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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/06/gwhf-j06.htmlUK Labour government refuses to pay pension compensation to millions of women
< […] Starmer said, “The taxpayer simply cannot afford the tens of billions of pounds in compensation when the evidence does show that 90 percent of those impacted did know about it [changes to pensions]. That is because of the state of our economy.”>>2105321I hate this liberal bullshit because "Asian" is a deliberately broad category that throws in everyone from Asia as well as the Middle East into one unholy conglomeration too broad to be useful as a category.
The Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. are dragging down the crime stats since they don't do anything. If this was narrowly focused on specifically identifying Middle-Eastern countries it would be more interesting and prove a point.
>>2105321The towns where this shit happens are like 60% asian though. Using a UK-wide metric when ethnic minority populations are concentrated into small areas is retarded.
>>2105329Agreed. The Chinese don't deserve to be lumped in with these "people".
>If this was narrowly focused on specifically identifying Middle-Eastern countries it would be more interesting and prove a point.Denmark actually does that and the numbers are fucking insane. They call them "MENAPTs" (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Türkiye).
I suspect other European countries (including ourselves) refrain from this methodology because, as you say, it could prove a point and force us to ask some uncomfortable questions.
>>2105338>Ethiopia, Kuwait, Jordan have the most criminal convictions in Denmarkfucking lol
So when the BBC talks about "Asian Grooming Gangs" who's mind would immediately jump to countries like those? Tbh I think this is a soft propaganda tactic by Anglos to mentally program their dumbass citizens against China and to a lesser extent Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea, even though it's not them committing crimes.
>>2105397Read a fucking book that isn´t Harry Potter
Before you call them angels, one of them went around whipping people by telling them they "aren´t being empathetic enough"
Yeah uygha, being empathetic means telling people they don´t have enough Empathy. Real Buddha moment.
>>2105368>>2105386Daddy Elon Dittman sends his regards
>You treat conversations like power gamesIronic coming from a imageboard anon.
>>2105398Ghettos filled with cheap labor without rights have high crime rate to justify pogroms.
>>2105401You are fighting with ghosts. No one said nothign about empathy here. Back to reddit.
>>2105404The ghosts that are in your fucking head, as I said I wanted to complain
Under the deep suspicion now that those who go around with the appellation of 'feminist' are anything but. It is a kind of bourgeois politic in which the prognosis given for both personal and social ills are flattened to the dimension of the individual with no capacity to escape into a dialogue more significant than cultural taste
I'm clearly talking to myself here, but as a rule I never speak about politics in any social setting. The moment you begin to, you allow through the engrained dialogue of the indiviudal you are talking to the capacity to entertain shared fantasy structures in which you simply negotiate like businessmen the terms on which you plan to agree and disagree - the latter of course never coming to pass because disagreement is disconcord and our almighty Buddhas do not deign to such a disgraceful act.
>>2105411Yes mate jealous of somebody who thinks swimming in sub zero temperatures is a form of therapy and another who wears dungarees and plays board games.
>>2105368This narrative ignores the fact that policing and tacking crime in general has been shit and steadily getting worse for decades. Child sex rings are a very emotive crime and that many of the groups are Muslims are good to direct people away from this fact towards conspiracy theories, but the abuse was allowed to continue for the same reason thefts/rapes/stabbings and all the other crimes plaguing this nation never get discussed let alone solved.
There's no profit in policing so obviously it gets run with the same level of enthusiasm by the capitalist state as British Leyland, obviously doing policing correctly is costly and all it achieves is a feeling of safety for people which, bleh, who gives a fuck about that? Whereas if you let crime go utterly out of control, you save a shit load of cash you can direct to your friends, you can claim there's no choice but for greater policing powers for those few stations that still exist, harsher sentences across the board naturally including crimes that the state actually cares about (basically just crimes against property) and of course the total erosion of privacy in this nation.
>>2105495>>2105483Yea they're always heavy handed on Solstice at henge.
Jumped up little freaks wanting their own little battle of the beanfield
It's why I don't go anymore.
>>2105348>>2105329According to the NSPCC, 1/3 to 1/2 of sexual abuse instances reported to police were against children, and anywhere between 1/3 and 3/4 of child sexual abuse reports were of children abusing other children. According to the statistics I have access to, there were 17,486 reports of Child Sexual Exploitation, which is what happened in Rotheram and Rochdale, in England and Wales in the year ending March 2022. I can't find what percentage of that consists of actual grooming gangs, however. According to the same source, there were 62,233 reports of child sexual abuse in England and Wales combined in 2022/23, so assuming nothing changed between those two years, 27% of CSA reports in England and Wales involve CSE.
