The nation sits atop a powder keg. Starmer has spent the last two years dousing the country with petrol, while giving nasally lectures on fire safety. Farage, Lowe, and Robinson are running around like pyromaniacs, with torches and bellows in their hands. Elon Musk, meanwhile, is lobbing Molotov cocktails across the Atlantic, just to see what catches.
Your explosion is coming, gentlemen – but not in the way you imagine. Just as the 2024 riots were met with a militant response by workers and youth – who sent the far-right thugs packing with their tail between their legs – so too will your pogrom-mongering be met with an almighty backlash today, should it take root.
This period of capitalist death agony is undoubtedly dredging up the reactionary forces festering within society. But in far greater measure it is dredging up the class resentment of millions of workers and young people – against the billionaire class, its establishment politicians, as well as the right-wing demagogues and their knuckle-dragging footsoldiers.
This is the real majority in society, not the barbarians running amok on the streets of Belfast, Glasgow, and Southampton.
Those who are trying to fan the flames of unrest and division should heed Hosea’s warning to the Israelites: those who go around sowing the wind shall reap the whirlwind. We are that whirlwind, and we will tear you down.
From my latest article, for tomorrow's issue of The Communist.