Careless: Care work in West London
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 20 2017 09:25
A friend working in social care wrote down some experiences from the job. Of particular interest given the current debate about care crisis and election pledges.
Muting the SWAN: a radical alternative to Trotskyist social work
Critique of the Social Work Action Network, a group aiming to bring social workers and other interested parties together to campaign against austerity, by an angry social worker. SWAN's activism happens in the classroom or on the streets, but not in the workplace itself.
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.
Migrant Workers Organising in Scotland
Creating Self-Reproducing Movements: #Justice4Carers, migrants’ struggles and beyond.
C. Inza Deboise- Domestic Violence and Social Work from an Anarchist Perspective
Article by a domestic violence worker about the complicity of social services in the enforcement of patriarchy.
Revolutionaries Behind Closed Doors
Capitalism intrudes on the daily life of a mental health worker.
Anti State, Anti Capital, Anti Psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry is the belief that the psychiatric system is a system of social control masquerading behind made-up science. The Marxist anti-psychiatry movement failed because of it's overly intellectual focus and the inability of its key thinkers to put theory into practice. However, with mental health very much on the political agenda, there are lessons that can be learned from the work of R D Laing and David Cooper.
Toronto harm reduction workers organize with the IWW
An article about a new IWW campaign of harm reduction workers in Toronto.
On elder care work and the limits of Marxism - Silvia Federici
Text by Silvia Federici on elder care and its relationship with capitalism, feminism, and the left.
Martin Smith given PhD place at Liverpool Hope University
Submitted by working class s... on Oct 21 2013 09:17
It has come to our attention that Martin Smith – who resigned from the Socialist Workers Party following rape and sexual harassment allegations – is now based in the Social Work department at Liverpool Hope University. Trigger warning: rape, sexual harassment.
