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.
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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.
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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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Forwarded from Red Rick
Billy Moore is an ex-fighter turned YouTube "influencer". His show was once interviews with famous scousers and villains.
The last few years he has followed a lot of the Liverpool social media accounts and turned very reactionary and anti-immigration advocate.
This article speaks of Billy and his change. The one thing it doesn't grasp is how too much of a coincidence the change in all these Liverpool social media personalities are.
I don't doubt for one minute that they have been bought by the state.
https://www.livpost.co.uk/whats-going-on-with-billy-moore/
The last few years he has followed a lot of the Liverpool social media accounts and turned very reactionary and anti-immigration advocate.
This article speaks of Billy and his change. The one thing it doesn't grasp is how too much of a coincidence the change in all these Liverpool social media personalities are.
I don't doubt for one minute that they have been bought by the state.
https://www.livpost.co.uk/whats-going-on-with-billy-moore/
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What’s going on with Billy Moore?
The Prayer Before Dawn star is going viral for all the wrong reasons. We ask him if he’s really turned to the “far-right.”
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Keir Starmer is an utterly hollow man with not a single original thought in his head. He is the perfect man for the Mandelson/Blair project though, that of making labour the "natural party of government". What that meant was eliminating any possibility of any interference with the desires of the city of London. This means they had to have total control of the labour party at every single level and they largely achieved that. It also means you need a figurehead who is just going to do what the political establishment tells him to do. The problem with that is you need someone who can at least sell the bull shit, that's why the Anglo ruling class love Obama so much. Starmer has all the charisma of wood louse with a bad case of concussion. Starmer also has a true bureaucrats blind faith in the state hierarchy and its infallibility. Hence why he appointed Sue Gray to lead his team and didn't bother to actually check whether she had the slightest clue as to what she was doing.
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-dangerous-leadership-style-uk-peter-mandelson/
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-dangerous-leadership-style-uk-peter-mandelson/
POLITICO
Fatal flaw: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up – POLITICO
The PM’s current and former colleagues say the Mandelson scandal has exposed the hollowness of his hands-off style.
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
There is nothing progressive or 'pro-worker' about this position.
And there's certainly nothing clever about combining anti-worker rhetoric with what appear to be more progressive positions re imperialist war. This is, in fact, the definition of demagoguery: combining progressive demands with reactionary ones in order to lead the masses up the garden path.
In this particular case, it's a pretty sordid attempt to get a few votes by pandering to anti-immigration prejudices. Winning votes by reinforcing pervasive bourgeois propaganda instead of doing the hard work of exposing those lies is the textbook definition of opportunism. That is: selling out the real, long-term interests of the working class in order to gain some short-term real or perceived gain.
Quite a few of those who have signed up to promote this programme know well that the one of the most urgent tasks facing socialists in Britain today is that of opening the eyes of the masses to the ways in which they are kept divided (and are therefore also kept poor and under control).
Immigration narratives are the oldest (and therefore most embedded) form of culture-wars, divide-and-rule propaganda. Their only purpose is to keep the working class fighting itself; to keep us punching down instead of punching up.
Shame on all those parties and individuals who call themselves socialist and spout this filth. They are charlatans and traitors to their class.
https://x.com/JesseWinney/status/2043613491169227100
And there's certainly nothing clever about combining anti-worker rhetoric with what appear to be more progressive positions re imperialist war. This is, in fact, the definition of demagoguery: combining progressive demands with reactionary ones in order to lead the masses up the garden path.
In this particular case, it's a pretty sordid attempt to get a few votes by pandering to anti-immigration prejudices. Winning votes by reinforcing pervasive bourgeois propaganda instead of doing the hard work of exposing those lies is the textbook definition of opportunism. That is: selling out the real, long-term interests of the working class in order to gain some short-term real or perceived gain.
Quite a few of those who have signed up to promote this programme know well that the one of the most urgent tasks facing socialists in Britain today is that of opening the eyes of the masses to the ways in which they are kept divided (and are therefore also kept poor and under control).
