Terry Venables as a player for Chelsea, August 1959.

Everton Vs Luton Town
1991/92.

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.

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.

“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.

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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/

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/

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.

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

◾In 1996, Gary exposed how the CIA hired drug traffickers, to sell massive amounts of cocaine in the United States, in order to raise untraceable funds to finance a terrorist organization who were trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.

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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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.

From Manchester to Liverpool: The New Gentrifiers

It started in Manchester.
When the City of London and its satellite sectors realised remote work could be done from anywhere, the privileged layers, labour aristocracy and 'white collar' professionals (tech, finance, media) looked north. Manchester became the “second city” for corporate capital: cheaper land, lower wages, and a ready-made cultural scene built off the bones of a once-industrial working class.

Those remote London workers, still on southern salaries, flooded in. Developers followed, selling the “northern lifestyle” through glass towers and build-to-rent schemes. Rents exploded. Local workers were priced out of their own neighbourhoods while being told it was “regeneration.”

The numbers prove it: Manchester now has more build-to-rent homes than any city outside London — over 13,000 units across 34 schemes. Average private rents hit £1,319 a month in 2025, up nearly 5% in a year and far above local wage growth. City-centre population has more than doubled since 2001, driven by high-income professionals, while Salford and Ancoats house prices have tripled over a decade. Meanwhile, the number of affordable homes built lags far behind demand. Liverpool is now showing the same pattern: office take-up up 12.5% in 2024, average rent rising 9.4% year-on-year, and average house prices climbing 11.7%, while thousands sit on social housing waiting lists.

Now, Liverpool is next in line.
Office take-up is surging. Prime spaces snapped up by insurers, tech start-ups, and regional branches of London firms. Property prices climbing faster than wages. The city centre refitted for tourists, students, and the new corporate middle class.

This is the latest stage of Britain’s managed gentrification: the transformation of once-industrial, working-class cities into playgrounds for capital. Corporate money doesn’t “revive” these cities, it colonises them. The industries replacing dock work and factories aren’t building livelihoods; they’re building portfolios.

Liverpool, like Manchester before it, is being sold as a “success story” of post-industrial Britain. But regeneration for who? The same class that gutted these places now returns to profit from their shells. The native working class is still locked out—by rent, by wages, by design. As in London and Manchester, Liverpool’s workers are being pushed to the edges of their own city, priced out of the centre they built. The poorer districts are left to rot, overseen not by councils but by landlords, contractors, and private firms who now run what’s left of public life. What once belonged to the people is now divided up by whoever can turn a profit from the decay.

From empire to empire-builders: the City of London didn’t forget the North—it came back to buy it.

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Our comrade Paul has written an enlightening article on the history of India and the long struggle for independence.

Be sure to share this around!

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/11/the-long-struggle-of-india/

Solidarity with the Canadian GM workers!

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/union-threatens-to-seize-cami-auto-plant-if-gm-removes-machinery

Our comrade Vikki explores why life under late stage capitalism is crap and will only get crapper until we overthrow the parasitic ruling class.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/17/capitalism-is-crap/

Solidarity with the Canadian GM workers.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/union-threatens-to-seize-cami-auto-plant-if-gm-removes-machinery