Notes from Below

🎨Join this workshop launch-event of issue 25 of Notes from Below, open to all but especially aimed at students! We’ll be talking about what art and cultural work is like today, the history of struggle in the sector, and what the current opportunities are for organising ourselves as cultural workers. Come and meet editors and contributors to the issue, and think through the conditions of cultural work today, and how we might change them.

Thank to all who attended our packed “Workers & Capital” stream and party at conference, organised alongside their new journal.

See you again next year!

📚 ISSUE 25 - HAMMERING THE SKY: COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CARE - OUT SOON!

In this issue of Notes from Below, we focus on social care. In a sector which shares many features with so-called “unorganisable” sectors - insecure employment, high turnover, small and dispersed workplaces, and a disproportionate concentration of migrants - this issue explores the ways in which care workers are finding industrial strength and fighting back.

🔗 Read our editorial, 'Left in Our Care', now below:
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/editorial-left-in-our-care

📮 Subscribe today to get a print copy when the full issue is released

Keep your eyes peeled for the full issue out soon, featuring:
- The Political Economy of Social Care by Lydia Hughes
- How to Run a Strike in Private Care by Tamara Beattie
- Enable Scotland: Leading the Way by Thomas Baylis
- Caring on a Visa by Amandla, Emily, Tambudzai Moyo, and Dorcas Uyi
- Moving Beyond the Terror: Care and Support Workers Organise by Alison Treacher and Steve North
- We’re Not Waiting to Be Saved by Rana Aria and David Isaac
- The Silent Profession: Foster Carers Who Hold It All Together by Sue Lloyd
- In The Country and the City: Unionising Rural Care Workers by Rebekah, Jack, and Danii

A particular thanks for our guest editors on this issue: Ríobhca Nic Mheanman, Lou Fear and Connor Cameron.

🎉Join us on Friday (7th November) for our Historical Materialism conference party & social!

🎵Come along for (affordable!) food and drinks with DJs and comrades. We’ll start after the conference panels finish and go on until late. All are welcome!

🗺️Details on travelling to .house from the conference and sign-up available at https://luma.com/z9fzqwwi