The Middle Aged Revolutionary

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

V.I. Lenin, 1899

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  • The Birmingham Bin Strike

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    Since the turn of the year, the brave bin workers of Birmingham have put up fierce resistance to obscene attacks on their wages and working conditions by Birmingham City Council. The bin workers, surviving only on strike pay, stand united and, unfortunately, virtually alone against this vicious and premeditated attack by the Labour-controlled council. Birmingham…

  • On Corbyn and Trade Unions

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    The Middle Aged Revolutionary and Comrade Terry sit down again to discuss Project Corbyn 2.0 and the trade unions, with an honourable mention to Matt Wrack’s stunning election win as NASUWT General Secretary, garnering a whopping 2.9% of the membership’s support! You can view this on YouTube by clicking here.

  • Our Review of Paul Embery’s ‘Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class’: Part Two

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    In this second part of our review of Paul Embery’s book Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class, we delve into Chapter Two of the book, entitled “We Need to Talk About Immigration”. My comrade Terry and I examine the seismic changes brought about by the run-down of the Ford works in Dagenham…