Dom Hunter

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Analysis: as in the Estate Left

The estate left, as I understand it, begins there: not in certainty, not in slogans, but in the slow, difficult work of making solidarity possible again in places where it has been systematically broken.

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Introducing the Estate Left

The Estate Left is the name I’ve given to a form of working-class politics that has been quietly building itself in the ruins of the old welfare state. It’s not a metaphor or a slogan. It’s the real, organised life of communities who have learned to survive without the institutions that once claimed to represent them, and to do so in ways that are both collective and political.