Who Is Organising Poor White Folks Towards Liberation?

“Make no missteps with the title of this piece — we need more than ‘talking to white people’ or a redirecting of programmes to focus on the ‘left behind white communities.’ Through these niceties and arbitrary binaries, we risk maintaining a perpetual reversal; a sustained paradigm of haves and have-nots; a de-equilibrium that temporarily benefits a few but continually favours extractive power. To really contend with radical grievance is to orient with a politicised analysis of liberation. We are talking a rigorous, astute, multifaceted, systemic, (infra)structural, intersectional framing of liberation that grasps at the root of dispossession and class… This is not about saving poor white people. It is about refusing to let fascism monopolise their grief. It is about refusing to cede the terrain of belonging, ritual and story to the far right… To insist that the longing for belonging, the ache of loss, can be transformed into radical grievance.”