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AN ARCHIVE OF CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITAIN70 RECORDS · 2018 —
S-01
Chasing the Wildcat
Falling wages catalyse strikes by food couriers.
London · Deliveroo, Uber, Just Eat
2024 · 17
S-02
The Death of a University
20% redundancies at the University of Essex lead to a desperate 16-day strike.
Colchester · University of Essex
2025–26 · 17
S-03
Too Hot to Work
Summer is one long heatwave, and bus drivers are on strike against impossible working temperatures.
Wood Green · Arriva London North
2026 — · 10
A line of couriers outside the Deliveroo Editions unit at night, several with arms raised in V-signs and one holding a delivery box above his head, all looking into the camera.
S-01.04
Forest Hill, London
2 February 2024
Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat · IWGB
The pickets celebrate. Frame 04 of 17 in S-01.
B-03
The Future in Our Past
A rank-and-file history of the general strike and its implications a century on
Verso · 160pp · £11.99
2026
B-02
Feeding the Machine
The hidden human labour behind AI
Canongate · 288pp · £10.99
2024
B-01
Riding for Deliveroo
A first-hand account of class struggle in platform capitalism
Polity · 180pp · £16.99
2019
J-27
The method the whole journal is built on: its history, its politics and how to start one.
08 ARTICLES
2026
J-26
Nurseries, schools, further and higher education: the state of education, and an alternative to it.
10 ARTICLES
2026
J-25
Social care after thirty years of privatisation, and the care workers finding industrial strength.
09 ARTICLES
2025
W-19
Political Economy of Hospitality
Notes from Below
2024
W-18
Amazon is moving heaven and earth to beat back unions – but it’s losing ground fast
The Guardian
2024
W-17
Now the Dust has Settled: Corbynism in retrospect
Notes from Below
2023
EP-22
Recordings from the Labor Notes rank-and-file conference, built around a Minnesota teaching assistant.
41 MIN
2026
EP-21
A teaching assistant's campaign of on-the-job action against work intensification and surveillance.
60 MIN
2026
EP-20
The guest editors of issue 24 on class struggle in arts and culture. Recorded late 2025.
66 MIN
2026