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In December last year, President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr signed into law legislation which made an ongoing rail strike illegal and imposed a 'deal' on the members of the four unions which remained in dispute with the rail companies.

The rail workers were fighting against years of staffing cuts and calling for the introduction of sick leave. Yet the US Senate and the President responded, not by intervening to settle the dispute, but by giving themselves sweeping powers to crush the strikes without recourse.

It was an anti-worker reaction to a just class struggle not seen since Ronald Reagan crushed the Air Traffic Controllers' Strike in 1981.

It was somehow inevitable that the wretched organisation that is the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organisation (AFL-CIO) voted to endorse Biden for re-election in 2024, despite the election being almost eighteen months away.

"There's absolutely no question that Joe Biden is the most pro-union president in our lifetimes" said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. "We've never seen a president more forcefully advocate for workers' fundamental right to join a union", she went on to say.

This was the very same "pro-union" President who made a legitimate strike illegal because the workers had real economic power and both he and his contemptible Senate had no clue how settle the dispute other than to crush it completely.

We must stand with all workers in struggle, wherever they are in the world, but we cannot countenance the disgusting, corrupt and wretched bureaucracies that 'lead' their trade unions and deign to speak on their behalf. Workers need to consign them to the trash can of history.

https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-votes-endorse-president-biden-re-election

The Struggle for Union Recognition at Regatta – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/20/the-struggle-for-union-recognition-at-regatta/

The second episode of The Class Consciousness Project podcast will available this Friday.
This episode will be 3 of our comrades discussing our love of football, the class element to the game and how it's changed over the last 40 years.

Follow our blog for regular updates.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/

Our friends in the CPGB-ML attended the 190th anniversary of the Silk Mill lockout in which the organisers call for "working class solidarity" but practice sectarianism against any and all who criticise trade union bureaucracy and Labour Party social democracy.

Derby Silk Mill commemorations 2023: no communists allowed | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2023/06/21/news/derby-silk-mill-lockout-commemorations-2023-no-communists-allowed-cpb-labour-party-trade-unions/

The report that Unite has banned the film ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn/The Big Lie’ from all its buildings has created a backlash among rank and file Unite members, calling the actions of the union’s paid officials ‘thought policing’.

Union officials, in attempting to defend their actions, stated that ‘The issues covered in the film are pertinent to internal Labour Party matters and that is not the focus of our union.”

Yet Unite is Labour’s biggest trade union affiliate, bankrolling Labour to the tune of £3m in the lead up to the 2019 General Election. Unite was Corbyn’s most vocal supporter during his ultimately disastrous tenure as Labour Leader.

It is Unite members’ money which is being squandered to fill the coffers of the anti-union, anti-worker and anti-socialist and imperialist political entity which is the Labour Party. Yet the same members have been prohibited to watching a film which examines the sabotage and smears committed by Labour’s own staff, paid from the contributions of Unite members, against Jeremy Corbyn in his time as leader.
This also reflects very badly on Sharon Graham, the once great left hope who, since becoming General Secretary of Unite, has backed actions in support of the NATO-backed proxy war in Ukraine.

She has also continued to voice her support for maintaining the parasitic link between Labour and Unite, despite there being no evidence or even rhetoric from the Labour Party that they have any policies which will improve the condition of the working class in any way.

Graham’s inexorable slide into institutionalised trade union bureaucracy is complete. NOTHING can be done to emancipate our class until the biggest working class movement in the country, the trade union movement, cuts once and for all its links with the Labour Party.

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Exclusive: Graham’s Unite bans Corbyn film from all its buildings – SKWAWKBOX
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/06/21/exclusive-grahams-unite-bans-corbyn-film-from-all-its-buildings/

The following letter was sent to a number of publications by Dr Dermot Hudson, Chair of Korean Friendship Association UK, following the recent broadcast of ‘Michael Palin in North Korea’, which was the topic of a post on this website.

Can we ever trust AI? – The Revolution Report
https://the-revolution-report.com/articles/can-we-ever-trust-ai/

You can find our latest podcast on this page of our website! In this one three of our comrades look at how the class war has affected the sport of the working class in Britain.

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/sound-vision/

KFA UK is now affiliated to any political party and we are independent of any political group but nevertheless grateful that the Class Consciousness Project published the letter of our chairman https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/22/a-letter-on-the-dprk/

AFL-CIO shamelessly backs Biden – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/23/afl-cio-shamelessly-backs-biden/

UCU is Britain’s worst trade union, with Britain’s worst General Secretary. And that’s really saying something.

https://twitter.com/ahfdoco/status/1673577568908214273?s=52&t=KNiqE8zJPTd6Pw-xJNTtAw

Terry’s tales of a Union Man – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/25/terrys-tales-of-a-union-man-2/

The impending collapse of Thames Water serves as an example of the utter bankruptcy of our privatised utilities. In fact, the only surprise should be that it has taken so long for this to happen.

Water companies the length and breadth of the nation have run their operations for one single purpose: Profit. They have neglected their infrastructures, some, especially in the case of Thames Water, dating back to the Victorian period.

They have allowed billions of litres of water to leak from its infrastructure while imposing hosepipe bans when there is a shortage of water.

They have, through slipshod methods and a lack of investment, allowed the contamination of our water supplies, our rivers and our beaches. They have been allowed to act with complete impunity by OFWAT, the regulatory body which acts in the interests of the private companies, not water users.

Areas of the country consistently and repeatedly suffer from water shortages year in, year out. Yet despite this, there is no ‘national grid’ for water, where areas where water supply is plentiful can pipe water to areas where there are shortages.

This should have happened when the water boards were in public hands. There was absolutely no possibility of this happening once it was privatised.

The collapse of Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water company under a pile of debt, crumbling infrastructure and sewerage spillages, must be welcomed, but it will count for nothing unless it jolts our rulers into action and our water supply is taken back into public ownership.

https://news.sky.com/story/ministers-weigh-contingency-plan-for-collapse-of-thames-water-12910760