A class half full

John Medhurst Re-examining the books I have written for Zero and Repeater – the first one on Britain in the 1970s, the second on the Russian Revolution – it struck me that their underlying theme was an engagement with issues of class, specifically issues of working class identity and working class politics. As those issues

What is Working Class politics ?

Last year Ronan Burtenshaw in the new Tribune argued that engaging in a “culture war” on Brexit would be a terrible thing because it would entail “the end of class politics”. The underlying, barely questioned, assumption of his position is that class politics (or at least his variant of it) is inherently more progressive and