The Real Trade Union Barons – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/05/17/the-real-trade-union-barons/comment-page-1/#comments

The president of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Newton B Jones, was sacked from his post today for alleged misuse of union funds for personal use.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/us-boilermakers-union-president-sacked-alleged-misuse-funds

The Dangers of Trade Union Bureaucratisation – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/09/the-dangers-of-trade-union-bureaucratisation/

The news that public trust in the police is at an all-time low will surprise nobody who has seen the steady degeneration of other state institutions, nor will it come as a revelation to anyone living in an area affected by crime.

A thread.

https://twitter.com/class_c_project/status/1667082692251320321?s=46&t=KNiqE8zJPTd6Pw-xJNTtAw

Boris' time is now up and the British ruling class want rid!

He was used to fight off the feared social democrat Corbyn after the close shave of 2017. Now that role has been fulfilled he's discarded for Sunak and Starmer to continue the established order.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65863267?at_campaign_type=owned&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_medium=social&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_origin=BBCBreaking&at_link_id=9791A65E-06F9-11EE-8ABE-5572FF7C7F44&at_format=link&at_link_type=web_link&at_bbc_team=editorial

The Housing Question – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/10/the-housing-question/

Listening to this hireling of finance capital, who happily colludes with every kind of crime against the workers and oppressed peoples of the world on a daily basis, talk about 'women's rights' is frankly sickening.

We do know the enemy Monsieur le président: it's people like you and the system you schill for.

Women's enemy isn't 'habit' or 'glass ceilings' or men, it's class society -- as represented today by the imperialist system and the financial uberlords who gain from the continued existence of that rotten and visibly decaying order.

Owen Jones being as accurate as ever in his predictions!

The matchgirls’ strike of 1888 | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2008/06/01/news/history/the-matchgirls-strike-of-1888-britain-history/

The appalling amount of distress that exists in every town in Britain must arrest the attention of all duty-loving men and women. No one who sees the effects of want and the fear of want can passively behold the dire poverty of a large section of the workers. Rather will he probe and probe until he finds the cause of the disease. Socialists have probed and they find the disease of want to be spread by the profit-making system upon which all industry and society itself is based. They know that five or six centuries ago, without machinery, Englishmen obtained for their work sufficient to keep them in vigorous health and that they were not subject to periodical trade depressions; & when they further reflect upon the fact that the working day then consisted of no more than eight hours, no wonder that socialists are discontented with the present state of affairs, and that they resolve to use every means in their power to replace the present discord, misery, & anarchy, with harmony, happiness, and order.
- Tom Mann

Please share this far and wide: our new pamphlet Manifesto for the Crisis will be hitting the streets imminently. It contains much-needed analysis of the roots of our economic problems, the strengths and weaknesses of the union movement, and practical proposals for the immediate fight as well as our ultimate goals.

Pre-order a physical copy, and in the meantime, you can download a digital copy and read the articles online.

https://thecommunists.org/2023/06/12/news/book-manifesto-for-the-crisis/

Sophie’s ‘hot take’ is as old as the hills. It has always been a view taken by a section of the working class that distrusts the trade unions and generally supports and, come election time, votes for the Conservatives.

Strike action is taken by the members - the rank and file of any trade union, not by mythical ‘union bosses’, whoever they are. No legal strike action can take place in this country without a postal ballot, with legal thresholds for minimum turnouts and votes in favour of strike.

Thresholds which, it should be said, do not exist for the election of our oppressors.

No strike action is led by a ‘union boss’ dragging their poor, unwilling and downtrodden members who only want a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work, into losing money against their will.

That is a fantasy spun by the ruling class and their servants like Sophie.

Anyone who knows anything about trade unionism would know that the main roadblock faced by workers fighting for better pay, terms and conditions are the very trade union bosses Sophie criticises.

Trade unions leaders are, more often than not, dragged into disputes by their members, not the other way round.

Working class people should stand shoulder to shoulder with their fellow workers when they fight for better lives for their families and themselves.

And working class people should reject the ‘know your place, don’t rise above yourself, be grateful you have a job and reject the trade union barons’ anti-working class rubbish spouted by people like Sophie Corcoran.

https://twitter.com/sophielouisecc/status/1669072195379757057?s=52&t=KNiqE8zJPTd6Pw-xJNTtAw