French dock workers refuse to load ammunition bound for Israel, citing solidarity with Gaza.
In a powerful act of solidarity, French dockworkers at the Port of Fos-sur-Mer refused on June 5 to load a shipment of machine gun ammunition destined for the Israeli military. The workers, affiliated with the CGT union, took a firm stand against what they described as complicity in the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, starved, or displaced under Israel’s military campaign.
Their courageous decision is part of a growing wave of international labor solidarity rejecting the use of ports and trade routes to support war and occupation.
In a press release, the CGT dockers stated: "We will not participate in the ongoing genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government".
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In a powerful act of solidarity, French dockworkers at the Port of Fos-sur-Mer refused on June 5 to load a shipment of machine gun ammunition destined for the Israeli military. The workers, affiliated with the CGT union, took a firm stand against what they described as complicity in the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, starved, or displaced under Israel’s military campaign.
Their courageous decision is part of a growing wave of international labor solidarity rejecting the use of ports and trade routes to support war and occupation.
In a press release, the CGT dockers stated: "We will not participate in the ongoing genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government".
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Forwarded from The Communists
The issue of low pay is at the heart of decaying public health and social care provision in Britain.
Privatisation has turned our vital public services into cash cows for profiteers, while delivering less and less to those in need. While the cream of the budget is siphoned off to shareholders and CEOs, the care workers themselves are expected to survive on impossibly low salaries while running in circles trying to fill the yawning gaps left by chronic understaffing.
The net result is a demoralised and stressed-out workforce fronting up for a thoroughly inadequate and highly rationed service, which no longer delivers preventive or timely interventions, but doles out what for too many feels like ‘too little, too late’.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/05/news/care-workers-strike-against-poverty-scotland/
Privatisation has turned our vital public services into cash cows for profiteers, while delivering less and less to those in need. While the cream of the budget is siphoned off to shareholders and CEOs, the care workers themselves are expected to survive on impossibly low salaries while running in circles trying to fill the yawning gaps left by chronic understaffing.
The net result is a demoralised and stressed-out workforce fronting up for a thoroughly inadequate and highly rationed service, which no longer delivers preventive or timely interventions, but doles out what for too many feels like ‘too little, too late’.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/05/news/care-workers-strike-against-poverty-scotland/
The Communists
Enable care workers strike against poverty pay in Scotland
Low pay has become such an issue in the care sector that up to 30 percent of vacancies are unfilled.
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
French dockers block military cargo shipment to Israel
Port workers in southern France have refused to handle military cargo destined for Israel. The cargo contained machine gun parts and was provided by Marseille-based Eurolink, according to a statement from the dockers' union. It was scheduled to be shipped via Marseille-Foss to Haifa on June 5.
After the containers of spare parts were discovered, the workers notified their employers that they would not load them onto the ship. The union said the dockers would not participate in "Israel's genocide":
Dockers will not participate in the genocide carried out by Israel. We fight for peace, for an end to wars throughout the world, for a society in which capitalist exploitation has disappeared
Port workers in southern France have refused to handle military cargo destined for Israel. The cargo contained machine gun parts and was provided by Marseille-based Eurolink, according to a statement from the dockers' union. It was scheduled to be shipped via Marseille-Foss to Haifa on June 5.
After the containers of spare parts were discovered, the workers notified their employers that they would not load them onto the ship. The union said the dockers would not participate in "Israel's genocide":
Dockers will not participate in the genocide carried out by Israel. We fight for peace, for an end to wars throughout the world, for a society in which capitalist exploitation has disappeared
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Forwarded from Ben Stimson ✍
🇬🇧 This is a disgrace and an insult to true Trade Unionists who are persecuted the world over!
Never mind that the "abducted Ukrainian children" myth has been well and truly debunked.
What about child poverty in Britain?
What about Starmer's refusal to commit to ending the two-child benefit cap?
What about the UK-supported holocaust unfolding in Gaza?
What about the daily murder of Palestinian children live-streamed on our phones?
No, it would seem that the priority of the British TUC and trade union bureaucracy is to mobilise anti-Russian sentiment on the flimsiest of pretexts.
