Tag: Class
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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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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…
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Demands Must Be Made
In our most recent article we analysed why the TUC campaigns to promote union membership are so utterly pathetic. In short it is because they offer no programme except pathetic cringing before our class enemies. In this article we at the Class Consciousness Project present our own programme of minimum demands that a union movement…
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A Movement With No Heart
One of the central problems facing the British working class is that the leaders of the “labour movement” are wedded to the practice of class collaborationism. What we mean by this is that the (so called) trade union leaders have long embraced the idea of “partnership” with the employers and the government. Thus even when…
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On Capital Punishment
The last executions in Britain occurred in 1964, leading to the abolition of the death penalty. The history of capital punishment reveals its role as a tool for class control and oppression.
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All of Us or None
Bertolt Brecht was one of the greatest poets and playwrights of the 20th century and he always sought to combine his beliefs as a Marxist into his work. This particular poem is fascinating because Brecht sums up in verse how the working class must be their own emancipators. Slave, who is it that shall free…
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