Journal of Class and Culture

Welcome #twitter to a peer reviewed journal that aims to provide a provocative theoretical and empirical exploration of the concepts of #class and #culture -the first to exclusively address the subject! R/T and be part of this journey @AWCAcademics @ClassAcademic @AcademicsClass

Since Comic Relief started in 1985, child poverty has increased from 20% to 30%. We don't need charity, we need system change.

143 years since Marx passed away. "The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces." Record profits. Record hunger. Wars for markets and minerals. Public systems gutted. His scalpel cuts deeper every year. The task remains unfinished.

Karl Marx died #OnThisDay in 1883. Together with Friedrich Engels, he is considered the founder of historical materialism, a theory that was to gain great influence in the international workers’ movement. Marx’s “Capital” still inspires critical minds around the world today.

Marc Garrett: Feral Class. Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026. "Marc Garrett’s Feral Class is a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist [...] a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy." @ArtMonthly @minorcomps #books #art

@szczels @WorkingClassCol @LumpenMagazine @britschoolfilm Some things never change - we made this film nearly 10 years ago the same subject and w/c people are still having the doors closed in our faces theactingclass.info

Class Division in the Film Industry: Review of a film by Mark Forbes culturematters.org.uk/class-division… @J_ClassCulture @WorkingClassCol @LumpenMagazine @britschoolfilm

"never fall into those vulgar, banal moods, pessimism and optimism. My own state of mind synthesises these two: my mind is pessimistic, but my will is optimistic. Since I never build up illusions, I am seldom disappointed" - Antonio Gramsci

@JennyAThatcher and more in common with working class men than middle class women

I have more in common with a black/brown working-class person,than I do with a white middle-class person.. Truth.

@JennyAThatcher of her shoes — really old-fashioned ones —mum made me wear wear them. I was so embarrassed. When the kids at school made fun of them, I lied and said they were from Ravels — a trendy shoe shop at the time. No one believed me

@JennyAThatcher Remember my mum putting cardboard in my shoes when I was in primary and secondary school. We were so poor that sometimes new shoes weren’t an option. In secondary school, I desperately needed a new pair, but we couldn’t afford them. The old lady who lived downstairs gave me pair

When I was a kid at primary school - (moving to Wales to London) - I had holes in my shoes. I dad (before he started drug dealing) used to cut pieces of carboard out & insert them into my shoes 😭 There was a another kid there in my class with holes in his shoes...

A Reliant Robin Adventure. By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class. Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026. marcgarrett.org/2026/02/07/a-r… #readingcommunity #books #stories #WritingCommunity #extract #1970s

@szczels Exactly! our democracy is mostly symbolic because cultural and institutional power is held by an Oxbridge cohort who have no material incentive to let it go. Pointing out inequity doesn’t threaten them cos their system is designed 2 absorb criticism without changing who benefits.

@J_ClassCulture We are about to lose our democracy, flawed as it is... but the relation between working class culture and its denial, and 'democracy' is unclear... the Oxbridge cohort that manage culture in their own image, are not going to vacate their plum jobs when inequity is pointed out!

Made a film about this nearly 10 years ago -nothings changed - theactingclass.info there's direct link from this to the way in which the left has become gentrified -class is no longer a priority for the left- m/c dont care if w/c voices disappear opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

People working in the worst, most monotonous and least rewarding jobs in the country have a far better understanding of what the country needs, than some hereditary Oxford loafer lord whose only relationship with labour is paying for it. It's time the working class was heard!

Michael Wayne, assistant editor of the Journal of Class and Culture talks to Ali Alizadeh. Ali Alizadeh is the author of 'The will to horror' an article published in the Journal of Class and Culture 4.1 Watch the interview ow.ly/Y9nG50Y4beH @J_ClassCulture

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.” Really sad to hear that Michael Parenti has died

@JennyAThatcher I've never watched it

Am I the only person in the UK that has never watched one single episode of the Traitors?

Check out our associate editor Mike Wayne's interview with Ali Alizadeh about his article 'The Will to Horror' published in issue 4.1 of the journal youtube.com/watch?v=K_AQs2… the article is free to read here intellectdiscover.com/content/journa… @IntellectBooks

#berealisticdemandtheimpossible The Repression and Liberation of Working-class Culture a history and a manifesto for change culturematters.org.uk/our-culture-th…

Wanted! class-conscious artists, writers, publishers and critics culturematters.org.uk/wanted-class-c… #jonbaldwin ace review!

#HotDigerty! The Repression and Liberation of Working-class Culture; a history and a manifesto for change culturematters.org.uk/our-culture-th… How could you miss this!