Welcome to AYNTK
People are brought to politics and community activism at different times and around many different degrees of experiences. These experiences will form the curriculum of community learning and will be, and have always been, the real stimulus to working class progress.
The challenge here is to find a way of helping to build a solid social base for people to work from. A place they can find some confidence to build solidarity, for meeting their own immediate problems. As well as creating a wider awareness and understanding of the UK’s domestic and international affairs, which are directly working to disrupt their ability to do that.
We will be working to build a portal of useful information, to help support the need for positive community action in working class communities. To challenge the infiltration of right wing agendas, that are replacing the spaces the left have almost forgotten, or are desperately in need of their attention.
The project was set up to look at these problems specifically through the lens of a working class experience, and to help in the work of setting up strategies and agendas to fight the disparities of opportunity and wealth that stem from current government policies.
A big part of this will be that people need to be proactively inducted into the movement for change, not just “ok, yeah, come along”. The activism of the transient population of students and so on, is important. But so too is building power in communities where people are rooted, if it is to be made sustainable.
A tall order, but that is our challenge.
