It’s insane that people are “rising up” against a group of ordinary working-class people staying in a hotel — simply because the mainstream media has painted them as dangerous for being brown.

Our country is decaying, as is Ireland — that much is true. But it’s not because of a few people claiming asylum. It’s because of the same class of people who destroyed those asylum seekers’ homes in the first place. It’s because of the ruling class, who profit from every bit of our misery.

Is the lack of affordable housing down to immigration? No. It’s the result of an artificially inflated housing bubble and a total absence of social housing.

Are our stagnant wages caused by immigration? No. They’re caused by trade unions shackled by anti-union laws and by a so-called “living wage” set so low that workers still need benefits just to survive.

Is the collapse of our health service the fault of immigration? Again, no. It’s the product of deliberate managed decline — a calculated push to force through the American model of profit-based healthcare, where our health becomes a commodity.

Need I go on?
Yes, people should be angry — but angry at the right people.

Billy Wright was a true one-club man, making over 600 appearances for Wolves. He earned 105 caps for England, becoming the first footballer in the world to reach 100 international appearances, and captained his country a record 90 times.

A proper image of what football once was — a working man’s game played in the heart of the industrial North.

This photo, from Bradford in the 1954/55 FA Cup against Brentford, captures more than just a football match. You can see the mills and cooling towers in the background, the smoke rising from the factories where the same men on the terraces would have done their week’s graft. On the weekend, they’d stand shoulder to shoulder, caps pulled low, voices raw from shouting for their side.

Football then wasn’t a commodity back then, it was community. The game belonged to the people, not billionaires, Sheikhs, or TV companies. It was forged in the same furnaces that built the cities around it. You can almost smell the coal and hear the hum of the machines behind the roar of the crowd.

This is football in its truest form — cold, raw, and collective. A reflection of a time when the beautiful game truly came from the working class.

The truly human side to football as Frankfurt displays the name Diogo Jota who unfortunately died in a car crash, with his brother, this year.

Regeneration or Class Looting? Liverpool’s Developer Tax Relief Scam

Liverpool City Council has just voted through a new wave of developer tax reliefs, giving private firms discounts and incentives to apparently “stimulate growth” around the docks, Anfield, and the city centre. Areas of the city with little to no investment from the council.

We’re told this is about creating homes and jobs. In reality, it’s the same tired lie that’s defined British housing policy since Thatcher: relying on the market to fix what the market broke.

Developers don’t build homes because people need them, they build them because investors demand profit. Every so-called “regeneration zone” becomes another playground for private capital, with the working class priced out and pushed further to the margins.
Inadequate houses provided for the people who build them

Tax relief means less money for the public purse, less for services, and more dependency on “partnerships” with corporations who only turn up when there’s profit guaranteed.

This isn’t development — it’s subsidised gentrification.
The council hands out public money to private developers who build “affordable” housing at 80% of market rates, still unaffordable to the average worker in Walton, Kirkdale, or Bootle

Meanwhile, actual social housing remains nonexistent, community infrastructure crumbles and decays.

“The bourgeoisie has only one method of settling the housing question after its fashion — that is to say, of settling it in such a way that the solution continually reproduces the question anew.”

— Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)

Liverpool has gone from a city that once built homes for its people, to a city that begs capital to build homes for profit.

The working class built this city brick by brick — we shouldn’t have to rent it back.

Priory road, Anfield, Liverpool.
This is the same area where the grand Anfield stadium is and also the same street where the Labour MP Dan Carden has his nice shiny office.

The really disquieting feature for England is this, that she is apparently at a loss to find at home a sufficient field of employment for her unwieldy capital; that she must consequently lend on an increasing scale, and similar, in this point, to Holland, Venice and Genoa, at the epoch of their decline, forge herself the weapons for her competitors. She is forced, by giving large credits, to foster speculation in other countries in order to find a field of employment for her surplus capital; and thus to hazard her acquired wealth in order to augment and conserve it. By being obliged to give large credits to foreign manufacturing countries, such as the Continent of Europe, she forwards herself the means to her industrial rivals to compete with her for the raw produce, and thus is herself instrumental in enhancing the raw material of her own fabrics. The small margin of profit thus left to the British manufacturer, still reduced by the constant necessity for a country the very existence of which is bound up with the monopoly of forming the workshop of the world, constantly to undersell the rest of the world, is then compensated for by curtailing the wages of the laboring classes and creating home misery on a rapidly enlarging scale. Such is the natural price paid by England for her commercial and industrial supremacy.

