Ticket prices in the old English National League were affordable for working-class fans. That changed with the birth of the Premier League and the explosion of TV money.
The global appeal brought in billions through broadcasting and marketing, but as always the profits never filtered down to the people who built the game. Instead of improving conditions for working-class supporters, the money only served owners and investors. Ordinary fans were priced out of regular attendance, while clubs shifted towards catering for a more tourist-style crowd.
The global appeal brought in billions through broadcasting and marketing, but as always the profits never filtered down to the people who built the game. Instead of improving conditions for working-class supporters, the money only served owners and investors. Ordinary fans were priced out of regular attendance, while clubs shifted towards catering for a more tourist-style crowd.
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Trump is behaving in exactly the same manner as he did during his first term. He makes loud threats one minute, conciliatory noises the next followed be even louder threats if this doesn't work. The fact that this is not working on the Russians makes him more likely to agree to whatever delusional nonsense that the Europeans and Zelensky are likely to put in front of him. This won't change the outcome of the war, nor is it really a significant departure from the policy of the Biden administration. Both Biden and Trump would face the same material reality, that of diminishing war material and the Russians being able to outproduce the entire NATO block. The limits of the US industrial base have been cruelly exposed and thus the imperialists are stuck. Had Harris won a similar dance would now be going on but with a slightly more inebriated lead performer.
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UK inflation is projected to be the highest out of the G7 countries this year. An unenviable position of being one of the most struggling imperialists.
Food costs are climbing, wages are continuing to be stunted and our services are being broken down for parts.
And why? Because instead of taxing the corporations and landlords (themselves) who gorge on crisis, the state raises revenue through hidden levies — inflation itself and the £25bn NIC hike. A hike that has seen no increase in our public services. Just more contracts to syphon public money through.
Inflation isn’t some natural storm. It’s class war in numbers: workers pay more for less, while the ruling class continues to cash in.
Food costs are climbing, wages are continuing to be stunted and our services are being broken down for parts.
And why? Because instead of taxing the corporations and landlords (themselves) who gorge on crisis, the state raises revenue through hidden levies — inflation itself and the £25bn NIC hike. A hike that has seen no increase in our public services. Just more contracts to syphon public money through.
Inflation isn’t some natural storm. It’s class war in numbers: workers pay more for less, while the ruling class continues to cash in.
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Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/09/23/the-bosman-counter-revolution-and-its-consequences/
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The Bosman Counter Revolution and Its Consequences
In Football We Must Also Apply A Marxist Analysis When we look at the dire state of English football today, with a few giant clubs owned by oligarchs dominating everything, many football fans will …
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A call from the port workers of Genoa to dockers and workers across Europe.
Dockworkers in the Italian port of Genoa have consistently led the way in obstructing the efforts of the Nato war machine.
As well as stopping arms shipments to Israel they have also stopped shipments of munitions to Ukraine and to Saudi Arabia (for use in its genocidal war against Yemen).
Their example is one that should be followed by workers everywhere.
Non-cooperation now!
https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/24/news/genoa-dockers-convene-european-conference-non-cooperation-genocide/
Dockworkers in the Italian port of Genoa have consistently led the way in obstructing the efforts of the Nato war machine.
As well as stopping arms shipments to Israel they have also stopped shipments of munitions to Ukraine and to Saudi Arabia (for use in its genocidal war against Yemen).
Their example is one that should be followed by workers everywhere.
Non-cooperation now!
https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/24/news/genoa-dockers-convene-european-conference-non-cooperation-genocide/
The Communists
Genoa dockers call for Europe-wide non-cooperation with the genocide
This weekend, port worker delegations will meet with workers involved in the direct and/or indirect supply chain of transporting or producing war materials.
Uber’s New Delivery? Occupation Tech.
Uber has put tens of millions into Flytrex, an Israeli drone company with Federal Aviation Administration: Beyond Visual Line of Sight (FAA BVLOS) clearance. They say it’s about creating quicker Uber Eats this year and beyond. The truth is that Israel’s tech sector runs on dual-use. Drones planned for food delivery are the same systems that can be turned into tools of surveillance and further military attacks
This isn’t “innovation.” It’s capital flowing into the imperialist military infrastructure. Drones don’t just carry food; they normalise aerial policing, mapping, and automation that dumps couriers and surveils neighbourhoods. Israel uses the equipment to spy on and murder Palestinians.
