Silence - The Great Silencing of British working class culture

14/03/2026

Sound up!

04/11/2025

Meet me in the Croydon Clocktower cafe in November…

11/02/2025

I have a new booklet coming out soon. Its the link between Conspiracy fo Good Taste and SiLENCE! if anyone is willing to write a short review on Goodreads please give a shout. For now there are a lot of cheap chapbooks here: https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Stefan+Szczelkun&hl=en-US

27/12/2024

a copy of my book SiLENCE! is currently for sale on Amazon USA for $3.53! (down from $14.95) almost cheaper than the ebook
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Silence!: the great silencing of British working class culture

08/10/2024

https://youtu.be/6RP0JdiJasc?si=Ffti2Jw7ysnWND0w The funeral and life celebration of my best mate the brilliant and fearless Micheline Mason was yesterday. How lucky was I to have spent time with her every monday morning for the last 30 years and more, in a mutual support group with various others - in recent years Sue. Micheline was a true revolutionary hero.
Her wish, often repeated, was that every working class person could have what we had: a weekly place to listen to each other confidentially. A space to express our feelings and explore our thinking. That 20 minutes of being listened to made all the difference.
Thanks to her daughter Lucy (seen speaking at the beginning of this video) for organising the event.

Two consecutive direct actions in 1998 which helped to bring about a change in British Law. First a demo outside Downing Street, London and then people went ...

04/09/2024

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Lumpen #13 comes with a new, refreshed graphics design and format. Inside, packed across 80 pages, you will find articles describing the experiences of poor and working-class people in the UK and beyond in their full, glorious diversity. This is a digital copy in EPUB format.

26/04/2024

Reflections from a damaged life ....

Seventy years after its publication, Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia is a warning against resurgent fascism

15/04/2024

For those who might be interested I'm attempting a daily post of quotes from Minima Moralia on 'X' randomly illustrated.

05/03/2024

https://youtu.be/hshXr61ydPU?si=1gJV3w3UMggCZZ1u
Just found this video by Valerie Walkerdine on Youtube.

A film by Valerie Walkerdine, 1990A group of working class women who went on to higher education explore shifting class identitiesMusic composed and performe...

19/02/2024

Fiction built on counter cultural research. Nice model of how an oppositional culture might work.

My first post last year was about “White Riot”, the debut of a trilogy of novels by Joe Thomas. The second intallment has just been published and is a great read. White Riot begins with…

19/02/2024