Engels (and Marx) recognised how the Industrial Revolution in the UK led to millions of peasants migrating to towns and cities to work in factories
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Raphael Samuel – The Lost World of British Communism Exposed
Raphael Samuel is writing as a bourgeois historian who has fully accepted and endorsed the capitalist status quo, but who maintains a ‘nostalgia’ for what he considers a lost past. Samuel seeks to draw the reader into this inverted would of bourgeois illogicality whereby what he thinks about the CPGB (and International Communism) is the only viewpoint of the world worth having.
Lenin: Steptoe and Son
A statue of ‘Lenin’ appears in the 1972 episode of the British comedy ‘Steptoe and Son’, entitled ‘Live Now – P.A.Y.E Later’. I also remember
What We Have Become…
When I was young and at school (and before the destructive Thatcherite reforms), it was common-place to learn about ‘homelessness’ as something that existed during
The View from Inside a Privatised NHS
The way things work in the UK is like this. Those who are ‘salaried’ and work in middle class professions are quite happy to accept
New Labour’s Old Racism
As far as I am concerned, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois entity that has been guilty of peddling not only racism in the past, but also anti-Soviet propaganda.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 