Forwarded from Joti Brar
Leaflet in support of Liam Óg, aka Mo Chara, who is currently being prosecuted under the Terrorism Act for waving a Hezbollah flag at one of his band Kneecap’s live shows.
When the mural in support of Liam Óg/Mo Chara was unveiled in Belfast, Kneecap wrote on Twitter: ‘West Belfast knows political policing. West Belfasts knows colonialism. West Belfast knows solidarity.’
https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/21/leaflets/resistance-not-a-crime-support-mo-chara-palestine/
When the mural in support of Liam Óg/Mo Chara was unveiled in Belfast, Kneecap wrote on Twitter: ‘West Belfast knows political policing. West Belfasts knows colonialism. West Belfast knows solidarity.’
https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/21/leaflets/resistance-not-a-crime-support-mo-chara-palestine/
The Communists
Resistance is not a crime. Support Mo Chara! Support Palestine!
Workers, artists and political groups must demand our right to a voice, and to independent political action.
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It’s always amusing how those willing to sell out the workers for a seat at the establishment’s table try to justify their betrayal by condemning those who refuse to be complicit.
Recently, we’ve been branded “purists” or “impossiblists” for doing exactly what we set out to do: offering workers a class analysis. Something sorely absent in the mainstream media, and something that is especially needed by the very people who hurl these labels at us.
The Project is not an activist organisation, nor does it need to be. Every member here is already active in their own political groups, carrying out agitation and organising amongst our class. The role of the Project is different: to provide a class analysis that complements that activism, not to duplicate it.
As our reach grows, so too do the detractors, especially those stung by our critique. But our resolve will not falter. We don’t seek applause or funding. We seek only to serve our class, in the best way we can, with the truth and understanding.
Recently, we’ve been branded “purists” or “impossiblists” for doing exactly what we set out to do: offering workers a class analysis. Something sorely absent in the mainstream media, and something that is especially needed by the very people who hurl these labels at us.
The Project is not an activist organisation, nor does it need to be. Every member here is already active in their own political groups, carrying out agitation and organising amongst our class. The role of the Project is different: to provide a class analysis that complements that activism, not to duplicate it.
As our reach grows, so too do the detractors, especially those stung by our critique. But our resolve will not falter. We don’t seek applause or funding. We seek only to serve our class, in the best way we can, with the truth and understanding.
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
The latest 'Decline & Fall' episode is out now! In this one Kit and myself look at the book 'Original Sin' by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson which chronicles the collapse of the Biden presidency.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dandf/p/weekend-at-bidens?r=5a2y5n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/dandf/p/weekend-at-bidens?r=5a2y5n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Substack
Weekend At Biden's
What does a new book by CNN mainstay Jake Tapper tell us about the fall of the US?
We have officially restarted our Football Focus podcast. The first episode has been recorded and will be released before the end of the week with discussions about the troubles of Sheffield Wednesday and how Crystal Palace have fallen foul of the multi-club rules.
Class Conscious Football fans rejoice as we offer our slant on the beautiful game.
Class Conscious Football fans rejoice as we offer our slant on the beautiful game.
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Be sure to tune into our first 'Football Focus' episode of the season with Rick and Alex at 7PM today!
https://youtube.com/live/sWrPovjvcx8?feature=share
https://youtube.com/live/sWrPovjvcx8?feature=share
YouTube
Football Focus Episode 1
A new football season is upon us! And with that new season comes the launch of a new programme from the Class Consciousness Project! In 'Football Focus' we will be talking about football related issues but not always those that are hitting the headlines.…
The Tories exist as the British ruling party. The Labour Party are there to step in when the Tories fall out of favour. They live off the manufactured myth of being a party of the working class, but the truth is they create policies that tie the people tighter to capital.
Consider the Labour government of 1945–51. It is held up as Labour’s “golden age”. The NHS, the welfare state, nationalisation. Workers need to understand that these were not gifts, but concessions wrung from the ruling class at a moment of crisis. Britain was bankrupt after the war, workers were militant, soldiers were radicalised by the spectre of communism across Europe, and the ruling class feared revolution. Labour’s reforms were a way of stabilising capitalism, not abolishing it. Even Attlee himself admitted nationalisation was carried out on terms favourable to the old owners.
So when those concessions are clawed back, no one should be surprised. That has always been the function of Labour. Starmer is not an aberration but the continuation of a party whose raison d’être is to act as a buffer for capital, to grant crumbs in times of unrest and to dismantle those same crumbs once the system feels secure again. Labour are not there to serve workers. They are there to manage us, discipline us, and keep us in line for the ruling class.
The Class Consciousness Project.
