unemployment

On Break

Just a short update about the recent direction of this blog.

A black and white photo of a policeman adjacent to a large bass drum as used in marching bands

All Quiet On The Frontline?

BM Blob on work, unions, unemployment and the 1981 riots.

The Food Stamps Explosion

Timothy Reynolds' 1980 book-length masters thesis exploring the food stamps (now known as SNAP) program from the perspective of class composition…

Useful Work and Useless Toil

An exchange on the refusal of work from Subversion #23

The social factory / falling wall review #5 - Cleveland Modern Times Group

Falling Wall Review #5, UK, 1976. Rare pamphlet from Falling Wall Press, publisher of Marxist…

Between a job and a hard place: A non-workers inquiry

An article on the experience of unemployment, first published by Plan C in 2017 and then republished…

Liverpool Anarchist #8

Articles on Universal Credit, the 1968 Rent Strike and Social Revolution.

Crowbar #47 1986

Issue 47 of Crowbar from Summer 1986. Cropped version of a scan by the comrades at the Spirit of Revolt archive, Glasgow. Contents include: Squatter imprisoned after Brixton riots goes on…

Crowbar #32 1984

Issue 32 of Crowbar from early 1984. Cropped and compressed from a scan by the comrades at the Spirit of Revolt archive, Glasgow. Contents include: Eviction of Wyers squat in Amsterdam, …

apartment buildings

Rent and Its Discontents

Against the landlords and the police, in cities poisoned by wealth.

Stuff the DWP (don't want us to know)

New pamphlet published by Liverpool SolFed by benefits claimants, for claimants: Stuff the DWP! (doesn't want us to know). Covering our most…

What Happens To Them: Photo Essay of the Homeless Community In Long Beach

A photo essay by a Filipinx comrade in Long Beach.