Will Dry

Trade unionist, Marxist-Leninist, writer at @manifesto_press Author of Revolution and Parliament. @CPBritain Elections Organiser

[Will Dry @WillJDry]

Proud to represent @CPBritain at the 2024 seminar on media and public affairs hosted in Beijing by the International Department of the CPC, discussing China's modernisation and the role of media in challenging misinformation and promoting international peace and solidarity 🚩

[Will Dry @WillJDry]

@ManuelBruder71 @CPBritain You surveyed your own supporters and found that they mostly agree with you. Groundbreaking.

[Will Dry @WillJDry]

There is no LGBT liberation without the liberation of the working class. We can not end the persecution of LGBT workers without uniting and fighting as a class.

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Pride began as a struggle against brutal, often violent, persecution. It should not be reduced to a corporate branding exercise, nor surrendered to the right’s divide-and-rule culture war.

The ruling class wants workers divided: gay against straight, migrant against British-born, young against old. But the real enemy is not other workers. It is the system that profits from low wages, insecure housing, underfunded healthcare, discrimination, war and exploitation.

Liberal identity politics tells LGBT workers to look for liberation through CEOs, billionaires, celebrities, police, soldiers and politicians who “look like us”. But representation at the top does not free those at the bottom. Rainbow capitalism sells visibility while leaving working-class LGBT people to face poverty, insecure work, poor housing, hate crime, and barriers to decent healthcare.

A Marxist approach starts from solidarity amongst all workers. The struggle of LGBT workers is part of the wider struggle of the working class: for political independence, safe and dignified work, public ownership, healthcare, housing, peace, and freedom from persecution.

This Pride Month, reject scapegoating. Reject pinkwashing. Reject ruling-class divide and conquer.

Unite as workers. Fight oppression. Fight capitalism.

The road to LGBT liberation is the road to socialism.

#PrideMonth #LGBT

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

As the neoliberal consensus fractures, Starmer and Streeting scrap for the remains of a decaying premiership. The establishment clings to the levers of power while the crises of capital deepen. Support the only daily socialist voice in Britain @M_Star_Online .

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Tomorrow, choose our class and reject their careerism.

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Our Assistant General Secretary, Johnnie Hunter, says that if you want real change then reject the politics of division and despair.

Vote communist wherever you can tomorrow!

Join the Communist Party & the YCL today!

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#VoteCommunist #ChangeEverything

[Communist Party - Edinburgh Branch @cpb_edinburgh]

@Manifesto_Press Revolution and Parliament right now!

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[Bonnie Prince Bob @VoteBPB]

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[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

In 1922, the workers of Battersea North didn't just elect Shapurji Saklatvala MP, they launched a saboteur into the heart of parliament.

He was the first Communist to occupy that chamber. He didn't go to Parliament to negotiate the terms of our surrender. He became the megaphone that shattered the windows of the ruling class.

He looked at the soot on the London docks and saw the dust of the Indian roads. He knew the hand on the throat of the Battersea docker was the same hand on the throat of the Bombay peasant. He pulled back the heavy velvet curtains of Westminster to reveal the grease and the grit of the capitalist engine.

He told us that the British Empire was not a civilising force but a global system of theft. He was the living proof that the borders they draw on their maps are just ink and lies designed to keep the dispossessed from finding each other.

To beg for a more benevolent master is merely to polish the iron of your own chains. Saklatvala did not want a seat at the table; he wanted to dismantle the room.

He proved that we do not need a softer hand to guide us, but a collective fist to break the machine. The state is still measuring us for the cage. The biometric border and the policing bill are the modern iterations of the laws he fought.

We don't need more managers of our misery. We need the next political saboteurs. We need the next bridge builders. We need you to carry the flame that refuses to be settled or silenced. Stand where he stood.

Join the party: https://t.co/q5lNYUFtDJ

[Cambridge Communists ☭ @CambridgeCPB]

Our two local candidates support our manifesto for peace and socialism.

They will stand and fight for our communities, and against fake solutions that always mean cuts for working people and tax incentives for corporations and developers

#VoteCommunist

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CLASS POLITICS IS BACK.
Communist candidates are standing in Cambridge on 7 May.

