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The Class Work Project

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The CWP is a workers’ cooperative developing theory, analysis, and practice around issues relating to class, oppression, and stigma in Britain and beyond. Publishers of Lumpen: Journal of Poor and Working Class Writers linktr.ee/lumpen_journal

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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
⚡️ LUMPEN 19 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ⚡️ Disabled and chronically ill people often live in poverty. We want to hear about your crip rage, your crip joy, your crip indifference.. It doesn’t have to be an inspirational story, or a sad one. theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-19-ca...
LUMPEN 19 DISABILITY & CHRONIC ILLNESS
disability rights flag as background
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's been years since we had a Lumpen launch party, last one was issue 12 in 2023 to be precise. This time, we're going North before London. Expect editor, local authors and friends to read some extracts from Lumpen 18 and other texts from queer authors published in previous issues.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
⚡️ 150 copies sold within 1 week of release! ⚡️ 60 new copies are being printed as we speak. If you haven't ordered yours already, head over to seditionist.uk or ask your local bookshop to stock Lumpen! seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
LUMPEN 18 - QUEER SOLD OUT! 
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
NEW COPIES BEING PRINTED..
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One day left to subscribe to Lumpen and receive 3 issues in one go! theclassworkproject.com/lumpen/subsc...
Lumpen Journal issues 18, 17 and 16 stacked
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Lumpen: A Journal for Poor & Working Class Writers issue 18: Queer is out now! Ask your local bookshop to stock Lumpen or get your copies here: theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-ou...
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Lumpen 18 out now! – Class Work Project
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
✨ To celebrate the launch of issue 18 we want to make a gift to our new subscribers: get the usual 3 issues a year (18, 19 & 20) plus the two previous issues (16 & 17) while stocks last. UK only. 💥 Deadline for this offer: 24th June, a Midsummer night's dream! 🍑🌙🍒🌸 chk.me/kRoZqb1
LUMPEN 18 - QUEER OUT NEXT WEEK! SUBSCRIBE WITHIN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS & RECEIVE ISSUES 16, 17 & 18 (WHILE STOCKS LAST)
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Lumpen 18 - Queer will be out in a few days! Ask your local independent bookshop to stock Lumpen or subscribe now to receive 3 issues a year theclassworkproject.com/lumpen/subsc...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Pride Month is off to a good start with a little sneak peek of the cover for upcoming Lumpen 18 - Queer Liberation is Class Struggle, which will be out later this month 🦄⚡💋👠🍒 You can find the artist Kumo Qüin on Instagram.
detail of a denim waistcoat with three badges: one badge says queer is not dead, another born this way and the last one says queer liberation not rainbow capitalism
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Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Marking the transition between two studies: from (paid and unpaid) Precarious Work and Disablement to Rest and Free Time under Disabling Capitalism disprecwork.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/f...
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From (paid and unpaid) Work to Rest and Free Time
This post marks part of the transition from the DisPrecWork project, whose to the Rest and Free Time project. The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work was a project of the early 2020s, under…
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Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Questionnaire launch (Phase One of the project) Bread & Roses: The Politics of Rest and Free Time in, against, and beyond Disabling Capitalism How: Online or via a Word Document Where to access it: breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire/ #Rest #FreeTime #Capitalism #Disability #Work #PolEcon
Poster about phase 1 of the project Phase 1 - open now! Questionnaires Questionnaire link: bit.ly/BreadRosesDisability. About the research: At a time when disabled people are doing more (paid and unpaid) activities than ever before, while access to meaningful rest and free time is increasingly denied and scrutinised, this study explores the experiences of rest and free time in the lives of disabled people in the UK. One of the publications of this project will be a Manifesto for Rest and Free Time from a disability politics perspective. You can join if you: self-identify as being disabled and/or chronically ill, learning disabled, neurodivergent, d/Deaf, having impairments, experiencing mental distress (or use other similar self-identification terms), and are over the age of 18 and live in the UK. Researcher: Ioana Cerasella Chis. Email: ioana.chis@glasgow.ac.uk.  breadrosesdisability.uk. 2026-2028 project funded through The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship & The Uni of Glasgow
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London Anarchist Bookfair @bookfairldn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
2026 London Anarchist Bookfair is on Saturday 26th September at Rich Mix with a host of other venues in the area involved. We've got workshops, discussions, skillshares, campaign stalls, food, kids programme, and two after parties! There's even a warm up gig on Friday 25th! More info to come
pink and blue background with London Anarchist Bookfair banner at the top. Text reads: It's on comrades! Sat 26 September at Rich Mix Shoreditech.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
As working class queers, we often feel excluded from the dominant class discourse in the UK, or class reductionism, that is. We prefer to apply an intersectional approach.. theclassworkproject.com/deadline-ext...
