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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · 2d

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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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · 19d

It was great to do the presentation with you! Lots of interesting ideas for developing the project

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · Jun 21

Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Aug 1

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 · Aug 1

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...

Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital

Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital is a Marxist journal based in London.

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Aug 1

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...

Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital

Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital is a Marxist journal based in London.

workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Jul 25

Solidarity with the Birmingham bin strike! Depot shut down this morning

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Jul 21

Windspit Quarry in Dorset

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Jul 21

Yeah there are quite a few locations in England and Scotland across the series!

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Jul 21

Visited one of the Andor sets today!

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Jul 20

Join the @strikemap.org Megapicket supporting the Birmingham bin workers, coaches up from London on the 25th July!

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Jul 19

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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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Jul 18

Tower Hamlets Trades Council banner up at Tolpuddle festival!

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · Jul 15

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.

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · Jun 30

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.

www.commonnotions.org

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · Jun 17

I was elated to give a speech last Saturday to my fellow union members which was inspired by one of the most amazing shows made recently. www.austinkelmore.com/blog/all-we-...

All We Have is Us

My opening speech at the IWGB Game Workers Annual General Meeting where I relate how Star War's Andor with the video game industry.

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Jumpgate Games @jumpgategames.itch.io · Jun 16

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

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Jumpgate Games @jumpgategames.itch.io · Jun 16

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

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Game Worker Solidarity @gameworkersolidarity.com · Jun 7

If you care about video game workers and want to follow all the game worker unions across the world, we've created a starter pack with all the ones on BlueSky.

If we've missed one, let us know!

go.bsky.app/PNcLPFU

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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context @cclas1.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 )

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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 · May 30

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 · May 30

🗣️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��

https://novaramedia.com/2025/05/26/uni…

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · May 27

👀📖 — a new issue of ⁦‪Long Haul magazine — #1u

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 26

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

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

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 26

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 · May 26

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

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · May 23

This is an excellent account of the UC Strike for Palestine from the Santa Cruz grad workers

If you want to support more writing like this, subscribe to Long Haul magazine

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From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine

SPRING 2025 ISSUE 02 From the Camp to the Picket:Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine CURRENT AND FORMER GRAD WORKERSAT UC SANTA CRUZ Image from the main entrance to UC Santa Cruz, May 2024…

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · May 19

Now that the final episodes of Star Wars Andor have aired: the call for contributions to Andor Analysed, part 2 is live!

Want to write about Andor? Send us a pitch by the 30 May, drafts due 29 August.

Get in touch with any questions/ideas. Full details: www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

Andor Analysed, Part 2

Red Futures is an online Marxist science fiction magazine. We publish new fiction and writing on science fiction, including the edited collections on The Expanse and Andor Analysed, part 1. This call...

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