Class Consciousness Project

Three years, 37 national demonstrations and millions of protesters. Britain’s working class has demonstrated its opposition to genocide. But while the bourgeois media works to conceal the strength of that opposition, the question remains: how do we turn the energy that has fuelled three years of protests into effective action to stop the war machine? https://thecommunists.org/2026/11/07/news/millions-march-for-palestine-war-machine-marches-on/

❗️International dockworkers launch historic global strike across 100 ports to blockade arms shipments Dockworkers spanning more than 100 strategic ports across Europe, West Asia, and North Africa initiated a mass international strike and day of mobilization to halt arms transfers. Organized by a coalition of over 25 maritime labor unions in 22 countries—including primary labor syndicates in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkiye, and Morocco—the coordinated action targets key maritime infrastructure to block the movement of weapons, ammunition, and military cargo. The strike action has halted or severely disrupted logistics operations across major European and Mediterranean transit hubs, including Marseille, Le Havre, Genoa, Trieste, and Piraeus. In a joint declaration released by participating unions, including France’s CGT ports federation, Italy’s Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), and Greece’s ENEDEP, labor leaders condemned the conversion of commercial ports into hubs for imperialist war machine logistics. ENEDEP President Markos Bekris declared during demonstrations at the Port of Piraeus: "Ports must not be used for the transport of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and troops. Dockworkers do not work for war!" Endorsed by 17 Palestinian trade unions and the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the historic mobilization marks an unprecedented labor blockade aimed at choking off military supply lines. With over 90 percent of Israeli international trade and military procurement moving by sea, union organizers emphasized that organized labor is taking direct action to enforce international law and humanitarian embargoes where western governments have actively refused to halt the arming of Israel.

Sick Chirpse recently reported that Ryan Ferguson, the racist little reactionary dwarf, was refused fuel at a petrol station in Liverpool. The staff member reportedly told him: "I know who you are and I know what you stand for." An act of defiance as simple as this demonstrates something far more powerful than two groups shouting at each other across the street. It demonstrates the power of class consciousness in practice. Reactionaries like Ferguson thrive on attention and division. Their purpose is to turn workers against one another, directing the anger of the working class towards immigrants and minorities rather than the capitalist class responsible for the destruction of their material conditions. They rely on publicity, intimidation and the illusion that they represent ordinary working people. But they are powerless without the very working class they seek to divide. We should refuse to normalise their politics, legitimise their propaganda or allow those reactionaries any oxygen within our communities. The strength of the working class lies not simply in its numbers, but in its organisation, solidarity and understanding of its own class interests. A conscious and organised working class has no need for these reactionaries, but the capitalist system has every reason to employ these hateful figures to sow division in our communities. When workers recognise their collective power and learn to use it, no amount of reactionary propaganda can substitute for the material strength of an organised class.

That is how a country that looks after its workers acts. It does not stand in the way of progress, at the same time he doesn't allow any such progress to be detrimental to the workers.

Did China BAN replacing humans with AI? Not exactly—but what actually happened is a massive win for workers' rights. Chinese courts just set a huge precedent. They ruled that companies cannot fire employees or slash their pay just because they adopted AI or automation. In a landmark case, a tech company automated a quality assurance worker's job, cut his salary by 40%, and fired him when he refused the demotion. The court stepped in and declared the termination completely illegal.

In France, the number of people without money to buy food has exceeded 7 million (more than 13% of the population). Purchasing power is decreasing year after year. Long lines of young people are queuing at food banks, according to PressTV. ⚡️Two Majors

