{"product_id":"chav-solidarity-paperback","title":"Chav Solidarity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChav Solidarity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eby D. Hunter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part political meditation, part two fingers up at respectability politics, \u003cem\u003eChav Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e is unlike anything else written about class in Britain today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD. Hunter grew up underclass. His first twenty-five years ran on the informal economy: sex work, dealing, robbing, and violence, shaped by addiction, abuse, and life on the streets. For the years since, he's worked as an anti-capitalist community organiser and a mental health support worker. In this collection of essays he turns an unflinching eye on his own life to ask a bigger question: how do our class experiences shape the way we think, feel, relate to one another, and do our politics?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the political left, Hunter argues, people like him are treated as ignorant and ill-informed. To the triumphant right, they're the discarded waste product of the working class. Refusing both caricatures, Hunter writes with a bluntness and honesty rarely allowed into conversations about poverty. He dismantles the middle-class framing of self-care and mental health, exposes how \"the left\" so often fails the very people it claims to speak for, and makes the case for a mutual aid built on action rather than words: care, solidarity, and survival forged under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearing, funny, self-critical, and genuinely hopeful, \u003cem\u003eChav Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir, a manifesto, a confession, and a call to organise. It's a book about trauma and identity, but above all about the possibility of extending our arms toward one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContent warning: \u003c\/strong\u003e This book contains references to sexual violence, physical and gendered violence, racism, drug use, suicide, transphobia, murder, and police brutality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 134\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68070829228284,"sku":"9781036989484","price":26.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/1648\/7234\/files\/Aqowdet6EB9781036989484.webp?v=1793800215","url":"https:\/\/proudlibertarian.com\/products\/chav-solidarity-paperback","provider":"Proud Libertarian","version":"1.0","type":"link"}