Forwarded from The Communists
What is the real content of the ‘patriotism’ that workers are being asked to exhibit?
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/01/news/operation-raise-the-colours-true-content/
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/01/news/operation-raise-the-colours-true-content/
The Communists
Some thoughts on the true content of ‘Operation: Raise the Colours’
The ruling class wins every time we allow our anger to be diverted into harmless channels.
While most of us are juggling bills, ex-Prime Ministers and cabinet men are busy hosting private dinners with Silicon Valley billionaires.
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg, the old “opponents” turned business partners, have been wining and dining tech executives and sitting ministers in a series of secret meetings, supposedly to talk about “innovation” and “digital governance.” Obviously linked around the digital ID narrative, but then won't be all. What these meetings really create is access: a revolving door between parliament and finance capital.
This is how policy is made now, not in parliament, but in private dining rooms and board retreats. The faux democracy of parliamentarism; it’s deal-making. Tech firms get lighter regulation, softer taxation (if any at all), and first pick of government contracts. In return, politicians get future consultancy gigs, advisory posts, and a seat back at the table once they’ve “retired.”
It’s a reminder that beyond the pantomime elections, these people aren’t rivals, they’re colleagues. Blair, Clegg, Cameron, Starmer, Sunak, different brands, same investors. If those left of imperialism, like Corbyn and Sultana, have their place. The entire political class has merged with finance capital. They don’t govern for the public; they manage on behalf of the market.
And this is why every election feels like groundhog day. Because behind the noise, the real policies, privatisation, deregulation, cuts, and tech-capital partnerships, will never change.
If you want to know who runs Britain, don’t look at Parliament. Look at who is sat at Tony Blair's dinner table.
The Class Consciousness Project
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg, the old “opponents” turned business partners, have been wining and dining tech executives and sitting ministers in a series of secret meetings, supposedly to talk about “innovation” and “digital governance.” Obviously linked around the digital ID narrative, but then won't be all. What these meetings really create is access: a revolving door between parliament and finance capital.
This is how policy is made now, not in parliament, but in private dining rooms and board retreats. The faux democracy of parliamentarism; it’s deal-making. Tech firms get lighter regulation, softer taxation (if any at all), and first pick of government contracts. In return, politicians get future consultancy gigs, advisory posts, and a seat back at the table once they’ve “retired.”
It’s a reminder that beyond the pantomime elections, these people aren’t rivals, they’re colleagues. Blair, Clegg, Cameron, Starmer, Sunak, different brands, same investors. If those left of imperialism, like Corbyn and Sultana, have their place. The entire political class has merged with finance capital. They don’t govern for the public; they manage on behalf of the market.
And this is why every election feels like groundhog day. Because behind the noise, the real policies, privatisation, deregulation, cuts, and tech-capital partnerships, will never change.
If you want to know who runs Britain, don’t look at Parliament. Look at who is sat at Tony Blair's dinner table.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Wages, therefore, are not a share of the worker in the commodities produced by himself. Wages are that part of already existing commodities with which the capitalist buys a certain amount of productive labour-power.
Consequently, labour-power is a commodity which its possessor, the wage-worker, sells to the capitalist. Why does he sell it? It is in order to live.
- Karl Marx
Wage Labour and Capital
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Britain and the Shadow of the IMF
Talk has started again about the IMF’s “concern” over the British economy. The International Monetary Fund has warned the government to maintain “fiscal discipline” and create “space for shocks” which is simply coded language for cuts, privatisation, and wage freezes. While no formal bailout has been requested, the message is clear: global finance is watching, and it expects the working class to pay the price for Britain’s crisis.
This isn’t new. The IMF always comes dressed as a doctor and leaves behind a corpse. Across the world its loans have meant austerity, mass unemployment, privatisation of public assets, and the selling off of essential services to private capital. A trojan horse of finance capital and “restructuring” is their word for gutting what little remains of social provision.
