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@jamiewoodcock.com

Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.

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KCL UCU@kclucu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza ⬇️

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Jamie@jamiewoodcock.com · 10mo ago

Join us for a discussion on The Latest in Game Worker Organising with: Sarah Elmaleh, SAG-AFTRA and Spring McParlinJones, IWGB Game Workers Online and at the Science Gallery London from 6pm on the 17th October Register here: luma.com/3b8fpjj3

Panel Discussion: The Latest in Game Worker Organising · Luma

Over the past few years, a wave of unionisation has swept across the games industry. The organising has taken different forms, with workers joining existing…

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Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · last yr.

Just launched the 'Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital' journal. The starting point for this is a shared understanding that Marxism can provide important conceptual tools for understanding the relationship between workers and capital, as well as supporting the struggle against capital.

Jamie@jamiewoodcock.com · last yr.

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

Jamie@jamiewoodcock.com · last yr.

Tolpuddle Martyrs walking tour as part of the festival: James Hammett's grave, the tree, the martyr's cottages, and the newly reopened Martyr's Inn

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Austin Kelmore@austinkelmore.com · last yr.

Someone asked me why game workers haven't unionized if our conditions are so bad. These charts are why. We have collectively lost the knowledge, skill, and willingness to organize and strike. We have to rebuild those, and that takes time.

A bar chart titled Number of workers striking by year. The Screen Actors Guild was formed in 1933 amid lots of strikes before it and even more after it formed. Game Workers Started Organizing in 2017 where previously there were relatively few strikes for decades prior.A graph of Union Membership in the United States from 1960-2020. It goes from 30% in 1960 to 10% in 2020.Bar chart of Percent of Union Election Campaigns with an Illegal Firing. It's 5% in 1951 to 26% in 2007.A bar chart with the title Is Ronald Regan to Blame? No has zero. Yes has 100.
M. E. O'Brien@genderhorizon.com · last yr.

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

Project 2052 — Common Notions Press

Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

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Jumpgate Games@jumpgategames.itch.io · last yr.

ANNOUNCEMENT: If we hit 1000 backers in the next 48 hours... We'll send a FREE digital copy 📝 of The Scum & Villains Expansion 🎲 for galactic 2e to ALL backers! Less than 100 backers to go! Back Galactic & Rogue ASAP for this black market expansion of crime, corruption, and just maybe, redemption!

1000 backers (from 907) within 48 hours and a free PDF of the scum & villains expansion (prior edition) for all backers immediately. shows someone covering their eyes and looking up at semi-transparent scifi heroes on a starry background, along with Galactic & Going Rogue Live Now on Kickstarter
Jumpgate Games@jumpgategames.itch.io · last yr.

LIVE ON KICKSTARTER: Galactic & Going Rogue, 2 GMless scifi #TTRPGs 🎲 in 1 book! 🚀 Galactic by @rileyrethal.bsky.social: Rebellion, Relationships, & War Among the Stars 🚀 Going Rogue by @jessfrom.online: Cynicism, Hope, & Making the Ultimate Sacrifice 🔗: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...

Galactic & Going Rogue hardcover book, and art of various space characters and dogfighting spaceships in front of a starry background, then LIVE NOW ON KICKSTARTER NOW
Jumpgate Games@jumpgategames.itch.io · last yr.

What's in The Scum & Villains Expansion? Here's a look at just one playbook: The Mercenary 🔫 A wandering warrior, bearing scars of a lonely life, and—via the new individual Fate mechanic introduced in TSVE—destined to grow into someone new. Wonder where I've seen a "chromasteel pauldron" before...

YOU ARE THE MERCENARY the mercenary is a freelancer, who bears the scars of their countless jobs. their power comes from their experience, their calloused skin, and their aching heart. TIPS • explore the tension between the life you feel it’s too late escape, and the fate that will inevitably bring you something new. • put your character in situations that confront their fate, and remember that change happens through failure and repetition. • remember that you have your fate move in addition to the moves listed below! Excerpted for brevity
Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS)@cclas2025.bsky.social · last yr.

Tanzil Chowdhury writes for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social on 'Legal Workers and the workplaces of law' about his latest co-edited book (w/ @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social ) frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

Legal workers and the workplaces of law - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this piece for Borderlands, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology.

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Jamie@jamiewoodcock.com · last yr.

KCL was one of the branches that voted on this motion before it went to UCU congress. Great to see the union debating this strategy! If you want to get involved in the rank and file campaign, sign up below:

KCL UCU@kclucu.bsky.social · last yr.

🗣️As of this week we have voted to open a trade dispute with the government’s Secretary of State for education over the higher education funding model. There is an organising meeting on Tuesday 3 June, 6-7pm. Register below ⬇️ novaramedia.com/2025/05/26/uni… lu.ma/zs6bklhz?local���

QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · last yr.

Motion brought by @ucuessex.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social, Oxford, Kingston, UAL #UCU2025 #UCUCongress

QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · last yr.

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

Trade Dispute with Government UCU Congress delegates voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the higher education funding crisis.