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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Stop the War’s capitulation hides truth about Ukraine, stops workers organising | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2023/07/13/news/stop-the-wars-capitulation-hides-truth-about-ukraine-stops-workers-organising/
https://thecommunists.org/2023/07/13/news/stop-the-wars-capitulation-hides-truth-about-ukraine-stops-workers-organising/
The Communists
Stop the War’s capitulation hides truth about Ukraine, stops workers organising
It is time we in Britain got off our knees and organised a mass movement of real opposition to the imperialist war drive.
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Via BBC, A street in Essex has been officially inaugurated as the United Kingdom's first road named after President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Previously known as Fifth Avenue, the street in Harlow has now been renamed as Fifth Avenue - Zelensky Avenue.
It's a noteworthy recognition for the President, as even Fifth Columns are now getting streets named after them!
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Via BBC, A street in Essex has been officially inaugurated as the United Kingdom's first road named after President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Previously known as Fifth Avenue, the street in Harlow has now been renamed as Fifth Avenue - Zelensky Avenue.
It's a noteworthy recognition for the President, as even Fifth Columns are now getting streets named after them!
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Support our work by donating here!
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The Class Consciousness Project supports without equivocation all workers in struggle. We know that, in the majority of cases and until a full working class consciousness can be developed, these struggles will be organised through trade unions.
But, as we have seen with the capitulation of the CWU in its disputes with Royal Mail and BT, as well as the NEU recommending a below inflation and unfunded pay offer for teachers, trade union bureaucracies cannot effectively lead workers unless workers effectively lead them.
We understand why people would see these failures and come to the conclusion that the whole movement is defeated, broken and irreparable. But trade unions are the biggest organisers of working class people and can be the militant expression of working class power they should be.
To do this, the chasm between the rank and file membership and the well-paid bureaucrats of trade unions has to be bridged. Rank and file members with the knowledge, skills, motivation and class consciousness must pose a viable and permanent threat to bureaucrats.
Our task is to build that knowledge, the skills, the class consciousness and the motivation in our class comrades needed to prevent the failures and defeats which befall the trade union movement far too often.
To quote a statement from @PostiesSayNo in response to the capitulation of the CWU:
“Staying in [the CWU] also means ensuring that the experience of the last year is never repeated. That means building at the grassroots, holding members meetings, electing reps, and building workplace committees, holding branches to account. It means coming together to build a rank-and-file alternative that can give a new direction to our union and ultimately a new, fighting leadership.”
We absolutely agree.
We have to start today.
But, as we have seen with the capitulation of the CWU in its disputes with Royal Mail and BT, as well as the NEU recommending a below inflation and unfunded pay offer for teachers, trade union bureaucracies cannot effectively lead workers unless workers effectively lead them.
We understand why people would see these failures and come to the conclusion that the whole movement is defeated, broken and irreparable. But trade unions are the biggest organisers of working class people and can be the militant expression of working class power they should be.
To do this, the chasm between the rank and file membership and the well-paid bureaucrats of trade unions has to be bridged. Rank and file members with the knowledge, skills, motivation and class consciousness must pose a viable and permanent threat to bureaucrats.
Our task is to build that knowledge, the skills, the class consciousness and the motivation in our class comrades needed to prevent the failures and defeats which befall the trade union movement far too often.
To quote a statement from @PostiesSayNo in response to the capitulation of the CWU:
“Staying in [the CWU] also means ensuring that the experience of the last year is never repeated. That means building at the grassroots, holding members meetings, electing reps, and building workplace committees, holding branches to account. It means coming together to build a rank-and-file alternative that can give a new direction to our union and ultimately a new, fighting leadership.”
We absolutely agree.
We have to start today.
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This clip, taken from yesterday’s Class Struggle Update, looks at the failure of the Royal Mail dispute, the capitulation of the CWU and the effect the collapse has had on the union’s members.
https://youtu.be/DTJ-bAkjigc
https://youtu.be/DTJ-bAkjigc
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Class Struggle Update - The Collapse of the Royal Mail Strike
This clip, taken from our Class Struggle Update released on 23rd July, examines the failure of the Royal Mail dispute and the capitulation of the bureaucracy of the Communication Workers Union, which represent the workers at Royal Mail.
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The Housing Question – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/10/the-housing-question/
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/10/the-housing-question/
Class Consciousness Project
The Housing Question
Image: Getty Images With interest rates continuing to rise and impending fiscal doom poking its head over the horizon, the housing question presents itself yet again. In fact, the housing question …
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