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Football Focus – Episode 2
This is the latest in our regular series of footballing discussions. In this episode Chris, Terry, Rick & Alex look at the recent points deduction imposed on Everton and the wider issue of football finances.
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The Enemy Is Labour
Workers Must Know Who Our Enemy Is In Order To Fight Them As we approach 2024, the question of a general election looms ever larger before us. The Conservative Party is in disarray, with a Prime Minister (Rishi Sunak) nominally in charge who most people couldn’t pick out of a police line-up, having gone through
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The Murderous Legacy of Henry Kissinger
Kissinger’s amoral, genocidal crimes revealed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life Article reposted with thanksMiddle East Eye Nothing notable distinguished the birth of Heinz Alfred Kissinger on 27 May 1923 to a German jewish family in Furth, a city in Bavaria. He died on Wednesday 29 November
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Nottingham Goes Bust
On Wednesday 29th November, Nottingham City Council’s chief financial officer issued what is known as a Section 114 notice under the Local Government Finance Act 1988, effectively declaring bankruptcy. The issuance of this notice means that the council does not have enough money in its reserves to cover all its obligations and so, with the
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The Police: Capitalism’s First Line of Defence
(To Police; to control or maintain order) After recent events where four of our comrades were arrested at a Palestine demonstration while they were innocuously selling literature, we think its pertinent to explain what the police are and why these agents of the state should never be trusted. As British cities grew larger and more
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The Dublin Riots
British news media, having broadcast propaganda on the mass slaughter of Palestinians on behalf of Israel and US imperialism for the last seven weeks, became temporarily distracted by the literally explosive events in Dublin which unfolded on the night of Thursday 23rd November. According to the news media, the riots were precipitated by a violent
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The Illusion of Free Speech in Britain
The Met Police Defend Imperialism & Mass Murder As I write this, it has been six weeks since the brave Palestinian resistance began the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th. Since then, there has been an ongoing struggle against the Israeli occupiers as they have subjugated Palestinians in the West Bank to horrific treatment and have
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Gen-Z and Late Stage Capitalism
An article in the New York Post, published on 21st April 2023, stated that a report on Generation Z, better known as Gen-Z, were the most difficult group of workers to manage and to work with. The article, which was sourced from a report compiled by ResumeBuilder.com, was based on a survey of 1,344 managers
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Education for the Class Struggle
I have been in and around trade unions all my life, first joining when I was working in meat processing plant at 18 years old. It wasn’t until I was 34 that I actually popped my head above the parapet and became a rep myself. I had attended branch meetings as an activist and had
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Scottish Water Workers Vote to Strike
Reposted with thanksfrom CPGB-ML The strike action announcement comes at a moment when Scottish Water’s new CEO, Alex Plant, is under fire for taking home annual ‘pay’ of £295,000 – in breach of the Scottish government’s own public-sector pay rules. Workers employed by Scottish Water have voted 89 percent to go on strike for decent pay. They plan to
“ 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
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