"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

‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2024/04/29/news/stop-the-boats-immigration-debate-the-political-football/

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Football club sacks director after anti-genocide comments. Petition to remove Salma Mashhour from Dagenham and Redbridge FC had only 558 signatures and whitewashed Israel's slaughter of Palestinian civilians and the history of its occupation...
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/23/football-club-sacks-director-after-anti-genocide-comments/

Hundreds of fascists gathered in Dongo, Italy, to commemorate the killing of the Italian fascist dictator Mussolini and 15 high-ranking fascist officials.

A police cordon separated the fascists from a counter-demonstration of citizens who had gathered to “defend the memory of the partisan martyrs.” Fascist salutes were met with jeers and the singing of “Bella Ciao.”

The Italian government has called for “sobriety” in the celebrations of Liberation Day. While government officials justified this by citing national mourning for the death of Pope Francis, critics view it as part of an increasingly fascist trend. In many cities, marches and events have been canceled, some bands have been asked to refrain from playing resistance anthems, and individuals have been identified for displaying banners supporting antifascism.

In 1945, the Italian fascist hierarchs, fleeing with Mussolini toward Switzerland, were captured and executed by the partisan resistance on April 28.

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🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇺Polish Prime Minister Tusk:
"Prime Minister Orban is now openly talking about Hungary's possible exit from the European Union."

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Come along to the 2025 Merseyside Marxist Book Fair which will take place at The Casa, 29 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9BQ on Saturday, 10 May, from 10am until 4pm.

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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.

An interesting article on the EU’s military capability reveals how deeply intertwined it is with the United States. The author repeatedly stresses that the EU would struggle to operate militarily without U.S. support, yet fails to acknowledge the deeper truth: the dependency is not merely military, it is structural and economical.

The European Union itself is a creation of U.S. imperialism, designed in the aftermath of the Second World War to unify Western European capitalist states under American influence. Its purpose was twofold: to stabilise the region after centuries of conflict, and more importantly, to contain and undermine the spread of socialism from the East. Far from being a project of European sovereignty, the EU has always functioned as a mechanism for embedding U.S. interests into the very fabric of European governance, economy, and foreign policy.

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-military-support-nato-europe-armies-without-american-assistance-donald-trump/

Happy International Workers Day to all comrades! As imperialism continues its spiralling decay the urgent necessity of advancing the class struggle becomes more apparent. The working class in the imperial core nations must fulfill our historic task of eliminating the parasitic bourgeoisie who have robbed and terrorised the world for far too long. It is our historic duty to bring their rule to an end. On May Day we declare that our demands are that we only want the earth! Solidarity!