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Deadline extended – Lumpen 18 call for submissions open! – Class Work Project
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It’s lesbian visibility week 🍒🍓🍑🌺🐈‍⬛🪻🛻 Here are some working class writers on the lesbian spectrum* *might identify more closely with terms like queer or bisexual, but their writings reflect or have inspired lesbian themes, culture, ideas or experiences
bell hooks
A groundbreaking feminist theorist, cultural critic, and writer, profoundly shaped contemporary conversations about the intersection of race, gender, class, and love.Joan Nestle
fem, Jew­ish, writer, edi­tor, teacher, activist and co-founder of the Les­bian Her­sto­ry Archives in New York CityLucía Sánchez Saornil
poet, editor, founding member of  anarchafeminist organisation Mujeres Libres, Spanish Civil War veteran, switchboard operator..
“But can it be true that hope has died?”Michelle Tea
Immortalised the 90s San Francisco dyke scene in her memoir Valencia, revisited with a dystopian twist in Black Wave. Themes like seggs work, queer parenting, addiction..
Founder of Drag Story Time, edits and publishes other queer misfits through Dopamine Press
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
As we eagerly await submissions for Lumpen 18 - Queer Liberation is Class Struggle, we look back at this text by Esraa Husain published in Lumpen 15 - Migration, a personal account of a trans person seeking asylum in the UK. theclassworkproject.com/multiple-con...
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Multiple Confinements – Class Work Project
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
While preparing to edit the upcoming Lumpen 18 on queerness and class, I've been thinking about working class queer depictions in film and tv. Can you think of any other media on working class queer life? Bonus points if it's not US based or not focused on a romantic relationship.. 🩵🤍🩷
God's Own Country (2017)
Yorkshire farmer meets Romanian migrant. It doesn't start well.
Explores themes of queerness in rural areas, family, class and migration.[Video For

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
South London in the Thatcher years. Punks & skins, racist violence, family tensions, hot sex, everyone has a secret..What It Feels Like For A Girl (2025)
TV series based on Paris Lees' memoirs. Small town working class queer teen finds sex, drugs and queer kinship in the 2000s.What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
One of Almodóvar's lesser known films. Working class family and their neighbours just trying to get by. Domestic violence, care work, internalised classism, underage s3x work, drug dealing and a little magic.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
All over Europe, a small number of individuals are making big profits out of pride events, this is just the latest and most bizarre example of them all.. another reason to write something for Lumpen 18! theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-ca...
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Lumpen 18 Call Out – Queer Liberation Is Class Struggle – Class Work Project
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"I have the body of a (bad) physical labourer, the heart of a (bad) hooker and the brain of an (unfortunately, exceptionally good) social worker. I also have the will of a cockroach." from 'Whatever, Whenever, Wherever' by No Nuance in Lumpen 17 - WORK theclassworkproject.com/product/lump...
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LUMPEN 17 (Digital Edition) – Class Work Project
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Organise Magazine @organisemag.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Nordic Model is an Expansion of Police Powers. Anarchists Must Join Sex Workers to Fight Against it. Read the piece: organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/03/27/t... Subscribe to Organise to get yer mitts of Issue 102 next month! www.patreon.com/c/Organise
A stylized, retro comic-style illustration shows a woman in a black trench coat, fishnet stockings, and high heels forcefully stepping on a uniformed police officer who is lying on the ground, shielding his head. The woman appears angry, with a clenched fist and stern expression. A speech bubble above her reads, “STICK YOUR NORDIC MODEL UP YOUR ASS!” The image has a bold, graphic, inked aesthetic with limited colors and strong contrast.
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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Chip in a few quid for a local queer archive!
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Save Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive
Lavender Menace, the only queer books archive in Scotland, needs your support to continue protecting queer history - and to create more!
