Luke Ray Di Marco Campbell (‘Luke Ray; he/they) is a queer working class community worker and anarcha-feminist based in Glasgow. Born in Paisley and having grown up in Dundee, they spent the last decade working across the Scottish central belt addressing social inclusion, supporting anti-hate crime initiatives, and promoting adult education. They currently teach Community […]
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Luke Ray Di Marco Campbell Writing
‘We’re Not That Kind of Club’: Football, Fascism, and THAT Banner Almost Anyone But Malky Queer Spaces: Opportunities & Threats ‘Friends of Debora’: Solidarity, Capitalism, & Covid Recovery Apologies, Accountability, & A Question Of Forgiveness Prison, Protest, & Mutual Aid: The Robert Danilczuk Story Five Radical Books Coming in Early 2023
My Covid-19 Story Part 2 – Back to School
Since the last time I wrote about my Covid-19 experience for Ungagged my life here in Xiamen (on the south coast of China) has regained a degree of normality. Initially many people were saying things like “normal isn’t really very normal any more”, and the expectation was that the strictly enforced new rules were here […]
‘We’re Not That Kind of Club’: Football, Fascism, and THAT Banner
By Luke Campbell _______________________________ ● “We’re ashamed. We are embarrassed that our name was in [the message], that they tried to attach it to our club – it doesn’t belong anywhere near our club.” – Ben Mee (Burnley F.C. Captain) On Monday night, some fans of the English Premier League side Burnley Football Club had […]
Acknowledging the Big Picture
Sounds odd to state something so obvious, yet I feel there are some out there in the world who may need reminding. Racism is lightyears more horrific than vandalism in every way imaginable. Smashed goods do not compare to the level of misery and pain inflicted upon those oppressed by a society built to favour […]
Black Lives Matter
writes: Today (Sunday 7/6/2020) will see Black Lives matter demonstrations in Scotland. I have tried to convince Back Lives Matter activists to move away from doing physical protests and to go online. Although they all have listened and have taken on board what we’ve said – one of the events did move online – the […]
Poetry – The Scum Parade
Ah whose got the short straw today lads? Which one of the scum parade have we got today? The one who ran a pyramid scheme? The one who made laws that would kick out her own dad? Another day, another lie. It’s like another 747 falling out the sky. The scum parade get up and […]
The only time is…
This is the third part in Deborah Sanderson’s story. Part 1 The Seed of Light and Dan McPhail. Part 2 In the spring of another Now. It had all come full circle, what a curious day! Then onto the quayside capstan, the sun blazed away. The heavens were saturated with eternity blue skies, like the […]
Coronavirus has killed the last chance for a Sanders Presidency
On April 9th, following months of wrangling and political machinations, the campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S President ended when Senator Bernie Sanders made the surprising decision to drop out of the race. The decision came after the Supreme Court refused to suspend physical voting in the Wisconsin primary elections due to the Covid-19 […]
The Scottish Black Sheep
Apart from moaning and complaining about politics, I spend a lot of my time at my day job preparing Chinese youngsters for future exams (and life in general). I’m a primary school teacher at a foreign language school in Xiamen, on the South East coast of China. As you would imagine, there are some interesting […]