Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
An essay written in 2018 and updated in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York and prior to the June 2020 uprisings. Explores the death of a woman named 'Kathy' through the eyes of a frontline social worker. Originally published on the website of Hard Crackers.
The Pickles Papers
In October 1988 Eric Pickles and his Tory group took control of Bradford Council with a radical programme designed to "wipe out municipal socialism forever". The story behind the "Bradford Revolution" is the story of Eric Pickles - now an ambitious Tory M.P. and shadow minister with a safe seat. It is a story of intrigue and double-dealing, ambition and power, sex and money, conspiracy and corruption, betrayal and blackmail! Taken from the 1 in 12 Publications archive.
EXARCHIA: Solidarity to squats and all spaces of struggle- ASSEMBLY Announcement
Submitted by Mumakil on Aug 30 2019 19:20
The state and capital always attack the freedom of the social base, steal its labor and resources. In recent years we have experienced one of the most violent attacks through the massive impoverishment of people who are already oppressed and exploited.
On the other hand, there has been widespread social resistance and solidarity. People have created a variety of self-organized spaces such as housing infrastructure, social medical centers, community kitchens, open parks and public spaces which are just some of the main examples.
Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed
Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on May 9 2019 12:46
From the management of June 2013 uprising to Bolsonaro’s ordered revolt.
Eugene Oregon: Boycott of Downtown Businesses
Submitted by alyesque on Nov 23 2018 04:56
An image from a boycott campaign in Eugene, Oregon
Cleaners organised in UVW launch three simultaneous migrant workers strikes across London
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 17 2018 20:43
Grenfell Tower – the smoke & the mirrors
Submitted by Red Marriott on Jun 30 2018 09:38
There is an ever-growing stream of media commentary on the Grenfell fire, increasing daily as the public enquiry unfolds. There are some elements in the media with the goal of obscuring or excusing the plain facts as part of a pre-emptive defence manoeuvre to protect those most implicated in what caused the fire and the 72 deaths. That they feel the need to use such distortions to defend the Grenfell landlords and those who ordered and oversaw the Grenfell refurbishment that fitted the lethal cladding only increases the suggestion of a general doubt on all sides about their innocence.
Iron Bars on the House of Labour
Submitted by O Berkman on Mar 2 2018 23:26
How accepting surveillance officers and other parts of the repressive state into trade unions is a threat to organizers across so-called Canada...
The Memphis sanitation strike, 1968
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 9 2018 15:53
A short history of the 1968 strike of 1300 African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, during which Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Submitted by Red Marriott on Jun 19 2017 16:23
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder. Given the years of complaints from Grenfell tenants(1) about their landlord the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation(KCTMO)(2), we can reasonably ask why the HCA never stepped in to investigate the terrible tenant-landlord relationship and the many fire safety complaints tenants had flagged up repeatedly before the fire broke out.
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