Karl Marx - British Commerce

"...the putting of labour-power into action – i.e., the work – is the active expression of the labourer's own life. And this life activity he sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of life. His life-activity, therefore, is but a means of securing his own existence. He works that he may keep alive. He does not count the labour itself as a part of his life; it is rather a sacrifice of his life. It is a commodity that he has auctioned off to another. The product of his activity, therefore, is not the aim of his activity. What he produces for himself is not the silk that he weaves, not the gold that he draws up the mining shaft, not the palace that he builds. What he produces for himself is wages; and the silk, the gold, and the palace are resolved for him into a certain quantity of necessaries of life, perhaps into a cotton jacket, into copper coins, and into a basement dwelling. And the labourer who for 12 hours long, weaves, spins, bores, turns, builds, shovels, breaks stone, carries hods, and so on – is this 12 hours' weaving, spinning, boring, turning, building, shovelling, stone-breaking, regarded by him as a manifestation of life, as life? Quite the contrary. Life for him begins where this activity ceases, at the table, at the tavern, in bed. The 12 hours' work, on the other hand, has no meaning for him as weaving, spinning, boring, and so on, but only as earnings, which enable him to sit down at a table, to take his seat in the tavern, and to lie down in a bed. If the silk-worm's object in spinning were to prolong its existence as a caterpillar, it would be a perfect example of a wage-worker."

- Karl Marx
Wage Labour and Capital

The Middle Aged Revolutionary looks at the inexorable rise of the HMO: Homes in multiple occupancy.
https://middleagedrevolutionaryblog.com/2025/10/23/the-rise-of-the-hmo/

Once you realise that the British capitalist class had a massive over accumulation of capital by the 1850s you start to see how much imperialism was the only way out for them. It was either find profitable investments in colonised areas or face a systemic crisis. British capitalism was played out as a progressive force by 1850 but it was so far ahead and had accumulated so much capital that it has survived for 175 years past its expiry date. Time to put the rancid thing in history’s dustbin.

"A Cold Start"
by David Noble
1960s Yorkshire coal mine scene.

As my childhood football club have now entered into administration its worth revisiting this article I wrote for the Class Consciousness Project earlier this year. In it I reflected upon how this is crisis was one born out of the very nature of the Premier League itself which encouraged debt financed attempts at growth by clubs who could not possible sustain it. In the end almost no clubs could sustain the business model imposed upon them by the premier league era and many are now either hovering on the edge of bankruptcy or (like Sheffield Wednesday) plunging into it.

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/08/27/owls-on-the-brink-the-deep-rooted-financial-crisis-at-sheffield-wednesday/

Every day more British workers are waking up to the way that accusations of ‘antisemitism’ have been weaponised in order to justify the relentless spreading of islamophobia and to whitewash zionist (and British) war crimes.

All in the interests of Anglo-American imperialist interests in the middle east and against the interests of jewish (and all other) workers.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/25/news/maccabi-hooligans-do-not-speak-for-jews/

PLAID CYMRU TAKE CAERPHILLY – ANOTHER BLOW TO THE ILLUSION OF LABOUR’S WORKING-CLASS ROOTS

Labour has never represented the working class, it managed capitalism in our name and sold it back to us as progress. What’s happening now isn’t a fall from grace; it’s the mask slipping.

Plaid Cymru taking Caerphilly shows the collapse of that old pretence. But Plaid are not the answer either. People are still desperately searching for change through the ballot box, when the truth is, that box was built to contain us, not free us.

A turnout that barely scrapes 17%. That’s not apathy, that’s awareness. Working-class people already mostly understand that all these parties are all serving the same system that exploits us.

Labour hasn’t stopped serving the working class — it never did.
Plaid didn’t “win” them — the workers are just desperate for change.

Real change won’t come from voting another colour in.
It’ll come when we stop mistaking the polling booth for democracy.