Tag: history
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The People’s Game or a Geopolitical Tool?
FIFA’s Growing Alignment with American Imperialism. By Alexandros SchulmanFollowing on from an article “The Americanisation of the World Cup,” it’s time to turn attention to FIFA itself and the deepening infiltration to it by the machinery of American imperialism. The myth pushed by footballing authorities that football stands ‘above politics’ has always been bourgeois propaganda that conceals…
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The Song of the Shirt
By Thomas Hood WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the “Song of the Shirt.” “Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof!…
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CPB calls on its supporters to ‘Vote Green in Gorton and Denton’
Reposted with thanks from CPGB-ML On 17 February, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) penned a Morning Star editorial column entitled ‘Vote Green in Gorton and Denton’. It deserves our attention for what it reveals about the true nature of this organisation whose leaders continue to assert that they are the true inheritors of Britain’s…
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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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Propaganda Overdrive
The migrant-sex-offender narrative has been carefully constructed by the state Article by Vikki Harper The recent case of Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu—who arrived in the UK by small boat in late June 2025, lived in a hotel in Epping, Essex, committed sexual assaults after arriving, was sentenced to twelve months in prison in September and…
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The Long Struggle of India
The struggle for independence from British colonialism is one that is ongoing Article written by Paul Virdee The Legacy of the British Colonial “Vampires” in the Indian Subcontinent Hindustan has been oppressed and exploited by the British and their native collaborators from the moment British thieves arrived in the subcontinent. They left behind native elites,…
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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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The Unite Leadership’s Betrayal: In Solidarity with Imperialism, Not the Ukrainian Worker
The Unite Leadership Consistently Proves It’s Loyalty To The Ruling Class We have said it before, and current events force us to say it again: the Unite leadership, from Len McCluskey to its current standard-bearer Sharon Graham, has built a record of failure and deception. They are fluent in the language of class struggle, of…
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On The Detention Of George Galloway
The Workers Movement Must Fight For Democratic Rights The recent detention of Workers Party leader George Galloway (together with his wife) upon his return to the UK via Gatwick Airport has ignited a fierce debate about the state of free speech in Britain. While officially released without charge, his temporary hold under Schedule 7 of…
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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
The assassination of prominent conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has sent shockwaves through the American political landscape. While the investigation into the motive and circumstances of the killing is ongoing, the event invites a sober analysis of its potential geopolitical implications, the historical consequences of political violence, and its likely use as an instrument to reinforce…
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