4,000 cases of child labor exploitation recorded in the US. This is 4 times more than a decade ago.

The US Department of Labour says child laboir exploitation has reached a critical level. This follows from the agency's report . In the 2024 fiscal year, the country's authorities recorded more than 4,000 such cases. For comparison, ten years ago, about a thousand were identified. According to officials, the increase in figures may be due to both increased monitoring and increased awareness of the problem.

The most common industries where child labour is used are hotels, cleaning services, meat processing plants, and retail. For example, in 2023, there was a high-profile case involving the meat processing company Packers Sanitation, which employed more than 100 children for dangerous work at night. When violations were discovered, the company received a fine of $1.5 million and was obliged to tighten internal controls.

Here's a woman picketing for higher wages in 1938. She worked for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia, USA. .

Our comrade Chris discussing the ideas of Metro Mayor Steve Rotherham to "improve" Merseyside public transport.

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The Soviet Union understood the fundamental role of public transport as a vital link between the worker and industry, community and service. It prioritised infrastructure that served the needs of the people, ensuring production and daily life were harmoniously connected.

Britain, by contrast, has blindly followed the American model of car-centric travel for decades. Our high streets have been gutted and replaced by soulless retail parks, isolated developments surrounded by vast car parks and deliberately awkward public transport links. These are built outside of working-class communities, severing the organic connection between home, work, and service.

Industry and public services should be rooted in the communities they serve, with homes located nearby or connected through efficient, affordable public transport.

As our comrade Chris rightly points out in his video, Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has no real intention of providing a public transport system that serves the needs of local workers. His bendy bus scheme isn’t about improving access to work or easing daily travel—it's designed to funnel tourists to Liverpool’s attractions. Once again, workers are sidelined in favour of capital.

There is hardly another section of the proletariat which comes so closely into contact with industry and agriculture in its everyday economic activity as the railway and water transport workers. You must supply the cities with food, and revive the rural areas by carrying the manufactured goods to them. That is clear to everyone, but it is much clearer to railway and water transport workers, because that is their everyday work. And from this, I think, follow the exceptionally important tasks and the responsibility now falling to the railway and water transport workers.

- V. I. Lenin
The All-Russia Congress Of Transport Workers.

Collapsing Empire: Iran Throws Down Gauntlet
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-empire-iran-throws-down

"The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars"
OTD James Connolly was born in 1868
#SocialistRepublican

This is an article we wrote in response to an awful BBC article. The BBC wrote this article after Iran retaliated against Israel's attack on an Iranian embassy in Syria last year. Killing 16 people including a military commander.

Our reply offers a deeper understanding to the conflict in the region that you will never receive from pro-imperialist media.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/04/20/why-has-israel-attacked-iran/

Goodison Park in 1969-70.

A call for international solidarity with the struggle of the Bulgarian people against the euro!

The imperialist structures of the EU are seeking expansion in the context of the upcoming full-scale war against Russia.

Over the last few years, the comprador ruling class in Bulgaria has been doing everything possible to get the country into the eurozone in order to do the will of its Western masters. The planned date for this is 1 January 2026. This will happen against the will of the vast majority of the Bulgarian people. Even official polls admits that about two thirds of Bulgarians are against this move. It is obvious to everyone that this will lead to further impoverishment of the working class and even greater dependence of Bulgaria on Western corporations and institutions.

There is a large-scale opposition to the euro in the country. With the efforts of the entire nation, over 600 000 signatures have been collected demanding a referendum on this issue. This means that every tenth adult Bulgarian has signed this petition. However, the Bulgarian authorities, subservient to imperialism, refuse to hold such a referendum because they know in advance what the reaction of the people will be. Propaganda, censorship and repression are intensified.

However, the resistance continues. Almost daily protests are held in all places of Bulgaria. Tens of thousands of people attend the largest protests in the capital Sofia. At some of these protests, tensions and clashes with the police have occurred. Protesters have been arrested and detained for weeks for opposing the euro. However, the repression is not paying off for the Bulgarian people and the resistance continues.

In this connection, we would like to appeal to all anti-imperialists around the world to stand in solidarity with the struggle of the Bulgarian people against the EU's dictates and the forced entry of the country into the euro area. If the Bulgarian people manage to fight for their freedom and avoid the adoption of the euro as a result of popular resistance, this would be a major defeat for imperialism that would have global significance for the struggle of the peoples of the world.

We therefore call on everyone who feels for the cause of the struggle against oppression and the dictates of the EU to express solidarity with the struggle of the Bulgarian people against the euro in a way that is appropriate to the conditions in the country concerned. You can then send us photos and videos to show that the Bulgarian people are not alone. They need solidarity at this difficult time. The peoples of the world are brothers and have common interests in the context of the struggle against imperialism.
Solidarity is our weapon! United we will win!

23 September Movement, Bulgaria

Fratton Park, 1899
Portsmouth.