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.
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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.
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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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The Silver Tassie.
By Robert Burns
Go fetch to me a pint o wine,
And fill it in a silver tassie;
That I may drink, before I go,
A service to my bonie lassie:
The boat rocks at the Pier o' Leith,
Fu' loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry,
The ship rides by the Berwick-law,
And I maun leave my bonie Mary.
The trumpets sound, the banners fly,
The glittering spears are ranked ready,
The shouts o' war are heard afar,
The battle closes deep and bloody.
It's not the roar o' sea or shore,
Wad make me langer wish to tarry;
Nor shouts o' war that's heard afar--
It's leaving thee, my bonie Mary!
By Robert Burns
Go fetch to me a pint o wine,
And fill it in a silver tassie;
That I may drink, before I go,
A service to my bonie lassie:
The boat rocks at the Pier o' Leith,
Fu' loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry,
The ship rides by the Berwick-law,
And I maun leave my bonie Mary.
The trumpets sound, the banners fly,
The glittering spears are ranked ready,
The shouts o' war are heard afar,
The battle closes deep and bloody.
It's not the roar o' sea or shore,
Wad make me langer wish to tarry;
Nor shouts o' war that's heard afar--
It's leaving thee, my bonie Mary!
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Britain and The IMF Trap plus Q&A
In this episode we look at the story behind the threat of an IMF "bailout" being needed to stabilise the British economy. We then have our regular Q&A session afterwards to be sure to submit your questions in the chat.
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
The only place the butchers apron belongs is in a mueseum dedicated to chronicling the crimes of the ruling class whose flag it is.
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Predictable Betrayals
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/05/10/predictable-betrayals/
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/05/10/predictable-betrayals/
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Predictable Betrayals
The labour party’s leader, Keir Starmer, has faced criticism from trade union leader Sharon Graham for his U-turn on workers’ rights. The labour party’s ineffectual promises to ad…
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Jeremy Corbyn is a very malleable political object. This idea he was a man "who never changed his morals" is an outright lie.
Here is a list of what he backed down on;
- Dropped calls to quit NATO. He also said Labour would “work within NATO to reduce tensions” but dropped any talk of withdrawal.
- Backed keeping Trident despite opposing nukes and claiming to be a pacifist.
- Campaigned for Remain despite years of being an EU sceptic.
- Softened his anti-austerity edge to sound “responsible.”
- Capitulated on the antisemitism witch-hunt & IHRA.
- Shelved MP deselection fights.
- Parked his republicanism.
- Dropped any attacks on British imperialism.
Here is a list of what he backed down on;
- Dropped calls to quit NATO. He also said Labour would “work within NATO to reduce tensions” but dropped any talk of withdrawal.
- Backed keeping Trident despite opposing nukes and claiming to be a pacifist.
- Campaigned for Remain despite years of being an EU sceptic.
- Softened his anti-austerity edge to sound “responsible.”
- Capitulated on the antisemitism witch-hunt & IHRA.
- Shelved MP deselection fights.
- Parked his republicanism.
- Dropped any attacks on British imperialism.
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BBC Media Action Exposed: Leaked Docs Reveal UK Government Funded Radio Drama 'Story Story' To Influence Nigerian Voters - West Africa Weekly
https://westafricaweekly.com/bbc-media-action-exposed-leaked-docs-reveal-uk-government-funded-radio-drama-story-story-to-influence-nigerian-voters/
https://westafricaweekly.com/bbc-media-action-exposed-leaked-docs-reveal-uk-government-funded-radio-drama-story-story-to-influence-nigerian-voters/
West Africa Weekly
BBC Media Action Exposed: Leaked Docs Reveal UK Government Funded Radio Drama ‘Story Story’ To Influence Nigerian Voters
An explosive investigation by The Grayzone has revealed that BBC Media Action (BBCMA), which portrays itself as the “charitable” arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has been operating as a foreign information warfare extension of the UK Foreign…