The article that inspired this discussion was written by my comrade Jason for the Class Consciousness Project. Be sure to read that before watching the livestream later.

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/01/13/dawn-of-the-dinks/

Comrade Ranjeet Brar will be live with Chris Williamson this evening at 7.00pm

https://www.youtube.com/live/dXKktGkLNQk?si=yw9ldfBNNLZb1vps

Thanks to Don of the Revolution Report for hosting me and having this very interesting discussion on birth rates in late stage capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFZ_bbyzDI&pp=ygUVdGhlIHJldm9sdXRpb24gcmVwb3J0

"To belittle the socialist ideology in any way, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology. There is much talk of spontaneity. But the spontaneous development of the working-class movement leads to its subordination to bourgeois ideology; for the spontaneous working-class movement is trade-unionism, and trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie. Hence, our task, the task of Social-Democracy, is to combat spontaneity, to divert the working-class movement from this spontaneous, trade-unionist striving to come under the wing of the bourgeoisie, and to bring it under the wing of revolutionary Social Democracy."

Lenin - What Is To Be Done?,
“The Spontaneity of the Masses and the Consciousness of Social-Democrats”
(1901)

TUC launches fake ‘campaign to defend the right to strike’ | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2024/01/26/news/tuc-fake-campaign-right-to-strike/

The Capitulating Left – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/06/25/the-capitulating-left/comment-page-1/#comments

Britain’s Working Homeless – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/01/26/britains-working-homeless/

🇪🇺🇫🇷 French farmers' union has announced its intention to organize a complete blockade of Paris and its suburbs - RIA Novosti

The aim is to prevent the supply of goods to the capital. The action will begin on Monday night and will last at least five days.

@ukraine_watch

A fire has started in partially built building in Everton, Liverpool.
Another of Liverpool Labours dodgy contracts that was never followed through.
This building has been left dormant since the company that "won" the contract went busy. Many locals have pursued the council over this with fire safety warnings being continuously passed to Liverpool Labour, but you can't obtain profits from rectifying an empty building.

Liverpool Labour is destroying this city with cheaply built buildings, allowing our heritage to rot and never once investing in the areas of local workers.

Local people are at risk by this blaze now.

This isn't a situation in Liverpool alone. Many Labour councils across the North have used cities as a place to profit from as they implement Tory cuts.

Essentially these party names don't matter when simply British capitalism.
The workers will be given enough to live on and everything else they receive will only be because of the ability for the ruling class to profit from. So a building with no purpose will not receive the attention it needs no matter what risks there are to the local population.

Homes evacuated and smoke seen for miles after huge fire

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/homes-evacuated-smoke-seen-miles-28524527#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare

A family with two children living (or trying to live) in the Greater Manchester area now will face costs of at least £35K a year and that's just living expenses not country rent or mortgage payments. It is estimate that even a single person will have costs of around £9.6K before rent or mortgage payments are made. The average wage in the Greater Manchester is £36K a year and that is statistically skewed by the higher end earners. Even if we take that as a baseline figure then even a small family is going to need to have both parents working full time just to make ends meet. What used to be a more affordable place to live for families is becoming more unaffordable with every passing year as the (labour party run) council and Mayoralty build more more "luxury" housing and working class residents are pushed further and further out of the city limits.