STRATEGY OF REFUSAL / JOURNAL
Journal

Issues of Notes from Below, a journal of worker writing and workers' inquiry

J-27
The method the whole journal is built on: its history, its politics and how to start one.
08 ARTICLES
2026
J-26
Nurseries, schools, further and higher education: the state of education, and an alternative to it.
10 ARTICLES
2026
J-25
Social care after thirty years of privatisation, and the care workers finding industrial strength.
09 ARTICLES
2025
J-24
Theatres, galleries, museums and game studios: class struggle in the culture industry.
10 ARTICLES
2025
J-23
Miners, water workers, tube drivers and shipbuilders on the systems everything else runs on.
11 ARTICLES
2025
J-22
Place-based organising for workers outside the unions, from Tower Hamlets to Montréal.
07 ARTICLES
2024
J-21
Hospitality, the sector the union establishment calls unorganisable, organised anyway.
08 ARTICLES
2024
J-20
Worker writing on social reproduction: care, energy, hospitals, schools, and Palestine.
07 ARTICLES
2024
J-19
A turn from inquiry to strategy, and what a communist politics adequate to the crisis looks like.
09 ARTICLES
2023
J-18
The food commodity chain seen from inside it: farmworkers, drivers, chefs, supermarket staff.
14 ARTICLES
2023
J-17
Workers on the front line of the 2022–23 strike wave, from Royal Mail to the wards.
07 ARTICLES
2023
A picket holds up a ring binder with handwritten signs taped inside — GO TO SPECSAVERS, BE TRANSPARENT and INTEGRITY NOT CUTS — while others talk around her.
S-02.02
University of Essex, Colchester
27 November 2025
An academic confronts the Vice-Chancellor Frances Bowen over planned redundancies