Tracksuits, Traumas and Class Traitors D Hunter Lumpen, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-83805-904-0 Review by George F “Content warning: throughout this book there are references to sexual violence, racism both interpersonal and institutional, gendered violence both physical, psychological and verbal, various forms of physical violence, suicide, drug usage, transphobia, suicide and police brutality.” My own 2021 exploded
D. Hunter looks at the difficult but necessary task of building working class solidarity in the aftermath of the general election
Can you introduce yourself? We are the editors of Lumpen, a Journal for poor and working class writing. We ourselves are working class writers and editors, and at least one of us likes making things look nice. One of us is D. Hunter, who wrote Chav Solidarity. During the recent book tour that followed the
Last Saturday, Broxbourne’s Canal in Hertfordshire was filled with a flotilla of boats, all protesting against Canal and River Trust’s (CRT) absurd and falsely named new ‘Safety Zones’ proposal.
Recently we’ve had a bout of whinging on Twittergram about our advice to not use the Duty Solicitor at the police station.
Today we’ve uploaded a new set of 25 War Commentary newspapers, mostly covering late 1943 through 1944, to our digital archive and to mark the occasion Jack Saundrs looks at a set of MI5 files which show exactly how angry the Freedom Group publication was making the State at the time.
Around 50 people gathered outside the Home Office in London this afternoon to demand the halt of the deportation of Osime Brown.
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks.
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