Britain has been here before. In 1976, under Labour again, the government turned to the IMF for a $3.9 billion loan, the largest in the Fund’s history at that time. It came after years of inflation, a collapsing pound, and pressure from the money markets. The loan came with the usual conditions: spending cuts, wage freezes, and an end to any pretence that Britain could pursue independent economic planning.
It’s important to remember that the post-war welfare state was never a socialist triumph, it was a ruling-class concession to the workers. A fragile compromise made to a war-weary proletariat at a time when successful workers’ revolutions abroad had terrified the British establishment. Labour’s leaders had no intention of challenging capitalism; their role was to manage it, to reform just enough to preserve it. The welfare state was built not to free the working class, but to contain it.
By 1976, that post-war deal had broken down. The IMF’s intervention marked the moment the British state dropped the mask and returned openly to serving finance capital. The decades that followed, Thatcherism, deregulation, privatisation, weren’t a break from 1976, but its continuation. Labour, Tory, and every administration since have carried the same flag: managing British capitalism for whichever section of the ruling class holds sway at the time.
Today, the same logic repeats. We’re told the economy is “too fragile” for public spending but stable enough for tax cuts for "investors". We’re told to tighten belts while corporate profits soar and landlords hoard wealth. The IMF’s concern is not Britain’s people, it’s Britain’s bondholders.
There is no national crisis, only a class one.
Britain’s rulers call in institutions like the IMF not to save the country, but to secure the interests of the same class that caused the crisis. Every new “reform” and “rescue” is simply another way for capital to profit from decay.
The Class Consciousness Project
Talk has started again about the IMF’s “concern” over the British economy. The International Monetary Fund has warned the government to maintain “fiscal discipline” and create “space for shocks” which is simply coded language for cuts, privatisation, and wage freezes. While no formal bailout has been requested, the message is clear: global finance is watching, and it expects the working class to pay the price for Britain’s crisis.
This isn’t new. The IMF always comes dressed as a doctor and leaves behind a corpse. Across the world its loans have meant austerity, mass unemployment, privatisation of public assets, and the selling off of essential services to private capital. A trojan horse of finance capital and “restructuring” is their word for gutting what little remains of social provision.
Britain has been here before. In 1976, under Labour again, the government turned to the IMF for a $3.9 billion loan, the largest in the Fund’s history at that time. It came after years of inflation, a collapsing pound, and pressure from the money markets. The loan came with the usual conditions: spending cuts, wage freezes, and an end to any pretence that Britain could pursue independent economic planning.
It’s important to remember that the post-war welfare state was never a socialist triumph, it was a ruling-class concession to the workers. A fragile compromise made to a war-weary proletariat at a time when successful workers’ revolutions abroad had terrified the British establishment. Labour’s leaders had no intention of challenging capitalism; their role was to manage it, to reform just enough to preserve it. The welfare state was built not to free the working class, but to contain it.
By 1976, that post-war deal had broken down. The IMF’s intervention marked the moment the British state dropped the mask and returned openly to serving finance capital. The decades that followed, Thatcherism, deregulation, privatisation, weren’t a break from 1976, but its continuation. Labour, Tory, and every administration since have carried the same flag: managing British capitalism for whichever section of the ruling class holds sway at the time.
Today, the same logic repeats. We’re told the economy is “too fragile” for public spending but stable enough for tax cuts for "investors". We’re told to tighten belts while corporate profits soar and landlords hoard wealth. The IMF’s concern is not Britain’s people, it’s Britain’s bondholders.
"All history is the history of class struggle"
There is no national crisis, only a class one.
Britain’s rulers call in institutions like the IMF not to save the country, but to secure the interests of the same class that caused the crisis. Every new “reform” and “rescue” is simply another way for capital to profit from decay.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
It is entirely correct to point out that the western left is very heavily influenced by the intellectual war waged by the imperialists.
