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Newssheet No. 10 – 2025 

 

Editorial - “Free Speech” 

Within mature capitalism in the stage of Globalization there has arisen a debate over “Free Speech”. It is being propagated by the Far Right internationally and is led by Trump, the American President and his Vice-President JD Vance, and is now taking root within bourgeois nation states in Europe. The ‘championing’ of “Free Speech” by the Far Right is underpinned by bourgeois nationalism, bourgeois patriotism leading to xenophobia. This is enabling the Far Right to pursue its vile and pernicious ideology in the name of “Free Speech”.  

A ‘battle’ is now arising between the Left and Far Right over the concept of “Free Speech” and its applicability within late capitalism in the stage of Globalization. The Left must point out that bourgeois society and especially the working class within it upholds the principle of “Free Speech”. The Left must point out that upholding the principle of “Free Speech” means, at the same time, being ‘critical’ of “hate speech” that the Far Right is trying to ‘normalize’ through their defense of “Free Speech”. There can be no truck with “hate speech” identified as “Free Speech” by the Far Right. There must be an uncompromising struggle against bourgeois nationalism and patriotism, which form the ‘essence’ of the “Free Speech” of the Far Right, contaminating the working class and for promoting proletarian internationalism to counter racism in all forms. 

It means that within bourgeois society, “Free Speech” has its “limit” (Hegel’s concept). The ruling bourgeois class will only tolerate “Free Speech” if it does not affect its class rule and interests. The Left must use “Free Speech” to educate the working class, then to organize it in revolutionary forms of organization, and then for the working class to take decisive action in transforming capitalism into socialism.  

 

Britain – An American convicted felon at the Court of King CharlesIII. 

Donald Trump, the convicted felon who is President of the USA, was accorded a second State Visit to Britain, not simply to establish greater ties with US monopoly capitalism but to charm Trump personally, to boost his ego so that the “Special Relationship” is maintained and enhanced. It shows how low the UK, Britain, has sunk to appease Trump. The UK conveniently forgot that Trump is a convicted felon and feted him at the Court of Charles Windsor. It shows that Britain has no morals when it comes to economic relations. Given that Trump ego was enhanced by the State visit, economic relations took a downward shift. Britain, under the Labour leadership of Starmer, sold out to American monopoly capitalism especially in the “Tech” industry. The trade deal signed between Trump and Starmer turned Britian into an ‘economic colony’ of US monopoly capitalism especially in the “Tech” industry. It is the domination of US monopoly capitalism within the capitalist economy of Britain. Starmer’s position is that this is in the interest of economic growth in the UK. This is the ‘essence’ of Trump’s State Visit.  

 

Britain – The Labour Government 

 The Labour Party which is the governing party in British politics is engaged in its Conference. It is the Conference season for political parties.  

Marx remarked that history occurs twice: first as a tragedy and second as a farce, The New Labour era under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s leadership was a tragedy for the working class. It tied the working class to the coattails of the bourgeois class, the bourgeoisie or capitalist class. It foisted on the working-class neoliberal orthodoxy as economic policy. Tony Blair imposed neo-Thatcherite economic policy on the working class. It tried to introduce ID cards and failed. New Labour saw the end of Social Democracy within the working-class movement, within the labour movement and with it ‘socialist internationalism’. Social Democracy is a spent force as it has nothing to offer the working class apart from public ownership as with the “Corbyn aberration” from 2017 to 2019. 

Fast forward to 2025. The Labour Government is seemingly unpopular because of its treatment of the pensioners, children poverty, effect on the sick and needy. It is using austerity to make the working class pay for what it says the previous Conservative government did and that was “the system is broken”. The Labour government position is a ‘farce’. British monopoly capitalist system is doing well. It is making billions in profit. What is ‘broken’ is the welfare system. Britian’s public finances through taxation cannot afford the welfare system in its present state. The burden is placed on the working class not on the British capitalists by this Labour government which is a ‘farce’. Starmer has called for ID cards to show who can work in Britain. This is a ‘farce’ and is not going to succeed as with the New Labour governance.  

Starmer’s Labour Government has shown that it does not serve the interests of “working people”. “Working people” is now the catchphrase for this Labour government. It is no longer serving the “working class” from which it has its roots. It is a ‘denial’ of classes existing in Britain and of class politics. This is a ‘farce’. Starmer is using “working people” to foist his ‘understanding’ of bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois patriotism on the working class. Starmer’s Labour government have no values apart from the above two, nationalism and patriotism. This movement to the Right by Starmer’s Labour government is due to the bereft of left-wing ideas in the Labour Party. It must impose ‘austerity’ on the working-class electorate. This is resulting in the unpopularity of Starmer and his Labour government and moving the working-class electorate into the arms of the Far Right in the form of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Starmer’s Labour government is a ‘farce’. Marx was correct in his historical understanding. 

  

Britain - The working class and its roles. 

Britain has one of the oldest working classes in the world. It has no real revolutionary tradition in the struggle for socialism as some other countries. It shows ‘militancy’ within trade union politics which as Lenin pointed out is bourgeois politics. The working class in Britain was described by Engels in his time as being “bourgeois”. At present the working class is virulently contaminated with bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois patriotism and is still thoroughly “bourgeois”. The capitalist class, the bourgeoisie, in Britain is using these two ideological features to tie the working class to its coattails. It is supported by Reform UK who go further and seducing the working class to support its positions especially on migration and illegal immigration.  

What has made the working class to be influenced by bourgeois ideology today. The problem lies with the Communists in Britain. They have taken the working class as a given. They have not undertaken scientific and objective ‘education’ of the working class as to its roles. The only role that the working class knows is that it is responsible for the transformation of capitalism into socialism. This is the first major role. The second major role under socialism is to develop the political superstructure known as the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. The third and very important role to develop the economic basis as the “co-operative system”, the co-operative mode of production as the mode of production of socialism. The fourth is to end all exploitation of any form whatsoever. The fifth is the abolition of all classes in society including itself. Sixthly, the elimination of the Division of Labour and thus the division of the sexes to prepare the ground for Communism. 

It is only by being fully understanding its roles that the working class can develop socialist consciousness. At present it is steeped in bourgeois consciousness or “class consciousness in-itself" and not socialist consciousness or “class consciousness for-itself". It means that socialist consciousness must be injected into the working-class movement by Communists in Britain. The working class must be educated and made aware of its roles in the transformation of capitalism into socialism.  Only then will the working class shed its bourgeois skin and begin to fulfill its destiny.