The propaganda against communism is right when they call it a dictatorship.
They just never say whose.
Yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s not the dictatorship of a few over the many, like the one we live under now.
It’s not the dictatorship of landlords, bosses, and bankers who own everything and let us fight over scraps.
Communism is the dictatorship of the working class, the majority ruling in its own interests, not those of a handful of parasites who hoard wealth, land, and power.
Not for those who continually oppress the workers for profit.
Every state in history has been a dictatorship of one class over another.
Under feudalism, it was the nobility over the serfs.
Under capitalism, it’s the bourgeoisie over the workers.
Under socialism, it becomes the dictatorship of the proletariat — the working class finally commanding their future and seizing the means of production.
The capitalists call that “tyranny” because it strips them of the right to exploit us.
They scream about “freedom” while every one of us is chained to rent, debt, and wages that barely keep us alive.
The “tyranny” they denounce is simply the balance of power shifting — our freedom secured at the expense of theirs.
So yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s the only kind that serves the workers.
Just as capitalism is a dictatorship of the ruling class over the workers, socialism is the dictatorship of the workers over the ruling class, those who’ve ruled and robbed us for generations.
That’s why they fear it.
That’s why they smear it.
Because deep down, they know what it really means:
their rule ends — and ours begins.
They just never say whose.
Yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s not the dictatorship of a few over the many, like the one we live under now.
It’s not the dictatorship of landlords, bosses, and bankers who own everything and let us fight over scraps.
Communism is the dictatorship of the working class, the majority ruling in its own interests, not those of a handful of parasites who hoard wealth, land, and power.
Not for those who continually oppress the workers for profit.
Every state in history has been a dictatorship of one class over another.
Under feudalism, it was the nobility over the serfs.
Under capitalism, it’s the bourgeoisie over the workers.
Under socialism, it becomes the dictatorship of the proletariat — the working class finally commanding their future and seizing the means of production.
The capitalists call that “tyranny” because it strips them of the right to exploit us.
They scream about “freedom” while every one of us is chained to rent, debt, and wages that barely keep us alive.
The “tyranny” they denounce is simply the balance of power shifting — our freedom secured at the expense of theirs.
So yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s the only kind that serves the workers.
Just as capitalism is a dictatorship of the ruling class over the workers, socialism is the dictatorship of the workers over the ruling class, those who’ve ruled and robbed us for generations.
That’s why they fear it.
That’s why they smear it.
Because deep down, they know what it really means:
their rule ends — and ours begins.
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Circular 16 — How Labour Tried to Purge the Working Class Communists.
In 1928 the Trades Union Congress issued Circular 16. A quiet little order with a big aim: kick those pesky communists out of the labour movement.
It told trades councils up and down the country not to seat delegates from “proscribed organisations.”
That meant the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Minority Movement, and any group that refused to toe the reformist Labour line.
Councils that defied it were threatened with expulsion from the TUC. In places of strong agitation like Liverpool, South Wales, and Scotland, this meant elected, working-class communists, often the most active organisers, were banned from the very institutions they helped build.
Circular 16 split the movement right when the ruling class feared another 1926-style general strike.
The Labour and TUC leaders referred to it as “protecting unity.” but what it really did was protect the Labour aristocracy, the layer of officials, MPs and careerists who lived comfortably on capitalist concessions and were terrified of a real workers’ movement challenging British capitalism itself.
The Labour Party as an organisation was never built for the whole working class. Incidents, and there have been many, like this prove its real objectives.
It was built for the privileged section of workers that enjoyed concessions from the ruling class and wanted them to continue.
And Circular 16 was another enablement at the time, not against the Tories (their pantomime enemy), but against the revolutionary workers inside their own ranks.
In 1928 the Trades Union Congress issued Circular 16. A quiet little order with a big aim: kick those pesky communists out of the labour movement.
It told trades councils up and down the country not to seat delegates from “proscribed organisations.”
That meant the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Minority Movement, and any group that refused to toe the reformist Labour line.
Councils that defied it were threatened with expulsion from the TUC. In places of strong agitation like Liverpool, South Wales, and Scotland, this meant elected, working-class communists, often the most active organisers, were banned from the very institutions they helped build.
Circular 16 split the movement right when the ruling class feared another 1926-style general strike.
The Labour and TUC leaders referred to it as “protecting unity.” but what it really did was protect the Labour aristocracy, the layer of officials, MPs and careerists who lived comfortably on capitalist concessions and were terrified of a real workers’ movement challenging British capitalism itself.
