lisamckenzie1968Jun 11, 20227 min readThe Working Class Lockdown Diaries: Our struggle was real March 2020 - Existential Doom Two years on its very easy to forget the shock and fear of the existential doom we were living with in...
lisamckenzie1968Apr 18, 20203 min readThe Eastend Working Class are resilient and will come through Covid -19 Crisis - By Lisa Stepanovic Social Ark was set up to support entrepreneurial young people from under-resourced communities to set up social enterprises and community...
lisamckenzie1968Mar 9, 20207 min readHappy Birthday Lou 16 Rose terrace is unremarkable, a two up two down once red now black brick terrace house with a standard and uniformed yellow front...
lisamckenzie1968Dec 12, 20195 min readWhy I wont be voting today (The belligerence of Arthur Seaton lives on) Growing up in Sutton In Ashfield, daughter of a Nottinghamshire Striking miner, and a trade...
lisamckenzie1968May 14, 20193 min readClass Politics is about Power NOT Identity. I am Working Class When I say I’m working class, I’m not describing an identity, I’m not explaining a social position, I don’t say this...
lisamckenzie1968May 8, 20196 min readIn the Kingdom of the Blind the One Eyed Man is King: London Politics are dead. Long live politics. In the Westminster Kingdom of the Blind the One Eyed Northerner is King: London Politics are dead. Long live the politics of the one eyed...
lisamckenzie1968Apr 18, 20194 min readAdam Clifford Says - Dear John, it’s all gone fucking wrong!This is my farewell message to the gays. I’m raw and angry because I’ve just lost a loved one to the shit consumer lifestyle that has...
lisamckenzie1968Apr 18, 20195 min readIt's Capitalism, Stupid: Extinction Rebellion Can't Do it with Flowers. I don’t want to piss on anyone’s parade, I really don’t. But watching the protests by the climate revolutionaries Extinction Rebellion, I...
lisamckenzie1968Feb 21, 20193 min readBooks I like to read. The Half-Life of the Deindustrialization: Working Class Writing about Economic Restructuring Sherry Lee Linkon (2018) University of...
lisamckenzie1968Jan 27, 20194 min readThe day I had lunch with M. Macron – The French President. For 11 weeks the French Working class have been out on the streets showing their anger towards the French political administration, and...
lisamckenzie1968Dec 31, 20185 min readWe are in Revolution; The wheels they are a turning like Arkwrights Mill in 1819Beginnings and endings are never easy, and if they are they aren’t truly an end or a beginning, anything other that does not include...
lisamckenzie1968Dec 15, 20183 min readPressing the Fuck It Button I’ve got a rule, I don’t try and talk to middle class or #PeoplesVoters about why working class people in the post industrial areas, and...
lisamckenzie1968Dec 2, 20184 min readRussell Group or Post-92 its all about Class It doesn’t really matter who you speak to and at what level from student to Professor there is a consensus that the British Higher...
lisamckenzie1968Nov 20, 20183 min readBrexit: a two-fingered salute from the working class The Brexit vote was the working class sticking he Brexit vote was the working class sticking two fingers up to the metropolitan middle class, the political elite and liberal...
lisamckenzie1968Nov 10, 20185 min readNovember Melancholia:Don't start me talking I could talk all night My mind goes sleepwalking While I'm putting the world to right Called careers information...
lisamckenzie1968Nov 5, 20185 min readIts not funny but its a joke: London's housing activists At the weekend I attended the March for Homes, this was called by many of the council estates that are under threat of demolition in...
lisamckenzie1968Nov 3, 20183 min readA Howl of Anger from the heart of Forgotten Britain Parts of the United Kingdom have disappeared from public view over the past 30 years, and been erased from social memory. The coal mining...
lisamckenzie1968Nov 1, 20186 min readA difficult discussion. There are many ways that you can stop the far right marching through a city, or through a community. You can organise your own march and...
lisamckenzie1968Oct 24, 20184 min readTheres Nothing Too Good For The Working ClassThe middle class are defined and valued by what they own, their successes in business, their rise through the tiers of the education...
lisamckenzie1968Oct 21, 20183 min readThe Future of Working Class Anarchism: It’s about class struggle or it’s about nothing. The Colonisation of Everything Its time we were honest, and its time we were brave, working class people are being fucked over, we are...
