Tag Archives: Class
Finding the Anarchy
Throughout my childhood there were always people watching, shop staff, teachers, parents, police , priests all watching and waiting to come down on you. Then I saw my head teacher was dragged out of school in handcuffs, she’d been stealing school funds to goon sexy weekends away with the local priest… I was shocked, Authority [...]
News in brief
A quick look around the news of the day Trade unions The high court has once again intervened to prevent legitimate strike action going ahead. A strike by RMT workers on Docklands light railway has been deemed unlawful by Mr Justice Tugendhat because of a legal technicality despite 162 workers, out of 175 balloted, voting [...]
Social class and depression
A groundbreaking study by the University of Illinois, Chicago has found that present day treatments for depression do not benefit working class and poor patients as compared to the more affluent middle class patients in enhancing performance at work.
Students denied best education
Elite universities conspire to shut out working class under graduates While most young people are busy receiving their A-level results the country’s top universities have closed their doors on ordinary students applying for places on this autumn’s degree courses. Of the 20 most prestigious universities, which go to form the Russell Group, 16 have closed [...]
The struggle is one and the same
Is the return of workplace militancy a cue for anarchists to engage more fruitfully with the working class? Freedom takes a look at the most recent and ongoing industrial disputes and wonders whether, with the New labour government on the point of collapse, the recession still very much in evidence and the global economic climate [...]
Women, War and Conscription
While the media celebrated last month the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain – an act of heroism rather than an act of war, we reproduce a critical examination written during WW2 of the role women were forced to play in aiding ‘the war effort’. The last war ended just in time to save [...]