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| Categories | Work, Politics, Class Struggle |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Tri-annually |
| Format | Digital, Print |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | notesfrombelow |
| ISSN | 2631-9284 |
Notes from Below, founded in 2018, [1] is a UK-based political project that publishes online-articles, a growing book series, [2] a podcast called Workers' Inquiry, [3] alongside a digital and print journal produced tri-annually. [4] It publishes "workers' inquiries" and contemporary class analyses that uses class composition theory. [5] The editors, including Jamie Woodcock and Callum Cant, [6] have modeled their work after the Italian journal Quaderni Rossi , the US based Johnson–Forest Tendency , French collective Socialisme ou Barbarie , and early surveys about working conditions conducted by Karl Marx. [7] Through the inquiries it publishes, the project promotes class composition analysis and workerism. [8]
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The inquiries featured in the journal have included workers in call centers, Amazon delivery centers, universities, tech companies, [9] and pubs and its coverage has focused on small, militant unions like the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain. [10] It also publishes political writing, most explicitly in Issue 19 of the journal titled The Political Leap: Communist Strategy Today. [11]
Notes from Below had contributed to a 2018 University and College Union (UCU) pension strike by publishing bulletins and circulating an open letter in support of the strike. [10] It also hosts the bulletin The University Worker. [12]
In 2020, Notes from Below was awarded a grant from the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust to produce a special issue. [13] From April 2023, they began to publish their journal in print, with three issues being released a year. [14]
