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

🤡👀IRELAND'S COMPRADOR POLITICAL CLASS TOKEN GESTURES TO PLACATE THE MASSES👀🤡

Throughout Ireland's history, there have always been those who worked in the interests of their colonizer masters at the expense or against the wishes of the masses, and that today is best seen with Ireland's comprador political class. Continuing to voice "concern" and "disgust" at the situation in Palestine while actively failing to address it. Token gestures are all that have come from these people.

The Dublin government's Simon Harris again voiced "concerns" at new escalations in Gaza as Ireland's main airport is used in the transit of US weapons and military equipment to "Israel" in its campaigns. Which the Irish working class oppose!

This Irish government also failed to enact the Occupied Territories Bill introduced in 2018, now amending the bill to include only banning goods but not "services," a watered-down version.

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🇨🇳⚡️The top 10 longest metro systems in the world: 9 are in China.

The top 3 are in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Moscow at the 8th place. The world's oldest London Underground is 11th.

Thomas Tuchel has announced his first England squad, with one of the biggest surprises being the inclusion of Marcus Rashford. Currently on loan at Aston Villa, Rashford is playing second fiddle to Ollie Watkins.

You’d think Watkins would have been an obvious pick, but a recent injury seems to be the reason for his omission. Based on form, though, the next best option in the league is surely Liam Delap. He’s played 27 games for a struggling Ipswich side, scoring 10 goals—an impressive return considering their situation. In contrast, Rashford has made just five starts and four substitute appearances, failing to find the net.

Tuchel has claimed he’s prioritising experience, yet he’s selected Morgan Rogers over Conor Gallagher and Jarell Quansah over Aaron Wan-Bissaka. It’s hard to ignore the feeling that reputation and top-team bias have played a bigger role in his choices than actual performances.

A second increase in Unite membership subs in just six years—both occurring within the past ten months under Sharon Graham’s leadership—is nothing short of a betrayal of the rank and file. While we are told that membership is on the rise, this claim rings hollow when we see the strike fund slashed from £40 million to a mere £4 million. Where is the money going if they have such an increasing membership? Instead of strengthening workers' industrial power, it’s clear that the leadership is plugging financial gaps while demanding more handouts from the membership. Perhaps fighting corruption and bullying claims is more important to Unite leadership these days.

Graham's empty rhetoric of breaking, or threats of breaking with the Labour Party, Unite still hands over £1 million a year in affiliation fees to a party that has proven itself hostile to workers' interests. On top of that, another £500,000 has been funneled into 88 MPs of Unites choosing, many of whom offer little more than empty gestures towards working-class struggle. This is money that should be going towards fighting for higher wages, strike pay, and real class organisation, not greasing the palms of political careerists.

This is not a leadership genuinely committed to class struggle, but pantomime fist waving, while keeping its feet firmly planted in the old game of Labourite opportunism. Instead of empowering workers, Graham’s tenure has seen a systematic weakening of strike resources (even strike breaking in favour of her husband) and a continuation of Labour patronage, all while squeezing more from Unite members’ pockets.

Workers must demand full financial transparency and, more importantly, an end to the siphoning of union resources into a party that serves capital, not the working class.

"The trade unions aim at nothing less than to prevent the reduction of wages below the level that is traditionally maintained in the various branches of industry. That is to say, they wish to ensure the least possible degree of comfort to the workers. They fail generally from not rightly understanding their power."

- Karl Marx, Wage, Price and Profit


https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/05/unite-raises-member-subs-for-2nd-time-in-a-year-despite-claims-of-rising-numbers/

Class Consciousness Project.

The Shadow of the Imperialist Gunman looms over Ireland.

Say No To NATO and an EU Army!

In their attempts to curry favour with their masters, the 26 County administration is hellbent on forcing the Irish people into NATO or an E.U. Army.

This is despite the overwhelming opposition of the Irish people to further militarisation and imperialist war.

Joining NATO or an EU Army means Irish working class men and women dragged off to die in foreign conflicts to enrich a small set of imperialists.

It means putting Ireland at risk of retaliation from the countless enemies of Europe, Britain and the USA.

This campaign has nothing to do with ensuring the "security" or sovereignty of the Irish nation and everything to do with deepening the imperialist dominance over our country, already partitioned and occupied by a NATO power - Britain.

All Republicans, Socialists and Progressives must fight tooth and nail against this latest war against the Irish people and their sovereignty.

As US president Donald Trump announced his government’s intention to initiate ‘ceasefire talks’ with Russia, European leaders scrambled to hold an emergency summit, at which they pledged to continue their support for Ukraine, no matter what.

It has been pointed out that this was, in fact, what the US government has been demanding – that the Europeans should take over arming and managing the war effort against Russia while the USA turns its attention to China.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/15/news/americas-proxy-war-against-russia-failed/