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The Unpaid Labour of Motherhood
We at the project would like to wish a happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there raising the next generation of workers and, hopefully, revolutionaries. Now, we understand that in today’s world it’s not always mothers who raise the children. Sometimes it’s the father. But more often than not, especially for those on
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Then They Came For the Farmers
But there was no one left to protest. This isn’t a piece about farming, it’s about the rights that we have had stripped away from us. Farmers planning a tractor protest have been warned that they could face arrest if they drove tractors through London without prior permission from the authorities. These powers were brought
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Stalin. A leader and a Poet
At the Project, we honour the great heroes of the working class, and Josef Stalin stands among them. He played a vital role in the Russian Revolution and was instrumental in establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union.In his youth, as his class consciousness developed, Stalin studied at the Gori Church School
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DOJ Finds Tulsa Massacre Was ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack’
Repost from Popular Resistance. The Justice Department issued a report Friday on the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, when as many as 10,000 white Tulsans murdered hundreds of Black residents and burned businesses and homes to the ground in an attack that federal investigators found “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob
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No Tears For The Puppet
The recent explosive meeting between President Trump and the actor Vladimir Zelensky in the White House has been interpreted by the Bourgeois press in Western Europe and the United States as a horrible example of Trump being a bully. However just because the display was indeed disgusting it does not mean that any sympathy should
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W.E.B. Du Bois in the People’s Republic of China, 1959
Premier Zhou Enlai with Du Bois and his wife the writer Shirley Graham (third from left). First and second from right are Vice-Premier Chen Yi and his wife Zhang Qian Repost from The Left Chapter W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died in
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The Fake Equity of DEI Programmes
I was inspired to write something on this subject when reading about newly elected President Donald Trump waging war on DEI programmes in the US, the latest round in the ongoing culture wars. While I agreed with his actions, I thought that somebody should be offering a critique of DEI from outside of the pro/anti
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The Grangemouth Scandal
The Job Cuts At Grangemouth Reveal The Fraudulent Nature Of The Unite and SNP Leaders For two political parties that supposedly hate each other the Labour Party and the SNP certainly are agreeing on a lot these days. They agree on the need to continue the Ukraine war in perpetuity and they apparently agree that
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A Man’s A Man For That
This beautiful poem by Robert Burns is a powerful critique of class distinctions, celebrating the dignity and worth of ordinary people. Written in 1795, the poet rejects the idea that wealth and titles define a person’s value, emphasising instead honesty, integrity, and hard work. Is there for honest PovertyThat hings his head, an’ a’ that;The
“ 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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