I just read two recent articles in The Guardian, and both were dripping with racist, anti-Arab narratives—disguised in progressive language. One covered the Southport murders in a way that subtly fueled racial stereotypes, and the other was a blatant piece of propaganda focused on figures in Sudan, with horrifying rhetoric about threats of rape and impregnating UN workers with "Arab babies."

The Guardian pretends to stand apart with it's liberal values but serves the same agenda as the right-wing media, stoking fear and division. Beneath its polished language, it promotes the same fear-mongering narratives that target working-class communities and marginalised people globally, turning real human struggles into fodder for xenophobic sensationalism.

Scratch a liberal and fascist bleeds.

This paper, which positions itself as a voice of progressivism, is no better than The Daily Mail when it comes to reinforcing racist stereotypes. We can’t let ‘progressive’ branding hide the fact that it perpetuates the same harmful systems it claims to oppose.

Through enclosures, land seizures, and the dissolution of common rights, English capitalism forcibly dismantled traditional ways of life, driving peasants and craftsmen from their land and into the industrial workforce. This process of dispossession created a class of wage labourers—the proletariat—whose survival depended on selling their labour to those who controlled the means of production. It was through this coercive transformation that English capitalism forged the proletariat and compelled them to weave the very rope with which we will hang them.

https://x.com/Class_C_Project/status/1853225877917593753?t=hEY_AaYYVF0zGvCOJaHCaA&s=19

‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2024/04/29/news/stop-the-boats-immigration-debate-the-political-football/

That neither Keir Starmer nor Kemi Badenoch have any idea what the working class actually is should come as no surprise. There used to be a time when the Tory leaders were acutely aware of the class they truly represented as many of them belonged to it. The labour leaders were also did have an understanding of the composition of the working class because their job is to keep the different layers of this class from unifying. Since the 1960s though the Tories have kept trying to pay the "we're all middle class" now card even in the selection of their own leaders. Even David Cameron, a true member of the British ruling class, attempted to do the "i'm just a regular middle class Dad" routine. Thatcher the grocers daughter of course the template for much of this but they've been unable to find anyone with the right combination of back story and political talents since Thatcher to lead the Tories and the social base they have traditionally relied upon has been getting squeezed relentlessly by monopoly capital. The consequences of this are that the Tory leaders have entered into bizarre territory with most of their old school establishment types being deemed unacceptable by an increasingly embittered Tory membership (they picked Liz Truss if you recall) and the threat from the Farage mob to their right pushing them to select more rabid characters such as Badenoch. The Starmer group on the other hand have as their central "selling point" that they are more in line with the forces that run the state than the Tories are and this is largely true at the moment. Bringing it back to the fact that neither of them understand how class works, this is an undertandable thing when you consider that both of them have made their careers in ruling class institutions when they really haven't had to think about the opposition of the working class as a truly threatening factor. I doubt Keir Starmer even knew what the defition of working class was during his youthful Trotskyite endeavours and Badenoch seems to think class is something you can identify into and out of. The latter position though is by no means restricted to her, it is actually the position taken by many in academia and the bourgeois media. Class becoming merely an identity based on "cultural" signifiers is an agenda that has been pushed since the 1960s by various paid hacks of the ruling class. Anything to actually obscure class as the real and most defining dividing line in Britain.