The lies told by the state and elbit system should be dealt with, but we know nothing will happen.
The only way to force change is to continue to push back hard against the imperialists. The only language they understand is aggression and the only thing they care about is profit.

https://youtu.be/g0vlgGJehn0?si=PDZJWzRS88Es1d_U

Early British capitalism and its fear of organised workers.

The Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800 made it illegal for workers to “combine” (early roots of workers unions) to raise wages, reduce hours, or improve their working conditions. Essentially, the capitalist class criminalised trade unions before they properly existed. Left to be trialed by local magistrates, who mostly were industry owners or landlords, could convict and jail workers for collective bargaining. The mere whiff of workers organisation alone was enough for local magistrates to reach for the gavel.

These acts were introduced during the wars with revolutionary France, at a time when the British ruling class feared unrest at home. The French Revolution had made “Jacobinism” shorthand for subversion. At the same time, early industrial capitalism was expanding and this new class of proletariat were beginning to organise strikes and mutual trade societies. For the state, industrial combination and political radicalism were treated as the same threat.

The Acts were significant because they helped stabilise British capitalism in its formative industrial phase. The factory system depended on a disciplined, wage-dependent workforce, the proletariat. Profits came from the subjugation of the workers, on keeping wages down and production uninterrupted. By criminalising collective bargaining and streamlining prosecutions through employer-aligned magistrates, the state ensured that labour remained fragmented while capital could organise freely. With the English revolution giving this other new class, the bourgeoisie, the ability to create laws that secured the conditions necessary for capital accumulation.

A Repeal came in 1824 after sustained pressure, but a strike wave followed and the capitalists reimposed restrictions in 1825, limiting picketing and collective pressure while offering the concession of the ability to unionise to the workers, it was tightly managed. The objective was not freedom of association; it was containment and control. Allowing the workers the belief they had a say, then imprisonment when they did.

From a class perspective, the Combination Acts expose the class character of the state in early British capitalism. The state did not stand above society as a neutral arbiter. It intervened directly to defend property relations and suppress the growing class consciousness within the proletariat.

The issue was not abstract “public order” but control of labour in a system built on exploitation.

The Class Consciousness Project

“Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution.
We must use Marxism, which is positive in spirit, to overcome liberalism, which is negative. A communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a communist.”

Mao Zedong, Combat Liberalism

Here’s a clip of Liverpool legend John Barnes. A brilliant footballer in his day and always thoughtful when he speaks.

If you’re into football it’s an enjoyable listen. If not, it’s still worth hearing his take on the British working class and racism in the game.

https://youtu.be/y5i0RAonTVs?si=Sl9Plg9mmswPCnwM

"The thinking worker knows that the most dangerous of advisers are those liberal friends of the workers who claim to be defending their interests, but are actually trying to destroy the class independence of the proletariat and its organisation. It is therefore our bounden duty to open the workers’ eyes to the manner in which the liquidators are destroying the organisation…"

Lenin, The Liberals’ Corruption of the Workers.

Dirty tricks by Reform.
These types of incidents aren't new. Labour has done it for years.

https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-reform-uk-just-broke-electoral-law-in-gorton-denton/

One of our most popular articles of last year. It was popular for a reason, because the idea of a British “Stolovaya” is something all workers could get behind.

People are waking up to how bad our food is under a capitalist system and how much we are being ripped off for it.

Once upon a time, British workers would have subsidised meals within certain industries; now even that has been exchanged for vending machines.

Imagine finishing work and, instead of having to attempt to put together a decent meal with what you've been able to afford that week, you can go to a dining room serving hot, nutritional food for a pittance, if not free!

Capitalism has no interest in the workers' health. Just keep them alive enough to work for a while and create new workers before ill health takes them from the workplace.

A planned economy would bring food security for all workers without the need to argue for it with the capitalists in parliament.

