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/

An interesting development in the USA.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2025/02/06/why-10000-kroger-workers-are-on-strike-over-unfair-labor-practices/

The Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 wasn’t about stability—it was about U.S. control. After World War II, American imperialists saw an opportunity to reshape the global financial system in their favor. By making the U.S. dollar the world’s reserve currency—allegedly backed by gold—they forced nations to trade using their money, giving Wall Street and Washington total economic leverage. This was never about rebuilding the world—it was about extracting wealth while ensuring the working class, at home and abroad, remained shackled to American capital.

For decades, the U.S. looted the global economy, printing dollars freely while forcing other nations to exchange real goods and labour for increasingly worthless paper. The contradictions of this scam caught up with them by the late 1960s. With the U.S. waging genocidal imperialist wars in Korea and Vietnam and spending recklessly, gold reserves drained rapidly. European nations, particularly France, saw through the fraud and began demanding real gold in exchange for their dollars. But the U.S. had already spent much of the world’s gold hoarding weapons and fueling its war machine. Rather than admit defeat, Nixon unilaterally ended the gold standard in 1971, defaulting on America’s promises and turning the dollar into a fiat currency backed only by military power.

To maintain control, the U.S. quickly struck a deal with Saudi Arabia, creating the petrodollar system. Oil, the lifeblood of modern industry, would be traded exclusively in dollars, forcing every nation to stockpile U.S. currency or risk being cut off. This move entrenched American financial hegemony, allowing them to continue printing wealth out of thin air while imposing crushing debt and austerity on the rest of the world. The global working class was forced to bear the cost—through inflation, economic crises, and endless wars—all to uphold the parasitic rule of the U.S. capitalist class.

Class Consciousness Project.

Who is Elon Musk really? | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2025/02/07/news/who-is-elon-musk/

Some people think that socialism can be strengthened by some material harm to people on the basis of a poor life. This is wrong. This is a petty-bourgeois idea of socialism. In fact, socialism can only win on the basis of high labor productivity, higher than under capitalism, on the basis of an abundance of products and all kinds of consumer goods, on the basis of a prosperous and cultured life for all members of society.

- J. V. Stalin

A Year of Great Change