ABSTRACT
This chapter focusses on how the working-class magazine Voices forms a case study of how everyday suffering manifests itself in relation to working-class testimony, drawing on the work of Lauren Berlant, Laura S. Brown, Pierre Bourdieu, and Iain Wilkinson, who all explore the possibility of 'everyday', 'ongoing', or 'ordinary' trauma. Ben Ainley, a former NUT-activist and Communist, founded the magazine in 1972. Ainley joined the Party in 1921, and, as revealed in his unpublished autobiography held in the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, used to meet fellow Communists in Higher Broughton to talk about the post-war crisis, the Revolution, and poetry. The Unity of Arts was created after Resolution 42 and was temporarily located in Back George Street in the centre of Manchester: this UK-wide organization was associated with Voices throughout the early production of the magazine.
