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Media / Gary Lineker – the price of speaking out

The punishment administered to this high-profile football pundit is a warning to all: complicity or silence are the only acceptable responses to imperial slaughter.

1 Jul 2025 , Lalkar
Britain / Bury FC: a victim of capitalism

One more reason for workers to burn with indignation against a social order that can never be made to serve their interests.

15 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
Civil liberties / Police lies revealed at Hillsborough; Orgreave must be next

Inquiry reveals police guilt for 96 unnecessary deaths in Sheffield, and highlights the militarised and anti-worker culture that grew out of the political policing of the miners’ strike five years earlier.

1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian

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Sport / What can the European Super League teach us about monopoly capitalism?

The monopolisation of football is teaching workers all over again some of the lessons taught to us by Lenin over a century ago.

2 Jun 2021, Proletarian