It is a part of bourgeois myth-making that the names of exploiters who are well-known are almost always those whose elevation to the level of the super-rich was made during their own lifetimes, while those who simply inherit their vast fortunes tend to live their parasitic lives out of the public eye.

But what is less well understood is that none of these ‘rags to riches’ billionaires started life in the ranks of the proletariat. They are all privately educated and had access to family capital and connections which enabled them to take advantage of opportunities and put their businesses on the only footing that would enable rapid growth: the ability to employ the labour-power of others.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/02/07/news/who-is-elon-musk/

🇰🇵☠️🇬🇧 North Koreans, UK Prison Time, & Fighting In Donbass 💥🇷🇺

Ben Stimson is a British communist currently participating in Russia's Special Military Operation in Donbass and Ukraine.

He was served UK prison time for joining up with the people's militias of Donbass in 2015.

TRR Editor-in-chief Donald Courter discusses everything from the rumored involvement of North Korea in the conflict to how the fighting has changed over the years.

The interview premieres TODAY @ 10:00am Eastern Time (EDT)

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FA Cup history
https://www.thefa.com/news/2016/nov/02/history-of-the-fa-cup

A great FA Cup save by David Seaman.

https://youtu.be/VTBkWRs7r-c?si=TB69mFVVslUc8aYB

Exclusive: Unite sector committee demands investigation into Graham's anti-worker tactics. Union's print and IT members note horror at management actions to undermine striking workers and bringing Unite into disrepute, expresses no confidence...
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/01/28/exclusive-unite-sector-committee-demands-investigation-into-grahams-anti-worker-tactics/

Norwegian football club donates ticket revenue from match vs Israeli club to Gaza. FK Bodø/Glimt announces donation after thrashing Maccabi Tel Aviv at home...
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/03/norwegian-football-club-donates-ticket-revenue-from-match-vs-israeli-club-to-gaza/

Now Sharon Graham's true colours have come to light it seems the tide of opinion on her is changing rapidly.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/01/15/sharon-graham-the-illusion-of-change-at-unite-the-union/

As the British and Free State Government launch a new round in the harassment of Irish Republicans through their new 'Omagh Bomb Inquiry', Today we republish an article written by Anti Imperialist Action Ireland in 2021 and sets out the facts in relation to the Republican Operation in Omagh on August 15 1998 and places the blame for the tragic deaths that occured where it belongs- squarely at the feet of British Imperialism

Britain Get Out of Ireland!

https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2021/08/15/the-omagh-bomb-reconsidered/

https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2021/08/15/the-omagh-bomb-reconsidered/

🟢🟡 Anti Imperialist Action Ireland Proudly Remembers Helena Molony, Irish Socialist Republican leader, who died on this day in 1967.

Commander of the Irish Citizen Army Women's Section, Veteran of the 1913 Lockout, 1916 Rising, Tan War, War in defence of the Republic and of the all the Republican Campaigns from at least the turn of the century to 1940s.

General Secretary of the Irish Woman's Workers Union and later President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Member of the executive Council of Saor Éire (1931)and played a leading role in the Friends of Soviet Russia, the Republican Organisations, the Women's Prisoner's Defence League and the People's Rights Association.

In 1934 Helena offered her support to the Republican Congress and the Irish Citizen Army became it's armed wing.
Helena also joined Mná na h-Éireann an organisation that campaigned for recognition of the 32 County Irish Republic as the legitimate Irish State and the 2nd Dáil Éireann as the legitimate government of Ireland.

The Labour Party, whether under Keir Starmer or any other leader, remains a pillar of British capitalism. It exists not as a true vehicle for working-class but as a mechanism to contain and manage it—offering just enough reformist rhetoric (rhetoric that will come true) to maintain legitimacy while ensuring the system remains fundamentally unchanged. It is capitalism’s insurance policy, a party designed to absorb discontent, redirect anger into parliamentary procedure, and prevent the emergence of a truly independent working-class movement.

This is why Labour keeps a handful of mildly left-wing MPs in its ranks. Their presence provides a “lefty lustre,” a way to convince working people that the party still represents them, even as its leadership reassures business and financial elites that nothing will fundamentally change. These left-wing MPs make speeches, propose reforms, and offer a vision of something better, but they are simply neutered pets of the party machine. They serve as pressure valves, allowing workers to believe their struggles are being voiced within the system, even when the system is designed to resist real change.

For the working class, this dynamic is exhausting but familiar. We see wages stagnate, public services crumble, and our lives made harder by policies that serve the wealthy, yet we are told that Labour is our only viable option. The alternative—Tory rule—is always dangled as the greater evil, ensuring that workers remain trapped in a cycle of disappointment and lesser-evilism. The party leadership does not fear the Tories; it fears a working class that stops believing in Labour as its only hope. Their objective is it squash any revolutionary ideas with useless social democratic parties and Trot groups.

Labour’s role is not to overthrow capitalism but to manage its contradictions, to provide a gentler, more humane face to a system that exploits and impoverishes us. And so long as it succeeds in that role, it will remain vital to British capitalism, no matter who wears the leader’s mask.

Class Consciousness Project

Here is a poem we recently posted by Brecht.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/02/03/all-of-us-or-none/