Feature: How a Cumbrian Community is Building Working Class Confidence
by Craig Gent
The cost of living crisis is only compounding crises of poverty and mental health nationwide. But one community in Barrow-in-Furness is pulling together.
Tag: working class
Opinion: The Tory Anti-Strike Laws Are About Disciplining the Working Class
by Charles Umney and Ian Greer
Cracking down on strikes won't work, but it's a short term way for the government to show the market that workers can be marshalled to make bigger profits.
Analysis: Is Bristol As Radical As It Seems?
by Priyanka Raval
Between the Colston statue toppling and the Kill the Bill riots, it's easy to see Bristol as a bastion of radical action. In reality, the city’s working class is deeply divided, writes Priyanka Raval.
Opinion: Disability Politics Are Anticapitalist Politics
by Ellen Clifford
Impairments aren’t what make us disabled, our profit-driven society is, writes disabled activist Ellen Clifford.
Downstream: Veterans: Rightwing or Radical?
They are claimed from all sides and by all parties. But who are Britain’s ex-service personnel? What do they want? And what do their politics – whether conservative, liberal or socialist – tell us about Britain as a post-imperial country? Aaron Bastani speaks to Joe Glenton, journalist and author of ‘Veteranhood’.
Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?
Has the idpol-loving left abandoned the white working class? The answer is a bit more complicated than the Tories would have you think.
Novara FM: Riots and the Red Flag
#ACFM's Keir Milburn offers a bloody and boisterous workers' history of Leeds.
Opinion: Labour Wants to Win Back the Working Class. The Problem Is It Has No Idea Who They Are
by Joe Bilsborough
Thatcher keenly understood that creating homeowners would create Conservative voters. Labour desperately needs its own understanding of class formation, or it will never regain the working-class votes it lost.
Novara FM: I Am Not My Work
Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.
Downstream: Can the Left Trust Keir Starmer? Interview With Richard Burgon
Was the Corbyn leadership a complete failure for the left – and what can be learned for next time? What are the chances of a socialist Labour government implementing the kinds of policies seen in the 2017 and 2019 manifestoes? And can the left trust Keir Starmer as party leader after a disappointing first year? […]
Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class
by Aurelien Mondon
The idea that Trump and Brexit were working-class revolts is a dangerous myth, one the president's recent electoral defeat has done little to dispel, writes Aurelien Mondon.
Long Read: Forget Tory Food Tips: Everyone Deserves Delicious Big Dinners
by Eleanor Penny
The Tories' meal plans scorn the idea that everyone is entitled to the basic human joy of food. We must insist on the necessity of pleasure, writes Eleanor Penny.
Opinion: Matt Hancock Thinks Footballers Should Be Paid Less Because They’re Working Class
by Jessy Parker Humphreys
Why has the government suggested footballers be paid less, while Premier League directors - not to mention billionaires like Richard Branson - are allowed to keep their enormous incomes? Because unlike other top earners, the vast majority didn't go to private school, writes sports journalist Jessy Parker Humphreys.
Ash Wednesday: Regional Accent + Reactionary Politics = Working Class?
When you look at the way people talk about class in the media, it’s clear that we don’t really understand what it means anymore.
‘This Is Belonging’: How the Army Stole Utopia
by Maddy Ridgley
A hypocritical and dangerous new recruitment drive by the British army promises working class men an escape from the loneliness and isolation of neoliberalism, using Instagram style ads and ideas of utopia taken from the anti-capitalist left.
Long Read: Inside the UK Fighting Games Community: Arcades, Grime and Classless Meritocracy
by Marijam Didzgalvyte
Rounding off the articles for this week’s Focus on video games and politics, Marijam Didzgalvyte interviews Darkos Strife and Danielle Nelson about life in the fighting games community.
5 Reasons the Tories Want to Take Away Our #RightToStrike
by Gemma Short
As the Tories are due to take the Trade Union Bill to parliament for its second reading, Gemma Short from the Right to Strike campaign explains why they want to further shackle trade union and workers' rights.
What is deflation and what does it mean for the working class?
by James Meadway
Yesterday the UK went into deflation. George Osborne praised the "good news" while many economists were far more cautious. James Meadway from the New Economics Foundation explains what deflation is and what it means for the economy, wages and the working class.