CLASS
Edition #4. September 2023.
Contents.
Editorials
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Updates on what we’ve been up to and the current situation with New Socialist.
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From the River to the Sea
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The statements of the Resistance groups are a valuable source of knowledge about what's happening in Palestine. So why aren’t British journalists paying attention?
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Essays
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On the 50th anniversary of the National Conference of Trade Unionists Against Racism, its wide-ranging deliberations need to be recognised.
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“Some people go into a militant strike as a sleazy creep, participate in the action alongside women strikers and supporters, and emerge at the end of it still being a sleazy creep.”
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The wounds of class are ever-present and life-long.
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“Class affects the mind, we know that, and it’s difficult to communicate this.”
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Understanding monetary policy requires grasping the peculiar transnational class position of some of capital's key organic intellectuals: central bankers.
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The supposed “naturalness” of the Thai migrant agricultural worker as a basis for examining the longer history of racialisation and class formation in Zionist agriculture.
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As a novel, ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ is bad. Yet it has become a sacred text of the British labour movement. What can we learn from it today?
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Culture Is Ordinary
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The story of Horley's only Communist councillor shows how even the most ostensibly middle-class places can benefit from socialism – and that it’s worth making that case, however lonely or absurd it can seem.
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“The excitement I feel looking at the 1960s architecture of Kenzo Tange is rooted in the excitement I felt as a six-year-old boy looking at the animated Autobot City.”
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New Order - a socio-political art thriller from Mexican director Michel Franco, fêted with the Grand Jury Prize at 2020’s Venice Film Festival - is much less radical than it thinks it is.
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In Britain, toilets have always been a flashpoint for debates about who ‘belongs’ in public space. The Tōkyō Toilet Project shows us how toilets can instead transform and expand public space.
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In Weathering With You, Makoto Shinkai asks: in the context of climate catastrophe, what happens when choosing life conflicts with preserving the kind of world which sustains life?
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Beneath the veneer of boozy masculinity, beyond the jokes and the sentiment, the Pogues are a strange and haunted band, irreducibly wild and uncategorisable.
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Three years on from the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United, the promised investment in the city has failed to materialise. How was this allowed to happen?
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Books
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Coercion and control are the tactics of abusers, and coercing and controlling the working class is the job of the police. Abolition is class struggle!
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The 1905 Aliens Act, and the role of significant parts of the labour movement in agitating for immigration controls, forces us to think concretely about how racism changes.
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The enduring optimism of late 60s music contrasts starkly with the cynicism of the early 2020s—but the political parallels are striking.
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Isaac Rose’s The Rentier City is a provocative study and a much-needed riposte to the siren song of trickle-down housing.
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