Terry’s Tales of a Union Man – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/07/terrys-tales-of-a-union-man/

Cambridge University targeted by Palestine Action
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In the early hours of this morning, a group of autonomous students took direct action at Cambridge University in solidarity with Palestine. The protest, carried out in collaboration with Palestine Action, involved painting the Old Schools building – the office that manages the University’s Endowment Fund – in blood-red paint.

This action follows a similar protest at Oxford University last week, as part of a growing wave of confrontational actions at the UK’s most prestigious universities. The activists demand full disclosure of the University’s investments and the immediate divestment from companies complicit in war crimes and the Israeli apartheid regime.

"Each life lost in Palestine is a human being with dreams, loved ones, and a future stolen. As long as the university continues to profit from violence, we will continue to take action in solidarity with Palestinians who endure daily oppression and destruction," said a spokesperson for the group.

The Cambridge action comes on the heels of the high court refusing to grant an injunction to the university an injunction banning protest, marking a moment of growing momentum against the University’s investments in the Israeli military-industrial complex. The group has vowed to escalate direct actions, targeting the university’s financial interests and reputation in their call for full divestment and accountability.

"Now is the time to act," the spokesperson continued. "The university must understand that its profits from war crimes will never outweigh the damage done to its reputation and bottom line."

Cambridge University boasts major research partnerships with Israeli institutes, while Trinity College at Cambridge is refusing to divest from Israel's largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, despite ongoing protests against its involvement in the US-Israel and Elbit genocide. This refusal follows prior actions, including the spraying of red paint on the Institute for Manufacturing in November, which supports many Israel-supplying arms firms, as well as similar protests at the historical Senate House building in June 2024.

Trinity College, which held $78,089 in Elbit shares as of the latest disclosures, has faced multiple actions, including the slashing of a portrait of Lord Balfour in March 2024. Despite misleading its students about its investments, Trinity continues to hold these shares. 

The Cambridge protest is part of an ongoing effort to hold institutions like Cambridge and Oxford accountable for their financial support of systems of violence and oppression. The call for divestment and solidarity with the Palestinian people grows louder, and the momentum for direct action continues to build. Last week, activists also targeted Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, spraying "DROP ELBIT" in response to the university's refusal to divest from the Israeli arms giant.


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#ShutElbitDown

Recently there has, rightly, been a scandal in Britain regarding the fact that the government here has been funding Ineos, to the tune of £600 million, to build refinery capacity in Belgium whilst cutting jobs at Grangemouth. This is hardly unique though in actual fact. The British government has done this before in the last decade where they spent over £1 billion on supporting fossil fuel related projects overseas in countries like Brazil. They also back carbon capture technologies, again in countries other than Britain. Why? Because it is too costly for the capitalist class to employ workers in this country to actually do these jobs. This is the core part of the reason. The British ruling class are absolutely determined to keep the country as deindustrialised as possible which means the formerly industrial areas all across Britain are left to go to ruin whilst investment flows out of the country into overseas projects. This is what late stage imperialism looks. The ruling class refuses to invest in Britain itself because it can reap far greater profits in other countries and also demands that the government cover their costs in doing so.

Spurs vs West Ham
1920.

The recent detaining of Professor David Miller under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act highlights once again that a very active group of zionist lobbyists are essentially acting as Britain’s unacknowledged political police.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/10/news/david-miller-british-counter-terrorism-police-detained-heathrow-zionism/

An interesting conversation between Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Gary Neville—though, unsurprisingly, devoid of any class analysis. But that’s to be expected; if they provided it, there’d be little need for us.

This is how a capitalist company in decline operates—it prioritises the protection of profit above all else. When growth stagnates or revenue dips, the immediate response isn’t to address the root causes but to squeeze more from workers and consumers alike. The product is cheapened, conditions worsen, and wages are cut wherever possible. Manchester United is no exception—it’s a brand, a business. In fact, it was the first and most successful brand of the Premier League era, tailor-made for the Americanisation of English football. The irony, of course, is that it was American owners who oversaw its deterioration.

Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks

- Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1.

https://youtu.be/icljXo7qW2s?si=LrhigkHD2W10Cem-

The Billionaire – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/03/10/the-billionaire/

We agree, Starmer. We agree.

So much for working-time directives.

With the ubiquitous spread of mobile communications, more and more workers are finding that their employers expect that the fact that they can be reached anytime anywhere means that they should be ready to respond to work calls and emails at any time of the day or night, including on days off and holidays.

Not only individuals but their families are paying the price, all adding to the steep rise in the numbers suffering severe burnout from overwork in Britain.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/11/news/keir-starmer-labour-ditches-right-to-switch-off-promise/

W.E.B. Du Bois in the People's Republic of China, 1959
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/02/13/w-e-b-du-bois-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china-1959/

Dutch side 🇳🇱 PSV have refunded the 3,000 fans who have bought tickets for the Arsenal game tonight!

The club wanted to apologise to fans for their recent poor form and the recent 7-1 home defeat to the Gooners.

This kind gesture is going to cost them €200,000.

Class that.

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"Moonlight Walk."
Rob Rowland 1939

The true face of the EU