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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
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AFRICA RISING!
“The essence of neo-colonialism is that the state which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.” – Kwame Nkrumah Africa rising is more than a slogan; it is a new consciousness arising
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We were Infantry
By Nadezhda Gorskaya, May 9, 2019. We were infantry. Now we are walking along the treetops and old roofs.We left the battle along the edge of the swamp,We rested for a moment in a honeyed calm…We are the same soldiers, a posthumous company.We just don’t shoot anymore. And we simply became a little inaudible. With
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Media Blames Workers for the Corruption and Fraud Endemic to Capitalist Society
It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital. Reposted with thanks from CPGB-ML In a recent headline, writers in the London Times lamented that “Britons’ tolerance of fraud could cost benefits system £2bn a year”. And what is to blame for this hideous prospect? They, the
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Toxic Masculinity: A Bourgeois Weapon Against the Working Class
The term toxic masculinity has circulated in feminist movements and gender studies for several decades, but it’s only in the past ten years that it has entered mainstream conversation. The phrase has been heavily popularised by the growth of the #MeToo movement. A social awareness campaign created to fight against sexual violence and abuse of
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Another World is Possible
In response to the recurrent crises of capitalism, the political bankruptcy of social-democracy – as clearly illustrated by the treacherous circus that is the British Labour Party – becomes more evident and more acute, almost on a daily basis. Capitalism is way beyond its historical period of economic and social progress – arguably the ‘Great
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A Democracy For Who?
The fairy tale version of British history engaged in by the ruling class will have you believe that this island of ours has gone through a long, sometimes, bumpy, but largely peaceful evolution towards the bright and sunny world of “parliamentary democracy” that we are all supposed to enjoy today. What history, as told us
“ 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
Class Consciousness Project 