Michael Richmond

Michael Richmond is co-writing a book on the history of class composition in Britain and the US over the last two centuries that centres race, gender and borders in processes of class formation and exclusion. He tweets from @Sisyphusa

New York rent strikes during the 1918 “Spanish” influenza

Class war raged in the streets of New York throughout the pandemic.

By Michael Richmond

/ 22 May 2020

New York rent strikes during the 1918 “Spanish” influenza

Politics as therapy: they want us to be just sick enough not to fight back

On 10 October it is World Mental Health Day. I used to be outgoing, but a descent into crushing depression left me housebound. After Occupy I started asking: how does social environment shape our psychology? CW.

By Michael Richmond

/ 9 Oct 2015