Globalisation is merely the latest phase of imperialism as it moved into a period where it became a pure, undiluted version of what Lenin described in Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism. What the 1990s ushered in was the ability of the imperialists to export capital without restrictions following the counter revolution, which destroyed the socialist bloc. This was an absolute necessity for the imperialists as it enabled them to engage in a drastic increase in profits via the destruction of the domestic industrial base and replacement of it by mass importation of commodities from areas of the world which could be subject to hyper exploitation and thus the commodities could be brought back to the imperial core nations and the wage cuts imposed on the domestic working class could be mitigated via the provision of cheaper commodities. If that comes to an end, we will see a massive increase in prices in the imperialist nations and the living standards of the working class will utterly collapse. Imperialism is running out of options now and a full scale assault on the domestic working class is coming very soon as it is their only option left. Communists must stand ready to explain this situation to the masses as the situation deteriorates rapidly.

Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison. – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/04/07/some-advice-to-those-who-will-serve-time-in-prison/

Trumps rhetoric about how the rest of the world is ripping off the USA is repulsive and clueless at the same time. US imperialism exists like a vampire, leeching off the economies of the entire world upon both their resources and their labour for many decades now. That is the essence of imperialism, it is pure parasitism that hollows out nations before moving on to suck the lifeblood from somewhere else. Trump and his gang don't even really understand this as they think of US power in very crude terms. The US ruling class do though and that is why Trump will ultimately fail but in trying to leap back in time to the 1880s he will reveal contradictions inherent in the system that will cause the massive recession that began in 2008 to return with vengeance.

....most writers have ignored fascism's close collaboration with big business. Some even argue that business was not a beneficiary but a victim of fascism. Angelo Codevilla, a Hoover Institute conservative scribe, blithely announced: "If fascism means anything, it means government ownership and control of business". Thus fascism is misrepresented as a mutant form of socialism. In fact, if fascism means anything, it means all-out government support for business and severe repression of antibusiness, pro-labour forces.

Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism's raison d'être, the function Hitler himself kept referring to when he talked about saving the industrialists and bankers from Bolshevism. It is a subject that deserves far more attention than it has received.

- Michael Parenti.
Blackshirts and Reds.

Exclusive: Unite exec majority starts legal action over assault on democracy, orders Graham to obey rules. Union GS ordered to respect union's rules and not squander members' cash on lawyers to defend chair who won't step down after clear vote...
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/04/exclusive-unite-exec-majority-starts-legal-action-over-assault-on-democracy-orders-graham-to-obey-rules/

Sharon Graham was hailed as a new standard-bearer for the left, but all she’s done is confirm what many of us already knew: to rise to the top of a major capitalist trade union, you need to be a careerist bureaucrat with a flexible relationship to principle and none at all with the working-class union membership.

Debuting tonight on the channel its the first attempt at documentary making that I've engaged in. This film tells the story of the recent demolition of 600 flats in three tower blocks on the Wyndford Estate in Glasgow. The film situates this scandal within the wider framework of the housing crisis and the crisis of British imperialism.

https://youtu.be/NoGgCxuyah4

In a short film for the project comrade Alex looks at a recent scandal regarding shipbuilding on the Clyde and asks why the Scottish government is sending business to yards in Turkey and Poland when it has a nationalised yard on the Clyde.

https://youtu.be/Hasz2X1Gi4k

“Most aggressive, unhinged and blatant attempt to absolve Israel (on this occasion, of burning Palestinians in tents alive) of accountability I’ve seen probably ever ...”

The BBC sanitises the genocide. Therefore the BBC is complicit in the genocide. That’s why it’s essential to target the BBC and other monopoly capitalist media for their ‘journalism’ and ‘coverage’ - which is actually pro-genocide propaganda.

And that’s why the Metropolitan police, under pressure from the Labour government, wants to make it illegal to demonstrate – by claiming that the jewish community are not able to worship: “There is a [central] synagogue too near to the demonstrators” for them to express an anti-genocide opinion ...

What is not clearly explained is: why should jews, or any other group, feel ‘threatened’ by masses of British workers (many of them jews) speaking out against genocide?

The truth is that British capitalism feels threatened. The mobilised power of the British workers on our streets demonstrating against their political and financial power is the threat.

The capitalists fear the organised working class as the devil fears holy water. For their wealth and power depends upon us meekly accepting their tyrannical and dystopian global system of exploitation. Genocides and all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jzgp947qdo

Starmer confirms 2030 new petrol/diesel vehicle ban - but exempts ultra-wealthy's polluting 'supercars'. Got a spare £200k to drop on a motor? Keir Starmer is your mate..
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/07/starmer-confirms-2030-new-petrol-diesel-vehicle-ban-but-exempts-ultra-wealthys-polluting-supercars/