Forwarded from The Middle Aged Revolutionary
Whilst the deeply flawed and fractious launch of Your Party at their inaugural conference would have raised a laugh or two (and I’ll be honest, I did have a chuckle myself), the fact is that Your Party will do great damage to the cause of building genuine working class power.
These people in Your Party are not socialists, no matter how vociferously they claim to be. These reformists believe that socialism is what happens when the state intervenes to try to curtail the worst excesses of capitalism.
They don’t believe in the working class owning and controlling the means of production, because that would require a revolution to achieve and they certainly don’t want to involve themselves in something like that.
Your Party is not anti-imperialist, either. It would quite happily allow the continued creation of monopolies, the proliferation of finance capital, the export of capital and the division of the world as long as the working class here are bestowed with some of the spoils won by our exploitations abroad.
The ruling class will frame these buffoons as ‘socialists’. They’ll tell the working class that their squabbling, student union-brand of politics, with its obsession with identity over class, is what socialism really is. And, in doing this, the working class will be inclined to believe them in the absence of evidence to the contrary. The right wing media (which is almost all of it) have delighted at the utter lunacy on display over the weekend.
The fight to deliver actual socialism to Britain has already been set back years by Corbyn’s utterly failed leadership of the Labour Party. Tragically, it will be set back again and even further by Your Party.
These people in Your Party are not socialists, no matter how vociferously they claim to be. These reformists believe that socialism is what happens when the state intervenes to try to curtail the worst excesses of capitalism.
They don’t believe in the working class owning and controlling the means of production, because that would require a revolution to achieve and they certainly don’t want to involve themselves in something like that.
Your Party is not anti-imperialist, either. It would quite happily allow the continued creation of monopolies, the proliferation of finance capital, the export of capital and the division of the world as long as the working class here are bestowed with some of the spoils won by our exploitations abroad.
The ruling class will frame these buffoons as ‘socialists’. They’ll tell the working class that their squabbling, student union-brand of politics, with its obsession with identity over class, is what socialism really is. And, in doing this, the working class will be inclined to believe them in the absence of evidence to the contrary. The right wing media (which is almost all of it) have delighted at the utter lunacy on display over the weekend.
The fight to deliver actual socialism to Britain has already been set back years by Corbyn’s utterly failed leadership of the Labour Party. Tragically, it will be set back again and even further by Your Party.
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Google signed a contract with the Netanyahu government to spread pro-Israel propaganda. They committed to boosting videos denying the genocide in Gaza. Remember, the biggest producers of fakes on the internet are the imperialist entities.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-youtube-netanyahu-israel-propaganda-gaza-famine
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-youtube-netanyahu-israel-propaganda-gaza-famine
Dropsitenews
Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
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Forwarded from Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
In recent days it has been revealed by Leinster House that Irish citizens are footing the bill for the US military presence at Shannon. This comes at a time when the ruling gombeen class are in overdrive to push militarisation on the Irish people and as the corporate media makes all the clearer the Free State's true intention of joining with the NATO bloc.
Not only has the Free State exempted the NATO power and its warplanes from standard air navigation charges (amounting to over €10m since 2018) but the free state military too is enlisted to defend them - with Simon Harris stating that this "security" for the imperialist terrorists costs the taxpayer €241,368 a year. While the Irish working class faces increasing strain from a cost of living crisis and artificial housing emergency, the state is putting its money to foreign troops occupying our land. This policy flies in the face of its professed "neutrality" and demonstrates its intentions to scrap it altogether.
Only weeks ago the state admitted for the first time in almost twenty years to authorising the warplanes through Shannon. For the Free-Staters to further publicise their facilitation of and collaboration with these imperialist forces now is no accident - they are testing the waters for what more is to come. In the coming months the ruling gombeen class will step up its campaign to drag the 26 counties into NATO and an EU military alliance; revolutionary Socialist Republicans must be committed to resist this alongside all genuine anti-imperialists. The presence of foreign troops can never be accepted or normalised, no matter what flag they fly. From Shannon to Aldergrove and from Dublin Port to Cork Harbour the cry must go out to resist NATO.
Saor Éire Anois - An Phoblacht Abú!