The Labour Party as an organisation was never built for the whole working class. Incidents, and there have been many, like this prove its real objectives.
It was built for the privileged section of workers that enjoyed concessions from the ruling class and wanted them to continue.
And Circular 16 was another enablement at the time, not against the Tories (their pantomime enemy), but against the revolutionary workers inside their own ranks.
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Councils in Decay
Local councils are fading into insignificance. They’ve been gutted by decades of cuts, privatisation, and deliberate neglect. At one point, they were used to manage concessions to the workers, now they only manage decline and sign off the profits of private firms.
Between 2010 and 2023, councils in the North West and North East lost nearly 30% of their funding, compared to 18% in the wealthy South East. Libraries, youth centres, and housing budgets have been erased. Dozens of councils, from Liverpool to Birmingham to Nottingham, are now effectively bankrupt — yet still paying millions to private “delivery partners.”
This is an inevitable part of capitalism. Any profit that can be squeezed out of the workers will be taken as capitalism enters its moribund, decaying form.
Before the Second World War, councils existed to manage the poor, not protect them. They enforced order, ran workhouses, and pushed workers into poverty-like conditions, forcing them into the bludgeoning industries so capitalism could thrive. It was only after 1945, when the ruling class feared socialism spreading from the Soviet Union and the strength of the organised labour movement, that councils were forced to reform.
The post-war welfare state was a class truce, not a moral awakening. The ruling classes offered workers concessions in the hope of placating a war-weary population. Public housing, transport, and local services were built because the working class had the power to demand them. With the growth of the socialist bloc emanating from the success of the Soviet Union, workers had seen what a planned economy could achieve — and how revolution could bring real change. Councils became engines of reconstruction and stability, a brief moment where the ruling class conceded ground to prevent revolt.
But those concessions were temporary. From Thatcher onwards, local government was stripped of its power and cash. “Rate-capping” stopped councils taxing the rich; Right to Buy gutted public housing; compulsory tendering handed services to private contractors. The Labour Party under Blair didn’t reverse it — he rebranded it under “public-private partnerships,” turning councils into corporate intermediaries.
Now, in this moribund stage of capitalism, councils have no desire to provide, they only commission. They act as administrators for private profit, pushing contracts to developers and consultants while claiming poverty. When they collapse, bailouts come not to save services, but to protect creditors and preserve the illusion of control.
Capitalism’s decay is written into the bricks of every boarded-up town hall and abandoned library. Councils once built by working-class struggle are now monuments to its erosion. The working class forced the state to care once before — but for lasting change, it can’t just be concessions we demand. As James Connolly once wrote:
Local councils are fading into insignificance. They’ve been gutted by decades of cuts, privatisation, and deliberate neglect. At one point, they were used to manage concessions to the workers, now they only manage decline and sign off the profits of private firms.
Between 2010 and 2023, councils in the North West and North East lost nearly 30% of their funding, compared to 18% in the wealthy South East. Libraries, youth centres, and housing budgets have been erased. Dozens of councils, from Liverpool to Birmingham to Nottingham, are now effectively bankrupt — yet still paying millions to private “delivery partners.”
This is an inevitable part of capitalism. Any profit that can be squeezed out of the workers will be taken as capitalism enters its moribund, decaying form.
Before the Second World War, councils existed to manage the poor, not protect them. They enforced order, ran workhouses, and pushed workers into poverty-like conditions, forcing them into the bludgeoning industries so capitalism could thrive. It was only after 1945, when the ruling class feared socialism spreading from the Soviet Union and the strength of the organised labour movement, that councils were forced to reform.
The post-war welfare state was a class truce, not a moral awakening. The ruling classes offered workers concessions in the hope of placating a war-weary population. Public housing, transport, and local services were built because the working class had the power to demand them. With the growth of the socialist bloc emanating from the success of the Soviet Union, workers had seen what a planned economy could achieve — and how revolution could bring real change. Councils became engines of reconstruction and stability, a brief moment where the ruling class conceded ground to prevent revolt.
But those concessions were temporary. From Thatcher onwards, local government was stripped of its power and cash. “Rate-capping” stopped councils taxing the rich; Right to Buy gutted public housing; compulsory tendering handed services to private contractors. The Labour Party under Blair didn’t reverse it — he rebranded it under “public-private partnerships,” turning councils into corporate intermediaries.
