I have a certain sympathy with this Labour MP Jon Trickett arguing in a Jacobin interview that the party must fight a class war than a culture war. He represents a northern community and I can see why he'd long for a return to the...
working class
Far too often in our imaginations and in our media, we imagine the working class as a white man, probably with an out of fashion mustache, in a union jacket.
The New York Times decided to run a long profile of workers in Youngstown to get at the appeal of Donald Trump. It's the typical article.
Way too often in American political rhetoric, the working class means "white people." That's especially true among pundits who often talk of politicians needing to appeal to "the working class," i.e., laid off white autoworkers in Michigan with out of fashion mustaches. African-American and Latino...