13/08/2025
The annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe is ongoing. The ecroachment of capitalism and the gentrification of once vibrant melting pots of working-class culture and art is a long-observed trend, but did you know of the communist origins of the Fringe?
23/04/2023
Happy St George’s day to all our English comrades 🏴🚩
🚩🏴 The Young Communist League sends greetings to working people across England on St George’s Day! This day - which should be a public holiday - is an opportunity to celebrate the radical history and modern diversity of England 🏴🚩
➡️ Socialist patriotism is not about whitewashing your country’s history or national chauvinism. Socialists must oppose reactionary nationalism and jingoism which are a dangerous false path for working people.
➡️ The crimes of Britain’s Empire and our ruling class today are truly shameful. But we cannot and should not abandon the idea of national identity to the tories or the far right or allow them to define it.
➡️ England, like the rest of Britain, has a proud democratic, egalitarian and socialist tradition. Wat Tyler, John Ball, the English Revolution, the Diggers, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Chartists, the trailblazers of the trade union movement, the Suffragettes, the pioneers of Britain’s Communist movement and the Miners Strike are just a few pieces of working class English heritage.
➡️ The task of socialists is to reclaim national identity - which in our class society has been hijacked by the exploitative and oppressive ideology of the capitalist class - and define it in terms of our class, our history and socialist principles. This is not to ignore the past and continuing crimes of our ruling class here or internationally. Socialists do and must resist these at all times. A class conscious and socialist patriotism will be a powerful tool in this struggle and in the struggle for socialism.
On this St George’s Day remember the legends, near and distant, of England’s working class! 🏴
Start the fight to reclaim our national identity from the right and the ruling class! ✊
“The original home of all modern materialism, from the seventeenth century onwards, is England… Thus Karl Marx wrote about the British origin of modern materialism. If Englishmen nowadays do not exactly relish the compliment he paid their ancestors, more’s the pity.” - Friedrich Engels
'Jerusalem' sung by Paul Robeson 🔥🏴 https://youtu.be/o3g9v5_xCY0
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