Consider the Labour government of 1945–51. It is held up as Labour’s “golden age”. The NHS, the welfare state, nationalisation. Workers need to understand that these were not gifts, but concessions wrung from the ruling class at a moment of crisis. Britain was bankrupt after the war, workers were militant, soldiers were radicalised by the spectre of communism across Europe, and the ruling class feared revolution. Labour’s reforms were a way of stabilising capitalism, not abolishing it. Even Attlee himself admitted nationalisation was carried out on terms favourable to the old owners.
So when those concessions are clawed back, no one should be surprised. That has always been the function of Labour. Starmer is not an aberration but the continuation of a party whose raison d’être is to act as a buffer for capital, to grant crumbs in times of unrest and to dismantle those same crumbs once the system feels secure again. Labour are not there to serve workers. They are there to manage us, discipline us, and keep us in line for the ruling class.
The Class Consciousness Project.
Class Consciousness Project
Rebuilding working class consciousness
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The Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 wasn’t about stability—it was about U.S. control. After World War II, American imperialists saw an opportunity to reshape the global financial system in their favor. By making the U.S. dollar the world’s reserve currency—allegedly backed by gold—they forced nations to trade using their money, giving Wall Street and Washington total economic leverage. This was never about rebuilding the world—it was about extracting wealth while ensuring the working class, at home and abroad, remained shackled to American capital.
For decades, the U.S. looted the global economy, printing dollars freely while forcing other nations to exchange real goods and labour for increasingly worthless paper. The contradictions of this scam caught up with them by the late 1960s. With the U.S. waging genocidal imperialist wars in Korea and Vietnam and spending recklessly, gold reserves drained rapidly. European nations, particularly France, saw through the fraud and began demanding real gold in exchange for their dollars. But the U.S. had already spent much of the world’s gold hoarding weapons and fueling its war machine. Rather than admit defeat, Nixon unilaterally ended the gold standard in 1971, defaulting on America’s promises and turning the dollar into a fiat currency backed only by military power.
To maintain control, the U.S. quickly struck a deal with Saudi Arabia, creating the petrodollar system. Oil, the lifeblood of modern industry, would be traded exclusively in dollars, forcing every nation to stockpile U.S. currency or risk being cut off. This move entrenched American financial hegemony, allowing them to continue printing wealth out of thin air while imposing crushing debt and austerity on the rest of the world. The global working class was forced to bear the cost—through inflation, economic crises, and endless wars—all to uphold the parasitic rule of the U.S. capitalist class.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/
For decades, the U.S. looted the global economy, printing dollars freely while forcing other nations to exchange real goods and labour for increasingly worthless paper. The contradictions of this scam caught up with them by the late 1960s. With the U.S. waging genocidal imperialist wars in Korea and Vietnam and spending recklessly, gold reserves drained rapidly. European nations, particularly France, saw through the fraud and began demanding real gold in exchange for their dollars. But the U.S. had already spent much of the world’s gold hoarding weapons and fueling its war machine. Rather than admit defeat, Nixon unilaterally ended the gold standard in 1971, defaulting on America’s promises and turning the dollar into a fiat currency backed only by military power.
To maintain control, the U.S. quickly struck a deal with Saudi Arabia, creating the petrodollar system. Oil, the lifeblood of modern industry, would be traded exclusively in dollars, forcing every nation to stockpile U.S. currency or risk being cut off. This move entrenched American financial hegemony, allowing them to continue printing wealth out of thin air while imposing crushing debt and austerity on the rest of the world. The global working class was forced to bear the cost—through inflation, economic crises, and endless wars—all to uphold the parasitic rule of the U.S. capitalist class.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/
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Farage was condemned, and rightly so, for this kind of rhetoric. Now the Labour leader takes the same line.
It proves how interchangeable the servants of capitalism are. Starmer once courted Britain’s liberals, and now that public opinion has shifted he slides straight into reactionary drivel. Tony Blair did the same. Clement Attlee did it when the post-war consensus demanded it. Every Labour government is available to act in whatever direction is needed
The ruling class has always divided us by colour, creed, religion, or nation. It was how they held an empire, and it’s how they hold power at home. To them we’re nothing but labour to exploit, a class to manage.
The bourgeoisie want us tearing chunks out of each other while they sit above untouched, continuing to reap in their capital.
It proves how interchangeable the servants of capitalism are. Starmer once courted Britain’s liberals, and now that public opinion has shifted he slides straight into reactionary drivel. Tony Blair did the same. Clement Attlee did it when the post-war consensus demanded it. Every Labour government is available to act in whatever direction is needed
The ruling class has always divided us by colour, creed, religion, or nation. It was how they held an empire, and it’s how they hold power at home. To them we’re nothing but labour to exploit, a class to manage.
The bourgeoisie want us tearing chunks out of each other while they sit above untouched, continuing to reap in their capital.
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