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A United Working Class Is The Greatest Nightmare of The British Ruling Class
And this is why we are locked into the fight our lives…
It wasn’t for nothing that Britain’s first woman Prime Minister referred to the trade unions as the ‘enemy within’.
Such was the fear of the unions that the British state deployed an army of spies to undermine their quest for better working conditions. Anyone who lived through the 1980s will readily remember the memorable showdown between the police and the striking miners in the battle of Orgreave.
Forty years on, we are still living with the consequences of the destruction of the coal mines and the pits.
Once before Napoleon Bonaparte spoke of Great Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, these days, Britain has become a nation of food banks.
It is said that there are more food banks today in the United Kingdom than there are McDonald’s restaurants.
And what’s more, food banks have grown exponentially in the age of austerity, zero hours contract and the gig economy.
Contrary to the view that food banks are exclusively used by the poorest in society, middle-class professionals such as doctors and lawyers are known to get cans of baked beans on the cheap to supplement their meager earnings.