An aid flotilla in international waters, carrying food and medicine for the suffering people of Gaza, was seized by Israeli forces. The crew have been arrested, including Greta Thunberg and Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla, and Israel has said they will be deported back to Europe. Greta was arrested earlier this year in another flotilla attempting to deliver aid.
Flotillas carrying activists have tried this before with deadly repercussions. The Mavi Marmara in 2010 saw activists gunned down by Israeli commandos.
Fortunately this time no one was killed. Israel can't to afford murder these activists in cold blood due to the surge in anti-israel sentiments around the world and this time the world is watching.
Flotillas carrying activists have tried this before with deadly repercussions. The Mavi Marmara in 2010 saw activists gunned down by Israeli commandos.
Fortunately this time no one was killed. Israel can't to afford murder these activists in cold blood due to the surge in anti-israel sentiments around the world and this time the world is watching.
Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
87 years ago, on the night of September 29 to 30, 1938, in Munich, the heads of government of Great Britain (N. Chamberlain), France (E. Daladier), fascist Germany (A. Hitler), and fascist Italy (B. Mussolini), with behind-the-scenes support from the USA, signed an agreement on the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany (the "Munich Agreement").
Also, on September 30, 1938, a declaration of mutual non-aggression was signed between Great Britain and Germany; a similar declaration was signed later, on December 6, between Germany and France.
The key elements in the immediate preparation of the Munich Agreement included: the demands put forward by the fascist Sudeten German party Henlein under Hitler's instructions, which essentially implied Czechoslovakia's renunciation of sovereignty over the Sudetenland (April 24); maneuvers by Anglo-French diplomacy aimed at justifying the forthcoming deal with the aggressor to public opinion and persuading Czechoslovakia to capitulate (the Rensimen mission); the Sudeten fascists' rebellion on September 13, suppressed by Czechoslovak armed forces; the Berchtesgaden meeting, during which Chamberlain basically agreed to Hitler's demand to transfer the border Czechoslovak territories to Germany (September 15); the Anglo-French ultimatum demanding the transfer of part of Czechoslovak territory to Germany (September 18), accepted on September 21 by Czechoslovak President E. Benes; Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in Bad Godesberg to discuss new, even harsher demands from the German government on Czechoslovakia (September 22).
The Munich Agreement provided for the transfer of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany with all facilities and fortifications, factories, plants, raw material stocks, communication routes, etc. (on October 1, 1938, the German Wehrmacht invaded Czechoslovakia and occupied the Sudetenland), satisfaction of Poland's territorial claims at Czechoslovakia's expense (on October 2, the Teschen region was occupied by Poland) and Hungary's (on November 2, 1938, Hungary received the southern districts of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus' (modern Zakarpattia region of Ukraine) with the cities of Uzhhorod, Mukachevo, and Berehove), and a "guarantee" by the agreement participants of the new borders of Czechoslovakia against unprovoked aggression (the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 revealed the false nature of these "guarantees").
The agreement signed in Munich became one of the most striking manifestations of the "appeasement" policy pursued on the eve of World War II by the governments of Great Britain and France, aiming to reach a pact with fascist Germany, divert fascist aggression away from Great Britain and France at the expense of Central and Southeastern European countries, and direct it eastward, against the Soviet Union.
The Munich Agreement became an important milestone in the unleashing of World War II.
This is a translation of a post that originally appeared on the Kommunisti Mir channel
Also, on September 30, 1938, a declaration of mutual non-aggression was signed between Great Britain and Germany; a similar declaration was signed later, on December 6, between Germany and France.
The key elements in the immediate preparation of the Munich Agreement included: the demands put forward by the fascist Sudeten German party Henlein under Hitler's instructions, which essentially implied Czechoslovakia's renunciation of sovereignty over the Sudetenland (April 24); maneuvers by Anglo-French diplomacy aimed at justifying the forthcoming deal with the aggressor to public opinion and persuading Czechoslovakia to capitulate (the Rensimen mission); the Sudeten fascists' rebellion on September 13, suppressed by Czechoslovak armed forces; the Berchtesgaden meeting, during which Chamberlain basically agreed to Hitler's demand to transfer the border Czechoslovak territories to Germany (September 15); the Anglo-French ultimatum demanding the transfer of part of Czechoslovak territory to Germany (September 18), accepted on September 21 by Czechoslovak President E. Benes; Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in Bad Godesberg to discuss new, even harsher demands from the German government on Czechoslovakia (September 22).
