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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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Cultural Capitalism
DISCLAIMER: A LOT OF THE LINKS PROVIDED COME WITH ADVERTS AND/OR PAYWALLS. THIS WASN’T INTENDED AS IRONY, BUT IT IS BLOODY IRONIC. This article is about how capitalism has become part of working class culture. There have been fine examples of culture created within capitalism. Hollywood films from Terminator to Transformers can be enjoyable, as
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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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Why we use the Billhook
The Billhook is a tool used for over a thousand years by British and Irish workers to cultivate the land, and the designs varied from region to region. They were still being mass produced during WWII and even as late as 2022, were hand forged in Sheffield. They were also used as weapons of war.
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Comrade Bhagat Singh and Comrade Udham Singh
By Godfrey Cremer CPGB-ML Who are these men?What are they to me,These dead menFrom a land across the sea?They dared against the British RajTo raise their hand.If my own countrymen decreed their deathWhy should I take a stand? ButThe British Ruling ClassThat these men defiedPlundered with sword and gun and sly intrigue.Their modern spawnSmile with
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Sanctions make us all Cubans
On the evening of Monday, January 20th, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order that revoked all executive orders issued by the Biden administration. Among the revoked orders was Biden’s 11th hour removal of Cuba from the US State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. This action by the Trump administration
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They Never Walk Alone
By JOHN PILGER. Reposted from Labournet. The Liverpool dockers have been on strike for 14 months. Yet the dispute is scarcely reported, is ignored by the politicians and not even officially recognised by the union. ‘The bad old days’ of casualisation have returned in docks all around the country. Merseyside is the last line of
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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
“ 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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