Translation of above:
Great Britain is ready to "help" Ukraine with airspace patrolling.

Of course, at Zelensky's request. Of course, to protect against Russian aggression.

But those who are at least a little familiar with history know that imperialists have never deployed peacekeeping missions anywhere to protect someone. This is to ensure a military presence in the region under the guise of democracy. To protect their interests. In other words, this is called "occupation".

And if an agreement is reached on the deployment of peacekeepers from non-NATO countries in Ukraine, the same form of military presence will receive a completely different content, maintaining security. This is the dialectic.

On this day, 19 February 1954 the Brazilian footballing legend, doctor and dictatorship-resistor Sócrates was born. Playing for Corinthians, a historically working class team, Sócrates co-founded the Corinthians Democracy movement opposing the brutal US-backed dictatorship. In 1982 they won the state championship with "Democracia" emblazoned on their shirts. When he moved to Italy and was asked which Italian he respected the most, Mazzola or Rivera (football players of Inter and AC Milan, respectively), he responded: "I don't know them. I'm here to read Gramsci in original language and to study the history of the workers' movement" (referring to Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci).

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Airbnb Outside the Gaeltacht.

This year, as with last year, Airbnb is advertising “Seachtain na Gaeilge” (Irish Language Week) for several houses in the Gaeltacht. It is claimed that this is a way to experience the culture and language. In reality, the housing crisis is a major reason for the decline of the Gaeltacht, with Airbnb having a terrible impact.

At present, there are too many hotels or holiday homes, while at the same time there is a lack of housing for people to live in. The same problem is seen across the country, and in the Gaeltacht, it is a major challenge to protect and develop the Irish-speaking community. Especially for workers and young people, the cost is far too high. At the very least, there should be a complete ban on Airbnb, not only in the Gaeltacht but throughout Ireland.

The state media greatly praises Airbnb’s campaign one day, and the next day they seem to support the reduction of the Irish language in public life. It is clear that the language is not seen as a living entity but as a product, and that the Gaeltacht is being turned into a tourist resort.

Only the working people can change this system; the language must be promoted in the People’s Republic of Ireland. There must be resistance to capitalist and imperialist forces, best exemplified by the prisoners in Maghaberry fighting for their language rights. As the volunteer Máirtín Ó Cadhain said:

"Ireland will not only be Irish but free, and not only free and Irish but the Ireland of Séamas Ó Conaola, a Workers’ Republic."

Free Ireland — Salvation of the Irish Language!

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A fantastic historical poster up in the Casa Bar, Hope Street, Liverpool.

This mass meeting, held during what became known as 'The Great Unrest', was a pivotal moment in working-class history. A time when trade unions could mobilise mass movements without the suffocating anti-trade union laws of today. Yet, freedom from legal constraints never meant freedom from repression. Just weeks after this gathering at St. George’s Plateau, workers engaged in a peaceful strike were met with brutal violence. Police batons rained down, and the state’s response escalated to mobilising the soldiers—two workers were shot dead as troops fired on the demonstrators.

Around the same period, the Tonypandy riots exposed a similar truth: when Welsh coal miners struck for fair pay and conditions, the state unleashed violence to protect capitalist interests, crushing the workers' demands with police batons and military intervention.

These events lay bare a simple fact: the ruling class will use any means, legislation, baton, or bullet, to defend their profits and power. Peaceful protest is met with violence because the exploiters fear nothing more than the organised working class imposing its will.

History proves it: class contradictions don’t resolve through kindness or compromise—they end in struggle. And when the workers rise, the ruling class retaliates.

Class Consciousness Project.

God Save the King? – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/08/01/god-save-the-king/

In the Korean People's Army of the DPRK, participation in the armed forces is an honour. You fight to DEFEND the nation, defending the prosperity and happiness of the people under a planned economy where all the essentials including fulfilling work, healthy food, housing, excellent childcare and children's education, adult education, healthcare and social care for all elders, who get to retire at 55-yrs for women, 60 years for men. You also get to learn logistics which are regularly used to help build up the nation's critical infrastructure when there is no direct war. The DPRK never has to connoscript soldiers. They have a 600-700k volunteer army (compared to Britain's ~140k and have 5M willing reserves who will fight on a minute's notice to defend the nation's independence sovereignty and prosperity.

Compare that to Britain, where the coming compulsory connoscription service in the armed forces is an oppression forced on the poorest, not to defend the nation's prosperity (there is none) nor its independence, but to increase the profits of the ruling class of Britain, fighting on foreign lands to kill other workers who are simply trying to defend their nation from the predatory attack of US imperialism, of which Britain is a vassal state.

The contrast could not be more stark.
https://x.com/GMB/status/1892122066767249674

🇻🇳🇨🇳 Vietnam’s US$8 billion railway to China gets the go ahead

Vietnam’s parliament approved plans for an US$8 billion rail link from its largest northern port city to the border with China, boosting links between the two communist-ruled countries and making trade easier.

The new rail line will run through some of Vietnam’s key manufacturing hubs, home to Samsung, Foxconn, Pegatron and other global giants, many of whom rely on a regular flow of components from China.

The route will stretch 390km from the port city of Hai Phong to the mountainous city of Lao Cai, which borders China’s Yunnan province, and will also run through the capital Hanoi.

#Vietnam #China

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✊🚨🇺🇸THIS DAY IN HISTORY

The Seattle General Strike of 1919 began on February 6th, involving around 100,000 workers demanding higher wages after World War I wage controls.

Workers, labeled as radicals, formed a General Strike Committee that acted as a de facto government, organizing food distribution and maintaining order through an unarmed Labor War Veteran's Guard.

Despite fears of revolution, the strike remained peaceful, but pressure from union leaders and external organizations led to its end on February 11th.

After the strike, authorities targeted labor activists, raiding Socialist Party headquarters and arresting IWW members, marking a significant moment in labor history and the Red Scare era.

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The Silver Tassie.
By Robert Burns

Go fetch to me a pint o wine,
And fill it in a silver tassie;
That I may drink, before I go,
A service to my bonie lassie:
The boat rocks at the Pier o' Leith,
Fu' loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry,
The ship rides by the Berwick-law,
And I maun leave my bonie Mary.

The trumpets sound, the banners fly,
The glittering spears are ranked ready,
The shouts o' war are heard afar,
The battle closes deep and bloody.
It's not the roar o' sea or shore,
Wad make me langer wish to tarry;
Nor shouts o' war that's heard afar--
It's leaving thee, my bonie Mary!

Prisons in the US are tied to a profit margin. And in Cuba, prisons are tied to, and the society is focused on, valuing the human being. So everything that they do, from the education to the fact that the healthcare system is free, to the entire approach of incarcerating someone, is tied to how do we make the most out of each individual, because the view is that the human is the most precious resource that their country has.

That is a very poignant quote from this article pointing out the main difference between capitalist and socialist incarceration. We seek to punish, and profit from, where Cuba, and other socialist countries, seek to rehabilitate and attempt to reintegrate the criminal back into society.


Soffiyah Elijah: Lessons from Cuba’s Incarceration Model – Guernica
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/

A Workers Revolt – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/04/a-workers-revolt/

The Middle Aged Revolutionary finally got off his lazy arse and wrote an article. This is about trade unions and their fondness for imperialism. https://middleagedrevolutionaryblog.com/2025/02/21/the-tuc-in-complete-lockstep-with-imperialism/

UK commits to spend 2.5% of GDP on defense by 2027 — PM Keir Starmer

The Brits currently spend 2.3% of GDP on defense

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