The Munich Agreement provided for the transfer of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany with all facilities and fortifications, factories, plants, raw material stocks, communication routes, etc. (on October 1, 1938, the German Wehrmacht invaded Czechoslovakia and occupied the Sudetenland), satisfaction of Poland's territorial claims at Czechoslovakia's expense (on October 2, the Teschen region was occupied by Poland) and Hungary's (on November 2, 1938, Hungary received the southern districts of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus' (modern Zakarpattia region of Ukraine) with the cities of Uzhhorod, Mukachevo, and Berehove), and a "guarantee" by the agreement participants of the new borders of Czechoslovakia against unprovoked aggression (the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 revealed the false nature of these "guarantees").
The agreement signed in Munich became one of the most striking manifestations of the "appeasement" policy pursued on the eve of World War II by the governments of Great Britain and France, aiming to reach a pact with fascist Germany, divert fascist aggression away from Great Britain and France at the expense of Central and Southeastern European countries, and direct it eastward, against the Soviet Union.
The Munich Agreement became an important milestone in the unleashing of World War II.
This is a translation of a post that originally appeared on the Kommunisti Mir channel
When the United States, Israel or their proxies, bomb civilians, it’s always called “unfortunate but necessary.”
When any nation outside the imperial orbit dares to defend itself or act independently, it’s immediately branded a “war crime.”
This is the hypocrisy of imperialism, the so-called “rules-based international order” only applies when it serves Western interests.
The same governments that have flattened countries from Iraq to Libya, armed apartheid regimes, and sanctioned entire populations to death suddenly discover “international law” when China, Russia or Palestine are mentioned.
There are no “good bombs” or “humanitarian invasions.”
There’s only power, profit, and propaganda — and the working class of every nation pays the price for it.
The Class Consciousness Project.
When any nation outside the imperial orbit dares to defend itself or act independently, it’s immediately branded a “war crime.”
This is the hypocrisy of imperialism, the so-called “rules-based international order” only applies when it serves Western interests.
The same governments that have flattened countries from Iraq to Libya, armed apartheid regimes, and sanctioned entire populations to death suddenly discover “international law” when China, Russia or Palestine are mentioned.
There are no “good bombs” or “humanitarian invasions.”
There’s only power, profit, and propaganda — and the working class of every nation pays the price for it.
The Class Consciousness Project.
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Forwarded from The Communists
Trigger-happy police on our streets is one more repressive move by the state we can expect to see being justified by the ‘threat of islamic terrorism’ – a threat that the British imperialists themselves have created, and now use as a pretext for cracking down on all domestic dissent.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/05/news/manchester-synagogue-attack-serves-division/
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/05/news/manchester-synagogue-attack-serves-division/
The Communists
The Manchester synagogue attack serves the forces of division
This attack comes at a time when the ruling class is working hard to create and deepen ethnic and religious antagonisms between workers at home and abroad.
In the North of Liverpool, the land that the council forgot, more buildings are falling into disrepair and crumbling in plain sight.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-shop-front-collapses-heavy-32611175#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare
This isn't in the 1800s, or even the 1980s — this is 2025. Liverpool is celebrated as a flourishing city: a magnet for tourists, music lovers, football fans, shoppers, night-outers. Millions of pounds pour into the city every day, yet where does it go? Certainly not into the maintenance of working-class neighbourhoods or the homes of native workers.
We’ve written about this before. Houses in Anfield and Walton collapsing are nothing new and abandoned, or desolate streets are seen all over the city the so-called “regeneration” schemes that never seem to regenerate anything for those who live here. This hasn’t just started. It’s been happening for years, while the same councillors make the same empty promises and the same developers cash in.
Just yards from a stadium where millionaire players train and perform, whole houses are decaying. Walls crack, roofs fall in, windows shatter — silent reminders of how wealth and neglect can live side by side.
Liverpool City Council has been under a long shadow of corruption investigations. Accusations of bribery, misconduct in public office, and dodgy contract awards have long been a constant occurrence under Liverpool Labour.
In March 2025, the Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges against 12 people tied to alleged wrongdoing in Liverpool’s local government. Among them is Joe Anderson, former mayor (not to be confused with current Mayor Jo Anderson), now charged with bribery, misconduct and conspiracy, alongside ex-deputy leader Dodgy Derek Hatton and several council officials and developers implicated in contract scandals. Corruption was so rife that the previous Tory government had to send in their own commissioner and an investigation by the well known local council administrator Max Caller (see Max Caller Report)
Back in 2021, investigators warned Liverpool may have “squandered up to £100 million of public money” through corrupt deals and mismanagement.
