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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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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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/
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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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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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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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Appalling stance by the Workers Party repeating the bourgeois rhetoric used in the main stream media to confuse workers who the actual enemy is.
The Workers Party shouted “Stop the wars” with one breath and then parrot the reactionary bile of “Stop the boats” with the next. This is no one's principles, it’s complete opportunism. The Workers Party keeps happily drifting into reactionary lines to chase votes, keen to sell themselves to whatever populism they think will land them a seat in parliament. No backbone or staunch class awareness, just slogans appealing to those who need educating, not further confusion.
Even George Galloway has flipped from staunchly opposing Scottish independence to now campaigning on it when it suits. He says his opinion changes in the 'facts' change. Those facts are of the kind that benefit their electoral campaigns.
This is the problem with opportunism. It lends itself to whatever populist opinion is filling the papers, even if it cuts across the interests of the working class.
You end up with a politics that blames migrants instead of the imperialism that exploits workers home and abroad. Following outfits like this because you agree on one point only drags you into a dead end—where class politics is diluted taking the workers further into the mire.
https://x.com/i/status/2043613491169227100
The Workers Party shouted “Stop the wars” with one breath and then parrot the reactionary bile of “Stop the boats” with the next. This is no one's principles, it’s complete opportunism. The Workers Party keeps happily drifting into reactionary lines to chase votes, keen to sell themselves to whatever populism they think will land them a seat in parliament. No backbone or staunch class awareness, just slogans appealing to those who need educating, not further confusion.
Even George Galloway has flipped from staunchly opposing Scottish independence to now campaigning on it when it suits. He says his opinion changes in the 'facts' change. Those facts are of the kind that benefit their electoral campaigns.
This is the problem with opportunism. It lends itself to whatever populist opinion is filling the papers, even if it cuts across the interests of the working class.
You end up with a politics that blames migrants instead of the imperialism that exploits workers home and abroad. Following outfits like this because you agree on one point only drags you into a dead end—where class politics is diluted taking the workers further into the mire.
https://x.com/i/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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Chelsea is a badly run football club. The corporate model of BlueCo is completely out of sync with English football.
Multi-club ownership is an attempt to create a constant circulation of players, and now even managers—Liam Rosenior being one of the first real examples of a “company manager”. This is alien to how the English game has traditionally worked.
Rosenior wasn’t the norm of signing a manager in the usual sense, but as part of a wider system, aligned to a structure that stretches beyond a single club. That’s the shift. Like the original Premier League project, these multi-club models are imported ideas, modelled on American-style sports ownership, designed to centralise control over players, staff, and development pathways.
What you end up with is a conveyor belt. Players moved where needed, managers slotted in where they fit, all serving the wider interests of the ownership group rather than the club itself. Rosenior wasn’t just managing Chelsea—he was operating within a system that ultimately made him disposable.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7221654/2026/04/23/liam-rosenior-sack-chelsea-why/
Multi-club ownership is an attempt to create a constant circulation of players, and now even managers—Liam Rosenior being one of the first real examples of a “company manager”. This is alien to how the English game has traditionally worked.
Rosenior wasn’t the norm of signing a manager in the usual sense, but as part of a wider system, aligned to a structure that stretches beyond a single club. That’s the shift. Like the original Premier League project, these multi-club models are imported ideas, modelled on American-style sports ownership, designed to centralise control over players, staff, and development pathways.
What you end up with is a conveyor belt. Players moved where needed, managers slotted in where they fit, all serving the wider interests of the ownership group rather than the club itself. Rosenior wasn’t just managing Chelsea—he was operating within a system that ultimately made him disposable.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7221654/2026/04/23/liam-rosenior-sack-chelsea-why/
The Athletic
Inside Liam Rosenior’s 107 days at Chelsea: Squad splits, a strange admission and BlueCo regrets
The shortest managerial spell of the BlueCo ownership ended amid player unrest, fan anger and a dismal run of form
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Video footage emerges from an Israeli telegram channel showing settlers throwing kittens off of the balcony of a Palestinian home that was seized. According to the telegram post, the kittens belong to the Palestinian family.
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Sports Minister Andrea Abodi said such a move would be inappropriate, stressing that “qualification is done on the pitch.”
He added that the proposal—reportedly raised by U.S. Special Envoy for Global Partnerships Paolo Zampolli to FIFA—is neither feasible nor justified.
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Liverpool fans are protesting against further ticket price increases.
Sign the letter sending fans protests to FSG.
Dear John...
https://lfcsb.co.uk/dearjohn
Sign the letter sending fans protests to FSG.
Dear John...
https://lfcsb.co.uk/dearjohn
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Dear John...
Tell John Henry that you don't agree with the plans to increase ticket prices for multiple seasons - sign the letter here
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