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.

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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

An excerpt from Christopher Hills -The Century of Revolution.

This is was a speech made in parliament after a list of monopolies was read out.

A speech to parliament in 1601.

"It is difficult for us to picture to ourselves the life of a man living in a house built with monopoly bricks, with windows (if any) of mono- poly glass; heated by monopoly coal (in Ireland monopoly timber). burning in a grate made of monopoly iron. His walls were lined with monopoly tapestries. He slept on monopoly feathers, did his hair with monopoly brushes and monopoly combs. He washed himself with monopoly soap, his clothes in monopoly starch. He dressed in monopoly lace, monopoly linen, monopoly leather, monopoly gold thread. His hat was of monopoly beaver, with a monopoly band. His clothes were held up by monopoly belts, monopoly buttons, mono- poly pins. They were dyed with monopoly dyes. He ate monopoly butter, monopoly currants, monopoly red herrings, monopoly salmon, and monopoly lobsters. His food was seasoned with monopoly salt, monopoly pepper, monopoly vinegar. Out of monopoly glasses he drank monopoly wines and monopoly spirits; out of pewter mugs made fron monopoly tin he drank monopoly beer made from monopoly hops, kept in monopoly barrels or monopoly bottles, sold in monopoly-licensed alehouses. He smoked monopoly tobacco in monopoly pipes, played with monopoly dice or monopoly cards, or on monopoly lutestrings. He wrote with monopoly pens, on writing-paper, read (through monopoly spectacles, by the light of monopoly candles) monopoly printed books, including monopoly Bibles and monopoly Latin grammars, printed on paper made from monopoly-collected rags, bound in sheepskin dressed in monopoly alum. He shot with monopoly gunpowder made from monopoly salt- petre. He exercised himself with monopoly golf balls and in monopoly-licensed bowling alleys. A monopolist collected the fines which he paid for swearing. He travelled in monopoly sedan chairs or monopoly hackney coaches, drawn by horses fed on monopoly hay. He tipped with monopoly farthings. At sea he was lighted by monopoly lighthouses. When he made his will, he went to a monopolist. (In Ireland one could not be born, married, or die without 6d. to a monopolist.) Pedlars were licensed by a monopolist. Mice were caught in monopoly mousetraps. Not all these patents existed at once, but all come from the first decades of the seventeenth century. In 1621 there were alleged to be 700 of them."