The seriousness with which this war was waged and the multifaceted approach they took is too little understood by many and I only grasped the full significance of it recently.
What must not be neglected though is the fact that the various poisonous forms of leftism that were promoted by the imperialists were only able to succeed because Khrushchevite revisionism surrendered the ideological struggle almost completely by the end of the 1950s. This created the confusion and demoralisation which could then be exploited by the CIA sponsored left.
The seriousness with which this war was waged and the multifaceted approach they took is too little understood by many and I only grasped the full significance of it recently.
What must not be neglected though is the fact that the various poisonous forms of leftism that were promoted by the imperialists were only able to succeed because Khrushchevite revisionism surrendered the ideological struggle almost completely by the end of the 1950s. This created the confusion and demoralisation which could then be exploited by the CIA sponsored left.
The IMF: Colonialism via Debt.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, as the Allies planned the post-war world order. With the gold standard collapsing, the U.S. dollar was inflicted on us as the world’s reserve currency, meaning the dollar became the new anchor of the global economy. A subtle but crucial shift that gave the U.S. enormous power, effectively shackling every nation’s economy, that was forced to trade or pay off debts using dollars, to American finance capital. The IMF and its twin, the World Bank, were created to manage this new system of global dependency. Neo-colonialism.
Sold as instruments of “stability” and “reconstruction,” their real function was to secure the economic supremacy of the United States. By issuing loans in dollars, the IMF forced countries into a web of debt and subservience. Each “rescue package” comes with strict conditions: austerity, privatisation, wage cuts, and the selling off of public assets.
The results have been devastating. In the 1980s and 90s, IMF “structural adjustment” programmes ravaged Latin America and Africa, dismantling welfare systems, destroying local industries, and throwing millions into poverty. In Argentina, IMF prenoscriptions led to mass unemployment, food shortages, and uprisings. In Ghana, Zambia, and Jamaica, IMF loans gutted public spending and left economies permanently enslaved to Western creditors.
The IMF functions as capitalism’s global bailiff. Ensuring the dollar, and with it U.S. imperialism, rules unchallenged.
The IMF represents the modern face of imperialism: finance capital extending its grip over the developing world. Any country that decides it does not need IMF debt soon develops a terrorist problem and must forcibly learn western democracy!
The Class Consciousness Project
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, as the Allies planned the post-war world order. With the gold standard collapsing, the U.S. dollar was inflicted on us as the world’s reserve currency, meaning the dollar became the new anchor of the global economy. A subtle but crucial shift that gave the U.S. enormous power, effectively shackling every nation’s economy, that was forced to trade or pay off debts using dollars, to American finance capital. The IMF and its twin, the World Bank, were created to manage this new system of global dependency. Neo-colonialism.
Sold as instruments of “stability” and “reconstruction,” their real function was to secure the economic supremacy of the United States. By issuing loans in dollars, the IMF forced countries into a web of debt and subservience. Each “rescue package” comes with strict conditions: austerity, privatisation, wage cuts, and the selling off of public assets.
The results have been devastating. In the 1980s and 90s, IMF “structural adjustment” programmes ravaged Latin America and Africa, dismantling welfare systems, destroying local industries, and throwing millions into poverty. In Argentina, IMF prenoscriptions led to mass unemployment, food shortages, and uprisings. In Ghana, Zambia, and Jamaica, IMF loans gutted public spending and left economies permanently enslaved to Western creditors.
The IMF functions as capitalism’s global bailiff. Ensuring the dollar, and with it U.S. imperialism, rules unchallenged.
The IMF represents the modern face of imperialism: finance capital extending its grip over the developing world. Any country that decides it does not need IMF debt soon develops a terrorist problem and must forcibly learn western democracy!
The Class Consciousness Project
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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
— Karl Marx, 1844
When Marx wrote those lines, he wasn’t mocking people for believing in something higher. He was exposing the truth of how religion had been used for centuries to dull the pain of exploitation, to give people comfort in the very system that was crushing them. The point wasn’t that faith itself is evil, but it had been manipulated by the ruling class use it as a tool of control of the workers.
