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Published in: Home: Analysis‘Mortgage man’: Why the petty bourgeoisie is the UK’s most influential classLabour’s new target demographic is an oft-invoked but poorly understood social class. Can Starmer appeal?
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Published in: TransformationWhat really happened when Kanye West met Donald Trump?The famous rapper shows how racially-defined but wealthy individuals are used to mask deep structures of oppression.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEducation and orientalist discourseThe topic of education fits neatly into the orientalist middle class rhetoric about the poor, ignoring its role as...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe left needs to confront its illusions about the EUHow can we voice opposition to the EU without sounding like Nigel Farage?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOpening the debate on sectarianism in SyriaIn a country where sectarian issues were ruthlessly suppressed for many decades, and where “instigating sectarian...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy do we struggle to discuss "social mobility"?Whether it's class, culture or intergenerational fairness, Britain's political class struggle to talk about social...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKClass is attitude above allClass remains by nature vague and ill-defined, one of society's necessary mythologies. Class is defined not by a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe gentrification of the leftWhile Labour represent the working class, they have become increasingly alienated by those who represent them in...
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Published in: HomeThe Crime of Being Poor: Class and Criminal Justice in America
A U.S. prisoner named Paul Wright has penned an extraordinary essay on the role of class in the American criminal...
