The Class Work Project

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We also have a brand new subscription service, and they make excellent presents. Just saying!

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Just in case anybody needs to know: our distributor @seditionist.bsky.social is on a Winter break from next week, so if you want a paper copy of the newest issue of Lumpen before the festive season kicks off proper, get one here before this Friday:

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A stack of magazines titled Lumpen: A Journal for Poor and Working Class Writers. The cover is a colourful cartoon illustration of a busy community-care scene with people interacting in a common room. Some characters are gardening, reading, or helping each other. Signs on the walls read ‘Welfare Not Warfare’ and ‘DWP Stop Killing Us.’ The issue information at the bottom right says: ‘Issue 16 — “Class and Care” — Autumn 2025 — £6.50.’

Lumpen 16 is now out!

This issue is dedicated to Class and Care and, as always, features some awesome writing!

Also, our new shop and subscription service are now up. All details in this link ⬇️

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Ooh, this is very much my thing.

New issue of Lumpen is coming.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.

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Lumpen #16: Class and Care is underway and will be with our subscribers before the end of the year!

Whilst you are waiting check out the new third edition of Left Cultures featuring our own Amy writing on Sinead O'Connor.

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2 days left to submit proposals for our next issue of Lumpen: Class and Care.

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Thats right, we have a new website. More accurate to what we do and how we work. It is still in development however so more to come soon!

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Now out for all! 1st of a double podcast about the successful fight against the UK poll tax in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Covering the background, Thatcherism, introduction of the tax in Scotland, the beginnings of resistance, and the poll tax riot: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

You've still got til the 1st October to submit your proposals for Lumpen #16: Class and Care. Plenty of time!

Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.

if this is something you would like to explore in your group and work, please get in touch. For more info: www.theclassworkproject.com/classworkshops

Our workshops are designed to meet your organisations specific needs. They range from 3 hours to 2 days in length. The cost is decided on a sliding scale. We've also been focusing on the intersection between class and migration.

For CWP to thrive we need regular paid workshops. This is why we're on a mission to get 10 workshop booked in 2026 - We need your help! Did you join our newsletter or follow us to support our work but are yet to enquire about a workshop?

CWP isn't here to be a newsletter or socials you folkow that folks sign up to tick off doing/following something about class, we're here develop better class analysis in our movements!

It's time to move through class guilt and book an exploring class workshop!

Amy's piece speaks to the rise of the far right's appropriation of the St George's flag and Union Jack in the UK to stir up further anti-immigrant hate:

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Intimidation, slurs and threats – study uncovers racism in rural England | News | University of Leicester

in light of new research released this week by the University of Leicester which published new research sharing the pervasiveness of racism in rural areas of the UK

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In Lumpen #15: Class and Migration; Esraa submitted this hauntingly beautiful, restless and resilient piece to the edition. We want to highlight this piece...

Hey, Lumpen is open for submissions again and it will be a great issue.

Further information:
www.theclassworkproject.com/how-to-submit

[Lumpen exists to publish the work of working-class and poor writers]

Further info: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZoS6tYR0zumzs6CFYRv1OdFeBkljLKy7AYq1ccdxYY/edit?tab=t.0>

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You don’t need publishing experience. You don’t need to sound a certain way. If you’ve lived it, we want to hear from you.

Deadline for proposals: 1st October 2025
Send to editor@theclassworkproject.com
All published contributors will be paid £50

Mutual aid, resistance, collective care as survival, or imagining what a world built around care (not capital) could look like. But we are really keen to here what care means to you. We welcome prose: essays, memoir, fiction. Raw, tender, political, personal, experimental — all tones are welcome.

Navigating care systems as a working-class, elderly, migrant or person living with a disability, experiences of healthcare (or lack of), bureaucracy, burnout, and the state’s idea of “support”, caring for loved ones, community and care...

You might want to contribute; Stories of care work: professional, informal, domestic — paid or unpaid,
experiences of parenthood or guardianship, growing up in a household shaped by care responsibilities or neglect...

Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.

Thanks @organisemag.bsky.social :)