If Uber wants our money, they should publish the deal terms and human-rights safeguards. Pull any deals that help Israel continue it's genocidal campaign and constant war on the middle east.
Uber has put tens of millions into Flytrex, an Israeli drone company with Federal Aviation Administration: Beyond Visual Line of Sight (FAA BVLOS) clearance. They say it’s about creating quicker Uber Eats this year and beyond. The truth is that Israel’s tech sector runs on dual-use. Drones planned for food delivery are the same systems that can be turned into tools of surveillance and further military attacks
This isn’t “innovation.” It’s capital flowing into the imperialist military infrastructure. Drones don’t just carry food; they normalise aerial policing, mapping, and automation that dumps couriers and surveils neighbourhoods. Israel uses the equipment to spy on and murder Palestinians.
If Uber wants our money, they should publish the deal terms and human-rights safeguards. Pull any deals that help Israel continue it's genocidal campaign and constant war on the middle east.
Forwarded from The Communists
With the Labour and Tory parties both drained of credibility, the ruling class has been training up a new reserve team, which is now ready to be brought into play.
Farage’s job is to pose as an ‘outsider’ the establishment doesn’t want us to listen to – all while his party and its anti-migrant rhetoric are given massive promotion in establishment media.
The aim is both to keep workers putting their faith in the increasingly distrusted parliamentary system, and to persuade them to direct their anger and frustration at other workers rather than at the capitalist system and those who rule it.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/26/leaflets/reform-scapegoating-migrants-to-save-capitalism/
Farage’s job is to pose as an ‘outsider’ the establishment doesn’t want us to listen to – all while his party and its anti-migrant rhetoric are given massive promotion in establishment media.
The aim is both to keep workers putting their faith in the increasingly distrusted parliamentary system, and to persuade them to direct their anger and frustration at other workers rather than at the capitalist system and those who rule it.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/26/leaflets/reform-scapegoating-migrants-to-save-capitalism/
The Communists
Reform: scapegoating migrants to save capitalism
Nigel Farage is simply one more player in a game of ‘divide and rule’ that the British ruling class has been directing for 200 years.
The Labour government boasts of offering 30 hours “free” childcare, but only to those already in work. Parents on benefits are ignored. That alone tells us what childcare policy is really about. It isn’t about the child, or about equality of opportunity. It’s about rewarding those who can still be fitted into the labour market.
Under capitalism, childcare isn’t treated as a workers right or as an investment in children’s development. It’s treated as a selective privilege, handed out to those who are actively selling their labour. If you can still be profitable to the system, you’re offered a little relief. If you can’t, you’re left to fend for yourself, even though your child’s needs are no different.
Nurseries are just another cog in the British capitalist machine. Either they rake in money through inflated fees, or they function as a way to grease the wheels of employment, ensuring that parents stay usable to the market. The child is an afterthought. The parent is only valued so far as they are able to work within the confines of capitalism.
Under capitalism, childcare isn’t treated as a workers right or as an investment in children’s development. It’s treated as a selective privilege, handed out to those who are actively selling their labour. If you can still be profitable to the system, you’re offered a little relief. If you can’t, you’re left to fend for yourself, even though your child’s needs are no different.
Nurseries are just another cog in the British capitalist machine. Either they rake in money through inflated fees, or they function as a way to grease the wheels of employment, ensuring that parents stay usable to the market. The child is an afterthought. The parent is only valued so far as they are able to work within the confines of capitalism.
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Forwarded from The Communists
Affordable and high-quality food is a human right and a social good. Why can’t capitalism fulfil this basic requirement?
https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/25/news/why-we-need-network-british-stolovayas-canteens/
https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/25/news/why-we-need-network-british-stolovayas-canteens/
The Communists
Why we need a national network of British stolovayas
Affordable and high-quality food is a human right and a social good. Why can’t capitalism fulfil this basic requirement?
Yesterday George Galloway and his wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, were detained at Gatwick Airport on return from Moscow. The stop was under Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act—a law designed for “hostile activity.”
He was not arrested, nor were there any charges. This was just an interrogation with an attempt to cause distress and worry for Galloway or any high profile Britons from visiting Russia.
Why was he targeted? Because Galloway had been in Russia for a political conference, speaking against western imperialism and against the genocide in Palestine. His politics at home, parliamentary maneuvers, local populism, pose no existential threat to the British state. But his anti-imperialist line abroad is unacceptable to the ruling class.
