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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Aaron Bushnell self-immolated on this day one year ago to call attention to the genocide in Palestine. A member of the US Air Force, Bushnell dressed in his military fatigues to self-immolate in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. After pouring a flammable liquid on himself, he repeated “Free Palestine” until he couldn’t speak anymore. He died shortly after.

On February 25, 2024, the morning of his self-immolation, Bushnell posted on Facebook: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is you’re doing it. Right now.”

US leaders were silent on Bushnell’s extreme act of protest, and some media outlets labeled him as “mentally ill.” Bushnell’s sacrifice and courage have been honored by people from Yemen to Palestine, where there is now a street named after him in Jericho.

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Here is the article we reposted last year about the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell. A courageous act that, while we wish he hadn’t taken it, we deeply respect his attempt to open the world’s eyes.

Tragically, his sacrifice did not halt the imperialist machine, which continued to crush Gaza beneath its relentless advance.

We cannot appeal to imperialism’s morality; nor can we shame capitalists into sacrificing their profits in the hope they will do the right thing.

To free the workers of the world from their chains, we must not plead, we must struggle, we must fight and we must overthrow the bourgeoisie.

The bourgeoisie is prepared to commit any crime, to resort to any lie, to bribe, to betray, to massacre, in order to maintain its rule.

— Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution.

The Class Consciousness Project.

Here's a link (couldn't download the video) to a young man talking about the PSR rules and how they affect the teams that get promoted to the premier league.
The last two years the promoted teams have gone straight back down, unable to keep with the premier league stalwarts and with limited capacity to spend on new players with their income being based on championship as PSR rules are based on the previous three years.

Nearly every rule that has been brought into make football more "sustainable" has harmed the smaller clubs. When it's based on income and expenditure the big six will always be able to spend much higher and the lower teams can't even risk speculating one season because it might harm there annual reports.

Not only that we are now seeing a new trend in teams selling there home grown players as it works out better on their profit/loss calculation because they cost them nothing!

A full obituary for Comrade Harpal Brar will be published next week in the March edition of Lalkar, the anti-imperialist newspaper he edited from 1979 until his death last month.

In the meantime, this short tribute gives a brief overview of his life and achievements, his global impact and his lasting legacy.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/02/26/news/harpal-brar-life-dedicated-socialism-anti-imperialism-tributes-bibliography/

Shout out to Peterborough United for beating the Hollywood wools and booking a place at Wembley. I'm not biased, I don't care who beats them 😂