num_pages: 133
description: To the political left Hunter's people are the ignorant and the ill informed to the victorious right they are the unwashed and discarded waste product of the labouring class. Chav Solidarity is part autobiography part meditation on trauma class and identity part one finger salute into the face of respectability politics but mostly an articulation of the contradictory heart of Chavvy shit heads across the U.K. This collection of essay's pick apart the lived experiences of its author. Hunter uses his experiences as child sex worker teenage crack addict violent thug and community activist to examine the ways in which our classed experiences shape the ways in which we think and do our politics. Hunter is an ageing chav whose first 25 years depended upon the informal economy including sex work robbing and dealing. For the last 12 years he has been an anti-capitalist motivated community organiser and spent too much time watching football. He is currently flogging a book about himself poverty and anarchism whilst finishing his first crime fiction novel. He pays his bills by working as a mental health support worker. He thinks everyone should stop recycling until they've collectivised and/or redistributed all their current and future economic resources. It's full of nuanced self-reflection and complexity that refuses to caricature. Hunter offers us a gift with this book: an essential opportunity to interrogate the ways in which class informs our identities experiences relationships and resistance. Tripod: Training for Creative Social Action. Chav Solidarity is a very necessary challenge to the academic and ignorant writing on class struggles. It brings us the bluntness and authenticity that remains erased in most conversations. Eshe Kiama Zuri
language: English
title: Chav Solidarity
publisher: None