Class Struggle

Russell Brand: What’s Really Going On?

It’s fascinating to watch how easy it is for the corporate media’s institutional bias to successfully direct the dumb gaze of the sleepwalkers to its chosen angle so that the parameters of debate are squeezed and narrowed until they include only its own perspective. In this case it’s, ‘is Russell Brand a hypocrite?’
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BSNews at the Save Our Ticket Offices Rally

The following article by BSN editor Alison Banville was published in The Morning Star. A few days ago I joined a large crowd gathered outside the Department of Transport in London. There were ornate union banners being held aloft proudly emblazoned with ‘Manchester RMT’, ‘Liverpool, Branch no 5 est. 1913’, ‘Wigan RMT’ and, most movingly for me as a girl […]
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Imagining Karl Marx as a Private Eye

What If the Co-Author of The Communist Manifesto Would Have Become a Gumshoe? Novelist Jim Feast’s sly alternate history Karl Marx Private Eye (PM Press) somehow manages to bring Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Karl Marx and his youngest daughter together at Karlsbad, Bohemia, in 1875. The author may have chosen to set his whodunit at Karlsbad […]
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The “Principal Threat”: Time to Talk about the Palestinian Class Struggle

On Monday, October 31, Palestinians in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Occupied East Jerusalem, observed a general strike. The strike was declared to be part of the community’s mourning of 49-year-old Barakat Moussa Odeh, who was killed by Israeli forces in Jericho a day earlier. This is not an isolated case. General strikes were […]

The Labour Files: Where is Democracy? Mainstream Media Blackout.

Corporate media silence as biggest leak in British political history reveals it’s implicated with politicians in a scandal of epic proportions. All hell should have broken loose in the last three days as Al Jazeera published in succession three videos of their investigation into leaks from inside the UK Labour Party. What these files reveal should be front page and […]

Trucker’s Protest Canada: Some Thoughts by Cory Morningstar

Truckers protest. Canada Resists. Ottawa, January 29, 2022. The mainstream headlines with “sightings” of Confederate flags (some articles actually state “a flag”, meaning a single sighting) is strategic. It paints Canada as an extension of the Trump “movement” in the United States. To incite disdain and hatred toward the Canadian working class. [Buried in the fine print, CBC, Jan 30, […]

‘Set It All On Fire’: The Answer to Planetary Chaos is Closer Than You Think

First published in New Dawn magazine: ‘Strange days indeed’ sang John Lennon, and one can only ‘imagine’ what a man at the forefront of creating positive planetary change in his day would have made of where we are now? Because these are indeed extraordinary times in which the very foundations of everything we collectively believed to be ‘how things are’ […]

Chris Williamson Interviews Daniel Fooks

Former Labour MP, Chris Williamson, who was suspended from the Labour Party after becoming the victim of an antisemitism smear, recently interviewed renowned artist Daniel Fooks at the Festival Of Resistance in Nottingham. They discuss, among other things, Fooks’ spat with Billy Bragg, Kier Starmer, and vaccine passports. A great watch.
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Being Jewish in North Islington Labour Party

Calling for Jeremy Corbyn’s reinstatement, Lynne Segal looks back on her experience of 40 years as a party member in his constituency It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to write, yet again, about being a Jewish member of the Labour Party in Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency. So let me tell you at once that it has been terrible, almost […]
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