In medieval Europe, the Church stood beside the throne, blessing the kings, crowning the emperors, and collecting its own tithes from the starving poor. The priest and the landlord ruled together. Heaven was preached to the worker, while the gold and land stayed firmly on Earth. This wasn’t divine order, it was class order, sanctified and enforced through fear of eternal punishment. Immortalising the ruling class as they were anointed by god to reign over us.
The medieval image of worshippers kneeling before an idol says it all. A class taught to bow, not just to God, but to authority in every form. To obey without question. From school the church taught the workers to see their suffering as destiny, and to find solace in the afterlife rather than justice in this one. Religion became the soft chain that kept the hard chain in place.
This doesn’t mean the working class is foolish for believing, belief has always sprung from the human need to make sense of pain. A sweet pill to take to make you sleep better. But the rulers of each age have twisted that instinct into obedience. The Church became a political power, its cathedrals built on unpaid labour, its noscriptures used, and created, to justify kings, crusades, and colonial slaughter.
Even today, the idols have changed but the mechanism remains. We no longer kneel before altars of stone, but before markets, flags, and celebrity. Capital has taken on the same sacred aura, unquestionable and eternal. The supposedly beyond human control. The “faith” is now in money, in the free market, in the false idea that suffering, the grind, is just how we get by.
Marx’s words still cut deep because they reveal something timeless: every ruling class finds its opium to pacify the people. Whether through religion, nationalism, or consumerism, the end goal for them is the same. To make us believe there is no other way, but their way and our misery is something we must endure.
To break free, we must first see the illusion for what it is. The world doesn’t need divine permission to be just — it needs collective power to make it so.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Forwarded from The Communists
At the heart of this Irish musician’s court case is the right of British people to oppose their own government’s aggressive imperialist warmongering and openly genocidal criminality.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/18/news/british-government-versus-kneecap-irish-rap-group/
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/18/news/british-government-versus-kneecap-irish-rap-group/
The Communists
The British government v Kneecap
This Irish rap group is making a habit of exposing the British establishment with its anti-imperialist lyrics and successful legal battles.
Forwarded from Slavyangrad (J Asbery)
🇪🇺🤡 The EU gives itself five years to be ready for war with Russia, — Politico
What military analysts have been talking about is now made public. The European arms lobby working with money from Soros and the British Rothschild family has pushed the militarization of Europe almost to the finish line.
The timelines, as we discussed, are two - 2027 and 2030. Previously, 2035 was mentioned, but they are in a hurry.
Europe will effectively now split into two camps: the first being Germany, France, the United Kingdom, possibly Denmark, the Netherlands, and a couple of others; and the rest, whose interests do not lie in the realm of armament and militarization. These include the Balkans, Poland, and others.
@Slavyangrad
The EU acknowledges: "militarized Russia poses a constant threat to European security," so Brussels plans to:
▪️ increase joint arms purchases - up to 40% of all contracts by the end of 2027;
▪️ develop a common air defense system, anti-drone and missile programs;
▪️ create by 2030 a European air shield, Eastern flank, and Defense space shield.
The European Commission also expects to mobilize up to 800 billion euros for defense needs, including through the SAFE loan program and the European Defense Fund.
What military analysts have been talking about is now made public. The European arms lobby working with money from Soros and the British Rothschild family has pushed the militarization of Europe almost to the finish line.
The timelines, as we discussed, are two - 2027 and 2030. Previously, 2035 was mentioned, but they are in a hurry.
Europe will effectively now split into two camps: the first being Germany, France, the United Kingdom, possibly Denmark, the Netherlands, and a couple of others; and the rest, whose interests do not lie in the realm of armament and militarization. These include the Balkans, Poland, and others.