What the state fears is normalisation of anti-Western imperialism - of voices that argue Britain’s wars, sanctions, and alliances serve capital, not people. That’s why other alternative media figures like Kit Klarenberg and Richard Medhurst have faced the same treatment: stops, interrogations and smear campaigns.
This is the new frontier of repression. Not imprisoning dissidents outright, but harassing them at borders, seizing devices and attempting to cast a shadow over their legitimacy. A reminder to anyone who strays from the approved line on NATO, Israel, or Russia, and you’ll meet the security state head-on.
He was not arrested, nor were there any charges. This was just an interrogation with an attempt to cause distress and worry for Galloway or any high profile Britons from visiting Russia.
Why was he targeted? Because Galloway had been in Russia for a political conference, speaking against western imperialism and against the genocide in Palestine. His politics at home, parliamentary maneuvers, local populism, pose no existential threat to the British state. But his anti-imperialist line abroad is unacceptable to the ruling class.
What the state fears is normalisation of anti-Western imperialism - of voices that argue Britain’s wars, sanctions, and alliances serve capital, not people. That’s why other alternative media figures like Kit Klarenberg and Richard Medhurst have faced the same treatment: stops, interrogations and smear campaigns.
This is the new frontier of repression. Not imprisoning dissidents outright, but harassing them at borders, seizing devices and attempting to cast a shadow over their legitimacy. A reminder to anyone who strays from the approved line on NATO, Israel, or Russia, and you’ll meet the security state head-on.
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The Soviet Union Tried to Stop WW2
Western history tells the story of the Second World War that Great Britain standing as a bulwark against fascism. The truth is darker: throughout the 1930s, the Soviet Union worked to build an anti-fascist alliance with Britain and France to stand against the foreseen war, but Britain consistently ignored these attempts
Why? Because for the ruling class in London and Paris, socialism was the greater enemy. They feared the example of a workers’ state on British workers where Hitler’s regime offered no threat, at the time, to the ruling class. A restored Tsarist Russia would have meant access to old markets and profits. A strong Soviet Union meant the end of imperialist looting in the East. So, they stalled and sabotaged any alliance with Soviets, opting for appeasement with Germany.
1934: The USSR joins the League of Nations, calling for “collective security” against aggressors.
1935: Mutual assistance pacts signed with France and Czechoslovakia. Britain refuses to commit, leaving the framework hollow.
1938: The Munich “Agreement” — Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini. Czechoslovakia is carved up, the Soviets excluded. The betrayal gives Hitler territory and confidence to strike further.
1939: After months of dead-end talks with Britain and France, who refuse to guarantee real military support, Stalin signs the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact to buy time for the Soviet Union to defend itself unaided by the rest of Europe.
It is blindingly clear that Britain and France preferred gambling on fascism destroying the USSR to standing with it. In doing so, they paved the way to WW2 and the deaths of millions of workers.
Had Soviet proposals been accepted, Hitler could have been checked early. Europe might have been spared the slaughter and the continent might have avoided another war.
Western history tells the story of the Second World War that Great Britain standing as a bulwark against fascism. The truth is darker: throughout the 1930s, the Soviet Union worked to build an anti-fascist alliance with Britain and France to stand against the foreseen war, but Britain consistently ignored these attempts
Why? Because for the ruling class in London and Paris, socialism was the greater enemy. They feared the example of a workers’ state on British workers where Hitler’s regime offered no threat, at the time, to the ruling class. A restored Tsarist Russia would have meant access to old markets and profits. A strong Soviet Union meant the end of imperialist looting in the East. So, they stalled and sabotaged any alliance with Soviets, opting for appeasement with Germany.
1934: The USSR joins the League of Nations, calling for “collective security” against aggressors.
1935: Mutual assistance pacts signed with France and Czechoslovakia. Britain refuses to commit, leaving the framework hollow.
1938: The Munich “Agreement” — Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini. Czechoslovakia is carved up, the Soviets excluded. The betrayal gives Hitler territory and confidence to strike further.
1939: After months of dead-end talks with Britain and France, who refuse to guarantee real military support, Stalin signs the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact to buy time for the Soviet Union to defend itself unaided by the rest of Europe.
It is blindingly clear that Britain and France preferred gambling on fascism destroying the USSR to standing with it. In doing so, they paved the way to WW2 and the deaths of millions of workers.
Had Soviet proposals been accepted, Hitler could have been checked early. Europe might have been spared the slaughter and the continent might have avoided another war.
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