“Football was popular because the poor were happy to play with a ball. When football turned into dishonest business, that is when the wealthy classes saw an opportunity in it, and since then it no longer belongs to the poor.”
— Marcelo Bielsa
“Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it.”
- John Lennon
“War is a place where young men who don’t know each other and don’t hate each other kill each other, decided by old men who know each other and hate each other, but don’t kill each other.” - Erich Hartmann
Winter Settles in at the Blackrock Cottage, Glencoe, Highlands, Scotland, Ian Nicholas!💙🏴 A Crofter's cottage from the 1800s, it is now home to the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club!
Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of George Square, 31 January 1919: clashes between police and striking workers demanding a 40-hour week. Fearing revolution, the British state sent six tanks from northern England, accompanied by Scottish troops.
Never forget.
“The way to control people is to frighten them, and to divide them. Divide them by race, by religion, by nationality, by class. And if you can set them against one another, you can control them.”
Tony Benn.