Podcast and Twitter for musing on working-class writing, literature in general and the conditions which make them possible. Sister project to @wrkclasshistory
Jul 31, 2019 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
A lot of people have asked for a definition of 'working-class literature' and, not having much time for Twitter recently, I've been putting it off. Will have a go now…
The easy answer would be: literature by working-class people. Easy! However, even this is more complicated than it seems: is it the author's class that matters? Their subject matter? Their politics?
Jul 24, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Absolutely amazing that someone has written a book about Udham Singh, an absolute legend of anti-colonial working-class history. The O'Dwyer Shukla mentions ordered a massacre killing 1-1.5k Indians in 1919. Udham Singh, then 20-years-old, witnessed the massacre first hand.
Following those events, Singh joined the anti-colonial movement, influenced by (in)famous socialist revolutionary Bhagat Singh. Bhagat also enjoyed a good read: in this letter from prison he requests books by Kropotkin, Marx and Spy by Upton Sinclair. libcom.org/library/bhagat…
