James Nasmyth - A Steam Hammer at Work, 1871

Production becomes social, but appropriation remains private. The social means of production remain the private property of a few. The general framework of formally recognised free competition remains, and the yoke of a few monopolists on the rest of the population becomes a hundred times heavier, more burdensome and intolerable.

Lenin - Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism

“Walking Home in the Snow”
2025 Chris May

“Another day done. Smoke rising, boots heavy.”

This was shared with us by a comrade on X.

Let me tell you the story of a poor boy
Who was sent far away from his home
To fight for his king and his country
And also the old folks back home
So they put him in a highland division
Sent him off to a far foreign land
Where the flies flew around in their thousands
And there's nothing to see, but the sand
And the battle, it started the next morning
Under the Libyan sun
I remember that poor Scouser Tommy
Who was shot by an old Nazi gun
As he lay on the battlefield dying
With the blood gushing out of his head
As he lay on the battlefield dying
These were the last words he said
"Oh, I am a Liverpudlian, I come from the Spion Kop
I like to sing, I like to shout, I go there quite a lot
We support a team that plays in red, a team that we all know
A team that we called Liverpool, to glory we will go

Poor Scouser Tommy

This is a famous Liverpool football song that has been around the terraces since the first world war. It describes a young man from Liverpool who goes off to fight in the war and is killed. Poor Scouser Tommy has been celebrated ever since.

British Industries: Steel, 1924.
Richard Jack

Given the Daily Telegraph's links to the British security state we can tell what this billboard really means. It means that there is a plan to stage anti Russian provocations using the Baltic states as the meat in this particular grinder.

How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2023/10/01/news/theory/how-kke-uses-marxist-terminology-cover-retreat-from-marxism-war-opportunism/

"End of Shift, Rainfall over the Colliery."
by Chris May.

Even if every immigrant were removed from this country tomorrow, homelessness, poverty, and the cost of living crisis would still remain. These are not caused by immigration; they are caused by the profiteering and endless need for profit by capitalism.
The ruling class imports immigrant labour to use for cheaper wages and working conditions British workers wouldn't stand for, all while syphoning public money into private hotel contracts through bogus "refugee management" schemes. The capitalist-owned media then whips up hatred against immigrants to cover for the real criminals, the ruling class who gorge themselves while the working class starves.

This is deliberate. Divide the people, set worker against worker, and no one looks up at the parasites above. Immigration is not a crisis; capitalism is. There has always been enough wealth to house, feed, and clothe every person in this country, but that wealth is hoarded by a tiny minority who live in obscene luxury off our sweat and toil.

The immigrant is not your enemy. The enemy of the workers is always the ruling class.

Class Consciousness Project

Expecting capitalism to reform itself in favour of those it exploits is not just naïve, it is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the system operates. Capitalism does not exist to serve the majority; it exists to extract as much value as possible from the labour of the workers and funnel it the ruling class. Its very structure demands inequality, because without a working class compelled to sell its labour to survive, the system would collapse.

The idea that businesses, banks, and billionaires will one day wake up and decide to act against their own interests is absurd. Profit is their motus operandi, and it is created from the toil of the workers. Every concession ever won, from the right to organise in unions to the establishment of the welfare state, was wrestled from the ruling class by organised struggle, not granted out of benevolence.

Currently we are enveloped in a cost of living crisis, soaring rents, stagnant wages, and the slow claw back of public services reforms, reveal the true face of capitalism: a system that will allow millions to suffer so long as the parasitical ruling class continue to thrive. At this advanced stage of capitalism’s decay, even the limited reforms of the past are no longer on offer. The system is too brittle, too consumed by its own contradictions to offer meaningful concessions.

Class Consciousness Project