Pubs Of England - The Withering Pike
By Hari Ren

Working-class culture is not the consumerist drivel we’re force-fed by the capitalist class. It’s not Greggs, Wetherspoons, or a Tesco meal deal.

Our culture comes from the land and the forge, from labour, struggle, and solidarity. It lives in our music, poetry, sport, art, and dance. But it’s also in the way we speak, the stories we tell, our humour, our grit, and how we carry ourselves.

Working-class culture isn’t built on apps or algorithms, it’s forged in the community, in shared experience, in real life.
Don’t let the ruling class commodify what we create, repackage it, and sell it back to us as soulless junk. We built this culture. We live it. It’s ours.

Class Consciousness Project.

With conversation now being on the welfare reforms of the current Labour government it's important to understand what our welfare state was created for why it works how it does now.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/09/09/welfare-reforms-benefits/

The Hibernian ultras have got some great new stickers

Here is the introduction video for a new comrade Luke Whittle.
Luke has written two excellent articles for us. One about Jigger the Miner from his home of the black country and deep dive into Malthusian politics.
Expect more excellent content from our new class conscious comrade!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdf9nRMT/

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Lalkar: China’s progress shows socialism is the only viable political framework for saving the planet
https://www.lalkar.org/article/4719/chinas-progress-shows-socialism-is-the-only-viable-political-framework-for-saving-the-planet

Comrades! We will be returning to do our monthly live this Friday at 7pm!

Links will follow here, X and YouTube.

Taken from a post by Eddie Gibbs on X

🖤 Diogo Jota - The Whistle's Blown Far Too Soon

Finding it hard to write these words, fingers trembling as I type. Diogo Jota is gone. Just days after marrying the love of his life, standing proudly in a church with his new wife Rute and their three young children, he and his brother Andre are lost in a road accident in Spain. A family torn apart, futures stolen in silence.

Jota was 28. A player in his prime, a Premier League champion, a Nations League winner, an #LFC forward who played the game with bite and purpose. But that’s not why this hurts so much. It’s because he carried himself with quiet dignity, a humility rare in modern football. He didn’t shout for attention, he earned respect by how he played, how he worked, how he made you believe.

He scored goals that lifted stadiums, but he never chased the spotlight. His joy seemed rooted not in fame, but in the chance to play, to contribute, to belong. And so we embraced him. Because we saw something of ourselves in him. Not the talent, not the trophies, but the effort, the heart, the sense of duty.

This morning we wake up in a world that makes less sense. A young father gone, a brother gone, a family grieving beyond words. And we grieve too, from afar. Because somehow, through the screen and the songs and the match days, they became part of our lives.

You never knew us, Diogo, but we knew you. And we will never forget.

The combined wealth of Britain’s 55 richest (known and listed) individuals increased by £35 million per day in 2024, thanks to their ability to extract wealth from the planet while paying little or no tax.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/is-britain-going-bust/

Don't forget we are going live at 7pm today.
We will be discussing Zarah Sultana's dramatic exit from Labour and her threat of another "lefty" party with Corbyn and the recent incident at the parade in Liverpool.

The Liverpool Parade: From Celebration to Panic
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/05/30/the-liverpool-parade-from-celebration-to-panic/

If you didn't get a chance to catch us live then you can rewatch here.

https://www.youtube.com/live/VMIESJD-gfc?si=KdKxeGaFPpEtyps1

I went to Diogo Jota's hometown and what I heard made me emotional

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/went-diogo-jotas-hometown-dads-31998333#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare