Notes from Below

A really excellent day on Saturday in Yarmouth for a Know Your Rights session & launch event for our worker writing issue on care worker organising! Organised by Pan-African Worker Association, IWW, Yarmouth Workers’ Project and Notes From Below, lots of really useful information, interesting conversations and important experiences were shared (plus great food!). We heard about common struggles over unpaid travel time, racism and victimisation, and illegal visa fees, and attendees discussed how we could begin to push back against these problems alongside the importance of getting organised and the need to build a care sector that is dignified for patients and workers!

Thanks all our friends & comrades across Norfolk, and to all the of the excellent speakers - you can check out their writing in Notes From Below #25, Hammering The Sky: Collective Action in Care at notesfrombelow.org.

Issue 26: 'Class Dismissed' - Out Soon 👀

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Thank you to all who joined our launch events last week in London and Glasgow for “Hammering the Sky: Collective Action in Care”.

🗺️ Up next - our Great Yarmouth launch on 6 Dec! See you there

🎨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!

📍LONDON - 21st NOV
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 GLASGOW - 22nd NOV

Join us for the launch events of our next issue “Hammering the Sky: Collective Action in Care”.

For both these events, we’ll be joined by social care workers organising on the ground for a different sector and political future.

Our London launch will be Friday 21st Nov at 6pm, at Pelican House (E1 5QJ).

Our Glasgow launch will be Saturday 22nd Nov at 6pm, at Garnethill Multicultural Centre (G3 6RE)

Register for free via the linktree in our bio. See you there!

📚 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

Thanks to everyone who attended our sessions at The World Transformed festival this weekend in Manchester.

We held packed out sessions on class composition in Britain and care worker organising, as well as contributing to panels on workplace salting and political organising in the culture sector.

It was great to see so many new faces joining and contributing in our sessions - keep in touch with us at [email protected].

📝 NOTES FROM BELOW PRESENTS: A SUMMER PUB QUIZ!

Join us on Friday 22nd August for a pub quiz, including a special round on working-class history.

We will also welcome speakers involved in various workplace struggles across the city, with all money raised going towards supporting their fights.

Fri 22nd August. Doors open at 6:30pm for drinks, quiz starts at 7:30pm. All welcome, no ticket required!

More info here: https://lu.ma/12od3cl3