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Posted by: John Phoenix Photo by Chris Lawton On Thursday 26 February 2026, the Gorton and Denton by-election could introduce to UK politics a register of despair not heard in Manchester since Joy Division first turned urban dislocation into sound. “This is the crisis I knew had to come,” sang the late great Ian Curtis, and the line fits too well to ignore. As national coverage now routinely notes, the contest has already escaped from its local cage and become a kind of national proxy war. To be fair to those reports, this is a weakened version of Starmer’s Labour, pitted against Reform and the Greens, sharpened by Labour’s decision to block Andy Burnham, and Reform’s decision to nominate immigration-obsessed Matt Goodwin. Goodwin is himself freshly endorsed by far-ri...

Posted by: John Phoenix While claiming to stand ‘against racism’, Wes Streeting is engaged in a viciously racist campaign against a doctor who opposes genocide. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel The ‘Butcher’s Apron’ is the flag of a bloodthirsty and malevolent class of exploiters that continues to preside over the most horrific colonial as well as local crimes. Those who are appalled by the genocide in Gaza today are starting to realise that this is one in a long string of British imperialist atrocities, and that zionism itself is but a reflection of the extreme supremacism of the British ruling class. Responding to the media furore over the potentially racist comments by new Reform MP Sarah Pochin (after all, quite a few of us fin...

Posted by: John Phoenix Britain has some of the best agricultural land in the world, so why is it that more than one third of the food consumed here is imported? Lalkar writers Subscribe to our  channel By breaking the link between finance capital and our farms, we can address environmental challenges with scientific planning in a way that protects and supports both food security and nutritional needs. The headline figure from a 2024 food security report issued by Defra (the Department for the Environment, Food, Rural and Agricultural affairs), is that only 62 percent of the food consumed in Britain is actually grown here. This is the lowest it has been for some time, having fallen from 80 percent in 1945. To understand what is driving this, and cruci...

Posted by: John Phoenix The example of repression and state criminality in Britain must be used to show the necessity of opposing and dismantling the entire imperialist system. Party statement It is a fact not yet understood by the mass of British workers, even those who are involved in Palestine solidarity, that our own government is not merely somewhat complicit in zionist crimes, but is actively and militarily involved in perpetrating genocidal wars against the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. The role of those who are attempting to bring this truth to the wider population is therefore extremely significant. The following resolution was presented by our party to the international conference of the World Anti-imperialist Platform held in Caracas on 22...

Posted by: John Phoenix While claiming to stand ‘against racism’, Wes Streeting is engaged in a viciously racist campaign against a doctor who opposes genocide. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel The ‘Butcher’s Apron’ is the flag of a bloodthirsty and malevolent class of exploiters that continues to preside over the most horrific colonial as well as local crimes. Those who are appalled by the genocide in Gaza today are starting to realise that this is one in a long string of British imperialist atrocities, and that zionism itself is but a reflection of the extreme supremacism of the British ruling class. Responding to the media furore over the potentially racist comments by new Reform MP Sarah Pochin (after all, quite a few of us fin...

Posted by: John Phoenix Britain has some of the best agricultural land in the world, so why is it that more than one third of the food consumed here is imported? The headline figure from a 2024 report issued by Defra (the Department for the Environment, Food, Rural and Agricultural affairs), is that only 62% of the food consumed here is actually grown here. This is the lowest it has been for some time, falling from 80% in 1945 (1). To understand what is driving this, and crucially how the political economy of capitalist agriculture has necessarily created such a situation, we first need to understand exactly what the figures represent. The 62% is a ‘production to supply ratio’ and there are two things to bear in mind. Firstly it uses the market prices of commodities, this means ...

By: John Phoenix Reform are currently heading opinion polls, with 28% of people indicating their intention to vote for Reform at the next General Election. Of course, the next General Election is not expected until 2029 and opinion polls are designed not as much to gauge opinions as to form them. It could also be argued that Reform’s ‘lead’ in the opinion polls has been manufactured alongside the fomenting of anti-immigrant sentiment to stoke division within the working class. That said, the party’s rise from its small beginnings as a party of resistance against the bureaucracy of the European Union to a potential party of government has been striking, but, given the parlous state of the ruling class’s preferred parties of rule – the Conservatives and Labour (in that order o...