birmingham-council-plans-to-attack-bin-worker-pay-slated-by-unite

The 10% price rises that are coming to Britain are simply a case of price gouging. Everyone knows this and can clearly see that the energy companies are utterly parasitic but the entire political system is determined to avoid any discussion of this. They would rather offer endless fake alternatives combined with vague promises that prices will drop in the future. The minimum demand that should be made is that the energy companies should be nationalised without compensation, not a penny, being paid out to the parasitic coupon clippers who have profited from the massive rip off of the working class.

Keir Starmer is over in Berlin today to start the process of undoing Brexit. The Brexit vote in 2016 was a great revolt, largely of the working class, against the wishes of the most powerful sections of the ruling class. That's why the rich hate it and have been working non-stop to undo it ever since.