🇩🇪 A mass strike by farmers, lorry drivers and train drivers continues in Germany. — @rybar

The protesters are expressing their dissatisfaction with the budget plans of the "traffic light coalition" and are demanding that diesel subsidies and vehicle tax exemptions be maintained.

▪️ Passenger train drivers from the GDL union joined the protests on Wednesday: they are demanding a pay rise, a reduction in working hours from 38 to 35 hours a week and the full continuation of the railway development programme. At the moment the railways are running on a reduced timetable and 80% of intercity trains have been cancelled.

▪️ While the Western media write about the "collapse of the German economy", the German authorities make no attempt to resolve the situation. But they do not miss the opportunity to shift the responsibility for the escalation of the protests to their political opponents in the person of the Alternative for Germany party and to intimidate the citizens that "for the first time since 1945 a right-wing extremist could come to power".

Incidentally, a strike by cultural workers is taking place alongside the protests: they are demanding an end to the repression of those who do not support the Israeli side in the current conflict. More than 650 people are said to have joined the movement. And with the protests still three days away, it is not out of the question that the discontented will become more active on other issues - the largest rallies are expected in Berlin on 15 January.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Arrived To Kiev🚊🚨

Today Sunak and President Zelensky plan to sign a British-Ukrainian agreement on security cooperation. It obliges the UK to provide Ukraine with intelligence, cybersecurity, medical and military training, as well as cooperation in the defense industry.

According to the Prime Minister, the United Kingdom will also transfer £2.5 billion of military assistance in 2024-2025, including large batch of UAVs.

“This will be the largest batch of reconnaissance, strike and sea drones that has ever been transferred to Ukraine by a foreign state,” he said.

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Dawn of the DINKs – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/01/13/dawn-of-the-dinks/

Football match at the Dynamo stadium in Minsk, Belarus, 1966 (photo by Alexander Mokletsov)

Once again members of the CPGB-ML have been arrested for selling literature and handing out leaflets in support of the Palestinian resistance.
The party has come into the eye of the British state and they are trying to bully them into silence.

Now is not the time to back down we all need to raise our fists and speak out against Imperialism!

Victory to the Palestinian resistance!

Here is footage of police yesterday, pathetically arresting British communists who fight for Palestinian liberation

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ARREST UPDATE:

The police spent several hours today ransacking the home of one of our arrested comrades. He lives with his parents, who were left to clean up the mess. They have been told their son MAY be released this evening.

The behaviour of police arresting under the Terrorism Act seems to be an order of magnitude more belligerent and aggressive than when they were arresting our members for 'hate crimes'.

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Media coverage | Despite criticism for his stance on the Israeli war on Gaza, Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labor Party, remains steadfast in his position and refuses to call for an unconditional immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Breaking | ABC Network Poll showed that "Biden's approval rate has reached the lowest level for any U.S. president in the past 15 years."

Highbury. Arsenal. 1934.

Before the complete gentrification of the larger teams such as Arsenal.
Since the inception of the premier league it has created global brands of these once working class clubs.

The Illusion of Free Speech in Britain – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/11/27/the-illusion-of-free-speech-in-britain/

The Police: Capitalism’s First Line of Defence – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/12/02/the-police-capitalisms-first-line-of-defence/

This is our article from the first time that the police arrested our comrades for handing out literature.

🇬🇧🪖LARGEST NATO EXERCISES SINCE COLD WAR💣🇷🇺

About 16,000 British troops, along with tanks, artillery, and helicopters, will be stationed in Eastern Europe from February to June 2024, next to the borders of Russia's Kaliningrad region.

The weakened Empire is putting on a show to maintain the status quo, but the new multipolar world isn't buying it!

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More than 300 farmers tried to storm a supermarket in Avignon, France, setting fire to barricades in front of its doors and occupying its parking lot with tractors in protest “against unfair payment.” The Young Farmers’ Union, which led the protest, emphasized they are working at a loss, under pressure from large-scale retail negotiators to cut prices.

“Through this cry of alarm, we are denouncing the measures announced by our government, which is slow in coming, and promises that have not been kept” - France’s government is failing to deliver on promises to protect farmers from exploitative corporate policies.

“We are fed up. [...] Today we can’t take it anymore, and we have to go out into the street”’ - said another union spokesperson.

The protests continue a broad trend in several EU countries, with farmers rising up against working conditions and regulations linked to EU laws. The protests echo last week’s week-long farmers’ revolt in Berlin, Germany. Similar protests have erupted in the Netherlands, Belgium, and other EU countries in recent months.

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Today over 100,000 Unionised workers will go on strike across the North of Ireland.

IRSP activists will as always be standing with striking workers.

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