Books From Below will have a stall at the Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday 30th March at the @starandshadow.bsky.social Cinema. We’ll be selling second hand books, tshirts, tote bags, and some prints! Hope to see you there!

8. Book review of E Thacker and D Pettman's Sad Planets - @benbowsher.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OtD 22 May 1968 footballers in Paris occupied the French Football Association headquarters declaring "Football to the Footballers." They issued a statement demanding the immediate dismissal of football "profiteers" and for football without profits shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

BBC here with an infinitely generous (and obfuscatory) reading of a contemporary fascist street movement

Why is the media calling on David Baddiel as an expert in politics and antisemitism? He’s just a shit comedian. Absolutely intellectually impoverished media ecosystem

Well, the left hate him because he's the figurehead of a multi-year effort to excise them from democratic representation, the right hate him because they think he's a Muslim communist and everyone else was pretty disengaged already and he ran on change then didn't change much. That about cover it?

The schadenfreude about this particular Labour collapse and panic would be delicious if I thought the left within the party had a reasonable chance of responding to it. But it’s been systematically destroyed so now we just have a big fucking mess and insurgent fascism.

Everyone could have reasonably foreseen this outcome, of which there have been numerous examples, and lots of research. Suggests the most plausible conclusion is that this nonsense, often described as an electoral strategy, is in fact an emotional attachment to racism. bsky.app/profile/robf...

pure, uncut, liquid Sir Keir to write an article about "breaking with the status quo once and for all" on Friday, then announcing new roles for Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on Saturday

"To some in this country, I am everything that the hateful despise, and I'm standing here as your MSP with care. They say politics is the art of the possible, a politics of care I would say expands what is possible for everyone left behind, pushed out or never invited in.”

Turns out that UK Labour promoting Reform's policies is indistinguishable from promoting Reform. No one could have foreseen this.

The Labour Right today:

A reminder about the post below :-]

Having big ‘burn academia to the ground’ feelings today.

For international Labour Day weekend, we are offering a time-limited sale of our Strike prints from 1st-4th May. 10% of the proceeds going to Durham Miners Gala. The rest will continue to fund Books from Below. Booksfrombelow.bigcartel.com Please share widely!

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of toxic people and fake friends.”

When they say Keir Starmer is a human rights lawyer, they mean he’s horny for taking away our human rights

Keir Starmer has never met an exercise of arbitrary power that didn’t give him an erection

For international Labour Day weekend, we are offering a time-limited sale of our Strike prints from 1st-4th May. 10% of the proceeds going to Durham Miners Gala. The rest will continue to fund Books from Below. Booksfrombelow.bigcartel.com Please share widely!

Just to add to this - my radical politics-centered work has won me awards but I’m 2 years out of my PhD and unable to get an academic job. Not all social phenomena are equal in the eyes of the neoliberal knowledge factory.

2 hours left on this!!!

Reward prints arrived today - they look really incredible (if I don’t say so myself). Get one by donating to the Books from Below crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Some good and well-organised people in Newcastle are crowd-funding to get a left-wing bookshop off the ground - we haven't had one for forty years, which for a city this size is bonkers. They'e into the last hours of the appeal, so please throw them some spare cash if you've got it:

JUST 23 HOURS TO DONATE TO THE BOOKS FROM BELOW CROWDFUNDER! Please, if you care about this project donate and share as widely as you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Jesus Christ

Join me in supporting “Books from Below” in Newcastle. Sending to solidarity to all of the organizers!

I've just donated. If you can afford it, you should too.

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Here’s some close ups of the print you could get either by entering the £10 prize draw or by donating £60+ to our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Please consider doing so, we’re trying to bring the first radical bookshop in decades to Newcastle! If you can’t donate, pls share!!

Why we need radical bookshops more than ever www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... Rob (@drrobertchapman.bsky.social) from the Books from Bellow collective makes the argument for the necessity of radical bookshops in this moment. Support Books from Below here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Great project to open a radical bookshop in Newcastle. We all know what crucial spaces these are for education, community and organising - I hope to see this open before too long!

I’ve shared this before (and donated myself, ofc) but I have lots of academic followers, including lots in the north east. Wouldn’t it be great to have a radical bookshop in Newcastle?

I’ve donated; can you? Radical bookshops needed now more than ever

We’ve reached 50% of our Crowdfunder goal with 8 days to go! We’re so grateful for the support. If you haven’t, please donate and enjoy the new cut of Downfall that @drrobertchapman.bsky.social put together 🤣 Link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

support this worthy initiative!

Not been on here much, so only just seen this - donate to support what sounds like a brilliant project!

Yes to a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Help make it happen by contributing to this crowdfunder

We are on 2 days left with the crowdfunder! So far we have raised over £10,000 which is amazing, but we still need donations to help us furnish a place and buy essential equipment! If you haven’t and you can, please donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... #radicalbookshop #crowdfunder

We are on 2 days left with the crowdfunder! So far we have raised over £10,000 which is amazing, but we still need donations to help us furnish a place and buy essential equipment! If you haven’t and you can, please donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... #radicalbookshop #crowdfunder

Weird little guys of Prague

We got a chance to do something for @lpeblog.bsky.social on Muskism as a possible successor to post-Fordism, drawing on the concepts of Michel Aglietta and the Regulation School. This one was really fun! lpeproject.org/blog/muskism...

Gift link to our article about Musk's efforts at creating a vertically integrated ideological stack from low earth orbit and back. Space is the place! (where there are no humans) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Thanks to our comrades at @plutopress.bsky.social for donating some incredible books for crowdfunder rewards! Less than a week to go for those who to help bring a radical bookshop to Newcastle! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Doing a gofundme but specifically so someone will buy me this really fun looking book @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/323...

Other than slugs of a kind slime together, is there any real rationale to the idea Mandelson somehow could ‘deal with’ Trump? Is it because of the nonce-hotline they shared? Or is this just one of those things people who consider themselves very serious politics understanders just sort of say?

Fascinating article by Noah Hawley that speaks to the danger to all of us from the rise of the super-super-rich: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I’m shocked that a leadership that began in wilfully misleading members in order to restore rightwing hegemony over the Labour Party is about to end in a tired heap of lazily defended sleaze.

The reason this crisis is rumbling on and will continue to do so is that Starmer can't say the basic truth, which is that he appointed Mandelson for services rendered and they thought his association with Epstein was a bonus.