Statement On The Unite Policy Conference – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/07/10/statement-on-the-unite-policy-conference-2/
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/07/10/statement-on-the-unite-policy-conference-2/
Class Consciousness Project
Statement On The Unite Policy Conference
By voting to remain affiliated Unite and their leadership have written Keir Starmer a blank cheque The decision by the Unite policy conference to back continuing affiliation to the Labour Party is …
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We know that people are leaving Unite. We urge you to reconsider and to leave the Political Fund instead. It’s important that the bureaucrats who run Unite are given a clear message that their continued and servile relationship with Labour has to end, either their way or yours.
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A potted history of the Royal Mail dispute:
- CWU members strike in 2022, losing £1,400 each
- CWU leaders accept crappy deal in 2023
- CWU members realise their leaders have abandoned them and so accept crappy deal
- CWU leaders wonder why CWU members are leaving in droves
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/26/the-inexplicable-capitulation-of-the-cwu/
- CWU members strike in 2022, losing £1,400 each
- CWU leaders accept crappy deal in 2023
- CWU members realise their leaders have abandoned them and so accept crappy deal
- CWU leaders wonder why CWU members are leaving in droves
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/26/the-inexplicable-capitulation-of-the-cwu/
Class Consciousness Project
The Inexplicable Capitulation of the CWU
Striking postal workers have sacrificed some £1,400 of their wages on strike action (picture by Sky News) On Friday 21st April, the Communication Workers’ Union announced via social media that they…
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In this podcast, we looked at the capitulation of the CWU and gained valuable insight from people who had actually worked for Royal Mail.
We speculated that CWU’s bureaucracy had been spooked into thinking that Royal Mail may go bust if the strike action continued. It looks like we were right.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/05/08/podcast-debut/
We speculated that CWU’s bureaucracy had been spooked into thinking that Royal Mail may go bust if the strike action continued. It looks like we were right.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/05/08/podcast-debut/
Class Consciousness Project
Podcast Debut
We Talk About Why We Founded The Project And The Latest Union Struggles In the debut podcast from the Class Consciousness Project Jason, Rick, Terry, Chris & Alex sit down to discuss a range of…
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The Communication Workers Union and their total capitulation in the Royal Mail dispute is examined in this latest article from the Class Consciousness Project.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/07/13/the-failure-of-the-royal-mail-dispute/
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/07/13/the-failure-of-the-royal-mail-dispute/
Class Consciousness Project
The Failure of the Royal Mail Dispute
Royal Mail workers sacrificed an average of £1,400 of their wages each during their strikes in 2022, only for the CWU bureaucracy to collapse in 2023 (Photo: GETTY IMAGES) The Communications Worker…
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
I'll be speaking at this online event on Sunday.
https://icssmarx.org/putin-and-nato-a-marxist-leninist-perspective-alexander-mckay-sunday-june-16-2023-1030-am-pacific-time/
https://icssmarx.org/putin-and-nato-a-marxist-leninist-perspective-alexander-mckay-sunday-june-16-2023-1030-am-pacific-time/
Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close? | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2023/07/12/news/thames-water-scandal-privatisation-party-drawing-to-close/
https://thecommunists.org/2023/07/12/news/thames-water-scandal-privatisation-party-drawing-to-close/
The Communists
Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close?
Having paid a fortune to private investors for years, the British public must now pay again to bail out indebted utilities and clean up the horrific mess they have made.
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
If you want a good benchmark for thinking about the proposed wage rises of 6-8 percent being forced on various striking workforces right now, consider this:
Increase in the price of staples from May 2019 to May 2023 in Britain:
30% increase in the price of butter
25% increase in the price of bread
37% increase in the price of chicken
55% increase in the price of milk
70% increase in the price of baked beans
Average rent in London in 2019 was £1,425 (all types and sizes of housing)
The figure for March 2023 was £2,193.
That's an increase of more than 50%.
Now tell me those wage increases -- which are not to address just this last year's extreme inflation or even the four years detailed above, but FIFTEEN YEARS of pay freezes and below-inflation rises that have been compounded by the last year's runaway price hikes -- are 'generous'.
Increase in the price of staples from May 2019 to May 2023 in Britain:
30% increase in the price of butter
25% increase in the price of bread
37% increase in the price of chicken
55% increase in the price of milk
70% increase in the price of baked beans
Average rent in London in 2019 was £1,425 (all types and sizes of housing)
The figure for March 2023 was £2,193.
That's an increase of more than 50%.
Now tell me those wage increases -- which are not to address just this last year's extreme inflation or even the four years detailed above, but FIFTEEN YEARS of pay freezes and below-inflation rises that have been compounded by the last year's runaway price hikes -- are 'generous'.
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With the so called "left" trade union leaders once more telling the workers to Labour it's worth explaining why again workers shouldn't lend their support to Labour.
This isn't because we profess for the Tories or the Greens, LibDems or who ever is floating around.
This because Labour as much an integral party of British capitalism as The Conservatives are.
Their invention was not for socialism, but for better control of unionised workers.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/18/why-we-attack-the-labour-party/
This isn't because we profess for the Tories or the Greens, LibDems or who ever is floating around.
This because Labour as much an integral party of British capitalism as The Conservatives are.
Their invention was not for socialism, but for better control of unionised workers.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/18/why-we-attack-the-labour-party/
Class Consciousness Project
Why We Attack The Labour Party
A position that seems to boggle the minds of the modern left is why communists of our persuasion constantly attack the Labour Party. We are looked at strangely when we don’t feel compelled to join …
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A fantastic interview between our comrade Alex and Dermot Hudson about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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A Workers Revolt – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/04/a-workers-revolt/
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/04/a-workers-revolt/
Class Consciousness Project
A Workers Revolt
7 Years On And It’s Clear That Workers Made Brexit Happen Britain has now witnessed a seven year long nervous breakdown of the “progressive” middle class over the issue of Brexit. Ever since …
If the opinion polls were anything to go by (and they aren’t), then Labour’s anaemic reformism without reforms isn’t resonating with voters in quite the way that the bourgeois media would like us to believe.
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