Fratton Park, 1899
Portsmouth.

Dave Ward of the Communication Workers Union (him that sold out the posties not so very long ago) has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).

Here he is on Twitter celebrating:
https://twittervx.com/DaveWardGS/status/1933932802132590671


This is a reward for services rendered. Next step: a kick upstairs to the House of Lords and a retirement of gin and expenses.

Read more about the real trade union barons here:
https://thecommunists.org/2023/05/20/news/the-real-trade-union-barons/

Trade unions remain the biggest organisers of working-class people in the country. Six million people are members of trade unions, but these unions and their bureaucracies are hard-wired into the capitalist system.

The leaders are rewarded for their service to that system while workers in struggle are repeatedly betrayed and sold out.

There have, of course, been some honourable exceptions. Roney Bickerstaff and Bob Crow spring to mind. The greatest of all the non-conformists in recent history was, of course, miners’ leader Arthur Scargill, who led a titanic struggle for his members, their industry, and for British industrial jobs in general. A struggle that was only lost as a result of the betrayal of the wider trade union movement and the Labour party leadership.

Scargill, of course, has never ceased to be vilified by establishment media and politicians. He committed the ultimate sin of leaving and then politically opposing the Labour party.

The ruling class and its Trotskyite agents in the working-class movement put great efforts into making sure his Socialist Labour party never got meaningful traction with the working class.

Graphic for the Communist Party USA 7th National Convention, June 1930.

Wembley Stadium, hosting the 1923 ‘White Horse Cup’ final between Bolton and West Ham.

Activists in Portsmouth gathered outside Lockheed Martin to protest its involvement in supplying weapons to the Israeli occupation.

Here's the edited version of the Decline & Fall Iran special from earlier today

https://youtu.be/2mhKTk2wXLI

The Contradictions of Capitalism Explained
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/06/10/the-contradictions-of-capitalism-explained/

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡🇮🇷🔻A massive demonstration in New York to demand not to wage war on Iran and to condemn the occupation's aggression against #Iran and #Gaza.


@Alhaqnews

"By destroying capitalism, the proletariat will destroy prostitution."

"Prostitution is the great scourge of humanity."

"Worker, protect the working woman"

Soviet anti prostitution poster from 1924

Before the fall of the USSR, the Soviet Union, even one in the process of capitalist restoration, held back imperialism from their blatant hegemonic incursions into West Asia.
Since then western imperialists have brazenly infected every country they possibly could, while social democrats and Trotskyites of the imperialist nations cheered on the fall of sovereign countries.

Lessons need to be learned from the past 24 years. Never trust the imperialists and Trots do not stand by the working class of any country.

Class Consciousness Project