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a-r-s-e.bsky.social
All of us in the working class need to unite into a revolutionary party, take power, expropriate the rich, dismantle the state & create socialism. North Londoner (AFC) in Bristol. MSc Global Political Economy. Rep for Unite the Union. Bi. Disabled. 2 Kids
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I would like to pay tribute to the sacrifice made by all the civilians killed by British/English soldiers since at least the time of the First Crusade

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Fake Names, Fake Medals, Fake Narratives, Fake Titles, Fake People, the only real thing about them sadly is their ruthless & continuous abuse of our society! Encourage people not to cheer for their own subjugation! The monarchy has to be removed. #ByAllPeacefulMeansNecessary #DownWithTheCrown

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People who only read Volume 1 often see Marxism as simply being about recognising the fact of surplus value existing It can therefore lead people to accept capitalism, so long as workers have relatively high wages & a "safety net", without acknowledging its crisis tendencies & general instability

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He claims he displays a Ukraine flag but no Palestine flag because he thinks that how Russia treated Ukrainians in Bucha (a year before 7/10/2023) is AS BAD as how Israel treats Palestinans & that all Ukrainians in occupied territory are treated the same as those in Bucha Evidence? A bluesky post

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

@anselleade.substack.com I'd be interested in your thoughts on this, since I believe it was something you had argued might be the first step towards eventually creating a multi-tendency mass party in which the existing sects would become public factions How might that transformation come about?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Interestingly, last night I saw that TUSC have decided to formally write to both the Socialist Workers Party & Revolutionary Communist Party asking them to join I can't see an excuse for them not to This would be a big step towards uniting the UK Left & should be welcomed even by non-Trotskyists

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I made pancakes for breakfast to make up for the disastrous ones last night Might just eat them every day of lent! For American readers: Pancakes in the UK are not considered breakfast food Celebrating the day before lent starts with "mardi gras" carnivals would be too sexy, so we make pancakes

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Same goes for Starmer supporters, Macron supporters, contemporary German SPD supporters, etc, etc

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Of course Russia isn't invading Ukraine to end capitalism But the West is defending Ukraine in order to defend the interests of the Western capitalist classes against Russian capitalist interests They're not motivated by ideals of justice or democracy, or else they would also support Palestine etc

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Quick thread about "cannon fodder" The West's preparedness to see Ukrainian soldiers get slowly ground down in a war of attrition just to "slow down" Russia, whilst knowing a final victory was impossible without using resources they didn't want to, is nothing new Look at their strategy in WW2 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Trump: Let's admit that Ukraine's war aims are not realistic so that we can support Israel's completely unrealistic war aims instead Socialists: It's good that there may be peace in Ukraine but we need to keep fighting US Imperialism Liberals: Be realistic about Ukraine? Fuck you, Putin-lover!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Idk everyone went to fucking Qatar and they had very obvious slavery.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Yesterday I met a fellow trades-unionist who said: "I don't get when you see people in the UK protesting about things in other countries, like Palestine. Why don't they go there to protest?" We have a lot of fucking work to do in order to create a class-conscious, internationalist workers movement

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People now talk about the EU countries "realising" that "America doesn't have our best interests at heart" They never had our best interests at heart! The EU & NATO were set up to "contain the threat of communism" - even though the USSR wasn't "true communism" it still inspired workers elsewhere

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

If the revolutionary Left, who are not loyal to the interests of our own nation-states but rather those of the global working class, don't have our own political party but rather capitulate to those who support imperialism & militarism, no-one will be there to argue against the drive to endless War

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I cannot recall a government in my lifetime making such loud, consistent noises at home about how desperately skint we apparently are whilst pledging literal billions for slaughter overseas

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The only way I can try to make sense of this is through 'linkages': sometimes a factory owned by a massive corporation can still helps small businesses in the area: local tradespeople, truck drivers, food places etc Sometimes they don't! Such a weak argument that Starmer doesn't even spell it out

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

(I am no economist but) I find it odd and strikingly post-Thatcher British to try and run a ~Kaleckian last-phase arms economy through the deindustrialised economic infrastructure of small business.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Those of us in the UK who consider ourselves to be Revolutionary Socialists but who don't reject using "bourgeois elections" for revolutionary purposes, need to come together as one organisation with a shared strategy We may then decide to seek alliances with certain reformists, or we might not 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you come from the socialist left and criticize liberals the libs will immediately throw you on the right. They try to make a Nazi out of you. Libs, who murdered a million Ukraini and genocided babies, women and the elderly. They still can’t hear the truth. It’s always about liberals feel.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

When I was 14, I saw Britain go to war with Afghanistan because Saudi terrorists attacked the US When I was 15 we invaded Iraq, because their bombs could reach ISRAEL in 45 mins (not the UK, that was a lie) When I was 17, terrorists bombed London What is done for "Our Security" makes us less safe

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