This call is a sign of desperation from an imperialist "one nation" trade union movement that has lost its way. Desperate to shore up a flailing Starmer, whose only answer to every challenge is to take us to war. The warmonger who is so despised that the ruling class and their journalistic hounds are already turning on him, realising that he is incapable of mobilising the country to war.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/thoughtsoflifeandwar
Never mind that the "abducted Ukrainian children" myth has been well and truly debunked.
What about child poverty in Britain?
What about Starmer's refusal to commit to ending the two-child benefit cap?
What about the UK-supported holocaust unfolding in Gaza?
What about the daily murder of Palestinian children live-streamed on our phones?
No, it would seem that the priority of the British TUC and trade union bureaucracy is to mobilise anti-Russian sentiment on the flimsiest of pretexts.
This call is a sign of desperation from an imperialist "one nation" trade union movement that has lost its way. Desperate to shore up a flailing Starmer, whose only answer to every challenge is to take us to war. The warmonger who is so despised that the ruling class and their journalistic hounds are already turning on him, realising that he is incapable of mobilising the country to war.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/thoughtsoflifeandwar
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
"It’s not a Labour party the workers need. It’s a revolutionary party pledged to overthrow the capitalist class in the only way it can be done by putting up barricades and taking over factories by force. There is no other way"
James Connolly
James Connolly
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Forwarded from Red Rick
“Before engines, there were legs — welcome to the world of ‘legging’ through the tunnels.”
This striking 1961 photo captures a nearly forgotten craft: legging. In the days before engines, canal workers would lie on their backs atop narrowboats and push against tunnel walls with their feet, inching the boats forward through long, dark passages where horses couldn’t go.
It was exhausting, filthy work — damp air, mucky clothes, and pure muscle power. But this was the rhythm of Britain’s industrial waterways, where grit and determination moved commerce before machines took the reins.
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This striking 1961 photo captures a nearly forgotten craft: legging. In the days before engines, canal workers would lie on their backs atop narrowboats and push against tunnel walls with their feet, inching the boats forward through long, dark passages where horses couldn’t go.
It was exhausting, filthy work — damp air, mucky clothes, and pure muscle power. But this was the rhythm of Britain’s industrial waterways, where grit and determination moved commerce before machines took the reins.
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Forwarded from TASS Russian news agency
The UN General Assembly has appointed former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock as president of its 80th session. Initially, the German Foreign Ministry considered Helga Schmidt, a former OSCE Secretary-General and career diplomat, for this role.
Baerbock’s nomination reportedly sparked discontent within the Foreign Ministry. Some expressed concern her appointment could cost Germany votes, particularly from countries in the Global South, due to her outspoken anti-Russian rhetoric and pro-Israeli stance.
In mid-May, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, criticized Berlin’s choice as “a slap in the face”. It was Baerbock who had recommended excluding Russia and Belarus from the 80th VE-Day anniversary commemorations and expressed public pride in her grandfather, who served in the SS.
Baerbock’s nomination reportedly sparked discontent within the Foreign Ministry. Some expressed concern her appointment could cost Germany votes, particularly from countries in the Global South, due to her outspoken anti-Russian rhetoric and pro-Israeli stance.
In mid-May, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, criticized Berlin’s choice as “a slap in the face”. It was Baerbock who had recommended excluding Russia and Belarus from the 80th VE-Day anniversary commemorations and expressed public pride in her grandfather, who served in the SS.
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http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/06/10/the-contradictions-of-capitalism-explained/
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/06/10/the-contradictions-of-capitalism-explained/
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The Contradictions of Capitalism Explained
Friedrich Engels delivered a powerful critique of capitalism with the line: “The producers have nothing to consume because the consumers are wanting.” This single, simple sentence expos…
Forwarded from Communism
Overproduction and mass misery, each the cause of the other — that is the absurd contradiction which is its outcome, and which of necessity calls for the liberation of the productive forces by means of a change in the mode of production.
In modern history it is, therefore, proved that all political struggles are class struggles, and all class struggles for emancipation, despite their necessarily political form — for every class struggle is a political struggle — turn ultimately on the question of economic emancipation.
Frederick Engels
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
@Communism
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The introduction of our new comrade Vikki Harper.
A better free transfer than James Milner!
Read her fantastic articles on our blog!
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A better free transfer than James Milner!
Read her fantastic articles on our blog!
Class Consciousness Project.
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