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The Death of Working Class Communities
Local pride can manifest itself in many ways. It can be helping with community projects, supporting local football teams or just general pride about the place in which you live. I remember as a child in the 90s (before computers took over and kids spent more time in their rooms) we would meet up with…
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The Late and Unlamented Eric Hammond
A pivotal period in the modern history of the British trade union movement is undoubtedly between the years of 1984 and 1986. The Government of Margaret Thatcher, having learnt the lessons of the industrial and electoral defeats of the Ted Heath Government of 1970-1974 at the hands of the working class, planned and waged an…
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Not one single vote for Labour!
Understanding the dead end of Labourism and the Labour Party is paramount to the class consciousness of the British left. The liberal left and the many different flavours of Trotskyites will have you believe that the road to socialism in Britain is only possible via the Labour Party, which essentially is not true. In fact,…
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The limitations of trade unionism
The NHS dispute brings into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions to advance working class aims The news on Thursday 16th March that the Government and NHS trade unions had reached a ‘major breakthrough’ in their long-standing pay dispute by negotiating and recommending a pay deal which in no way constitutes a real-terms…
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A Founding Statement
About the Class Consciousness Project Class consciousness amongst the British Working Class is at an all-time low. This situation is most stark in the contemporary ‘left’ wing of politics. Virtually all self-proclaimed left-wing parties are in thrall to the political bankruptcy and failure that is European-style social democracy. It is precious little wonder that workers have…
“ 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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