I suspect figures would look different if you divided reports up by the nature of the crime, but unfortunately, lots of adolescents report being assaulted by peers too.
>Gewirtz-Meydan and Finkelhor’s 2020 study of a representative sample of 0- to 17-year-olds in the USA found that other children and young people were responsible for 76.7% of recorded sexual abuse and assault offences against boys and 70.1% of recorded sexual abuse and assault offences against girls.>Radford et al’s 2011 study of child maltreatment in the UK found that 65.9% of contact sexual abuse reported by under 18-year-olds was carried out by other children and young people under the age of 18.This latest thing is just the Tories trying to stir up a culture war around an emotive issue. It's Save the Children without the references to adrenochrome.
>>2105972And this is how your government wishes to communicate with you from now on: pictures of anthropomorphised animals and slogan like non-sequiturs
Sort of reaches back to Althusser's example of interpolation when he says that one only perceives their existence through its own demonstration - the government engaging in a form of culturally brain dead advertising on TikTok in order to reinforce the apriori legitimation of its existence.
Would love to have seen what Mark Fisher would have made of this shit. It's the complete commodification of social relations led by Stalinist-tier marketing propaganda
>>2106133I've read Capital and numerous Marxist texts.
We shouldn't be banning people who criticise Marxists for being overly dense in their language. It's a valid criticism.
>>2106176Something I find interesting is the split in the Anglo-American elite Bloc about whether Indians are white or not.
Suspect that it will end with AA elites somehow sticking their oars in and helping to reproduce the caste system with a divide between "good" and "bad" Indians, etc.
‘Flat packing them’: soldier says SAS described killing Afghans in casual way
Inquiry hears elite forces had a ‘kill all males on target whether they posed a threat or not’ policy in Afghanistan
Afghans who were killed by members of the SAS in Afghanistan were described dismissively as having been “flat packed” according to revealing testimony given by a former member of the elite force’s sister unit to a public inquiry.
The soldier, known only as N1799, said he had been party to a conversation with a member of the SAS in 2011 who had served in Afghanistan, in which he had been “shocked by the age and methods” used to kill Afghans.
N1799 told his superiors at the time that he believed the SAS had a policy in Afghanistan to “kill all males on target whether they posed a threat or not” – but in his evidence to the inquiry he said what he had heard in person was “more graphic”.
Asked to explain what he meant by Oliver Glasgow, the counsel to the inquiry, the soldier said that “words that have been used about killing were like ‘flat packing’, ‘flat packing them’” because the conversation was informal, among colleagues.
At another point the SAS member – known only as N1201 – told N1799, while on a training course, that “a pillow had been put over the head of someone before they had been killed with a pistol” during operations in Afghanistan.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/08/flat-packing-them-soldier-says-sas-described-killing-afghans-in-casual-way>>2107179Pubs are empty because its jan but honestly there is a depression coming if trump passes the 10% tariff.
Google "National Unemployed Workers Movement".
Lynch is retiring, anons and Dempsey is going to be up for leadership.
If he wins how will having /ourguy/, a proper Marxist, in charge of the RMT potentially change things?
>>2107292>Pubs are empty because its jan but honestly there is a depression coming if trump passes the 10% tariff. Eh, the bigger issue is people in trades struggling and muttering about a recession, they tend to understand as the building industry is always one of the first hit bad.
>>2109610What to?
>>2109663Do something practical like accounting or electronic engineering. Anything but history, never do history.
>>2109668Why history?
>>2109676Was thinking Law actually
>>2109697No clue; I doubt I'll do a degree in politics with them because it just seems to focus on institutional concepts and provides a completely superficial glean to political philosophy, Likewise their history course looks torturous because they have no module choices and the second year focuses on the long ninteenth century.
It's either law which I'd be exceedingly fucking good at, or one of their newer computing courses (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence). Their law degree includes the SQE so I'd be able to pursue a training contract, but competition is fucking fierce and training contracts only admit applicants two or three years in advance, so the degree itself would only be useful in so far as I plan to pursue that, in which case you're in a hiring pool of Russel Group grads who are ten years younger than you and applying for the same entry level positions you are (paralegals) - which sounds suicidal, doubly so considering companies are going to be aiming to automate these roles ASAP.
I dropped out of an International Politics degree (not IR - not the same thing) so in a few months I may change my mind and decide that I'd like to do wind up doing a masters in Political Economy and return to studying something meaningful. The OU offers a PPE course but it's absolutely braindead, so the best route in the end may simply be a history degree.