And yet, as Everton’s new £760 million stadium rises proudly over Bramley-Moore Dock, backed by government loans and council support, while the streets surrounding the previous Everton Stadium, Goodison Park, in North Liverpool are collapsing. That’s the reality of the Merseyside “renaissance”: luxury developments for investors, grand projects for developers, and nothing but empty promises for the working class who’ve lived here all their lives.
The brutal truth is that the council tax rises constantly, but rotting streets and collapsing houses remain unchanged.
Wealth gushes into corporate projects and stadium spectacles, but not into the homes of ordinary people.
Politicians calling for your vote are embroiled in corruption probes, as millions slip through cracks you don’t even see.
This is the success story capitalism wants you to applaud: massive profiteering, gleaming landmarks, and the working class left to live on the margins, or in the rubble.
Liverpool’s working class built this city. Now they have to watch it fall down around them.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-shop-front-collapses-heavy-32611175#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare
This isn't in the 1800s, or even the 1980s — this is 2025. Liverpool is celebrated as a flourishing city: a magnet for tourists, music lovers, football fans, shoppers, night-outers. Millions of pounds pour into the city every day, yet where does it go? Certainly not into the maintenance of working-class neighbourhoods or the homes of native workers.
We’ve written about this before. Houses in Anfield and Walton collapsing are nothing new and abandoned, or desolate streets are seen all over the city the so-called “regeneration” schemes that never seem to regenerate anything for those who live here. This hasn’t just started. It’s been happening for years, while the same councillors make the same empty promises and the same developers cash in.
Just yards from a stadium where millionaire players train and perform, whole houses are decaying. Walls crack, roofs fall in, windows shatter — silent reminders of how wealth and neglect can live side by side.
Liverpool City Council has been under a long shadow of corruption investigations. Accusations of bribery, misconduct in public office, and dodgy contract awards have long been a constant occurrence under Liverpool Labour.
In March 2025, the Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges against 12 people tied to alleged wrongdoing in Liverpool’s local government. Among them is Joe Anderson, former mayor (not to be confused with current Mayor Jo Anderson), now charged with bribery, misconduct and conspiracy, alongside ex-deputy leader Dodgy Derek Hatton and several council officials and developers implicated in contract scandals. Corruption was so rife that the previous Tory government had to send in their own commissioner and an investigation by the well known local council administrator Max Caller (see Max Caller Report)
Back in 2021, investigators warned Liverpool may have “squandered up to £100 million of public money” through corrupt deals and mismanagement.
And yet, as Everton’s new £760 million stadium rises proudly over Bramley-Moore Dock, backed by government loans and council support, while the streets surrounding the previous Everton Stadium, Goodison Park, in North Liverpool are collapsing. That’s the reality of the Merseyside “renaissance”: luxury developments for investors, grand projects for developers, and nothing but empty promises for the working class who’ve lived here all their lives.
The brutal truth is that the council tax rises constantly, but rotting streets and collapsing houses remain unchanged.
Wealth gushes into corporate projects and stadium spectacles, but not into the homes of ordinary people.
Politicians calling for your vote are embroiled in corruption probes, as millions slip through cracks you don’t even see.
This is the success story capitalism wants you to applaud: massive profiteering, gleaming landmarks, and the working class left to live on the margins, or in the rubble.
Liverpool’s working class built this city. Now they have to watch it fall down around them.
Liverpool Echo
Liverpool shop front collapses with heavy stone debris littering road - Liverpool Echo
Debris from an unsafe house on the same road has also blown into the road during Storm Amy
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Forwarded from Red Rick
The Manchester synagogue attack serves the forces of division | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/05/news/manchester-synagogue-attack-serves-division/
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/05/news/manchester-synagogue-attack-serves-division/
The Communists
The Manchester synagogue attack serves the forces of division
This attack comes at a time when the ruling class is working hard to create and deepen ethnic and religious antagonisms between workers at home and abroad.
If a house falls down in Anfield, does Liverpool city council hear it?
As more buildings in North Liverpool crumble to the ground, it's worth re-sharing this article.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/05/29/anfield-building-collapse/
As more buildings in North Liverpool crumble to the ground, it's worth re-sharing this article.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/05/29/anfield-building-collapse/
Class Consciousness Project
Anfield Building Collapse.
