An absolute legend of the game!

https://youtu.be/LadHdwdoEDM?si=a-zfSZcLBGRJmRc8

County road area of Walton, Liverpool. The land that the council forgot. There's been settlements here for 100s of years.
It may be poor, but it's still got some semblance of community that a lot of places are truly lacking. It also has our comrade Red Rick. This is the area which he calls home.

https://youtu.be/j7wJfeGdh9Q?si=eJOhh031BGWsOQ71

Share this everywhere so the evil bastard can be seen!

City builder or destructive vandal? The city building tendency is exemplified by China. Vandals exemplified by the destruction of Gaza during the ongoing genocide. But can be seen in the imperialist core with the tearing down of working class housing, ripping apart communities, and replacing them with glass towers for the ultra rich to purchase as an investment, in the empty plots of land within our cities, areas where the buildings have been allowed to fall into dereliction, are torn down and nothing is built to replace them because capitalists are unable to find a profit making use for the land. Contrast communist China using rational planning, with the irrationality of profits in command in Imperialist capitalist countries. A socialist economy would be a society of city builders!

To build a socialist society, capitalism must be abolished. There is no middle ground. Labour and the TUC have no intention of doing this; their loyalty lies with preserving the system, not dismantling it. That’s why vague terms like neoliberalism are thrown around, as if the problem is merely a bad version of capitalism, not capitalism itself. They only seek to reform the unreformable, to dress up exploitation as something beneficial.

BBC bias around the Gaza genocide is on full display again. Not content with failing to explain how many of the lies told by Israel after 7 October have been debunked; with failing to contextualise the Palestinian national-liberation struggle against Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing; with consistently repeating zionist/imperialist tropes about 'terrorism' and 'antisemitism', etc etc ...

Now, a documentary film following medical staff in Gaza as they work in horrendous conditions and are targeted by zionist bombs has been 'delayed' ... for an indefinite period of time.

The reason? An investigation into a previous (but entirely unconnected) film about Gaza is 'ongoing'. The investigation was called because of the alleged 'links to Hamas' of a featured 14-year-old boy who helped narrate the story of 'How To Survive A Warzone'.

Essentially, it was pulled from the iPlayer and a huge furore kicked up by the zionist lobby because it gave just a small glimpse into the truth about the suffering of Palestinians and allowed those people to appear as human beings (as opposed to 'nameless, faceless numbers or "human animals" (Netanyahu).

According to the producers at Basement Films, the film began shooting more than a year ago:

“We gathered searing testimony from multiple Palestinian doctors and health workers who had survived attacks on hospitals and their homes that killed both colleagues and loved ones.

“We also spoke to multiple medics who had been detained and testified they had been tortured, and we made solemn undertakings that their stories would be told, and done so as soon as possible.

“The film has been made by an experienced and multi-award-winning team both from Basement Films, and the BBC. It has been fact-checked, complied and signed off multiple times within the BBC, as well as experts we consulted with. We are desperate for a confirmed release date in order to be able to tell the surviving doctors and medics when their stories will be told.”

Is the BBC board hoping to kick this into the long grass so that by the time it's eventually shown it can all be safely written off as regrettable but ancient history?

https://www.thetimes.com/article/a8d611bc-b7e3-4b6d-b8d9-47844d93cf89?shareToken=d19e94651aae53d1d2ad371a4b9febfb

https://archive.ph/MpPuZ

Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government (1945-51) is routinely celebrated by the British left for its reforms. The creation of the welfare state, its expansion of social housing, and the founding of the National Health Service. These reforms are held up as the pinnacle of socialist achievement in Britain. Yet conspicuously absent from this praise is any serious condemnation of Labour’s role in laying the groundwork for post-war imperialism—chief among them, its central role in founding the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1949.

While Attlee’s domestic reforms provided limited concessions to a war weary British working class, his government simultaneously tied Britain to a permanent military alliance with the United States, processed as being designed for defence, but in reality it was created for the preservation and projection of the European (including USA) capitalist powers. NATO was never a peacekeeping force; it was, from the outset, an instrument of Cold War aggression—backing coups, invasions, and occupations across the globe in defence of capitalist interests. The cost has been borne by the global working class, with millions dead in Korea, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere, all under NATO’s watch.

Labour's imperialist legacy did not end with Attlee. Every Labour government since—Wilson, Callaghan, Blair, Brown—has remained firmly committed to NATO. Not one has ever seriously questioned Britain’s membership, let alone proposed withdrawal. Even the so-called "left" leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, despite apparently being anti-war, pledged support for NATO in the 2017 and 2019 manifestos.

The reality is inescapable: every Labour government, regardless of rhetoric, has been a willing collaborator in NATO’s global dominance. The party’s allegiance lies not with international working-class, but is an active machinism of British capitalism.

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