Actually, STFU! Is it just me or are people who say the word actually in every other sentence irritating pompous twats? They seem to think it adds force to their points “Actually” is one of those words people seem to think makes them sound more authoritative, as though sticking it in front of every other point somehow gives it extra weight. Usually, it just makes them sound like pompous know-alls. “Actually, I think you’re wrong.” “Actually, it’s quite simple.” “Actually, that’s not what happened.” You can take the word out and lose absolutely nothing. It doesn’t make an opinion any more intelligent, an argument any stronger, or the person speaking any more right. All it does is give an ordinary sentence a faintly smug, condescending edge, as if they’re constantly correcting the world and putting the rest of us straight. Occasionally “actually” is perfectly legitimate. But when it crops up in every other sentence, it starts to sound less like a useful word and more like an (ad)verbal tic belonging to someone who’s rather too impressed with their own opinions. Notice how many offenders are terribly well-spoken Guardian-reading liberals, many possessing Islington addresses, with an entitled sense of moral superiority. A high concentration of these arsewipes can be found wandering the corridors of the Palace of Westminster. By Ian Foster.

Capitalism needs hyper-individualism to survive. It thrives on division, breaking down communities, destroying class unity and convincing us that we are individuals constantly competing against each other rather than members of the same class with shared interests. But here's the contradiction. Everything is social. From the things we produce to the things we consume, nothing exists without collective labour and social activity. Every factory, every building, every product we purchase is the result of workers endeavours. Capitalism depends on social production while encouraging individualism. It relies on the collective labour of millions while allowing a tiny minority to privately appropriate the wealth they create. And this is why capitalism can never overcome its own contradictions. The ruling class needs its class enemy to survive, but here's the thing. The working class has no need for the ruling class. We produce everything. They merely leech off our labour like parasites. The Class Consciousness Project

On October 10, a Socialist Republican activist was arrested at a Demonstration for Palestine in London. The Metropolitan Police made about 20 arrests that day. Bans on face coverings from Britain’s 2022 protest bill were enforced. The bail conditions given were highly politicised. Standard bail conditions concern travel in particular areas and association with other arrestees. In this case, those arrested received more bail conditions explicitly banning participation in protests in support of Palestine. The comrade will be arrested if they "encourage" a Palestine protest or attend a Palestine-related "gathering". These conditions were applied across multiple police stations for a variety of spurious charges. The bail conditions also ban attending protests in support or organised by Palestine Action. Many arrests that day had nothing to do with Palestine Action. This is an explicit attempt to apply "terrorist" charges to all protest for Palestine. British Imperialism wants to win back the precedent set during the cases of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4, where British courts could not defend false "terrorist" accusations. The use of these tactics demonstrate the weakness of the British state in the face of anti-imperialist movements. Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland condemn the use of counter-insurgency tactics against the Palestine movement and call for the release of political prisoners.

🚨Protesters Demand The Closure Of A Elbit Systems Factory In Bristol, UK The pro-Palestine demonstrators organised the protest against Israel’s top weapons firm, which supplies the Israeli military with the weapons it uses to commit genocide. Despite taking limited measures against settlements, the U.K. Labour government continues to allow to sale of weapons components to Israel & allows Elbit Systems to operate out of the country.

Nearly half of all US active-duty troops oppose war on Iran: Poll The findings mirror a broader collapse in support for the war, as Trump’s approval falls to a record low ahead of the midterms

“The Bankruptcy of Social Fascism. By its daily role in the class struggle Social Fascism shows itself to be the road, not to Socialism but to the still deeper enslavement of the workers. The Social Fascist method of obscuring the capitalist policy under the guise of Socialism is an insidious menace.”

- William Z. Foster - Toward Soviet America (1932)

From the October edition of our industry matters freesheet, The Spark: • Trade unions go to war on women Unison claimed that 600 members had written to its head office to give examples of how the ‘unacceptable’ guidance on protecting women was unworkable in practice. It did not, of course, mention the fact that these letters had been explicitly solicited from the membership via a high-profile internal head office campaign, or that those who wrote represent just 0.046 percent of the union’s (overwhelmingly female) membership. Also includes articles on: • TUC 'windfall tax' proposals • GMB branch secretaries dispute • Britain's inexorable industrial decline Read online or download the paper as a pdf https://thecommunists.org/2026/10/01/leaflets/the-spark-trade-unions-war-on-women-industrial-decline/