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/09/02/why-we-need-a-national-network-of-british-stolovayas/

In our latest article Comrade Luke examines the hyperalienated world of dating sites and the most basic human relations have been commodified.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2026/02/13/dating-applications-and-the-commodification-of-intimacy/

The hypocrisy of Manchester United Co-Owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

His comments in a recent interview how he believes Britain cannot sustain high levels of immigration while so many people are claiming benefits, as if those two realities exist in a vacuum.
As though unemployment, low wages and precarious work simply happen and aren't all symptoms of imperialism

Sir Jim is a billionaire who relocated to Monaco in 2018, keeping his fortune beyond the reach of British income tax. When capital crosses borders to protect wealth, it is called efficiency. When workers cross borders to survive, it is called a crisis.

Ratcliffe’s company, INEOS, operates across continents. Its profits rely on global supply chains, international labour markets and cross-border trade. The modern petrochemical industry is not nationalist. Like all modern corporations it is a global initiative. Imperialism moving capital is not a problem when they generate profit for the likes of Jim Radcliffe.

Yet at Manchester United, hundreds of staff have faced redundancy under his ownership while the club continues to operate in a global marketplace, signing players from around the world, selling merchandise across continents and drawing revenue from international broadcasting rights.
The movement of labour and international relations are not an issue when billionaires benefit from it.

The suggestion that immigration and benefits are somehow causally linked is a familiar political narrative. It shifts attention away from the structural reality: deindustrialisation, weakened trade unions, privatisation of public assets, housing speculation, and decades of underinvestment in working-class communities.

- Immigration did not dismantle council housing.
- Immigration did not outsource industry.
- Immigration did not suppress wages, employers did.

When wages stagnate, when housing is scarce, when public services are strained, it is easier to blame the immigrants than the capitalist.

Under imperialism:
- Capital becomes concentrated in monopolies that dominate entire industries.
- Bank capital and industrial capital fuse into finance capital, forming a financial oligarchy.
- Capital is exported abroad in search of higher profits.
- The world’s markets and resources are divided among the major powers and their corporations.

That’s the mechanism.
Everything else — dependency, instability, migration, rivalry — flows from that structure.

But the movement of labour is framed as a threat as divided workers are easier to oppress than organised ones.

If there are too many people on benefits, the question is not why migrants arrive. The question is why a country as wealthy as Britain produces insecure work, poverty pay and chronic underemployment in the first place — while billionaires hide their wealth in safe haven's like Monaco.

The Class Consciousness Project

Any talk of an alliance, or “uniting the left”, means working alongside state-run bodies, Trots, pro-NATO liberals and openly anti-communist organisations. It means granting credibility and legitimacy to forces that have done more than most to sabotage the class struggle.

These groups are not a bulwark against reaction — they are one of its breeding grounds. Their confusion, moralism and constant retreat into liberal politics is precisely why British workers are so often pulled towards reactionary rhetoric in the first place.

We should treat these leftists (who are left of Imperialism, not opposed to it) no differently than the reactionaries themselves. Expose them for what they are: vital components of British capitalism, tasked with containing, redirecting and ultimately neutralising class consciousness.

Zionism and anti semitism are both promoted by the British ruling class and have been for many decades. One of the things that has become clear with the emergence of widespread anti-zionist sentiment over the last two years is that one way the ruling class will seek to deal with this is promoting old school anti semitism. They do this because if a worker who has started to wake up to the realities of the nature the Israeli regime can be pushed down the dead end of anti semitism then that is more than acceptable for the ruling class. Someone who becomes a fascist is comparable to a blindfolded man who starts to realise he cannot see and places another piece of cloth over his eyes to help him see better. This is why you get clowns like Nick Fuentes or Dan Bilzerian be promoted in the algorithms on youtube, the ruling class want rejection of zionism to promote fascism. We must see the truth, that these are all reactionary trends and must all be rejected by class conscious workers.

Here we are, revisiting an old series by our comrade Chris about the Misuse Of Language. In this series, Chris describes how a lot of words in the English language have been muted by popular culture to mean something completely different. It’s our duty to explain these mistakes, as they are often used politically in media and common discussions.

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/04/18/a-is-for-argument/