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Posted by: John Phoenix As the rising numbers of working poor and unemployed and the rapidly increasing cost of necessaries (food, clothing, housing, utilities) can no longer be contained by Britain’s dwindling social safety net, our bourgeois media are forced to acknowledge the existence of a deep cost of living crisis. How do they portray the misery of existence of the working class without pointing the figure at its root cause – capitalism? They don’t! Their tactics are threefold: reinforce the alleged failure of the only alternative system – socialism; create conflict between sections of the working class so blame is inwardly facing (racism) and expose the powerlessness of the bourgeois state to solve the contradictions of the capitalist system. Only one of their tactics is...

Posted by: John Phoenix Britain’s economy is in the world’s largest top ten.  Its GDP is about £3,22tn, amounting to about £48,000 per capita.  There are estimated to be 31.5 million households in the UK, meaning that GDP per household would amount to some £122,000.    Average income per household is in the region of £40,000. It sounds very comfortable, but of course the reality is very different. Inequality of distribution The inequality inherent in the way Britain’s national income is distributed, as evidenced by Britain’s gini coefficient standing (officially) at 0.36, is startling. If wealth distribution were perfectly equal the gini coefficient would be 0, and if all the country’s wealth belonged to a single person it would be 1.  The to...

Posted by: John Phoenix As British imperialism slides further into crisis, its political leaders try to cover up this decline by making ever more grandiose pronouncements as to their ability to still “project power” into the world. The declarations made by Sir Keir Starmer regarding his willingness to send British forces to Ukraine should be seen in this light. Since it became clear that the Ukraine war was sliding towards an ignominious defeat for the Nato-backed forces of the Kiev regime, the US under the Trump administration has been trying to play a double game. On the one hand it has been engaging the Russians in negotiations and talking about ‘restoring relations’ with them. On the other it has been pushing the Europeans to (effectively) carry on with the ever-escalating ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Kemi Badenoch has said Kiev is fighting Russia on behalf of Western Europe, and Israel’s war against Hamas serves London’s interests Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch © Getty Images / Peter Nicholls Israel’s military operation against Hamas is a “proxy war” being waged on behalf of the UK, British Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed. In an interview with Sky News on Sunday, Badenoch commented on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent claim that the UK, France, and Canada are on “the wrong side of humanity” for trying to pressure his country to end its campaign in the Palestinian enclave. She dismissed the widely held belief that Israel’s actions in Gaza ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nearly 50 people were injured when a vehicle ploughed through pedestrians in the UK Emergency services transport an injured person after a car collided with pedestrians in Liverpool, England, May 26, 2025. ©  Getty Images The ramming of a car into a crowd of football fans in Liverpool on Monday, in which at least 47 people were injured, was likely not a terrorist attack, Merseyside Police have said. The car ploughed through Liverpool Football Club’s Premier League victory parade on downtown Water Street. Police said the driver, a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area, has been detained. “It is vital that people do not speculate or spread misinformation on social media,” Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Jenny Sims to...

Posted by: John Phoenix As the rising numbers of working poor and unemployed and the rapidly increasing cost of necessaries (food, clothing, housing, utilities) can no longer be contained by Britain’s dwindling social safety net, our bourgeois media are forced to acknowledge the existence of a deep cost of living crisis. How do they portray the misery of existence of the working class without pointing the figure at its root cause – capitalism? They don’t! Their tactics are threefold: reinforce the alleged failure of the only alternative system – socialism; create conflict between sections of the working class so blame is inwardly facing (racism) and expose the powerlessness of the bourgeois state to solve the contradictions of the capitalist system. Only one of their tactics is...