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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
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To Those Born Later
Truly, I live in dark times!The guileless word is folly. A smooth foreheadSuggests insensitivity. The man who laughsHas simply not yet hadThe terrible news. What kind of times are they, whenA talk about trees is almost a crimeBecause it implies silence about so many horrors?That man there calmly crossing the streetIs already perhaps beyond the
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Dave Ward – Commander Of Scabs
The CWU General Secretary Joins A Long Line Of Union Sell Outs The English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that the ultimate aim of this most bourgeois of all nations would appear to be the possession, alongside the bourgeoisie, of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat. – Friedrich Engels The proud boasting done
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Preserving Our History – Williamson Tunnels
Last weekend me and Comrade Ricky went on a tour of the Williamson Tunnels, a network miles long, dug out of the sandstone that Liverpool sits on. Dug by men returning from the Napoleonic war for eccentric tobacco merchant Joseph Williamson.This is just a small part of its history, which you can learn more of
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The Contradictions of Capitalism Explained
Friedrich Engels delivered a powerful critique of capitalism with the line: “The producers have nothing to consume because the consumers are wanting.” This single, simple sentence exposes the illogicality of capitalist production: that workers, the very creators of society’s wealth, are denied access to the fruits of their labour because the capitalist system prioritises profit
“ 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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