Now, in this moribund stage of capitalism, councils have no desire to provide, they only commission. They act as administrators for private profit, pushing contracts to developers and consultants while claiming poverty. When they collapse, bailouts come not to save services, but to protect creditors and preserve the illusion of control.
Capitalism’s decay is written into the bricks of every boarded-up town hall and abandoned library. Councils once built by working-class struggle are now monuments to its erosion. The working class forced the state to care once before — but for lasting change, it can’t just be concessions we demand. As James Connolly once wrote:
"For our demands most moderate are,
We only want the earth."
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Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
The propaganda against communism is right when they call it a dictatorship.
They just never say whose.
Yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s not the dictatorship of a few over the many, like the one we live under now.
It’s not the dictatorship of landlords, bosses, and bankers who own everything and let us fight over scraps.
Communism is the dictatorship of the working class, the majority ruling in its own interests, not those of a handful of parasites who hoard wealth, land, and power.
Not for those who continually oppress the workers for profit.
Every state in history has been a dictatorship of one class over another.
Under feudalism, it was the nobility over the serfs.
Under capitalism, it’s the bourgeoisie over the workers.
Under socialism, it becomes the dictatorship of the proletariat — the working class finally commanding their future and seizing the means of production.
The capitalists call that “tyranny” because it strips them of the right to exploit us.
They scream about “freedom” while every one of us is chained to rent, debt, and wages that barely keep us alive.
The “tyranny” they denounce is simply the balance of power shifting — our freedom secured at the expense of theirs.
So yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s the only kind that serves the workers.
Just as capitalism is a dictatorship of the ruling class over the workers, socialism is the dictatorship of the workers over the ruling class, those who’ve ruled and robbed us for generations.
That’s why they fear it.
That’s why they smear it.
Because deep down, they know what it really means:
their rule ends — and ours begins.
They just never say whose.
Yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s not the dictatorship of a few over the many, like the one we live under now.
It’s not the dictatorship of landlords, bosses, and bankers who own everything and let us fight over scraps.
Communism is the dictatorship of the working class, the majority ruling in its own interests, not those of a handful of parasites who hoard wealth, land, and power.
Not for those who continually oppress the workers for profit.
Every state in history has been a dictatorship of one class over another.
Under feudalism, it was the nobility over the serfs.
Under capitalism, it’s the bourgeoisie over the workers.
Under socialism, it becomes the dictatorship of the proletariat — the working class finally commanding their future and seizing the means of production.
The capitalists call that “tyranny” because it strips them of the right to exploit us.
They scream about “freedom” while every one of us is chained to rent, debt, and wages that barely keep us alive.
The “tyranny” they denounce is simply the balance of power shifting — our freedom secured at the expense of theirs.
So yes — communism is a dictatorship.
But it’s the only kind that serves the workers.
Just as capitalism is a dictatorship of the ruling class over the workers, socialism is the dictatorship of the workers over the ruling class, those who’ve ruled and robbed us for generations.
That’s why they fear it.
That’s why they smear it.
Because deep down, they know what it really means:
their rule ends — and ours begins.
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Forwarded from Red Rick
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.
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.
Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
“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
While claiming to stand ‘against racism’, health minister Wes Streeting is engaged in a viciously racist campaign against a doctor who opposes genocide.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/11/03/news/labour-party-patriotism-racist-imperialist/
https://thecommunists.org/2025/11/03/news/labour-party-patriotism-racist-imperialist/
The Communists
Labour party ‘patriotism’ is racist and imperialist to the core
While claiming to stand ‘against racism’, Wes Streeting is engaged in a viciously racist campaign against a doctor who opposes genocide.
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Forwarded from The Middle Aged Revolutionary
Lalkar
The rise of Reform
Reform are currently heading opinion polls, with 28% of people indicating their intention to vote for Reform at the next General Election. Of course, the next General Election is not expected until 2029 and opinion polls are designed not as much to gauge…
In the latest article published on our website our comrade Ian looks at why Marxism-Leninism is not part of "the left".
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/
Class Consciousness Project
Marxism–Leninism is not part of the Left
The term “left” was born in bourgeois politics. It came out of the French Revolution, when republican factions sat to the left of the monarch. From its birth, the “left” carried the outlook of the …
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Mamdani's win has one positive aspect to it in that Cuomo's racist campaign against him didn't work. It is also positive, to a certain degree that a (self described) socialist could win an election for a globally important position such as mayor of New York. The reality is though that Mamdani will be a more slick, millennial version of Bill De Blasio who will immediately compromise with the bourgeois forces who actually hold power in NYC, alienate his supporters by dumping the more radical seeming economic plans and lean heavily into policies that offend ruling class interests less, meaning woke shit. He'll also endorse all kinds of actions against countries resisting US imperialism as well. Frankly speaking, those "Anti imperialists" who are celebrating him only reveal how little they understand the system they decry.