Immigration narratives are the oldest (and therefore most embedded) form of culture-wars, divide-and-rule propaganda. Their only purpose is to keep the working class fighting itself; to keep us punching down instead of punching up.
Shame on all those parties and individuals who call themselves socialist and spout this filth. They are charlatans and traitors to their class.
https://x.com/JesseWinney/status/2043613491169227100
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Jesse Winney (@JesseWinney) on X
The Workers Party's message of 'Stop the Wars - Stop the Boats' must be taken to working class communities most impacted by mass migration: the undercutting of wages, unsafe streets and overwhelmed infrastructure. All this is connected to the criminal wars…
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The Dark Birds Flew...
The morning of April 9, 1940, was invitingly warm and sunny, the spring was on the doorstep. But something else was coming too, something darker, menacing, heralding 5 years of Nazi occupation.
A young communist and resistance fighter-to-be rushed to the window as the roaring noise of engines announced the unwelcome intruders advancing close by, flying low over the rooftops, casting a dark shadow beneath. After the war, he used to stand there on April 9 with his daughter, he would tell and they would recite the poem together.
The poem 'The Dark Birds Flew' is written by Otto Gelsted.
Gelsted spontaneously wrote the poem about the occupation on April 9, 1940, and in doing so, he put into words the sentiments of those who became the first resistance fighters; the communists.
The German planes over Denmark were supposed to threaten the decision-makers with bombs and ended up throwing flyers with the headline "Oprop!" meaning "Exclamation!", but should have been spelled "Opråb!", down over Denmark. The war planes appeared as dark silhouettes on the bright blue sky.
From 1932, Gelsted was affiliated with the Communist Party's daily newspaper "Arbejderbladet". The party and "Arbejderbladet" were banned at the time of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union on the June 22, 1941. Gelsted then found work at Ekstra Bladet, a legal newspaper, but on October 27, 1943, he had to flee illegally to Sweden, where he lived until the war ended.
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We posted this poem previously and you can read it here 👇
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/05/19/the-dark-birds-flew/
The morning of April 9, 1940, was invitingly warm and sunny, the spring was on the doorstep. But something else was coming too, something darker, menacing, heralding 5 years of Nazi occupation.
A young communist and resistance fighter-to-be rushed to the window as the roaring noise of engines announced the unwelcome intruders advancing close by, flying low over the rooftops, casting a dark shadow beneath. After the war, he used to stand there on April 9 with his daughter, he would tell and they would recite the poem together.
The poem 'The Dark Birds Flew' is written by Otto Gelsted.
Gelsted spontaneously wrote the poem about the occupation on April 9, 1940, and in doing so, he put into words the sentiments of those who became the first resistance fighters; the communists.
The German planes over Denmark were supposed to threaten the decision-makers with bombs and ended up throwing flyers with the headline "Oprop!" meaning "Exclamation!", but should have been spelled "Opråb!", down over Denmark. The war planes appeared as dark silhouettes on the bright blue sky.
From 1932, Gelsted was affiliated with the Communist Party's daily newspaper "Arbejderbladet". The party and "Arbejderbladet" were banned at the time of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union on the June 22, 1941. Gelsted then found work at Ekstra Bladet, a legal newspaper, but on October 27, 1943, he had to flee illegally to Sweden, where he lived until the war ended.
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We posted this poem previously and you can read it here 👇
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/05/19/the-dark-birds-flew/
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So not only are ticket prices souring, but parking, public transport and you shouldn't doubt for a moment the thriving hospitality sectors in the USA have added an extra zero or two to their bills.
Who's surprised? Sports in the U.S. are capitalist businesses where you spend hundreds on one game and spend half of it watching advertising of some sort.
Who's surprised? Sports in the U.S. are capitalist businesses where you spend hundreds on one game and spend half of it watching advertising of some sort.
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