Category: Capitalism
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The Current Poverty Crisis and our Tasks
Living standards in Britain are continuing to deteriorate, and the rate of deterioration is accelerating. Reposted with thanks from CPGB-ML To have the correct attitude towards a phenomenon we must understand the cause, the magnitude, the quality, and the direction of change. The aim of this article is to give an overview of the quantity,…
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A New Society Awaits
Socialism offers the only alternative to the existing and corrupt system of monopoly capitalism and the first progressive step towards building an alternative system is to recognise the deficiencies, deception and dishonesty inherent within social democracy itself. Once you understand and acknowledge that the system is inherently biased and controlled by the ruling class, and…
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A Numbers Game
This Article Is Republished From The substack of the Marx Engels Lenin Institute Having been a member of ‘mass’ organisations, I remain wholly unimpressed by the numbers being bandied about by Corbyn and his followers regarding their new party. The Labour Party under Corbyn was (allegedly) a mass membership organisation. In effect though the great…
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What it means to be Class Conscious
In our capitalist society there is a deliberate and ongoing veiled campaign to avoid any discussion of ‘class’. The term working class is rarely used, and certainly not in a positive way. We are all encouraged to think of ourselves as, or aspire to become, middle class. As if being working class is somehow objectionable.…
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The Dennis Plant Closure
Scottish Workers Are Being Ripped Off Again By Edinburgh and London Every politician in the imperialist countries is now pretending to be very concerned about de-industrialisation. Britain, being the oldest imperialist country in the world, has suffered from this particular affliction for well over 150 years. The observations first made by J. A Hobson and…
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Media Blames Workers for the Corruption and Fraud Endemic to Capitalist Society
It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital. Reposted with thanks from CPGB-ML In a recent headline, writers in the London Times lamented that “Britons’ tolerance of fraud could cost benefits system £2bn a year”. And what is to blame for this hideous prospect? They, the…
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Toxic Masculinity: A Bourgeois Weapon Against the Working Class
The term toxic masculinity has circulated in feminist movements and gender studies for several decades, but it’s only in the past ten years that it has entered mainstream conversation. The phrase has been heavily popularised by the growth of the #MeToo movement. A social awareness campaign created to fight against sexual violence and abuse of…
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A Democracy For Who?
The fairy tale version of British history engaged in by the ruling class will have you believe that this island of ours has gone through a long, sometimes, bumpy, but largely peaceful evolution towards the bright and sunny world of “parliamentary democracy” that we are all supposed to enjoy today. What history, as told us…
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Preserving Our History – Williamson Tunnels
Last weekend me and Comrade Ricky went on a tour of the Williamson Tunnels, a network miles long, dug out of the sandstone that Liverpool sits on. Dug by men returning from the Napoleonic war for eccentric tobacco merchant Joseph Williamson.This is just a small part of its history, which you can learn more of…
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