Mental health is treated as an individual failure under capitalism. Burnout, anxiety, isolation and despair are presented as personal weaknesses instead of symptoms of a system in decay.
This article looks at the material roots of the growing mental health crisis and asks the question the media never will: what if the problem is the system itself?
https://t.co/FiNPuI7lGQ
Why do you remember the image of one man in front of a tank, but forget the bodies of thousands crushed under American bombs?
Because the first image serves power.
And the second indicts it.
Following the conviction of Henry Nowak’s murderer Vickram Digwa, Nigel Farage has come out with statements blaming “two-tier policing” anti-white racism and immigration.
The left are condemning Farage for “making it political” and they are wrong to do so, as everything is political. Farage is also wrong, morally and factually.
The police acted appallingly, and the murder was unjustifiable, do not think that I am some kind of apologist.
Two-tier policing has always existed in our country, the two tiers being the ruling class and the rest of us. If the police are taking racist language more seriously than murder, they are doing so because the state wants white workers to think that they are oppressed for being white, not for being workers. It is a distraction technique used to slow the class conflict down, even to try and convince us that it is no longer relevant.
Nigel Farage knows this and he uses it himself. He doesn’t care about white workers, or any other workers. He only cares about us voting for him.
This isn’t about immigration. Both the victim and his murderer were British. Henry Nowak’s family are from Poland, his killer’s from India.
Over ten years ago, Farage was blaming East European immigrants for everything from eating swans to causing traffic jams. He even said that he’d rather have Indian and Australian immigrants over Polish or Romanian because they speak English and follow our laws.
He likes immigration when it suits his agenda. Like Oswald Mosley’s “good Jews” he tolerates foreigners when they are of his class, when they have money made from the labour of others.
Farage's attempt to sell himself as an anti-establishment rebel is as transparent as it is unconvincing. He is every bit a creature of the establishment, his interests bound to British capitalism just as firmly as those of any other political lackey from Corbyn to Jenrick.
British finance capital is on increasingly shaky ground. Workers are facing worse material conditions every year. Their declining living standards are so completely apparent that malaise is inevitable. As material conditions deteriorate, anger inevitably begins to build.
The state and its political representatives cannot address the root cause of that anger because they are committed to preserving the very system that creates it. Instead, they seek to redirect it. That is where figures such as Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe become useful tools. Their role is not to challenge power, but to channel legitimate working-class frustration away from the capitalist class and towards other workers.
Migrants make very convenient scapegoats.
The real divide in society is not between British workers and foreign workers. It is between those who labour and those who profit from that labour. Farage's politics exist to obscure that fact.
The fascists are always the first to turn to violence because they have a base within the British ruling class and the state structure. Hundreds of entirely peaceful Palestine solidarity demonstrations are condemned by the political establishment and ruling class precisely because they don't have any base within the ruling class.
It's really quite simple - Farage is the ruling class's man through and through. Corbyn was a watery social democrat who was never going to fulfill any of his promises but him getting into office was still too much for the extreme reactionaries in the British state machine and political establishment.
Or simply tell the truth which is that if you are working class then the police are not there to protect you. That is ot their role. They are there to protect the rule of the capitalist class and keep the rest of us in line.
Keegan & Dalglish. The men who made the iconic Liverpool number 7 shirt.
Love and best wishes to them both with their health and well being.
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Mental health is treated as an individual failure under capitalism. Burnout, anxiety, isolation and despair are presented as personal weaknesses instead of symptoms of a system in decay.
This article looks at the material roots of the growing mental health crisis and asks the question the media never will: what if the problem is the system itself?
https://t.co/FiNPuI7lGQ
In 1982, Israel bombed the Beirut airport.
The Lebanese were trapped as the IDF marched into Beirut, massacring thousands of civilians.
Hezbollah didn’t exist.
Former Greek defender Marios Oikonomou has tragically passed away at the age of 33 after being involved in a serious motorcycle accident. 🕊️
Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, and everyone who knew him during this incredibly difficult time. 🙏🏼
Most murders are intraracial
So most white victims are murdered by white killers and most black victims are murdered by black killers, but ofc both sides of the culture war ignore this cos they cannot use this in their respective agendas
From the archives.
Glasgow's homelessness crisis was not created overnight. It was engineered through decades of privatisation, the destruction of social housing, and the subordination of human need to profit.
People need homes. Capitalism needs property markets. The result is the crisis we see today. Read our 2025 analysis.
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A true giant of the game. Won absolutely everything and ended his career with the most appearance of any player in the premier league at 658.
Take a bow James Milner.