Our most recent article speaks of a forgotten class warrior in Mary Bamber.
The mother of Bassie Braddock and the first woman to be a card carrying communist party member in Liverpool.
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2026/04/08/mary-bamber/
The mother of Bassie Braddock and the first woman to be a card carrying communist party member in Liverpool.
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2026/04/08/mary-bamber/
Class Consciousness Project
Mary Bamber
Ignorance is Blitz – why working class women must stand up and fight like Mary Bamber did. Mary Hardie Bamber — ‘Ma Bamber’ to the people of Liverpool — stands as an inspiring yet neglected f…
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Forwarded from The Communists
On the morning of Thursday 9 April, the police again came to the home of Dr Ranjeet Brar, general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), to arrest him for making a political speech outside the US embassy (see video attached), on charges of “antisemitism”.
Not only have the police arrested him, they arranged to have him suspended from his work as an NHS surgeon for at least two weeks – no doubt with a view to further suspension and ultimately with the aim of depriving him of work.
https://thecommunists.org/2026/04/09/news/no-political-policing-no-blacklisting-release-reinstate-dr-ranjeet-brar/
Not only have the police arrested him, they arranged to have him suspended from his work as an NHS surgeon for at least two weeks – no doubt with a view to further suspension and ultimately with the aim of depriving him of work.
https://thecommunists.org/2026/04/09/news/no-political-policing-no-blacklisting-release-reinstate-dr-ranjeet-brar/
The Communists
Stop political policing and blacklisting! Release and reinstate Dr Brar now!
Yet again, the British state is using the law to create a propaganda narrative which smears opponents of its criminal wars as ‘terrorists’ and ‘racists’.
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Forwarded from The Communists
Released!
Thank you to all the comrades who went down to the police station in Wandsworth to show your support.
We will update with more information about the charges when we have it.
Thank you to all the comrades who went down to the police station in Wandsworth to show your support.
We will update with more information about the charges when we have it.
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From our Archives.
Here's an article we wrote over two years ago explaining Benefit reforms, why we were given them and how they are on the form they are today.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/09/09/welfare-reforms-benefits/
Here's an article we wrote over two years ago explaining Benefit reforms, why we were given them and how they are on the form they are today.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/09/09/welfare-reforms-benefits/
Class Consciousness Project
Welfare Reforms – Benefits
The British welfare state as we know it today came into existence after World War 2 with the reforms of 1945 to 1951. After two devastating wars, the world had to begin the long and arduous process…
A comrade of ours was once again arrested, and released, for daring to stand on a platform and speak in support of Iran and against imperialism dominance of the middle east.
This isn't the first time Dr Ranjeet Brar has been targeted by the state. Every time he has been arrested he has been released because there was lack of evidence of illegal activity. The lack of evidence is because nothing he has done has been illegal. Even in the framework of bourgeois law.
The reason Dr Brar has been targeted is because workers hear what he has to say. It's because when he stands on a platform the workers listen.
British capitalism is decaying. The ruling class understands that once the working class begin to realise their true intentions they are in trouble. Their worst fear is a growing class consciousness. They will do whatever they can to stop those that are able to speak to the workers and make them understand. Ranjeet and the CPGB-ML are able to do that.
Class Consciousness Project.
This isn't the first time Dr Ranjeet Brar has been targeted by the state. Every time he has been arrested he has been released because there was lack of evidence of illegal activity. The lack of evidence is because nothing he has done has been illegal. Even in the framework of bourgeois law.
The reason Dr Brar has been targeted is because workers hear what he has to say. It's because when he stands on a platform the workers listen.
British capitalism is decaying. The ruling class understands that once the working class begin to realise their true intentions they are in trouble. Their worst fear is a growing class consciousness. They will do whatever they can to stop those that are able to speak to the workers and make them understand. Ranjeet and the CPGB-ML are able to do that.
Class Consciousness Project.
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
Imagine how the world could begin to breathe again if this pattern were repeated everywhere ...
As our Cuban friends say: "Yankees, go home!"
As our Cuban friends say: "Yankees, go home!"
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The man who stopped the English intervention - 170 years since Tom Mann's birth.