The collapse of an abandoned building near Anfield Stadium raises concerns about council funding and neglect in Liverpool. This incident reflects a larger issue of neglect and profit-driven decisio…
Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
The British state has a long history of carrying out false flag attacks or exploiting them. The history of the occupied six counties show that clearly.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/loyalists-linked-to-ian-paisley-carried-out-false-flag-bomb-attacks-british-army-intelligence-records-reveal-UOJBOU54Y5F3VEFV6AV4QDG3TM/
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/loyalists-linked-to-ian-paisley-carried-out-false-flag-bomb-attacks-british-army-intelligence-records-reveal-UOJBOU54Y5F3VEFV6AV4QDG3TM/
The Irish News
Loyalists linked to Ian Paisley carried out ‘false flag’ bomb attacks, British army intelligence records reveal
Files show British army believed loyalists linked to former DUP leader, who died in 2014, were behind attacks blamed on emerging Provisional IRA
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The ECHR Debate: A Populist Distraction.
Both the Tories and Labour are climbing the same hill, withdrawal, or Labour's softening on the European Convention on Human Rights. The Tories say scrap it altogether and Labour says “reinterpret” it. Different wording for the same idea: strip rights, increased deportations, and look hard for the cameras.
But the truth is Britain can’t and won’t stop immigration. Capitalism depends on a large labour pool. Hospitals, logistics, farms, factories, all rely on migrant labour to supplement the native labour market. When free movement ended, we didn’t get “British jobs for British workers”, the capitalists just turned their attention to another group of workers to exploit.
So if migration can’t stop, what’s the point of this debate about the EVHR? Simple. By gutting protections, they create layers of exploitable workers. Labour aristocracy at the top, “legal but disposable” migrants in the middle, and a rightless underclass at the bottom. The capitalists create a pool of people too scared to speak out for fear of repercussions, and the state gets its tough stance in the headlines.
It’s the oldest trick in the capitalist playbook. Divide workers by passport, by colour, by paperwork, then grind everyone down together. The ECHR row isn’t about sovereignty. It’s about control.
The working class didn’t write these laws, but we’ll be the ones suffering under them.
The Class Consciousness Project
Both the Tories and Labour are climbing the same hill, withdrawal, or Labour's softening on the European Convention on Human Rights. The Tories say scrap it altogether and Labour says “reinterpret” it. Different wording for the same idea: strip rights, increased deportations, and look hard for the cameras.
But the truth is Britain can’t and won’t stop immigration. Capitalism depends on a large labour pool. Hospitals, logistics, farms, factories, all rely on migrant labour to supplement the native labour market. When free movement ended, we didn’t get “British jobs for British workers”, the capitalists just turned their attention to another group of workers to exploit.
So if migration can’t stop, what’s the point of this debate about the EVHR? Simple. By gutting protections, they create layers of exploitable workers. Labour aristocracy at the top, “legal but disposable” migrants in the middle, and a rightless underclass at the bottom. The capitalists create a pool of people too scared to speak out for fear of repercussions, and the state gets its tough stance in the headlines.
It’s the oldest trick in the capitalist playbook. Divide workers by passport, by colour, by paperwork, then grind everyone down together. The ECHR row isn’t about sovereignty. It’s about control.
The working class didn’t write these laws, but we’ll be the ones suffering under them.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Being an elected representative in this period of decaying capitalism requires you to be as thick as pig shit and totally corrupt at the same time.
It’s great news that the #SellBeforeWeDai campaign has succeeded in securing new owners for Reading FC before the club was completely sold off for parts.
https://wokingham.today/sold-before-we-daid-final-statement-from-reading-fc-campaign-group/
This shows the strength of a unified fan base — and more than that, what a united working class can achieve when it refuses to give in. The Reading fans fought hard, stayed organised, and forced change. That’s a victory.
But it’s only one battle. As long as football clubs remain trapped in this capitalist model of ownership, the same crises will repeat. Fans will always be left cleaning up after profit-hungry owners.
In future the next step is clear: fight for fan ownership. Kick out those who profit from the labour of the players, staff, and supporters — and build clubs run by those who truly belong to them.
The Class Consciousness Project
https://wokingham.today/sold-before-we-daid-final-statement-from-reading-fc-campaign-group/
This shows the strength of a unified fan base — and more than that, what a united working class can achieve when it refuses to give in. The Reading fans fought hard, stayed organised, and forced change. That’s a victory.
But it’s only one battle. As long as football clubs remain trapped in this capitalist model of ownership, the same crises will repeat. Fans will always be left cleaning up after profit-hungry owners.
In future the next step is clear: fight for fan ownership. Kick out those who profit from the labour of the players, staff, and supporters — and build clubs run by those who truly belong to them.
The Class Consciousness Project
Wokingham.Today
Sold Before We Dai’d: final statement from Reading FC campaign group
Sell Before We Dai have responded to today's announcement by Reading FC that the club has been sold to Redwood
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