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Where can one exist as a working class queer? It’s definitely not in those all inclusive Gay™️ resort packages in Maspalomas, another case of mass tourism and gentrification which destroys housing prospects for the local population of Gran Canaria.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We're busy bees here at the Class Work Project, and just as we released Lumpen issue 17 last week, now we're back with the call out for Lumpen 18: queer liberation is class struggle! 🖤🩷🖤🩷 theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-18-ca...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the new issue on work 🛠 If you were thinking about contributing, the deadline is February 21st ⏰ As inspiration, we have published a flashback to Lumpen 13 with a testimonial on shit jobs by Some Migrant. theclassworkproject.com/talking-abou...
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Talking about work – Class Work Project
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Hey, Lumpen is now open for submissions 🙂 Theme: Work 800 minimum, 2,400 maximum words. Deadline: 21st February 2026 The authors of published texts will be offered a small fee. More details: theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-17-ca... Questions? Get in touch: editor@theclassworkproject.com
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Lumpen 17 Callout – WORK – Class Work Project
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Admittedly, we’re not great at social media. That’s because we see these platforms as some of the most toxic spaces, and we don’t want to participate in that. They’re also places that make us dependent on the whims of tech billionaires, while helping make the very few very, very rich. 1/3
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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: seditionist.uk/distro/reada... 1/2
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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 ⬇️ theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-16-is...
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.’
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Joy Makes Monsters - General Art Goblin! @joymakesmonsters.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Ooh, this is very much my thing.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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. @leftcultures.bsky.social leftcultures.com/pages/about
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
2 days left to submit proposals for our next issue of Lumpen: Class and Care. LUMPEN – Class Work Project share.google/ckwTUjj5BRpk...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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! theclassworkproject.com
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17/09/2025
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...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
You've still got til the 1st October to submit your proposals for Lumpen #16: Class and Care. Plenty of time!
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It's time to move through class guilt and book an exploring class workshop!
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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: www.theclassworkproject.com/post/the-hea... Get your full copy: www.theclassworkproject.com/product-page...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
In Lumpen #15: Class and Migration; Esraa submitted this hauntingly beautiful, restless and resilient piece to the edition. We want to highlight this piece...
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Zosia Brom @zosiabrom.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hey, Lumpen is open for submissions again and it will be a great issue.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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.
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Organise Magazine @organisemag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Really happy to share the Editorial from Lumpen 15 by @classworkproject.bsky.social's @zosiabrom.bsky.social. It's an important opener to an important edition of an important periodical. You should get on that ;p organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/08/18/l...
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Lumpen 15 Editorial | Editorial - Organise Magazine
The first time I had lived experience of how deep class division in the UK runs was shortly after my arrival, when a much younger version of myself began my first romantic relationship on these isles....
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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
First batch of sales and subscriber copies of @classworkproject.bsky.social's Lumpen 15 out the door. Some of you were lucky and get the last of the @krime.bsky.social postcards and GAF stickers too ;p Support your local working class rabble and order a copy : seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
A photograpph of a magazine and several postcards and sticker items.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Marijam's piece is taken from the latest edition of Lumpen: Class and Migration, available online or in print: www.theclassworkproject.com/shop-1 www.theclassworkproject.com/post/the-van...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Issue 15 of Lumpen, everyone's favourite magazine for poor and working-class writers, is here! Get your copy: Digital: www.theclassworkproject.com/.../lumpen-1... Paper from our awesome distributors @seditionist.bsky.social seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Posted from Wilmslow Road; hyphenonline.com/2024/11/21/b...
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Cya there
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Psst, the new issue of Lumpen is coming very soon, pass it on.
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
On the importance of class consciousness....
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To counter elite capture we must reinvigorate class consciousness
Greater "class consciousness" may be the key to countering the Far Right, elite capture and policies such as welfare cuts
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
'What I’ve come to learn is that representation without redistribution – of power, resources or decision-making – is not justice' - Tayshan Hayden-Smith www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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RHS ambassador for communities quits, saying he was made to feel a ‘nuisance’
Tayshan Hayden-Smith says Chelsea flower show celebrates ‘exclusivity over equity’ and he was naive to think he could bring change
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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Throwback to this beautiful piece of writing from Lumpen #11; www.theclassworkproject.com/post/we-kept...
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