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A campaign to strengthen political education by supplying free LBC titles to libraries and building local reading groups, thereby making radical ideas and debate accessible to everyone regardless of income.

The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction was established by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) in 2012. The award is run on behalf of the ARB by two not-for-profit booksellers: Housmans Bookshop, one of London’s longest surviving and last remaining radical bookshops, and Letterbox Library, a workers’ cooperative and booksellers specialising in inclusive … Continued

This project provides training for the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain. Through liberatory pedagogy it develops the knowledge, capacity, and confidence of migrant workers to fight for their rights. www.iwgb.org.uk

A political education project featuring live streamed events, ‘long read’ articles and short videos, specially-commissioned to increase discussion and understanding around the nature of work, systemic racism, and our democracy.

This project is centred upon the recordings of a series of lectures Raymond Williams gave in Cambridge in 1972 which became his landmark book ‘Marxism and Literature’ (1977). On loan from Merryn Williams, the daughter of Raymond Williams, they capture the beginning of what Williams described as an attempt to set his work ‘into a … Continued

Scotland after the Virus is a major political and cultural intervention exploring how society has been affected by the impact of COVID-19 and the challenges and world which will emerge after the virus. Its co-editors are Dr Gerry Hassan and Simon Barrow – who have previously co-edited two books on the SNP in office, and … Continued

Providing ‘Information for action’ to support gig economy workers’ campaigns, and running ‘DIY’ trainings to educate and empower workers to investigate their employers and hold them to account.

Next year is 50 years since the Equal Pay Act. The struggle however began much earlier amongst working class communities in East London. This project celebrates the women fighting for pay equality since the 1880s.

A digital platform that gives workers practical tools to document and reflect upon their working conditions, build solidarity within and across industries, and collectively organise against oppression.

This project will enable Notes from Below to organise five workshops on workers’ inquiry, identify new worker writers, and support the co-production of a special issue of their writing.