@Slavyangrad
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Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
The IMF: Colonialism via Debt.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, as the Allies planned the post-war world order. With the gold standard collapsing, the U.S. dollar was inflicted on us as the world’s reserve currency, meaning the dollar became the new anchor of the global economy. A subtle but crucial shift that gave the U.S. enormous power, effectively shackling every nation’s economy, that was forced to trade or pay off debts using dollars, to American finance capital. The IMF and its twin, the World Bank, were created to manage this new system of global dependency. Neo-colonialism.
Sold as instruments of “stability” and “reconstruction,” their real function was to secure the economic supremacy of the United States. By issuing loans in dollars, the IMF forced countries into a web of debt and subservience. Each “rescue package” comes with strict conditions: austerity, privatisation, wage cuts, and the selling off of public assets.
The results have been devastating. In the 1980s and 90s, IMF “structural adjustment” programmes ravaged Latin America and Africa, dismantling welfare systems, destroying local industries, and throwing millions into poverty. In Argentina, IMF prenoscriptions led to mass unemployment, food shortages, and uprisings. In Ghana, Zambia, and Jamaica, IMF loans gutted public spending and left economies permanently enslaved to Western creditors.
The IMF functions as capitalism’s global bailiff. Ensuring the dollar, and with it U.S. imperialism, rules unchallenged.
The IMF represents the modern face of imperialism: finance capital extending its grip over the developing world. Any country that decides it does not need IMF debt soon develops a terrorist problem and must forcibly learn western democracy!
The Class Consciousness Project
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, as the Allies planned the post-war world order. With the gold standard collapsing, the U.S. dollar was inflicted on us as the world’s reserve currency, meaning the dollar became the new anchor of the global economy. A subtle but crucial shift that gave the U.S. enormous power, effectively shackling every nation’s economy, that was forced to trade or pay off debts using dollars, to American finance capital. The IMF and its twin, the World Bank, were created to manage this new system of global dependency. Neo-colonialism.
Sold as instruments of “stability” and “reconstruction,” their real function was to secure the economic supremacy of the United States. By issuing loans in dollars, the IMF forced countries into a web of debt and subservience. Each “rescue package” comes with strict conditions: austerity, privatisation, wage cuts, and the selling off of public assets.
The results have been devastating. In the 1980s and 90s, IMF “structural adjustment” programmes ravaged Latin America and Africa, dismantling welfare systems, destroying local industries, and throwing millions into poverty. In Argentina, IMF prenoscriptions led to mass unemployment, food shortages, and uprisings. In Ghana, Zambia, and Jamaica, IMF loans gutted public spending and left economies permanently enslaved to Western creditors.
The IMF functions as capitalism’s global bailiff. Ensuring the dollar, and with it U.S. imperialism, rules unchallenged.
The IMF represents the modern face of imperialism: finance capital extending its grip over the developing world. Any country that decides it does not need IMF debt soon develops a terrorist problem and must forcibly learn western democracy!
The Class Consciousness Project
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Stoking racism and creating divisions amongst the masses is an old game played by the British ruling class across the world. Every time things are looking bad for them on the home front they play the same game and they have many actors who help them achieve it. The Israel humping coke fiend Stephen Yaxley Lennon is one such tool but there are many others of differing political persuasions who all act in this drama staged by the ruling class. We must not only oppose the racism and chauvinism that the ruling class promotes but also show the game up for what it is and that includes an exposure of the bourgeois "anti racism" which, in reality, boils everything down to a question of aesthetics alone.
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
Corporate media and bourgeois politicians are doing their best to stoke racial tensions amongst the British population, the better to continue their austerity and war drives.
They must not be allowed to succeed.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/01/news/what-purpose-unite-the-kingdom-movement/
They must not be allowed to succeed.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/01/news/what-purpose-unite-the-kingdom-movement/
The Communists
What is the purpose of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ movement?
With provocateurs Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson in the front, there was nothing remotely ‘rebellious’ about this rally.
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