Gary @garyseconomics tells Andrew Marr (well known socialist 🤣) that the billionaire elite are accumulating all the wealth. And he knows because he was a city banker and is a multi-millionaire (small fry economically, but a wealthy trader). 1. So what needs to be done? Gary says: Tax the rich. 2. Has it ever been done before? Gary says: only once, after WW2. “The 20th century” Well. There are a couple of problems. Apart from the fact that half of the 20th century happened, before WW2… Lets start with his second point. WW2 wasn’t fought “to tax the rich”. It was fought because monopoly capitalism had become enmeshed in a global crisis of overproduction. It had impoverished the mass of humanity. It had glutted markets and entered a protracted crisis resulting in poverty, tariff wars, inflation, mass unemployment, the great depression, a collapse in world trade and a fierce battle between the imperialist powers for markets, colonies, and resources. WW2 was fought to destroy 60 million “surplus” workers and destroy the accumulated unsalable goods, and to SAVE the very very rich. And guess what? They are at it again. Because they are in the same crisis again! As for point 1. - The “transfer of wealth” from rich to poor was never effected by “Taxation” under capitalism alone. The transfer from rich to poor during the 20th century happened due to revolutionary overthrow of the billionaire feudal and capitalist ruling class in sphere after sphere and nation after nation. It was effected by the revolutionary overthrow of Tsarism and capitalism in Russia and the Soviet Union, Belorussia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenstan, Kyrgistan,… and after WW2 by the revolutionary and anti-colonial movements in China, Vietnam, Korea, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Albania, latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Laos, Cuba,… By the anti-colonial and “non-aligned” movements, allowing scores of “third world” colonial nations to gain sovereignty and pull themselves out of poverty. British and American capital did not simply adopt Keynes (the welfare state) for fun. They did it out of fear of their revolutionary overthrow. And now, forgetting or being ignorant of this, our little East end boy Gary - boy done good: city trader and multi-millionaire - simply asks the rich to accept “taxes” out of the goodness of their hearts. Taxes that to be effective will have to be so high as to amount to expropriation. But the billionaire global capitalist ruling class have spent the last 80 years waging war on socialism and the poor precisely to get where we are. Untold genocides and dirty wars against the workers, against communist and socialist states, against independent nations, for re-colonisation have led us here. Who the bloody hell is this “Gary” to ask for redress? A servant of capital who is “good at maths”?! 🤣 He can, frankly, keep his “economics”! So what is Gary’s sudden fame really all about? The fact that he is totally ignorant of political economy. Ignorant of Marx. Ignorant of the revolutionary teachings of the actual working-class movement (and talks like a cockney: is anyone buying this pearly king and queen act?!) Well - what he is actually doing, is asking the POOR to sit tight and keep begging. When what they need to do is rise, organise, demand and expropriate the capitalist parasites. Taxation will not solve the ills of capitalism. Revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist class and expropriation of the land, banks, hedge-funds, housing stock, factories, etc., etc. will. Ignore this ignorant clown. Join us.

The participation of the AFU in the British parade to mark VE day proved less than glorious! The royal box and british imperial media were in raptures - pumping out the propaganda that very studiously ignores 1. The Russians: 27 million Soviet citizens who gave their lives to vanquish fascism 2. That George V (great grand pa-pa) was a staunch fascist, and even taught grandma and great aunt the Nazi salute 3. That the ukrainian regime are banderites. Acual Nazis. And have been installed by US-UK imperialism to fight a race war in ukraine to turn Ukraine into a tool to hammer Russia. But the Ukrainian people are the chief victims. And have lost 1 - 1.5 MILLION soldiers fighting Neo-Nazi M NATO’s imperialist war. So the much-hyped participation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the parade in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory over NAZI german imperialism turned out to be weak in every sense. Only eleven select representatives of the Ukrainian army, who did not arouse suspicion by wanting to escape, were allowed to participate in the parade. In addition, the British placed their Ukrainian proxies behind their cavalry. So, the soldiers had to walk through the waste products of British horses. They were left well and truly “in the shit”. A good allegory for the state of their nation. Perhaps that is what tickled the fancy of our right royal parasites.