Not only has the Free State exempted the NATO power and its warplanes from standard air navigation charges (amounting to over €10m since 2018) but the free state military too is enlisted to defend them - with Simon Harris stating that this "security" for the imperialist terrorists costs the taxpayer €241,368 a year. While the Irish working class faces increasing strain from a cost of living crisis and artificial housing emergency, the state is putting its money to foreign troops occupying our land. This policy flies in the face of its professed "neutrality" and demonstrates its intentions to scrap it altogether.
Only weeks ago the state admitted for the first time in almost twenty years to authorising the warplanes through Shannon. For the Free-Staters to further publicise their facilitation of and collaboration with these imperialist forces now is no accident - they are testing the waters for what more is to come. In the coming months the ruling gombeen class will step up its campaign to drag the 26 counties into NATO and an EU military alliance; revolutionary Socialist Republicans must be committed to resist this alongside all genuine anti-imperialists. The presence of foreign troops can never be accepted or normalised, no matter what flag they fly. From Shannon to Aldergrove and from Dublin Port to Cork Harbour the cry must go out to resist NATO.
Saor Éire Anois - An Phoblacht Abú!
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Forwarded from Press TV
✍️ Explainer: What is America's ‘hidden homelessness’ crisis overlooked by government
Hidden homelessness in the US hides millions living in unstable, unsafe conditions – unseen in official counts – driven by rising rents, stagnant wages, and inadequate government support.
By Ali Ziraatpishe
@PressTV
Hidden homelessness in the US hides millions living in unstable, unsafe conditions – unseen in official counts – driven by rising rents, stagnant wages, and inadequate government support.
By Ali Ziraatpishe
@PressTV
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Forwarded from Press TV
UEFA executives discuss potential suspension of Israel from competitions: Report
UEFA executives have been meeting with representatives of the Game Over Israel campaign since the ceasefire in Gaza, discussing the potential suspension of Israel from international football competitions, sources have revealed to The Athletic.
@PressTV
UEFA executives have been meeting with representatives of the Game Over Israel campaign since the ceasefire in Gaza, discussing the potential suspension of Israel from international football competitions, sources have revealed to The Athletic.
@PressTV
PressTV
UEFA executives discuss potential suspension of Israel from competitions: Report
UEFA executives have been discussing the potential suspension of Israel from international football competitions.
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The employment rights act being gutted by Starmer should not be a surprise but neither should we pretend that this was some major victory for the working class. In actual fact the act followed the tradition of the Blair era reforms which extended certain legal rights to individuals but kept in place the entire framework of anti-union legislation from the Thatcher era. Labour under Blair actually made it easier for an employer to derecognise a union. The extension of individual rights under these circumstances I nearly worthless because without strong union organisation how are workers supposed to enforce these rights? Take employers to court? Who'll pay the legal fees? Who has the time and resources to put together an employment tribunal case? The truth is that the biggest reform any government could make would be for the scrapping of every piece of anti union legislation. It must be noted that not only will Starmer never offer that but Corbyn didn't either when he was labour party leader.
All of this and more will be explored further in an article on this which will be out later today.
All of this and more will be explored further in an article on this which will be out later today.
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http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/04/07/some-advice-to-those-who-will-serve-time-in-prison/
Class Consciousness Project
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison.
This poem is by Nazim Hikmet A renowned Turkish poet and lifelong communist, in which he is advocating for resilience and defiance in the face of oppression. His poetry, shaped by his own experienc…
Zionism and anti semitism are both promoted by the British ruling class and have been for many decades. One of the things that has become clear with the emergence of widespread anti-zionist sentiment over the last two years is that one way the ruling class will seek to deal with this is promoting old school anti semitism. They do this because if a worker who has started to wake up to the realities of the nature the Israeli regime can be pushed down the dead end of anti semitism then that is more than acceptable for the ruling class. Someone who becomes a fascist is comparable to a blindfolded man who starts to realise he cannot see and places another piece of cloth over his eyes to help him see better. This is why you get clowns like Nick Fuentes or Dan Bilzerian be promoted in the algorithms on youtube, the ruling class want rejection of zionism to promote fascism. We must see the truth, that these are all reactionary trends and must all be rejected by class conscious workers.
