Brossant and Klingberg's Revolutionary Yiddishland talks about how a significant proportion of the French Resistance was Jewish, and overwhelmingly not naturalised French Jews but migrant Eastern European Jewish factory workers. It was easier for them to resist the Nazis because

they were already used to working together in unions. I've thought about that a lot the past few years: what if the realistic goal for us right now is not to build the revolution but to build connections and experience that means we're better equipped to resist and take care of

one another locally as things continue to get worse. It's a less exciting goal but the only thing that has felt meaningful to me politically lately is those small victories, finding ways to take care of one another, holding back the worst of things.

Every time I've let myself get at all invested in parliamentary politics it's just led to misery: as much as anything it's too big, too out of my control, wildly disempowering. But it is possible to see small things change, to learn things, to be changed, at work and where I live