No One Else Is Coming: Self-Organisation Within Britain’s Abandoned Communities

How do Britain's most deprived communities survive, support and govern themselves when they are abandoned by public services, from education to welfare to healthcare?

D Hunter follows the people doing the work the state won't: community accountability processes that handle serious harm without police; harm-reduction projects that prevented deaths when official services failed. This is the mutual care sustaining life on the margins, and its invisibility is no accident. It is produced by the same class dynamics within progressive movements that these communities understand all too well.

Written from inside the communities it describes, No One Else Is Coming refuses both victimhood and the myth of heroic resilience. It reclaims ground the right has seized, and the left has ceded: a people written off who are already enacting leftist politics in practice.