◾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.

The Class Consciousness Project

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

The media has been working hard to cultivate an ‘outsider’ image for Nigel Farage, framing him as an ‘anti-establishment disrupter’ in the hopes that this will entice workers back towards putting their faith in the electoral system and accepting the Farage/Reform (bourgeois) narrative that immigrants and immigration are the cause of all their economic and social ills.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/11/01/news/rise-of-reform/

Ronnie Clayton heading Blackburn Rovers' 78th-minute equaliser against Liverpool, FA Cup 6th Round, 1 March 1958. Ally MacLeod scored Rovers' winner a few minutes later. Crowd of 51,000 in Ewood Park.

The mental health crisis is constantly talked about but seldom actually addressed. Various media talk constantly about the issue but always avoid addressing the fact that it is decaying capitalism which is the root cause. If workers are promised nothing but a life of permanent scarcity, atomisation and alienation then this will only lead to greater mental health problems. To address these we need a system that provides a basic level of security in terms of the essentials of life including (vitally) job security. We need community and solidarity to be promoted, not rabid and pointless individualism. None of this can be delivered by the rotting corpse of capitalism. We need socialism as the the current system is making us sick.

All of this will be explored in a forthcoming article by our comrade Luke which will be up on our website later today.

The Rock, Dumbarton.

In our latest article Comrade Luke explored the link between the escalating mental health crisis and the decay of capitalism.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/22/mental-health-and-capitalism/

England Vs Scotland squads. Euro '96.