Across more than a hundred interviews with working-class activists in Britain, a pattern appears with such consistency that it constitutes a finding: political commitment begins not with ideology but with a concrete, local, usually personal injustice - and what happens next depends entirely on whether anyone shows up.
Ah, yeah well there's a draft of the book sitting on my hard drive, and I took chunks of this essay from that and didn't edit it (i have now to avoid confusion). Hopefully the book will find a publisher, but we'll see.
Really appreciating all of these essays, thank you. Is this one more aimed at organisers who are working class, when you talk about showing up where working class people are and being present to offer knowledge and frameworks? I've taken from previous things you've written that middle class organisers shouldn't go to working class communities thinking that they have political knowledge, analysis or frameworks to "offer", because this knowledge already exists, sometimes in different forms
Great work. You refer to a book this work is part of - do you have more details about this you can share?
Ah, yeah well there's a draft of the book sitting on my hard drive, and I took chunks of this essay from that and didn't edit it (i have now to avoid confusion). Hopefully the book will find a publisher, but we'll see.
Ah right, makes sense. Hope you find a publisher, would love to read it.
Great work 👏👏👏 You’ve laid this shit out so clearly
Really appreciating all of these essays, thank you. Is this one more aimed at organisers who are working class, when you talk about showing up where working class people are and being present to offer knowledge and frameworks? I've taken from previous things you've written that middle class organisers shouldn't go to working class communities thinking that they have political knowledge, analysis or frameworks to "offer", because this knowledge already exists, sometimes in different forms