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Explainer: What is Americas ‘hidden homelessness’ crisis overlooked by government
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/11/29/759689/explainer-what-america-hidden-homelessness-crisis-overlooked-govt
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/11/29/759689/explainer-what-america-hidden-homelessness-crisis-overlooked-govt
PressTV
Explainer: What is America's ‘hidden homelessness’ crisis overlooked by government
Hidden homelessness in the US hides millions living in unstable, unsafe conditions – unseen in official counts – driven by rising rents, stagnant wages, and inadequate government support.
The signals of panic are all over everything that comes out of Galloways WPB these days. They have practically zero activists on the ground and are a party that now exists mainly on social media, mostly via Galloways weekly chat show. The WPB are now effectively a one man band, a cult of personality and little else. With Galloway having now exiled himself overseas following his brief detention under the deeply reactionary (and ludicrously noscriptd) "anti-terror" laws these problems will only intensify. Now he is floating alliances with the hiedous Green party we can clearly see the opportunism for which Galloway is notorious. That a party which calls themselves 'common sense' socialists could be floating alliances with the Greens is a total capitulation.
No one can claim not to know what the Greens are all about now. They have been in power in Scotland where they supported the destruction of the Scottish industrial base and prioritised gender ideology to the extent where they supported putting men in women's prisons. They have run Brighton and Bristol councils where their record was just as anti worker as Labour or the Tories. Polanski is on record as being a rabid supporter of NATO and the war on Russia. Galloway has previously (and correctly) criticised the war on Russia but now wants to align with its biggest supporters on the left. So are all Mr Galloways positions so easily reversed? If so, why should any worker trust a single thing he says.
It also must be said that the Greens everywhere oppose nuclear power, fossil fuels, and the use of petro-chemicals, a primitivist clarion call for deindustrialisation. How can WPB square that with 'socialism'? Only one answer, blatant opportunism, turbo charged by a realisation that the party is sinking into the dustbin of historical irrelevance. This is just further proof that all those who seek to recreate British social democracy will end up sinking into the worst kind of opportunism. The working class deserves much better than this farce.
No one can claim not to know what the Greens are all about now. They have been in power in Scotland where they supported the destruction of the Scottish industrial base and prioritised gender ideology to the extent where they supported putting men in women's prisons. They have run Brighton and Bristol councils where their record was just as anti worker as Labour or the Tories. Polanski is on record as being a rabid supporter of NATO and the war on Russia. Galloway has previously (and correctly) criticised the war on Russia but now wants to align with its biggest supporters on the left. So are all Mr Galloways positions so easily reversed? If so, why should any worker trust a single thing he says.
It also must be said that the Greens everywhere oppose nuclear power, fossil fuels, and the use of petro-chemicals, a primitivist clarion call for deindustrialisation. How can WPB square that with 'socialism'? Only one answer, blatant opportunism, turbo charged by a realisation that the party is sinking into the dustbin of historical irrelevance. This is just further proof that all those who seek to recreate British social democracy will end up sinking into the worst kind of opportunism. The working class deserves much better than this farce.
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Trans Liberation Or Socialism: You Can't Have Both - Heartlands
https://labourheartlands.com/trans-liberation-or-socialism-you-cant-have-both/
https://labourheartlands.com/trans-liberation-or-socialism-you-cant-have-both/
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An interesting article about slum clearances in Liverpool and the movement of labour to the newly formed estates of Kirkby and Halewood.
https://www.strawberryfieldsart.com/stories/the-lost-community.htm
https://www.strawberryfieldsart.com/stories/the-lost-community.htm
Strawberryfieldsart
The Lost Community by Kevin Austin - Strawberry Fields Art
A story by artist Kevin Austin about Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and the local community during the second world war and throughout the post-war years.
Forwarded from The Communists
George and Ghassan taught me what it means to be human.
A human is one who stands firm and dies for freedom and for their land.
Do you know what freedom is?
https://thecommunists.org/2025/12/12/news/culture/poem-the-art-of-resistance-palestine/
The Communists
Poem: The Art of Resistance
A Marxist from Bahrain reflects on the struggle for Arab liberation.