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The Commodification of Education
Whilst a commodity is something that satisfies a human need, under capitalism, a commodity is something created for sale and not for one’s own use. Commodification means turning something (in the case of this article, education) into a market-driven product or service — something that is bought, sold, and consumed rather than a public good…
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Long live May Day!
May Day is the day of annual celebration of the international working-class movement. It originated in the United States, where it was particularly associated with the struggle for the working day to be reduced to eight hours. In the mid-19th century, the conditions in which the working class lived and worked in the United States,…
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Rebuilding Class Consciousness in Britain
A May Day message from The Class Consciousness Project Happy May Day from all of us at The Class Consciousness Project. We are now into our second year. In that time, we’ve weathered many trials, tested different approaches, and continued refining our understanding of how best we can serve the working class. The project began…
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St. George’s Day
As it was St George’s day recently (and apparently again soon due to it being too close to Easter) it’s worth writing something about it. We always hear the same things around this time. Liberals will point out that St. George wasn’t even English, he was Turkish. Nationalists will paint their faces and chant “England…
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Malthusianism: The Tactic of Saving a Dying System.
Many people, especially in the post-COVID era, are reacting to what are called “degrowth” policies, particularly those associated with the so-called “green agenda”. Whether it is Port Talbot shutting down two of its blast furnaces, cutting 2,500 jobs at least, to “reduce emissions” or the restrictive law on farms, particularly in the Netherlands and Germany…
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying…
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Manchester Houses Aren’t Homes
Andy Burnham’s Dodgy Deals With Property Developers Are About Far More Than Simple Corruption It is now over a decade since the Greater Manchester Mayors position was created as part of a stitch up deal between the Labour Party and the Tory-Liberal coalition. Portrayed by the propaganda of the time as being part of the…
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The Truth about the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
“If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible…” – Harry Truman, 1941. Since the end of the Second World War, the bourgeois historiography has tried to distort various incidents in order to…
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We Could Be Shipbuilding
In a short film for the project comrade Alex looks at a recent scandal regarding shipbuilding on the Clyde and asks why the Scottish government is sending business to yards in Turkey and Poland when it has a nationalised yard on the Clyde. https://youtu.be/Hasz2X1Gi4k
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Then They Came For the Farmers
But there was no one left to protest. This isn’t a piece about farming, it’s about the rights that we have had stripped away from us. Farmers planning a tractor protest have been warned that they could face arrest if they drove tractors through London without prior permission from the authorities. These powers were brought…
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