The city’s unaffordable, streets crumbling, local politics out of ideas.

We’re not here to manage decline, we’re here to fight for workers.

Vote Communist Party of Britain on 7 May!

[Communist Party - Edinburgh Branch @cpb_edinburgh]

Industrial patriotism?

Listen to the full episodes here https://t.co/20inJy44J7

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You can catch our first hustings appearance here
https://t.co/Rdf9Tmhnnq

[Manifesto Press Co-operative @Manifesto_Press]

📣ONLY ONE WEEK TO GO

Tackling head-on the crisis in working class representation, the diminishing of democratic structures and their co-option by Big Business, ‘developers’, speculators and corporations and their lobbyists. Is there any space left for the working class to assert its rights?

Join Will Dry,  Lucy Burke, and Oliver Snelling at the public launch of his new book Revolution and Parliament, on Thursday 2 April 7pm at Marx Memorial Library and Workers School in Clerkenwell. Places are free but limited so sign up now and why not also order your copy of the book at a discounted price. 🔗 Link below.

📍Marx Memorial Library and Workers' School, London 
📆Thursday 02 April at 7pm
🔗Book your place at https://t.co/MoLlzsuk6Y

[Communist Party - Edinburgh Branch @cpb_edinburgh]

One of the only industries still in existence in Fife? Arms manufacturing. 

A better world is possible. We don't need to be feeding the war machine in order to feed our families. We could be manufacturing socially useful assets right here in Scotland yet our billionaire...

[Manifesto Press Co-operative @Manifesto_Press]

Meet your authors - William Dry

Author of Revolution and Parliament, Will Dry is a veteran campaigner for both Labour and the Communist Party and worked within the trade union movement. 

In his book Revolution and Parliament, he issues a lively, provocative call for the Left to contest every seat in every election, presenting an alternative to capitalism’s “greed, waste and misery.” He poses a stark choice: “organise for power or watch the far right and the billionaire class tighten their grip.”

Join Will and a panel of speakers to discuss the crisis in working class political representation on Thursday 02 April. Speakers include Lucy Burke, previous Labour candidate for Bury South who was narrowly defeated in the highly contested vote for the 2019 general election and chair, Oliver Snelling, previous Communist Party of Britain candidate for Lewisham North in the 2024 General Election, and local council candidate for Deptford this May.

📍Marx Memorial Library and Workers' School, London 
📆Thursday 02 April at 7pm
🔗Book your place at https://t.co/MoLlzsuk6Y

[Communist Party - Edinburgh Branch @cpb_edinburgh]

Tax on rental profit for a private landlord? 19% - 48%
Tax on rental profit for a corporate landlord? 19% - 25%
Plus corporate landlords can deduct 100% of mortgage interests as an expense, so handy!

The laws were written by those that exploit us.

#votecommunist #votechris

[Communist Party - Edinburgh Branch @cpb_edinburgh]

Scare your landlord, vote Communist

#votecommunist #votechris

[Communist Party - Edinburgh Branch @cpb_edinburgh]

"What do you think of housing in Edinburgh?"

"Sh*te"

#votecommunist #votechris

[Will Dry @WillJDry]

It's ma book! Find out why revolutionaries can't afford to stay out of elections, why voting in careerist liberals to "block the far right" will always fail in the long run, and why the revival of Corbynism is a dead end for workers 👇

[Manifesto Press Co-operative @Manifesto_Press]

Tickets are now available for the launch of Will Dry's Revolution & Parliament and the speakers are being lined up. The success of the Greens, the emergence of Your Party, the growing number of independents and Communists standing in parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales and local elections in England, will be the subject of discussion on the night. Join us at Marx Memorial Library.

Secure your free place here and now!
🔗https://t.co/MoLlzsuk6Y

[Will Dry @WillJDry]

@Nigel_Farage Unfortunately for you, your bots can't vote. It wasn't even close. Accept the loss and get over it.

[Will Dry @WillJDry]

@LeftieStats Unfortunately for Reform it turns out Russian bots can't actually vote