The Class Work Project
@classworkproject.bsky.social
The CWP is a workers’ cooperative developing theory, analysis, and practice around issues relating to class, oppression, and stigma in Britain and beyond.
Publishers of Lumpen: Journal of Poor and Working Class Writers
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Publishers of Lumpen: Journal of Poor and Working Class Writers
https://linktr.ee/lumpen_journal
Hey, Lumpen is now open for submissions 🙂
Theme: Work
800 minimum, 2,400 maximum words.
Deadline: 21st February 2026
The authors of published texts will be offered a small fee.
More details: theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-17-ca...
Questions? Get in touch: editor@theclassworkproject.com
Theme: Work
800 minimum, 2,400 maximum words.
Deadline: 21st February 2026
The authors of published texts will be offered a small fee.
More details: theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-17-ca...
Questions? Get in touch: editor@theclassworkproject.com
Lumpen 17 Callout – WORK – Class Work Project
theclassworkproject.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Hey, Lumpen is now open for submissions 🙂
Theme: Work
800 minimum, 2,400 maximum words.
Deadline: 21st February 2026
The authors of published texts will be offered a small fee.
More details: theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-17-ca...
Questions? Get in touch: editor@theclassworkproject.com
Theme: Work
800 minimum, 2,400 maximum words.
Deadline: 21st February 2026
The authors of published texts will be offered a small fee.
More details: theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-17-ca...
Questions? Get in touch: editor@theclassworkproject.com
Admittedly, we’re not great at social media.
That’s because we see these platforms as some of the most toxic spaces, and we don’t want to participate in that. They’re also places that make us dependent on the whims of tech billionaires, while helping make the very few very, very rich.
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That’s because we see these platforms as some of the most toxic spaces, and we don’t want to participate in that. They’re also places that make us dependent on the whims of tech billionaires, while helping make the very few very, very rich.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Admittedly, we’re not great at social media.
That’s because we see these platforms as some of the most toxic spaces, and we don’t want to participate in that. They’re also places that make us dependent on the whims of tech billionaires, while helping make the very few very, very rich.
1/3
That’s because we see these platforms as some of the most toxic spaces, and we don’t want to participate in that. They’re also places that make us dependent on the whims of tech billionaires, while helping make the very few very, very rich.
1/3
Just in case anybody needs to know: our distributor @seditionist.bsky.social is on a Winter break from next week, so if you want a paper copy of the newest issue of Lumpen before the festive season kicks off proper, get one here before this Friday:
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December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just in case anybody needs to know: our distributor @seditionist.bsky.social is on a Winter break from next week, so if you want a paper copy of the newest issue of Lumpen before the festive season kicks off proper, get one here before this Friday:
seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
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Lumpen 16 is now out!
This issue is dedicated to Class and Care and, as always, features some awesome writing!
Also, our new shop and subscription service are now up. All details in this link ⬇️
theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-16-is...
This issue is dedicated to Class and Care and, as always, features some awesome writing!
Also, our new shop and subscription service are now up. All details in this link ⬇️
theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-16-is...
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Lumpen 16 is now out!
This issue is dedicated to Class and Care and, as always, features some awesome writing!
Also, our new shop and subscription service are now up. All details in this link ⬇️
theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-16-is...
This issue is dedicated to Class and Care and, as always, features some awesome writing!
Also, our new shop and subscription service are now up. All details in this link ⬇️
theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-16-is...
New issue of Lumpen is coming.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New issue of Lumpen is coming.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
Lumpen #16: Class and Care is underway and will be with our subscribers before the end of the year!
Whilst you are waiting check out the new third edition of Left Cultures featuring our own Amy writing on Sinead O'Connor.
@leftcultures.bsky.social
leftcultures.com/pages/about
Whilst you are waiting check out the new third edition of Left Cultures featuring our own Amy writing on Sinead O'Connor.
@leftcultures.bsky.social
leftcultures.com/pages/about
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumpen #16: Class and Care is underway and will be with our subscribers before the end of the year!
Whilst you are waiting check out the new third edition of Left Cultures featuring our own Amy writing on Sinead O'Connor.
@leftcultures.bsky.social
leftcultures.com/pages/about
Whilst you are waiting check out the new third edition of Left Cultures featuring our own Amy writing on Sinead O'Connor.
@leftcultures.bsky.social
leftcultures.com/pages/about
2 days left to submit proposals for our next issue of Lumpen: Class and Care.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
2 days left to submit proposals for our next issue of Lumpen: Class and Care.
LUMPEN – Class Work Project share.google/ckwTUjj5BRpk...
LUMPEN – Class Work Project share.google/ckwTUjj5BRpk...
