80% of American voters want “substantial change” in how the country is run 🔗apnorc.org/projects/ahead-of…

Everyone whose politics ranges from the far left to the far right will maintain the capitalist system and all the hardship, misery and chaos it produces. It doesn’t matter if any of these political groups can grow to achieve overwhelming backing as there will continue to be a class-divided society with an asset-owning profit-taking minority and an exploited and deprived working class majority. Those on the far left might think supporting nationalised industries isn’t being ‘pro-capitalism’, but it is, since state-owned industries must not be loss-making and their employees will still be paid wages from which surplus value will be taken to help keep the business viable and sustainable in a money-driven economy and competitive world.

There have never been more misconceptions than there are today about what socialism is and who supposedly stands for it. To name but a few – the left-wing of the Labour Party, China, Cuba, North Korea, Corbyn/Sultana’s Your Party, the Greens led by Polanski, the small left-wing groups with ‘socialist’ in their names, Mamdami the mayor of New York, and so on and so forth. One of the tasks of the Socialist Party of Great Britain is to shake these mistaken ideas from people’s minds and place in front of them the vision of a moneyless, wageless society of common ownership, cooperative endeavour and free access to all goods and services which is what socialism started off as and still is. worldsocialism.org/spgb/snip…

Russia is giving money to Iran. America is giving money to Russia. Trump is helping fund a country they’re at war with.

𝐏𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐦? Westminster watchers were glued to the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, and none more so than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, after a Conference speech laying out his ‘vision’ of undoing 40 years of Thatcherite privatisation and ‘wrong turns’. Will he call a snap general election to secure a popular mandate for this vision? The Tories are nowhere, the far-right divided and mired in scandal, and the Greens have arguably damaged their prospects by passing a resolution that Zionism is racist. Thrilling stuff, if you like domestic soap operas. But capitalism will continue regardless, just as socialists continue working for its abolition. Because only then will anything really change. worldsocialism.org/spgb/snip…

Cambodian workers are having to produce up to 700 T-shirts a day. Those 700 shirts would sell for around £60,000 in shops. So workers putting in six days of work producing 700 shirts a day would be manufacturing products selling for around £360,000. Yet these workers only receive about £40 a week in wages. They do the hard work creating the profits but are paid a pittance. This is how capitalism works worldwide. Waged workers everywhere are exploited and deprived of a proportion of the wealth they create. Workers may be somewhat better off elsewhere but even in so-called ‘advanced’ economies like the UK, USA, Germany, France etc millions of workers are currently struggling to manage on the incomes they receive, while at the same time, the rich are getting richer. And when these working people have the opportunity to vote in an election, politicians always lie to them and blame their deprivation and suffering on other politicians, mismanaging state expenditure, welfare recipients, immigrants... anything but the truth which is that capitalism will always function to chiefly benefit an asset-owning parasitic privileged minority, which is why it has to be replaced.

Want an enjoyable life without any money problems? STOP supporting pro-capitalism political parties. LOOK at why a profit-driven economy hurts the majority. LISTEN to evidence why free-access socialism is better. worldsocialist.org/

“Karl Marx Was for the Children”. Interesting article by Sam Fluss. portside.org/2026-09-30/karl…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐤𝐞 A dark abyss of cruelty lies behind capitalism’s glitzy facade. Christa Pike spent 31 years on Death Row for murder while lawyers launched appeal after appeal. The trial jury were never told about Pike’s hideous childhood: ‘Pike was physically and sexually abused by several of her mother’s husbands and boyfriends, and raped several times, once when she was 11 and again aged 17. Later, it was discovered that she was repeatedly raped as a toddler by her grandmother’s boyfriend.’ Unmoved, Tennessee’s governor, and the Supreme Court, refused to stop the execution. But the lethal injections failed, leaving Pike with possible brain damage. Her endless punishment is just one story in a trail of broken lives left by a world obsessed with money, power and bloody revenge. worldsocialism.org/spgb/snip…

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Why does the Left oppose free access? From this month’s Socialist Standard. worldsocialism.org/spgb/soci…

So after Trump said the suspects had been looking to ‌do “big damage” at RAF Fairford, they’ve been bailed the day after being arrested, and it’s allegedly now looking like they were entrepreneurial fuel thieves targeting farms in the area after diesel prices in the UK have hit an all-time high.

Anyone else noticed that after anti-capitalist replies to @BernieSanders posts, your internet device/connection gets interfered with and becomes so slow its unusable during the intrusion? Happened twice now on different days. Only after replying to Bernie. Who’d be doing that then.

Achieving genuine socialism is far from easy — not because it doesn't work — but because it would work if allowed to, and that’s why the rich and powerful have spent huge amounts on spreading lies, propaganda and preventing people from learning the truth. And they’ve been very successful. Most people now think the Soviet Union and China had socialism/communism, but just thinking about what socialism/communism is would reveal this as false. Reading (or simply Googling) what Marx said about socialism/communism, should reveal it means a CLASS-FREE society where THE PEOPLE own and control the means of production and distribution — NOT AN ELITE. But in every country, asset-owning elites have, for one reason or another, prevented the people from owning and controlling the natural resources, industries, transport systems etc.

There will be a lot of noise about the 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁. 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – Labour and the Greens competing over who can be trusted to handle the cost of living crisis. Neither, though, will address the root cause of the crisis, that society is run on behalf of those who own the land and factories. Until these are brought into common ownership, there will be poverty and unemployment, as this is how the owners get us to work for them. Our aim is to get this message out through the noise. You can help punch through the noise by getting people to write World Socialism across their ballot paper. Get in touch with us to find out other ways you can help. worldsocialism.org/spgb/snip…

Lots of idiots on social media currently labeling Paul Richards from the Fabian Society a “Marxist” and “communist”. Richards is the author of several Fabian pamphlets, a regular contributor to Fabian Review, and a former national Chair of the Fabian Society. What @paulforPCC most definitely is not is a Marxist or a communist after saying on GB News that the government should lock people up in the UK opposed to any war with Russia, and conscription should be considered “to get the numbers up”. Anyone with a basic understanding of Marxist communism knows that its supporters are totally opposed to working class people in different countries fighting and killing one another for their capitalist masters. @thefabians are a reformist organisation that will clearly come to the defense of British capitalism, and as such, represent the polar opposite of Marxism/communism.

How capitalism is causing men to inject testosterone into their vocal cords. “𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠,” 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝐴𝑙 𝑌𝑎𝑔ℎ𝑐ℎ𝑖; 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑎 “𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑟, 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦.” 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟, 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 “ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑗𝑜𝑏𝑠” – 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦...” gq-magazine.co.uk/article/wh…