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‘N’ Is For ‘Not Okay’*
*And people are very not okay right now* It’s NOT OK not to be OK. Its a glib statement to excuse the lack of provision for mental health services and, by extension, to shrug our shoulders at the state of our society. It’s fucking terrible not being OK, whether you’re suffering depression, a broken leg…
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Small Beer for Big Water
Recently, 16,000 homes have been warned to boil their drinking water as cryptosporidium has been found in a reservoir near Brixham, causing 22 known cases of infection. This reservoir is operated by South West Water, who have the monopoly of water supply over Devon and Cornwall and according to Totnes MP Andrew Mangnall, a damaged…
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The Welsh Evertonians.
Everton and Wales. If you know your history.… A common joke among football fans, particularly Reds like myself, is to laughingly refer to Everton fans as Welsh. Many perceive this as light-hearted banter about fans not hailing from the local area. However, there’s a kernel of truth to it, albeit not in the manner one…
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K is for Knox (or the illusion of wealth)
Comrade Chris returns with the latest in our ongoing series exploring the use and abuse of language Fort KNOX is used as a metaphor for security. However, it is no longer a bullion depository. So as secure as it may be, it is better used as a metaphor for the insecurity of the global economy,…
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Predictable Betrayals
The labour party’s leader, Keir Starmer, has faced criticism from trade union leader Sharon Graham for his U-turn on workers’ rights. The labour party’s ineffectual promises to address zero hours contracts have been overshadowed by a rise in such employment, reflecting the capitalist class’s desire for greater workforce exploitation. The union leaders’ continued support for…
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Hit Jobs and Establishment Stooges
The Attacks On The WPB Members And Smear Jobs On Galloway Must Be Called Out We at the Class Consciousness Project utterly condemn the attack that has been carried out upon supporters of the Workers Party of Britain in Manchester earlier this week. In a shocking incident, which has been captured on camera, an assailant…
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H Is For Elf & Safety
HEALTH AND SAFETY or ‘elf and safety, is a much used phrase to mean “stopping people having fun“ We can all laugh about this, but it is a sinister lie. The Health and Safety At Work Act 1974 (sorry if this is boring you) was set up to stop workers from dying or being injured…
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Ontario government says no to anti-Nazi day, yes to Nazi education.
Reposted from Canada Files by Aidan Jonah Historical revisionism is the point of order for a declining Canadian political elite, which views with terror the rise of anti-colonial thinking in the population and the strengthening of a socialist-multipolar oriented state alliance crippling NATO’s colonial capabilities. No comparison is more revealing than the Ontario government’s attitude…
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F Is For Freedom
What is FREEDOM? The freedom to bang your own drum, or the freedom from hearing someone constantly banging a drum? The freedom to drive at 90mph past a school, or the freedom to safely cross a road with your kids? People complain that we are losing freedom, with speech being restricted and protests being banned,…
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‘We make bread not profits’ – when Irish workers took on an empire
Reposted from Morning StarBy Steve Sweeney JAMES CONNOLLY’s masterpiece Labour in Irish History stressed the key role of the working class in the fight against British imperialism in Ireland as the “incorruptible inheritors of the fight for Irish freedom” with the potential to transform into a powerful revolutionary force. It was with the working class…