Notes from Below

Notes from Below
CategoriesWork, Politics, Class Struggle
FrequencyTri-annually
FormatDigital, Print
Founded2018
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Websitenotesfrombelow.org
ISSN2631-9284

Notes from Below, founded in 2018,[1] is a UK-based political project that publishes online-articles, a growing book series,[2] a podcast called Workers' Inquiry, [3] alongside a digital and print journal produced tri-annually.[4] It publishes "workers' inquiries" and contemporary class analyses that uses class composition theory.[5] The editors, including Jamie Woodcock and Callum Cant,[6] have modeled their work after the Italian journal Quaderni Rossi, the US based Johnson–Forest Tendency, French collective Socialisme ou Barbarie, and early surveys about working conditions conducted by Karl Marx.[7] Through the inquiries it publishes, the project promotes class composition analysis and workerism.[8]

The inquiries featured in the journal have included workers in call centers, Amazon delivery centers, universities, tech companies,[9] and pubs and its coverage has focused on small, militant unions like the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain.[10] It also publishes political writing, most explicitly in Issue 19 of the journal titled The Political Leap: Communist Strategy Today.[11]

Notes from Below had contributed to a 2018 University and College Union (UCU) pension strike by publishing bulletins and circulating an open letter in support of the strike.[10] It also hosts the bulletin The University Worker.[12]

In 2020, Notes from Below was awarded a grant from the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust to produce a special issue.[13] From April 2023, they began to publish their journal in print, with three issues being released a year.[14]

Bibliography

  • Cant, Callum; Englert, Sai; Hughes, Lydia; Liu, Wendy; Marotta, Achille; Wheeler, Seth; Woodcock, Jamie (2020). "Notes from Below: A Brief Survey of Class Composition in the UK". In Ovetz, Robert (ed.). Workers' inquiry and global class struggle : strategies, tactics, objectives. London. pp. 174–194. ISBN 9781786806451.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • James Butler, Jessica Thorne, Callum Cant and Seth Wheeler (18 March 2018). Notes From Below: No Politics Without Inquiry!. Novara Media. Retrieved 27 April 2021.

See also

References

  1. ^ "New journal: Notes from Below". Historical Materialism. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  2. ^ "// Notes From Below". Notes From Below. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  3. ^ "Spotify – Web Player". Spotify. Retrieved 20 January 2026.
  4. ^ "// Notes From Below". Notes From Below. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  5. ^ "The Workers' Inquiry and Social Composition by Notes from Below". Notes from Below. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  6. ^ Barry, Ellen (25 February 2019). "'Austerity, That's What I Know': The Making of a Young U.K. Socialist (Published 2019)". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "Karl Marx's Workers Inquiry (Issue #14)". Notes From Below. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  8. ^ "Book Review: The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy by Jamie Woodcock". LSE Review of Books. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  9. ^ Varghese, Sanjana. "Tech workers are organising – and asking what technology is actually for". New Statesman. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  10. ^ a b Allinson, Ian (17 November 2018). "Notes From Below: Workers' Inquiries #HM2018". rs21. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  11. ^ "The Political Leap: Communist Strategy Today (Issue #19)". Notes From Below. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  12. ^ "The University Worker". Notes From Below. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  13. ^ "Workers' Inquiry in theory and practice". Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Support". Notes from Below. Retrieved 7 November 2024.


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