
CLASS
Edition #4. September 2023.
Contents.
Editorials
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Editor’s Letter
Updates on what we’ve been up to and the current situation with New Socialist.
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Essays
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When British Trade Unionists Debated Black Power
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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“Who is not here? Who is quiet? Who is unhappy?”
“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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Not One Of The Decent People
The wounds of class are ever-present and life-long.
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The Garden
“Class affects the mind, we know that, and it’s difficult to communicate this.”
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Besieged City
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 Rebirth of the “Natural Worker”
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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Culture Is Ordinary
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Communists in Space
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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More than Meets the Eye
“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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The Anti-Utopia of an Epoch without Utopia
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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Public Toilets and Public Luxury
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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Books
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Abolition is Class Struggle
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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Aliens at the Border
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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