I'm 30 and have been at the point where I've seen and faced those who never move into a position of financial security, so throwing what little care I have out the window for potentially writing some arcane research thesis proposal on 21st century deleuzian subjectivity, and simply going "yeah solicitors make decent money" sounds attractive.
>>2109715Do whatever your gut tells you to do just don't expect to be on decent money after graduation. Hard work and effort isn't rewarded in this country. Anyway you seem to have a good assessment of your options so I'm sure you'll make the right decision.
I would've liked to do PPE at university. I wish I had studied harder at school and got there but my head was fucked even at that age.
>>2110031>What makes you say that lmaoI think he's just making the point that it has a VERY left wing membership.
I know for example Dempsey in the past has personally attempted to bring people with radical politics in.
Incidentally, it was kind of ironic that the HBO drama Chernobyl managed to present the prosecution of the management of the NPP as somewhat unfair and unjust, because it present an idealist angle where individuals are being blamed for what the "system created, man", like the people on trial were just a bunch of dumb fall guys when it should be communism itself on trial!
I dunno what the point that show was ultimately making other than just, "communism bad" I guess, but intentionally or not, that court scene basically justifies the reality of the UK and the US where people we'd consider responsible for this or that fuck up aren't actually to be put on trial since the issue is 'systemic' and thus rather than prison sentences there needs to be inquiries, plans of actions, task forces, public apologies from representatives of "the system" until people just get bored of hearing about the disaster.
>>2110456Never upper management, investors, owners or profiteers though. If that situation gets proven as a systemic issue where Letby had been falsely accused of responsibility as part of a cover up, then none of the people responsible for either ignoring the systemic issues for personal benefit or people covering up the the results of systemic issues will get hauled into a court, much less prosecuted.
It will just be agreed that it's the result of the regular internal incentives of capitalism and bureaucracy actually having a negative outcome in this
specific and isolated case where obviously the individuals couldn't know to avoid the "systemic compulsion" to be malicious self-serving cunts for a change, so we must have an inquiry over how this specific and isolated case occurred and come up with some guidance to avoid this very unique scenario should it ever appear in this very specific way again.
In the case of Chernobyl, the NPP's management weren't, despite the implication the HBO show made, compelled to mismanage their staff and break standard operating procedure that then resulted in the destruction of the reactor by systemic issues. They did it for wholly personal reasons and they were sentenced thusly, something that will never happen in the UK/US because of that desire to frame
>Want Promotion>Consciously over-promise to get it>Break protocol and risk the safety of others to achieve whatever was promised>It goes tits up and people have been killed/injured/imprisoned over itAs though suddenly the individual is no longer a creature of self-actualisation, but rather a victim of the collective system we call society that compelled them in a drone-like manner to risk sacrifices for others, purely for their own benefit. So while what they did was wrong, it's more of a professional failure that requires perhaps a hearing and maybe a request for their resignation, but not criminal wrongdoing because "they were just doing their job" as misguided as they apparently turned out to be.
That's obviously bollocks and that's why the USSR, and most of the AES states sentence punished this harshly, even by death.
>>2110567I mean this article highlights lots of other evidence, overwhelmingly so
>>2110508And the reason given for why some of the evidence isn't quality is because she was "stressed"
>Police searches of Letby’s house and belongings after her first arrest in July 2018 uncovered several adhesive notes believed to have been handwritten by Letby. These notes contained messages such as: “I AM EVIL, I DID THIS,” “I killed them on purpose because I am not good enough,” “HATE” and “WHY ME? I haven’t done anything wrong.” >>2110031So basically the RMT doesn't have a Blarite wing, it's Broad Left is mostly CP and Blue Laboury types and the other side is made up of a loose coalition of the different Trot Parties and random non political loonatics. Dempsey is a Broad Left guy so will be painted as the right wing candidate by the AWL etc.
>>2110055Wouldn't know what you are talking about mate ;) but if anyone does fancy a job on the railway…
>>2110686I worked with homeless for a long time too.
It's stressfull work with a high turnover and ever increasing 'client' list with ever increasing funding cuts, i hope you're managing okay.
>>2110728Lol this would not get a conviction anywhere else…. If it's so strong evidence why do we need to bring statistical analysis into the courts?
>>2110741>but if anyone does fancy a job on the railway…I was actually unironically considering attempting to train into something railway related for the security of the work, problems is though i'm a bit older now so i'll be older than any other newly trained application and i have a criminal record. :(
>>2110937>It's stressfull work with a high turnover and ever increasing 'client' list with ever increasing funding cuts, i hope you're managing okay.As an aside i DESPISE this new-labour tier shite of every public service in this country changing to stuff like this.
