Tag: Communism
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The Administrators of Surrender
The Managed Defeat: How British Capitalism Disarmed the Working Class, and Why Labour Signed the Treaty Article written by Alexander Mckay The controversy over the dropping of several elements of the Employment Rights bill by Keir Starmer masks the fact that the bill itself was not what it was presented as. Rather than being an…
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Marxism–Leninism is not part of the Left
The term “left” was born in bourgeois politics. It came out of the French Revolution, when republican factions sat to the left of the monarch. From its birth, the “left” carried the outlook of the rising bourgeoisie, championing progress, secularism, and equality before the law. These ideals came from the Enlightenment, which spoke of human…
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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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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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