Where will the revolution begin? Where, in what country, can the front of capital be pierced first?

Where industry is more developed, where the proletarian constitutes the majority, where the proletariat constitutes the majority, where the there is more culture, where there is more democracy-that was the reply usually given formerly.

No, objects the Leninist theory of revolution, not necessarily where industry is more developed, and so forth. The front of capital will be pierced where the chain of imperialism is weakest, for the proletarian revolution is the result of the breaking of the chain of the world imperialist front at its weakest link; and it may turn out that the country which has started the revolution, which has made a breach in the front of capital, is less developed in a capitalist sense than other, more developed, countries, which have, however, remained within the framework of capitalism.

Stalin - The Foundations of Leninism

This disabled British mother had her home raided and was arrested in front of her three children for social media posts in support of Palestine.

It turns out that the 'dystopian future' our rulers always try to scare workers with when they start to consider joining the fight for socialism is actually right here right now.

This is the true face of British bourgeois democracy ...

Monday the 18 of December! Put in your calendar to spend Christmas with the Class Consciousness Project.

We will be doing a live broadcast from 6.30pm. Unadulterated middle aged socialists!

Our Position on the Existing Trade Union Movement – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/10/27/our-position-on-the-existing-trade-union-movement/

The latest episode of our football podcast is out now! In this one we address the issue of football finances, the recent points deduction imposed on Everton and the wider problems of money in the game.

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/12/17/football-focus-episode-2/

Don't forget our round up of the year tomorrow!! The links will be posted before the show begins.

Class Conscious Christmas
6.30pm

Here's the link to our livestream that will take place tomorrow.

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147 years ago, on December 18th 1876, the first political demonstration under the red flag in Russia took place on the square of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. In history it is known as the Kazan demonstration .

The demonstration was organized and carried out by populists from Land and Freedom and members of workers' circles associated with them. About 400 people gathered in the square. G.V. Plekhanov delivered a passionate revolutionary speech to the audience. The young worker named Potapov unfurled a red flag, which became a symbol of the revolutionary movement.

The demonstration was dispersed by the police. 31 demonstrators were arrested, 5 of whom were sentenced to 10-15 years of hard labor, 10 were sentenced to exile in Siberia, and three workers, including Y. Potapov, were sentenced to imprisonment for 5 years in a monastery.

The Kazan demonstration marked the beginning of the conscious participation of the Russian working class in the social movement. Anti-government rallies, demonstrations, and May Day meetings took place under red banners.

In 1898, the red flag became the flag of the RSDLP.

In 1917, the red flag became the flag of the new Soviet State.

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