Even in hospitals for a while they were trialling i think 'customers' or 'clients' not 'patients'. it's fucking absurd. part of me thinks it's to subconsciously break barriers to further privatisation.
https://archive.is/bm2YoTech giants told UK online safety laws ‘not up for negotiation’
<Senior cabinet minister promises not to dilute new measures despite Zuckerberg’s attacks on countries ‘censoring’ contentJist of the article is with Trumps ascension and the ingratiation of the tech giants into his court, any capacity for the British government to act in favour of its own legislation is severely hindered by the political leverage the US will now have over Starmer's initative to curtail and impose restrictions on these companies and their platforms.
Free Speech Endures my fellow Facebook boomers ✊🏼
>>2111127>What type of work you considering, might be able to give you a hand?Not sure really, in that I was going to just cross-reference what is in demand and what training would be required, to ascertain what is viable for me.
Currently on the sick because of circumstance, but before that i did mostly physical labour anything else is a fair while back.
>>2111744Allegedly we have a track record of helping people with decent politics get jobs, obviously there's a certain expectation that they go to branch meetings and get involved with campaigns etc. This something that might be of interest?
I've been toying with the idea of seeing if there are any anons on here that might want a job, but I'm not sure if I'll get much take up or if I'll just end up with a load of trot wreckers.
>>2111798>Allegedly we have a track record of helping people with decent politics get jobs, obviously there's a certain expectation that they go to branch meetings and get involved with campaigns etc. This something that might be of interest? Yes, but not currently as i'm still on the sick, but that will not be for to much longer, later this year i hope.
>>2111881>Rent has nothing to do with communism.Who the fuck cares? Tenants unions have proven to be relatively successful, both in what they set out to do and to funnelling people in to the wider left.
>>2111971A number of factors.
First answer would have been that international students face visa restrictions on the amount of hours they can work, and most get part time jobs to earn whilst here so if you live in a city there'll be labour saturation.
From the other end, those who can afford to work part time are likely in the right circumstances in order to do so and may be moving down from full time employment, so you have yet more movement from another angle.
The root cause is that there are probably less part time jobs going in general. You won't find a store offering part time hours on a fixed contract for two positions when they could easily fill it with just one.
>>2112002>>2112002I think you're correct. I hate this anon. I'm unable to work a full time 40hr/wk job without going psychotic due to my mental health. I am looking for a way to strive out and move into a place of my own but it's seemingly unlikely.
I have hope I'll find something, and not end up dead. I think the future is bright I just need to find something part time and easy.
>>2112279Hi anon,
I saw this post a little late. But I'm worried about you. Do you want to talk further? It's good to have someone you can speak to? You seem to be in an emotionally charged state and I'd be a bad person if I didn't step in and offer a shoulder to cry on.
>>2115133this was a bad example because some peoples job is actually embroidery lmao my bad.
Swap it out "arse scratchers union"
>>2112676>Are we just that well bought off with treats?Nah there's just that many more vectors for the state and bourgeoisie to form a conducive-to-capitalism world view. Back in the early 20th century TVs, Radios and Red Top newspapers weren't as mainstream as they are now, thus people tended to get their awareness of the world from the people around them to create a consensus on their material conditions and how they should be improved.
Even with Radio, TV and Newspapers going mainstream by the mid-20th century, these were all openly run by organisations and people could still express a level of scepticism over how the world view they espouse isn't necessarily the way the world actually is, but in the 21st century people are getting their world view off of social media that people think are coming from just other regular people.
In a sense people think the accounts they follow on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook is the same as the case in the early 20th century where they're just coming to a consensus with other regular people around them, despite how obviously influenced that consensus is by the fact the state and corporations have a lot of accounts and advertising and think tanks operating on those platforms.
>>2112296i hope he actually DOES shit outside his union other than complain
all Lynch did was bitch and moan endlessly about shit everybody already knows and agrees is bad, like nhs privitasation, neo lib starmer, tories, ect and did jack shit to actually organise people outside his union.
if he actually used his superstardom to actually get more people into TUC or making more famous again, or hell started a new workers party with several other people like corbyn (just as if not more bloody useless) then wed actually see some change
FUCK MICK, and fuck the people who hate him only for nonsense reasons, like being mad that they need to rescheduale a train or some shit
>>2115494Seriously. Armchairism has taken over the lefty.
>I have read all the books(he hasn't read any of them but knows how to search for keywords)>my spurious interpretation of this text that has no relation to the topic at hand says you are wrong and that doing things is bad!>my spurious interpretation also says this thing, these people, this dog, is bourgeois This is just another nerd hobby for these people to have inane meaningless arguments about like it was MLP or 40k or whatever stupid IP.
