Working Class Literature @workingclasslit
Podcast and Twitter for musing on working-class writing, literature in general and the conditions which make them possible. Sister project to @wrkclasshistory workingclasshistory.com Joined July 2019-
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#OtD 23 Apr 1914 Robert Tressell's classic working-class novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, was first published. A house painter by trade, Tressell's book explains capitalism through the experiences of its working-class characters. Read it here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9528/r…
#OtD 27 Feb 1902 Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. Many of his works featured radical, working class themes, including The Grapes of Wrath, and In Dubious Battle, about a fruit pickers' strike: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9892/b…
Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and others, all being yanked out of US high schools by right-wing culture warriors
Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and others, all being yanked out of US high schools by right-wing culture warriors
me [reading a book]: why are you not impressed this is like magic for you groknag the caveman: me read in new cave times that it derivative and trite me: …well you’re just made up for a joke. when someone finishes reading it you’ll cease to exist groknag: me not want die
#OtD 12 Jan 1876 socialist novelist and journalist, Jack London, was born. Remembered for his remarkable novels 'The Call of the Wild' and 'White Fang', he also inspired the likes of George Orwell with his dystopian novel 'The Iron Heel' libcom.org/library/iron-h…
The desperation dripping off this loser: the most mediocre footballing career followed by a sub-par managerial career. All he's got left is tap dancing for a spot on the right-wing media grift
The desperation dripping off this loser: the most mediocre footballing career followed by a sub-par managerial career. All he's got left is tap dancing for a spot on the right-wing media grift
#OtD 4 Jan 1960 Nobel Prize-winning author, Albert Camus, died at the age of 46 in a car accident in France. As well as writing novels, plays and philosophical texts, he also participated in the French resistance and supported Spanish anti-Franco prisoners libcom.org/library/albert…
#OtD 4 Jan 1901 CLR James, legendary anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad. We have made available a number of his works in our online store: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/al…
#OtD 4 Jan 1886 Spanish anarchist film maker, Armand Guerra, was born. He lived in Russia during the 1917 Revolution and Germany during the Weimar Republic. During the Spanish Civil War, he made a number of documentaries. Here is a short biography: libcom.org/history/armand…
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.
The @BrunelUCU hardship raffle has been drawn & winners notified! We raised hundreds of 💷 so a HUGE 🙏 to all ticket buyers & a special 🙏 to donors ⭐️@BZephaniah @hannahlowepoet @dd_johnston @DaljitNagra4⭐️ @workingclasslit @ucu @DrJoGrady @zenscara @LondonUCU @ucusolidarity
John Berger recited Letter from Gaza at the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008 and it’s incredibly moving:
John Berger recited Letter from Gaza at the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008 and it’s incredibly moving: https://t.co/j0fk3WBxmP
I have come back on here with the news that @BrookesEnglish is under a huge threat of redundancies - 40% of staff will be culled from English and Creative Writing by January. Please spread the news. We are fighting for our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish
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3K Followers 2K Following Writer: FOUR LETTER WORDS, WALKING THE INVISIBLE, ILL WILL, KING CROW, CAFE ASSASSIN, COUPLES, MR JOLLY. Creator of THE BRONTE STONES.#OtD 23 Apr 1914 Robert Tressell's classic working-class novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, was first published. A house painter by trade, Tressell's book explains capitalism through the experiences of its working-class characters. Read it here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9528/r…
#OtD 27 Feb 1902 Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. Many of his works featured radical, working class themes, including The Grapes of Wrath, and In Dubious Battle, about a fruit pickers' strike: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9892/b…
me [reading a book]: why are you not impressed this is like magic for you groknag the caveman: me read in new cave times that it derivative and trite me: …well you’re just made up for a joke. when someone finishes reading it you’ll cease to exist groknag: me not want die
#OtD 12 Jan 1876 socialist novelist and journalist, Jack London, was born. Remembered for his remarkable novels 'The Call of the Wild' and 'White Fang', he also inspired the likes of George Orwell with his dystopian novel 'The Iron Heel' libcom.org/library/iron-h…
The desperation dripping off this loser: the most mediocre footballing career followed by a sub-par managerial career. All he's got left is tap dancing for a spot on the right-wing media grift
Shut up you fucking idiots. Keep them off the tele. They’re ruining the game for everyone of us. It’s what happens when you force under qualified, under prepared, tokenistic people onto us. I will be calling them all serial killers from now on. Every clip you fuckers put out.…
#OtD 4 Jan 1960 Nobel Prize-winning author, Albert Camus, died at the age of 46 in a car accident in France. As well as writing novels, plays and philosophical texts, he also participated in the French resistance and supported Spanish anti-Franco prisoners libcom.org/library/albert…
#OtD 4 Jan 1901 CLR James, legendary anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad. We have made available a number of his works in our online store: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/al…
#OtD 4 Jan 1886 Spanish anarchist film maker, Armand Guerra, was born. He lived in Russia during the 1917 Revolution and Germany during the Weimar Republic. During the Spanish Civil War, he made a number of documentaries. Here is a short biography: libcom.org/history/armand…
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.
The @BrunelUCU hardship raffle has been drawn & winners notified! We raised hundreds of 💷 so a HUGE 🙏 to all ticket buyers & a special 🙏 to donors ⭐️@BZephaniah @hannahlowepoet @dd_johnston @DaljitNagra4⭐️ @workingclasslit @ucu @DrJoGrady @zenscara @LondonUCU @ucusolidarity
John Berger recited Letter from Gaza at the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008 and it’s incredibly moving:
This part of Ghassan Kanafani’s 1956 short story, Letter from Gaza, has wrecked me.
I have come back on here with the news that @BrookesEnglish is under a huge threat of redundancies - 40% of staff will be culled from English and Creative Writing by January. Please spread the news. We are fighting for our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish
@workingclasslit No problem. Won't be today but I'll report back. There are two chapters with that name - want both?
@workingclasslit I can get a chapter scanned if you want!
I want to share that I had a 3,500 word review of Sam Sax's PIG shelved on October 8 by The Poetry Foundation because it discusses anti-zionsim. The decision came from the leadership team of the foundation. I was told Poetry didn't want to be seen as "picking" a side.
En vrai si y a des etudiant.es qui ont accès à ce livre et qui pourraient transmettre aux camarades (et a moi aussi 👀) ça serait hyper chouette
Does anyone on here have access to Jstor? I need the chapter on BS Johnson in Christopher Webb's 'Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975', but don't have access. Any help would be much appreciated! jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2q…
Questions that Arab Americans can ask our senators 🩸
@workingclasslit Sorry I've just checked & we don't have access to this book. Such a shame. @ShukieOne any joy?
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