Al Ditty – Working Class Hero
A tribute to a white Minneapolis sanitation worker who was fired and committed suicide after leaking plans for a police raid on the Justice for Jamar Clark protest encampment outside the 4th Precinct police station in North Minneapolis.
The Mental Patients Union, 1973
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 21 2017 13:44
Historical information about the Mental Patients Union, formed in London in 1973 to oppose psychiatric oppression, written by Past Tense.
Anarchists in social work: known to the authorities
A compendium of anarchist writings on social work and work in mental health services, published in 2004.
Ghosts of my life: writings on depression, hauntology and lost futures
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed 'Capitalist Realism', argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.
Good For Nothing - Mark Fisher
Article by Mark Fisher on the relationship between depression and class.
The Cultural Hegemony of “Mental Health”
In this guest article Dr Bruce Scott challenges the way the “mental health” system and its institutions have been co-opted and actively promote capitalism. This system, driven by a profit motive, rather than a desire to benefit patients, has produced “fear and submission to an ideology which controls and mystifies the masses”.
Resisting DWP Pyschocoercion 15TH JULY 2016
Benefit sanctions, workfare, cuts to disability benefits, cuts to benefits for migrants, cuts to benefits for young people…… To the long list of vicious government attacks on benefits claimants, we must now add ….pyschocoercion. The Tribe of Moles thanks Dr Bruce Scott for his illuminating article on this sinister DWP strategy. Encouragingly he concludes by highlighting the resistance which is underway.
Alfred Olango and the hatred of solidarity
Submitted by Soapy on Oct 8 2016 16:30
Sending the police to deal with mental health crises is bad for everyone, so why does it continue to happen?
Revolutionaries Behind Closed Doors
Capitalism intrudes on the daily life of a mental health worker.
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