Tom Mann was born in 1856 in Folshill (in Coventry). His childhood was difficult. When Tom was just 2.5 years old, his mother died. He only managed to attend school for three years. At the age of 11, he started working in a tool factory, and at 11 he began working in a coal mine, crawling on all fours to drag heavy boxes of coal and earth with his peers.
When Tom's family moved to Birmingham, he joined an instrument factory. The 14-year-old teenager developed a thirst for knowledge and attended Sunday school.
Working 10-12 hours a day, the young worker did not give up his studies. He managed to finish Sunday school and began attending evening lectures at institutes. In 1876, Mann moved to London.
He was urgently seeking an answer to the question of how to eliminate the scourges of workers. In 1877, he joined the Mechanics' Union, and in 1884 he joined the Social Democratic Federation, siding with its left wing and fighting for the organization of unskilled workers. His efforts were not in vain. In the late 80s, the movement of London dockers and match factory workers became the most militant in England.
Tom Mann was one of the organizers of the major strike of London dockers in 1889, which ended in victory for the workers and brought him widespread popularity among workers throughout England.
This period marked his acquaintance with F. Engels. Speaking about the new leaders of the English proletariat, Engels emphasized in one of his letters that Tom Mann was "the best of them".
In 1901-1910, T. Mann was in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, actively participating in the trade union movement and personally leading a number of major strikes. Returning to his homeland, Mann was again at the forefront of class battles. He led major strikes of dockers, railway workers, miners. In 1912, Mann organized a major transport strike in Liverpool and Manchester:
"The rich class of idlers, your owners and masters," wrote Mann in a leaflet addressed to the army sent against the workers, "are also our owners and masters. They and their friends own the land and the means of subsistence in Britain... Instead of fighting against each other, we should fight together... Think and refuse to kill your own kind."
The bourgeois authorities saw in the author of the call a dangerous opponent. T. Mann was tried and imprisoned. Subsequently, he was repeatedly subjected to repressions.
He joyfully welcomed the victory of the socialist revolution in our country. T. Mann wrote:
"I feel complete satisfaction at the thought... that one country has finally thrown off the yoke of capitalism, and others are hastily preparing to do the same."
Mann organizes English workers to fight against the anti-Soviet intervention under the slogan "Hands off Soviet Russia!".
And after the intervention was stifled by the blows of the Red Army and strikes of English workers, he goes to the young Soviet Republic to see the first proletarian state in history with his own eyes.
After many years of class struggle and the victory of the socialist revolution in Russia, he studies the works of K. Marx and joins the ranks of the communists in 1920.
He is one of the organizers of the "Minority Movement" among trade unions, whose program included the demand for the establishment of a united front of workers against the exploiters, the establishment of workers' control over production, a pay increase, and the introduction of a 44-hour working week. And in 1921, Tom Mann becomes the chairman of the bureau of the Red International of Trade Unions in England.
Until the end of his life, Tom Mann's voice, a passionate agitator and fighter for the cause of the working class, did not weaken. In the 30s, despite his advanced age, he actively fought against imperialism and, above all, against its striking force - fascism.
Tom Mann died in 1941.
Source.
Tom Mann was born in 1856 in Folshill (in Coventry). His childhood was difficult. When Tom was just 2.5 years old, his mother died. He only managed to attend school for three years. At the age of 11, he started working in a tool factory, and at 11 he began working in a coal mine, crawling on all fours to drag heavy boxes of coal and earth with his peers.
When Tom's family moved to Birmingham, he joined an instrument factory. The 14-year-old teenager developed a thirst for knowledge and attended Sunday school.
Working 10-12 hours a day, the young worker did not give up his studies. He managed to finish Sunday school and began attending evening lectures at institutes. In 1876, Mann moved to London.
He was urgently seeking an answer to the question of how to eliminate the scourges of workers. In 1877, he joined the Mechanics' Union, and in 1884 he joined the Social Democratic Federation, siding with its left wing and fighting for the organization of unskilled workers. His efforts were not in vain. In the late 80s, the movement of London dockers and match factory workers became the most militant in England.
Tom Mann was one of the organizers of the major strike of London dockers in 1889, which ended in victory for the workers and brought him widespread popularity among workers throughout England.
This period marked his acquaintance with F. Engels. Speaking about the new leaders of the English proletariat, Engels emphasized in one of his letters that Tom Mann was "the best of them".