Imperialism is not 'foreign policy' it is the highest stage of capitalism, as identified by Lenin, meaning that it is all encompassing. The domestic side of late stage imperialism means continual downward pressure on workers wages, societal disintegration and the promotion of parasitism and decadence by the ruling class. New York is absolutely central to the operations of US imperialism and its Mayor must be someone who is a credible salesman for the system. Cuomo was not a credible figure, he is very much a discredited man dogged by accusations of sexual assault and widely seen (correctly) as being utterly corrupt. The fact that Trump ended up backing him was decidedly hilarious to say the least. Mamdani though is a man who has already made his deals with the Democratic Party hierarchy and at least a section of the US ruling class who realise they need the socdems to steer dissent into manageable channels. The fact that his victory has been greeted by deeply reactionary Labour Party figures such as London Mayor Sadiq Khan tells us that this guy is no real threat to anything. Mamdani will dump the more radical elements of his plans and the US left will spend the next few years making excuses for him whilst telling everyone that they too could have a Zohran Mamdani in their city if they just keep voting Democrat and join the DSA.
We must be consistent and clear with workers why we reject the politics of the DSA and why Mamdani (and those like him) always betray those who voted for them. The system in the US and the rest of the imperialist block cannot be reformed and those who argue that it can be are selling a lie to the working class, whether they know it or not.
Imperialism is not 'foreign policy' it is the highest stage of capitalism, as identified by Lenin, meaning that it is all encompassing. The domestic side of late stage imperialism means continual downward pressure on workers wages, societal disintegration and the promotion of parasitism and decadence by the ruling class. New York is absolutely central to the operations of US imperialism and its Mayor must be someone who is a credible salesman for the system. Cuomo was not a credible figure, he is very much a discredited man dogged by accusations of sexual assault and widely seen (correctly) as being utterly corrupt. The fact that Trump ended up backing him was decidedly hilarious to say the least. Mamdani though is a man who has already made his deals with the Democratic Party hierarchy and at least a section of the US ruling class who realise they need the socdems to steer dissent into manageable channels. The fact that his victory has been greeted by deeply reactionary Labour Party figures such as London Mayor Sadiq Khan tells us that this guy is no real threat to anything. Mamdani will dump the more radical elements of his plans and the US left will spend the next few years making excuses for him whilst telling everyone that they too could have a Zohran Mamdani in their city if they just keep voting Democrat and join the DSA.
We must be consistent and clear with workers why we reject the politics of the DSA and why Mamdani (and those like him) always betray those who voted for them. The system in the US and the rest of the imperialist block cannot be reformed and those who argue that it can be are selling a lie to the working class, whether they know it or not.
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Read “From Armalites to Armani Suits: How Sinn Féin Betrayed the Revolution.“ by The Ulster Front on Medium: https://medium.com/@TheUlsterFront/from-armalites-to-armani-suits-how-sinn-f%C3%A9in-betrayed-the-revolution-7e8e8027fdf2
Medium
From Armalites to Armani Suits: How Sinn Féin Betrayed the Revolution.
How a revolutionary movement abandoned it’s socialist ideals and the working class that built it.
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Forwarded from Fearless John - @European_dissident
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These massive shipments of cocaine ultimately sparked the crack epidemic that decimated inner cities during the 90's. As a result Mainstream media vilified Gary Webb & destroyed his career which also destroyed his marriage. But he refused to back down. In 2004 he was found dead with 2 bullet wounds to his head. His death was ruled a suicide. This man literally lost everything to give us a glimpse of the truth. Don't let his memory or what he stood for fade.
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Forwarded from Ian Foster ☭
Whenever the right of Imperialism designs policies and optics to appeal to working class voters you should be very sceptical and avoid it like the plague. The material base of their agenda will be pro status quo, they will not challenge the economic system, the relations of production will not be questioned. This is the deception of Reform UK. It is the consequence of liberal formalism, in reality you can choose who to vote for, but not what to vote for. It's all form and excludes substance. The core Imperialist policies are baked in and not amenable to democratic tampering.
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