First They Came For The Hippies – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/07/23/first-they-came-for-the-hippies/

Then They Came For The Racists – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/10/03/then-they-came-for-the-racists/

It is not Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas or any other middle-eastern resistance force that is constantly escalating the conflict in the middle east, but Israel. And it is doing so with the full backing of its western masters, no matter what hypocritical ‘calls for peace’ they may utter for public consumption.

If the USA and Britain wanted to stop the war, they could do it tomorrow by the simple expedient of removing all their supporting forces, stopping the daily arms deliveries and ending the flow of financial, diplomatic and media support.

They may regret not doing so when the Israeli ship finally sinks and they find themselves inextricably tied to its keel.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/10/04/news/lies-damned-lies-british-labour-party-imperial-propaganda-iran-israel-palestine-lebanon/

🔴 Opposing the Creation of NATO to Wage War with Russia: W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1949 Speech to Congress

https://avantjournal.com/2022/05/17/w-e-b-du-boiss-speech-to-congress-opposing-war-with-russia-through-the-creation-of-nato/

@Communism

Without a clear internationalist standpoint, even communities that have struggled against imperialism can be turned into dupes of the system and against one another.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/10/08/news/dark-side-irish-nationalism/

The Workers Must Rule – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/06/02/the-workers-must-rule/

On the fraudulence of Trotskyism.

http://www.lalkar.org/article/4483/what-exactly-is-the-revolutionary-communist-party-rcp-and-why-is-it-being-so-heavily-promoted

The Welsh Evertonians. – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/05/15/the-welsh-evertonians/

Hands off Russia! – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/06/27/hands-off-russia/

So according to Elon Musk (see below 👇), it's not the monopoly of social wealth by a handful of private individuals that stops the rest of us having any say in how our society functions or any share in the wealth it produces ... it's poor workers fleeing poverty and war elsewhere.

Poverty and war that result from the activities abroad of the same monopolists who control the parameters of our 'democracy' at home.

Who really benefits from this massive campaign of misdirection?

Every ruling class in crisis tries to create scapegoats on whom the workers can vent their anger. It funds and arms fascist militia to spearhead such activities in the streets and to target working-class activists (communists, trade unionists) at the same time.

Musk is calling on US workers to join the scapegoating of other workers, to accept and facilitate moves towards the openly fascist dictatorship of capital.

The question is not 'Trump or Biden?', 'Republican or Democrat?' The question is: 'The dictatorship of monopoly capital (imperialism) over the vast masses of the world's impoverished and brutalised people or the dictatorship of the working class OVER the expropriated exploiters?'

The only response to the oligarchs and their campaign of division and lies is to make common cause with migrant workers and turn our collective anger and organised strength against the capitalist-imperialist class in its entirety.

It is not the zionist-imperialist Democratic party that threatens the USA with 'extreme socialism' (whatever that is). The 'socialism' with which the US elite constantly threatens its poor workers is a figment of its fevered imagination.

What is very real, however, is the fact that the US working class will at some point wake up to the fact that it is the ruling class in waiting. That its future is, in fact, a socialist future. And that to get there, it must remove the parasitic imperialist class and its highly-paid mandarins, tear down all the machinery of class control and coercion that the monopolists have built, and set about building a new society whose role is to use the productive powers of society to satisfy the needs and wants of the people.

That is socialism.

Socialism is not Democratic party direction of this or that mechanism of state power. It is not 'high' or 'low' taxation. It is not 'big' or 'small' government.

It is the end of exploitation of man by man and nation by nation. The end of obscene inequalities, of poverty, of hunger, of homelessness, of illiteracy, of homelessness, of social isolation and fragmentation.

It is the end of economic crisis and the glaringly obscenities that arise from the capitalist system of production for profit, which will be solved by a system of production for use/need.

It is a planned economy run by and for the working people. The only people who need to be scared of such a future are the 0.001% currently living high on the backs of the poverty and misery of everyone else.

Let them tremble! And let Musk tremble too. The day is coming when such as he will have individual control over global megaphones from which to control the narrative and warp the understanding of the people.

The day is coming when they will no longer be able to "coup who they want to" in order to grab the resources of whole nations. No longer be able to set worker against worker as they laugh all the way to the bank.

The future belongs to the working people, and it will undoubtedly be a socialist future.

https://vxtwitter.com/elonmusk/status/1840409051357696324

Free-trade has exhausted its resources; even Manchester doubts this its quondam economic gospel.
Foreign industry, rapidly developing, stares English production in the face everywhere, not only in protected, but also in neutral markets, and even on this side of the Channel. While the productive power increases in a geometric, the extension of markets proceeds at best in an arithmetic ratio. The decennial cycle of stagnation, prosperity, over-production and crisis, ever recurrent from 1825 to 1867, seems indeed to have run its course; but only to land us in the slough of despond of a permanent and chronic depression. The sighed-for period of prosperity will not come; as often as we seem to perceive its heralding symptoms, so often do they again vanish into air. Meanwhile, each succeeding winter brings up afresh the great question, "what to do with the unemployed"; but while the number of the unemployed keeps swelling from year to year, there is nobody to answer that question; and we can almost calculate the moment when the unemployed losing patience will take their own fate into their own hands.

Engels - Preface To The English Edition of Capital Volume 1 - 1886

“The dockers state it clearly, we will not stain our hands with the blood of the people.” — In a militant action, dockworkers at the Piraeus port in Athens, Greece, blocked an arms shipment to Israel.

Late last night, workers received word that a ship headed toward Israel was scheduled to dock in Athens in order to receive a container with bullets. The workers swiftly coalesced at the dock and prevented the boat from obtaining the weapons.

The participating unions reiterated that their struggles on the job are connected to imperialism, and called for all workers to stand steadfast in their solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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The Death of John Barnett – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/04/03/the-death-of-john-barnett/

The Real Trade Union Barons – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/05/17/the-real-trade-union-barons/

Socialists are not pacifists. Though we yearn for peace, we are prepared for struggle to reshape our reality.
To liberate our class, we must be ready to fight.