Thats right, we have a new website. More accurate to what we do and how we work. It is still in development however so more to come soon!
theclassworkproject.com
theclassworkproject.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thats right, we have a new website. More accurate to what we do and how we work. It is still in development however so more to come soon!
theclassworkproject.com
theclassworkproject.com
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Now out for all! 1st of a double podcast about the successful fight against the UK poll tax in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Covering the background, Thatcherism, introduction of the tax in Scotland, the beginnings of resistance, and the poll tax riot: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Now out for all! 1st of a double podcast about the successful fight against the UK poll tax in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Covering the background, Thatcherism, introduction of the tax in Scotland, the beginnings of resistance, and the poll tax riot: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...
You've still got til the 1st October to submit your proposals for Lumpen #16: Class and Care. Plenty of time!
September 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
You've still got til the 1st October to submit your proposals for Lumpen #16: Class and Care. Plenty of time!
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Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.
September 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.
It's time to move through class guilt and book an exploring class workshop!
September 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It's time to move through class guilt and book an exploring class workshop!
Amy's piece speaks to the rise of the far right's appropriation of the St George's flag and Union Jack in the UK to stir up further anti-immigrant hate:
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September 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Amy's piece speaks to the rise of the far right's appropriation of the St George's flag and Union Jack in the UK to stir up further anti-immigrant hate:
www.theclassworkproject.com/post/the-hea...
Get your full copy:
www.theclassworkproject.com/product-page...
www.theclassworkproject.com/post/the-hea...
Get your full copy:
www.theclassworkproject.com/product-page...
In Lumpen #15: Class and Migration; Esraa submitted this hauntingly beautiful, restless and resilient piece to the edition. We want to highlight this piece...
September 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
In Lumpen #15: Class and Migration; Esraa submitted this hauntingly beautiful, restless and resilient piece to the edition. We want to highlight this piece...
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Hey, Lumpen is open for submissions again and it will be a great issue.
Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.
September 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hey, Lumpen is open for submissions again and it will be a great issue.
Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.
September 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.
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Really happy to share the Editorial from Lumpen 15 by @classworkproject.bsky.social's @zosiabrom.bsky.social.
It's an important opener to an important edition of an important periodical. You should get on that ;p
organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/08/18/l...
It's an important opener to an important edition of an important periodical. You should get on that ;p
organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/08/18/l...
Lumpen 15 Editorial | Editorial - Organise Magazine
The first time I had lived experience of how deep class division in the UK runs was shortly after my arrival, when a much younger version of myself began my first romantic relationship on these isles....
organisemagazine.org.uk
August 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Really happy to share the Editorial from Lumpen 15 by @classworkproject.bsky.social's @zosiabrom.bsky.social.
It's an important opener to an important edition of an important periodical. You should get on that ;p
organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/08/18/l...
It's an important opener to an important edition of an important periodical. You should get on that ;p
organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/08/18/l...
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First batch of sales and subscriber copies of @classworkproject.bsky.social's Lumpen 15 out the door.
Some of you were lucky and get the last of the @krime.bsky.social postcards and GAF stickers too ;p
Support your local working class rabble and order a copy : seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
Some of you were lucky and get the last of the @krime.bsky.social postcards and GAF stickers too ;p
Support your local working class rabble and order a copy : seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
July 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
First batch of sales and subscriber copies of @classworkproject.bsky.social's Lumpen 15 out the door.
Some of you were lucky and get the last of the @krime.bsky.social postcards and GAF stickers too ;p
Support your local working class rabble and order a copy : seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
Some of you were lucky and get the last of the @krime.bsky.social postcards and GAF stickers too ;p
Support your local working class rabble and order a copy : seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
Marijam's piece is taken from the latest edition of Lumpen: Class and Migration, available online or in print: www.theclassworkproject.com/shop-1
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www.theclassworkproject.com/post/the-van...
July 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Marijam's piece is taken from the latest edition of Lumpen: Class and Migration, available online or in print: www.theclassworkproject.com/shop-1
www.theclassworkproject.com/post/the-van...
www.theclassworkproject.com/post/the-van...
Issue 15 of Lumpen, everyone's favourite magazine for poor and working-class writers, is here!
Get your copy:
Digital: www.theclassworkproject.com/.../lumpen-1...
Paper from our awesome distributors @seditionist.bsky.social seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
Get your copy:
Digital: www.theclassworkproject.com/.../lumpen-1...
Paper from our awesome distributors @seditionist.bsky.social seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
July 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Issue 15 of Lumpen, everyone's favourite magazine for poor and working-class writers, is here!
Get your copy:
Digital: www.theclassworkproject.com/.../lumpen-1...
Paper from our awesome distributors @seditionist.bsky.social seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
Get your copy:
Digital: www.theclassworkproject.com/.../lumpen-1...
Paper from our awesome distributors @seditionist.bsky.social seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
July 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Psst, the new issue of Lumpen is coming very soon, pass it on.
June 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Psst, the new issue of Lumpen is coming very soon, pass it on.