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.

Qatar’s Royals Now Own More of London Than King Charles” – But None of It Belongs to the Workers.

"The export of capital influences and greatly accelerates the development of capitalism in those countries to which it is exported; while, therefore, it may somewhat accelerate the development of capitalism there, it also extends and deepens the subjection of those countries to the monopolies of the exporting countries, and the exploitation of these countries by the exporting countries.”

- Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.

The headlines say Qatar’s royal family now owns more property in London than King Charles.
That might sound like a royal turf war, but whoever holds the deeds, none of it belongs to us.

This isn’t a story of “foreign ownership” or “Britain losing control.” It’s the story of imperialism coming home to roost.
The same empire that once carved up the Middle East to serve British capital now watches its old client monarchs reinvest their oil wealth into London’s bricks, banks, and luxury hotels.

The Al-Thani family’s power was built under British protection. In 1916, the Sheikh of Qatar signed a treaty handing foreign affairs and defence to London in exchange for his throne — a standard imperial arrangement that lasted until 1971. Britain’s navy guarded their coast; British firms drilled their oil. The Al-Thani dynasty survived because the empire needs reliable compradors.

Now, the grandchildren of that same dynasty pour billions back into the old imperial capital. They own Harrods, Canary Wharf, The Shard, and swathes of Mayfair. According to investigations, Qatar’s holdings in the UK exceed £100 billion — so vast that parts of the city are jokingly called “Little Doha.”

And the British monarchy? Still playing host. The Windsors meet Gulf royals hundreds of times a decade, fronting trade missions, arms deals and photo-ops that dress up exploitation as diplomacy. It’s the same ruling class in different costumes, two monarchies, but the same bourgeoisie

So when the press gasps that “Qatar owns more of London than the King,” remember what that really means:

Imperial wealth flowing in reverse — the colonies buying back the metropole.

A city turned into a global vault for surplus capital.

Two royal families, one capitalist parasitical class.

It isn’t Qatar’s London or the King’s London. It’s capital’s London.
And until the working class owns the soil beneath its feet, the ruling class will continue to exploit us in every way they can for profit.

In our latest article we look at how the Unite leadership, by endorsing the social chauvinist "Ukraine Solidarity Campaign", are actually standing in solidarity with the British ruling class.

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/10/27/the-unite-leaderships-betrayal-in-solidarity-with-imperialism-not-the-ukrainian-worker/

This story relies upon the illusion that these nuclear "secrets" are britain's to share. The entire programme is built out of US systems and the Pentagon retains a veto on what the brits can do with it.