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The Dark Birds Flew
Otto Gelsted was a young Danish communist who described seeing the German planes flying over his home during WW2. He was a communist writer, and intellectual, who had to flee to Sweden after the Nazi’s marches on Denmark as he had spoken out against Hitler and the Nazi’s in local publications. The symbolism of the
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Jigger the Miner
It’s legend, the history of black country and why workers should be proud of their heritage. Introduction As I go to Walsall, I go past Brownhills (by bus no less), I am always inspired by the miner’s statue even when I was a kid. Even if I didn’t know of its significance until I write
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The Scouser in Our Team
One of the major stories of this season has been the contract situations surrounding some of Liverpool’s biggest stars. Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah, and Trent Alexander-Arnold all had contracts set to expire at the end of the season. It’s a bizarre situation for a club that has led the title race to have its
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The Farce of Freedom Under Capitalism
Trump’s behaviour towards Canada results in a Carney victory and the Liberals being re-elected. Much smug satisfaction from the liberal left. All hail Mark Carney, a longtime multi-millionaire with 13 years in senior positions with Goldman Sachs who has worked in investment banking, emerging debt in capital markets and sovereign risk. What a noble career trajectory. Carney left
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The Commodification of Education
Whilst a commodity is something that satisfies a human need, under capitalism, a commodity is something created for sale and not for one’s own use. Commodification means turning something (in the case of this article, education) into a market-driven product or service — something that is bought, sold, and consumed rather than a public good
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Trans Women ARE Men!
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has brought a muchneeded return of sanity with an unambiguous ruling that sex is binary,that trans women are men, something that has always been true infact, and following this ruling, we now have legal clarity bringing thelaw into line with biological reality.A brief summary of the case: For
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The Wreckers
I watched them tearing a building down, A gang of men in a busy town.With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell, They swung a beam and a sidewall fell. I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled, As the men you’d hire if you had to build?”He gave me a laugh and said, “No indeed! Just common
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Long live May Day!
May Day is the day of annual celebration of the international working-class movement. It originated in the United States, where it was particularly associated with the struggle for the working day to be reduced to eight hours. In the mid-19th century, the conditions in which the working class lived and worked in the United States,
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Rebuilding Class Consciousness in Britain
A May Day message from The Class Consciousness Project Happy May Day from all of us at The Class Consciousness Project. We are now into our second year. In that time, we’ve weathered many trials, tested different approaches, and continued refining our understanding of how best we can serve the working class. The project began
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St. George’s Day
As it was St George’s day recently (and apparently again soon due to it being too close to Easter) it’s worth writing something about it. We always hear the same things around this time. Liberals will point out that St. George wasn’t even English, he was Turkish. Nationalists will paint their faces and chant “England
“ 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 