It depicts the Miraculous Draught of Fishes, a parable of a resurrected, unrecognised Christ advising his disciples, who had failed at fishing:. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Standing beneath that tapestry, his slight frame thrumming with an electric power drawn from the twelve hundred cheering supporters filling the Guildhall โ here, in the birthplace of Michael Foot, in the very hall where the TUC voted to form the Labour Representation Committee in , Corbyn seemed a fine fisher of men.
But he has not caught us like fishes in his net. My story is the same as many thousands of people who have found themselves unable to find steady, decently paid work.
Our story is about austerity; we are everywhere, subsisting on meagre benefits, part-time work and a few occasional jobs. Some of us go into business for ourselves; some of us make websites; some of us fix cars, and some of us do sex work.
She is a contributing editor of Salvage. She is a New Statesman blogger, and her writing also appears regularly in the Guardian , Cosmopolitan , and elsewhere.
Marxism for Whores by Magpie Corvid My story is the same as many thousands of people who have found themselves unable to find steady, decently paid work.