>>2115725>over/under do you mean tldr? cant be bothered to write it all but important parts are hes (reform and nigel) screaming all the same things as the tories have been for 8 years but are able to hide behind the fact they arent in gov when they cant fufill the nonsense populist promises as opposed to tories who couldnt do the same because they were in power.
reform doesnt really matter, nigel has tripped on his dick numerous times, appeared on a fucking russian talk show, is an isreali shill but knows to keep his mouth shut and eventually hes gonna do something so catastrophically stupid that his not going to be able to jump ship and make another right wing party while leaving him mates to hold the bag
>>2115770they are eh. ive heard unsavoury things about them but most i can say from experience is that they are now pushing this image of themselves as hardcore communists and dedicated revolutionaries when they are literally split from the militant in the 80s because most of the party after being kicked out of labour recognised that labour was dead under Neil Kinnock and had no real revolutionary potential for the working class where as they (calling themselsves the socialist appeal) made a whole case as to why they had to stick with labour
tldr they all the way through 2021 to 24 called on workers, comrades and unions to support and vote for Starmer and now are pretending they didnt
>>2115770>>2115816Are they even the same party?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_of_Britain_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)Wikipedia says this is their website:
https://www.rcpbml.org.uk/This site:
https://communist.red/Doesn't even have an about us page. Any organization without an about us page that doesn't give names of who actually runs the org is immediately sus to me. I would hardly trust to buy from a business that didn't have that kind of info available.
>>2115770They're what socialist appeal renamed themselves to a year ago as part of their parent organisation's (International Marxist Tendency) rebranding at the Revolutionary Communist International as part of their 'open turn' abandoning entryism in favour of independent organising.
They're a Grantite trotskyist tendency. I generally find everything they say alright and like reading their articles, like Alan Woods and stuff, but have generally been put off by them historically having been an almost entirely student-based organisation, still better than any other trots in the UK other than maybe CPGB-PCC.
>>2115827No, they're more claiming the heritage of this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1944)And their about us page is under the links tab. Also check out
https://marxist.com/ which is really the main website.
>>2115858>And their about us page is under the links tab.Terrible organization. Links is where you link to other websites.
https://communist.red/about-us/>We are not just a Britain-based party, we are the British section of the Revolutionary Communist International.https://communist.red/about-us/#what-is-the-revolutionary-comm>Internationalism is in the DNA of Marxism. That’s why the RCP is not just a Britain-based party; we are the British section of the Revolutionary Communist International.>The RCI has sections and groups in 36 countries, on every continent in the world: from Austria to Australia, Bangladesh to Brazil, Colombia to Czechia, and from South Africa to Sweden.<Our largest sections are in Britain, Canada, the United States, and Pakistan – but we are growing rapidly everywhere! Our membership has doubled in the past two years, as more young people than ever seek revolutionary ideas.>What’s more, we publish a daily international website, marxist.com, alongside our quarterly theoretical journal In Defence of Marxism, which is translated into ten languages.So they claim that they are really all just chapters of an umbrella organization. These are the only ones they link to on that page:
https://communistusa.org/https://www.marxist.ca/http://www.marxist.pk/Still no actual information of who is running this thing and how it's officially structured. Very sussy. Every socialist org seems to do this. I want transparency before I fuck with any org.
>Who is in charge?>How is the actual command structure?>How many members do you have?No need to be THAT secretive. I'm sure the glowies already know all this information or they can find it out easily. It's me the average dick with no resources or time to investigate that can't find this information out. They should be upfront with it. Anyone can make a page with a bunch of slogans and articles and pretend to be a legit org worth joining, so if you actually are one, you should post the proof.
>>2115858>CPGB-PCC.Tbf they aren't Trots, they seem like tryna be OG Leninists?
THey run this interesting journal:
https://prometheusjournal.org/ (The Partyist merged into this if people are wondering what happened to that).
>>2115912>they seem like tryna be OG LeninistsSo just like every trot?
Anyhow regardless of how they identify they're undeniably inspired by and incorporate trotsky into their analysis so they're trots to me. In fact the best trots are the ones who don't attach themselves to the label.
>>2115823personally id rec the Socialist Party and our sister group TUSC (made of from militant exluding those who wanted back into labour as i mentioned before). yes i am a member but generally they're the only notable socialist party imo that doesnt have its head up its ass like swp or says stuff without actually doing much like RCP/socialist appeal.
feel free to take what i say with a grain of salt, ive done as much as i can just reccing SP and tusc. do whateverman, some of the best people ive ever met are the sole commies of one union branch who are a electric!
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