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The Collapse of Thames Water
The impending collapse of Thames Water, Britain’s largest water company, should serve as an example of the utter moral and political bankruptcy of the privatisation of our utilities. In fact, the only surprise should be that it has taken as long as it has for this to happen. Thames Water is currently stuck in a
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The Capitulating Left
Another week and another exasperating capitulation by so-called leaders of the left. It seems like a never-ending conveyer belt of promise that always falls into the waste bin that is the Labour Party. Mick Lynch was bellowing his support for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and Sharon Graham has been towing the Labour line by
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Terry’s Tales of a Union Man
For the best part of forty years, I was a Trade Union Representative. I was a rep in many different workplaces and have witnessed many hilarious incidents and, unfortunately, some tragic situations too. These memories are all part of my great career as a trade unionist. Part 2: The Quality Circle In the 60s and
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Class Struggle Update 2
This week, Jason looks at strike action at the homeless charity St Mungo’s, teachers’ union NEU announce further strike action, ASLEF and RMT step up their industrial action, strife at the Church of England and the disgraceful decision by the AFL-CIO to back Biden, even after his crushing of the US rail workers’ strike. You
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Football Focus: Part 1
In this first part of a series looking at wider questions of working class life Jason, Rick and Alex discuss the role of the beautiful game. We cover a lot of ground from the changes wrought by the 1980s, the coming of the premier league, the effect of big money and the pricing out of
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AFL-CIO shamelessly backs Biden
In December last year, President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr signed into law legislation which made an ongoing rail strike illegal and imposed a ‘deal’ on the members of the four unions which remained in dispute with the rail companies. The rail workers were fighting against years of staffing cuts and calling for the introduction of
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A letter on the DPRK
The following letter was sent to a number of publications by Dr Dermot Hudson, Chair of Korean Friendship Association UK, following the recent broadcast of ‘Michael Palin in North Korea’, which was the topic of a post on this website. Dear comrades, On the 14th of June, the BBC, aka the British Brainwashing Corporation, broadcast
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The Struggle for Union Recognition at Regatta
My son and I met with the Chair of the local Trades Council and a National Organiser for Unite the Union at the Cheshire Oaks Outlet Village in Ellesmere Port to leaflet the Regatta store to show solidarity with the Unite members at the distribution centre Workers at Ellesmere Port were told for many years
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Western Exceptionalism
I was prompted to write to this article whilst watching an awful piece of propaganda, entitled Michael Palin in North Korea. If you want to understand Western exceptionalism, watch this programme, first with and then without sound, because the only part of this presentation that makes the DPRK look bad is Palin’s narration. This narration
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Class Struggle Update
Jason of the Class Consciousness Project has recorded the first in what will be a series of updates on class struggle across the country and the world. You can watch the update here.
“ 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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