# The Spark: Steel, refining asset stripping, British ‘Starlink’, TSSA chaos

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Podcast: [Proletarian Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/proletarian-radio-49870)
Published: 2026-04-26T11:30:33+00:00
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## Resource

Read the April 2026 issue of our industrial matters free sheet as a pdf: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3.cpgb-ml.org/TheSpark005.pdf Asset-stripping vultures continue to circle over the rotting corpse that is Liberty Steel, with the decline in oil following suit. The last-minute buy-out of Prax oil refinery in Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, promises only the further decline of the oil industry in Britain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Index Lindsey refinery death rattle UCU ballot failure Disinformation swirls around British steel Oxford warmongering Italian workers continue to fight back against the war machine TSSA cancels former AGS Steve Coe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! www.thecommunists.org www.lalkar.org www.redyouth.org Telegram: t.me/thecommunists Twitter: twitter.com/cpgbml Soundcloud: @proletarianradio Rumble: rumble.com/c/theCommunists Odysee: odysee.com/@proletariantv:2 Facebook: www.facebook.com/cpgbml Online Shop: https://shop.thecommunists.org/ Education Program: https://thecommunists.org/education-programme/ Each one teach one! www.londonworker.org/education-programme/ Join the struggle www.thecommunists.org/join/ Donate: www.thecommunists.org/donate/

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