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

This is what passes for "Marxism" in Manchester these days. How the SWP survive after 50 years of being wrong about every major issue is a mystery.

Why is Britain so set on escalating the war in Ukraine? | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2023/06/17/news/why-britain-escalating-ukraine-war-rishi-sunak-depleted-uranium/

And here it is - the time bomb ticking under the British economy, set to detonate in an election year.

The country’s economy is largely driven by the buying and selling of private houses. Many people’s retirements depend on the purchasing of multiple properties which are let to private tenants.

In fact, the only asset bubble that the Government was able to restore after the crash of 2008 was the housing bubble. Every other pillar of British capitalism remains decrepit and beyond repair.

Sunak and Hunt both believe that any relief for people whose mortgages will increase by an average of £240 per month next year would be ‘inflationary’. The Bank of England possesses very few tools to lower inflation and it’s flogging the one it has to death, which is hiking interest rates.

All of this means that the Tories face a storm over the next eighteen months which they will not be able to navigate a path through. But Labour will offer no alternatives: They will be custodians of the same broken and sclerotic system as the Tories have governed since 2010.

The only viable solution is socialism: The abolition of private property relations and the sweeping away of an economic system built on the buying and selling of houses and the deliberate and planned constriction of house building and the supply of homes to inflate house prices.

https://news.sky.com/story/no-extra-help-for-households-struggling-with-mortgage-payments-says-rishi-sunak-12905215

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