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Street Parties
Across the streets, garlands of bunting flutter like prayer flags, brimming bowls of biscuits, crisps, bright custards and jellies, cakes and cucumber butties, sausage rolls and cheesetriangle sarnies, doilies and paper plates, plastic cups and tackycardboard hats but everyone’s smiling and laughing, and yer ma carries trays of French fancies and fondants, and there’s glasses…
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World Cup 2026: Trump’s Red Card
Football is never without its controversies. International competitions like the World Cup are often decided by how much money a country can bring into FIFA’s coffers. How else could you explain a country like the USA, whose football history and support is less than many other footballing nations, having hosted two World Cups in the…
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Desolate Bethesda
The following letter is an example of the solidarity shown by the workers of Barnsley with the Bethesda Quarrymen. The struggles in one area are never isolated. These men knew that the employer is not just the enemy of his employees, but a class enemy of all workers.
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The Great Penrhyn Strike 1900-1903 and celebrating the Quarrymen today.
The fight of the Quarrymen of Bethesda at the beginning of the 20th Century was a struggle of the working class of North Wales against one of the most powerful landowners, not only in Wales, but in the whole of Britain. The strike came after series of clashes between the quarrymen and the owners. These…
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Burberry Clothing Castleford
An uneasy truce has settled over the Burberry clothing factory in Castleford, West Yorkshire. The job cuts, redundancies and wage cuts have been implemented and approximately 150 workers, friends, colleagues, workmates are now gone. Those who remain hunker down hoping the worst is over. But is it? The job losses and wage cuts leave deep…
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Andy Burnham and the search for a working-class hero
The Makerfield by-election was never really about Makerfield.It was about a growing crisis inside British politics. Labour’s enormous parliamentary majority has not delivered popularity. Quite the opposite. After two years of attacks on workers, continued austerity, support for Nato’s war agenda and unwavering backing for Israel’s genocide of Gaza and slaughter in Lebanon, public faith…
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A Fray at May Day
I stood beside my comrades, and held my banner proud,While my good comrade Nina, standing straight ahead, flew the Iranian flag. In less than a moment, and more than an instant, We were beset, by an unexpected threat, people upset by our support of Iran, there was no plan, no method to the madness,as these…
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TRICKS OF MANIPULATION
Distraction or Diversion The Systematic Shaping of Our Consciousness The main element of social control is the distraction of our attention from important problems and decisions through the constant saturation of the information space with insignificant messages. In other words, our minds are subject to an intense and constant bombardment of covert ideological messages from…
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The Internationale
Arise! ye workers, from your slumbers;Arise! ye prisoners of want.For reason in revolt now thundersAnd ends at last the age of “can’t”.Away with all your superstitionsServile masses, arise! arise!We’ll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions]And spurn the dust to win the prize. So comrades, come rallyAnd the last fight let us faceThe InternationaleUnites the…
“ A class cannot exist in society without in some degree manifesting a consciousness of itself as a group with common problems, interests and prospects”
– Harry Braverman
Class Consciousness Project 