In 1901-1910, T. Mann was in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, actively participating in the trade union movement and personally leading a number of major strikes. Returning to his homeland, Mann was again at the forefront of class battles. He led major strikes of dockers, railway workers, miners. In 1912, Mann organized a major transport strike in Liverpool and Manchester:
"The rich class of idlers, your owners and masters," wrote Mann in a leaflet addressed to the army sent against the workers, "are also our owners and masters. They and their friends own the land and the means of subsistence in Britain... Instead of fighting against each other, we should fight together... Think and refuse to kill your own kind."
The bourgeois authorities saw in the author of the call a dangerous opponent. T. Mann was tried and imprisoned. Subsequently, he was repeatedly subjected to repressions.
He joyfully welcomed the victory of the socialist revolution in our country. T. Mann wrote:
"I feel complete satisfaction at the thought... that one country has finally thrown off the yoke of capitalism, and others are hastily preparing to do the same."
Mann organizes English workers to fight against the anti-Soviet intervention under the slogan "Hands off Soviet Russia!".
And after the intervention was stifled by the blows of the Red Army and strikes of English workers, he goes to the young Soviet Republic to see the first proletarian state in history with his own eyes.
After many years of class struggle and the victory of the socialist revolution in Russia, he studies the works of K. Marx and joins the ranks of the communists in 1920.
He is one of the organizers of the "Minority Movement" among trade unions, whose program included the demand for the establishment of a united front of workers against the exploiters, the establishment of workers' control over production, a pay increase, and the introduction of a 44-hour working week. And in 1921, Tom Mann becomes the chairman of the bureau of the Red International of Trade Unions in England.
Until the end of his life, Tom Mann's voice, a passionate agitator and fighter for the cause of the working class, did not weaken. In the 30s, despite his advanced age, he actively fought against imperialism and, above all, against its striking force - fascism.
Tom Mann died in 1941.
Source.
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Today the project is devastated to hear the unfortunate news of the passing of Alex Manninger. At just 48 this comes as a real shock. We send our condolences to his family and those close to him.
As a footballer Alex Manninger was never the headline name, rarely plastered across the back pages, but he was always there. A journeyman goalkeeper who spent decades at the top level of the game, moving where the work was, doing his job without fuss or fanfare.
At Arsenal FC he was part of one of the club’s greatest sides, stepping in when needed during their 1997–98 Double-winning season, supporting the legendary keeper David Seaman and playing his role in a title-winning campaign. It’s the kind of contribution that rarely gets remembered properly, not the star, not the hero, but part of the dressing room that made success possible.
That was the story of his career. Playing for ten clubs across Europe including Juventus, Fiorentina, Torino and Liverpool. Many years of graft, always ready when called upon. In 2009 he even stepped in for Gianluca Buffon to help Juventus win the Siera A.
He's almost the forgotten man of elite football, not because of any lack in ability, but because the game only remembers those at the very top of the pyramid, while the rest keep it standing. Supporting top keepers like Seamen and Buffon.
Losing someone at 48 is always a tragedy. A man who gave his life to the game, who had already lived an entire footballing career, and still had plenty of life left to live beyond it.
The Class Consciousness Project
As a footballer Alex Manninger was never the headline name, rarely plastered across the back pages, but he was always there. A journeyman goalkeeper who spent decades at the top level of the game, moving where the work was, doing his job without fuss or fanfare.
At Arsenal FC he was part of one of the club’s greatest sides, stepping in when needed during their 1997–98 Double-winning season, supporting the legendary keeper David Seaman and playing his role in a title-winning campaign. It’s the kind of contribution that rarely gets remembered properly, not the star, not the hero, but part of the dressing room that made success possible.
That was the story of his career. Playing for ten clubs across Europe including Juventus, Fiorentina, Torino and Liverpool. Many years of graft, always ready when called upon. In 2009 he even stepped in for Gianluca Buffon to help Juventus win the Siera A.
He's almost the forgotten man of elite football, not because of any lack in ability, but because the game only remembers those at the very top of the pyramid, while the rest keep it standing. Supporting top keepers like Seamen and Buffon.
Losing someone at 48 is always a tragedy. A man who gave his life to the game, who had already lived an entire footballing career, and still had plenty of life left to live beyond it.
The Class Consciousness Project
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