"My modest proposal would be an antifascist take on Nietzsche’s idea of becoming who one is: becoming what the far right imagines you to be, realizing their imaginary enemy." communispress.com/become-who-y...

Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.

So the walking ends and we turn in at our doors and switch on the light and there are all the books in rows trying to tell us what we could have done. ‘Nine Poems’, Peter Riley, in 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' (Longbarrow Press, 2019) longbarrowpress.com/featured-poe...

Why the strawberry on the front cover of our new book? Three reasons. The first is the simplest: they’re red and green, representing communism and ecology. 1/15

Starting November 12, I'll be teaching a course at BISR on how a tragic anti-colonialism was developed—in theory, practice and dramaturgy—by a range of writers, from Lorraine Hansberry to Frantz Fanon, from C.L.R. James to Anna Seghers, from Aimé Césaire to Ghassan Kanafani.

Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy. To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024, we published a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre

18 million U.S. households were food insecure at some time during 2023. Scrapping this report won’t make their hunger vanish. wapo.st/4my88Fl

Just received! Brett Heino’s new book on the spatial unconscious in literature. Brimming with original insights. Book launch soon at Gleebooks for those in Sydney 👇🏽 gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-... @stuartelden.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social

The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University! A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

@danieljhartley.bsky.social I lost my father in the war, our only provider. Now we are forced to flee again with no shelter, and tents cost $5600. Life grows harsher every day, and hope is fading 💔. No food, no safety, no rest. Your support is our only hope. Please donate.

"equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week" "Spread across 52 hectares (128 acres), the Thurrock 'hyperscale datacentre' will be part of a wave of mammoth computer and AI power houses if it secures planning consent." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Placeholder page for next year's novel-- ambientehotel.wordpress.com/a-new-novel-...

we are many, and our letters are many, so just repeating: I am a Jewish UC alum and wholeheartedly oppose this federal campaign and its institutional enablers! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...

This is being submitted to govt tomorrow, and it's excellent: a fine-grained account of the UK's legal, political & moral malfeasance in the territory of Palestine from WWI onwards which laid the foundations of the present catastrophe, & a demand for reparation: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🚨The UK government has admitted that Israeli air force chief Tomer Bar was given special immunity to visit Britain in July. Bar is responsible for Israel’s aerial bombardment of Gaza which has devastated the coastal strip and left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead.

#mondaymorning . Zeitlos in seiner Kritik an Zwang und Zwecklosigkeit der Arbeit: Friedrich Engels. Who dis: dietzberlin.de/produkt/frie...

Now out in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org, Jairus Banaji, *A Marxist Mosaic: Selected Writings 1968–2022*. Currently 20% off from the Haymarket Books website.

“Marx and the Critique of Humanism”, coming Feb 2026, edited by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Women working on UK farms report sexual harassment and financial insecurity

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

She has a back cover now, too! Would be so grateful if you’d preorder, request your library to acquire it, tell your friends, etc. Officially out in November.

My PhD student Shaimaa was in @thebookseller.com, talking about our appeal to the UK government to help her get here and take up her place. Thanks to @commapress.bsky.social and @outspokenpress.bsky.social for their support: www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...

Thanks to Avi Shlaim for covering our open letter in The Independent. Almost 5,000 academics and university workers call for the UK government to defer biometrics requirements for Gaza students: www.independent.co.uk/voices/pales...

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Anyone read ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE by Andrea Ashworth? Anyone wonder what happened to her after publishing her one and only book in 1998? Here you go: manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo...

My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Almost 5,000 (!!) UK university workers sign letter in support of Gaza students with UK university places. This letter shows the huge level of support for these students and the urgent need for the government to enable them to get here: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/open-le...

Please share this CFP for a special issue dedicated to the work of my late colleague Simon J. James.

Drop what you are doing and go check out Forensic Architecture’s important new report: “The patterns we have observed concerning Israel’s military conduct in Gaza indicate a systematic and organised campaign to destroy life, conditions necessary for life, and life-sustaining infrastructure.”

Happy to share my latest journal article, “Development through Dispossession: Ghassana Kanafani’s *Returning to Haifa*, the World-System, and Palestinian Belonging,” in the latest issue of *Coils of the Serpent*. coilsoftheserpent.org/2025/08/deve...

This remains one of my favourite anecdotes from the English Civil War.

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵 Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

Die Druckfahnen sind da! Mitte Oktober erscheint „Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus“ von @onachtwey.bsky.social & mir. Wir gehen hier der Frage nach, warum viele die Demokratie in Schutt und Asche legen wollen. www.suhrkamp.de/buch/zerstoe...

This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

"it seemed to us like this was almost like a game of target practice. We're going to shoot the head today. Tomorrow it'll be the chest. The next day it'll be the testicles" British surgeon Nick Maynard on IDF soldiers shooting Palestinian kids.

we will look back on this era and realize the student newspapers were the free press. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

#marxengelswerke An MEW 3, dem zentralen Band für die Entwicklung der materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung, haben Marx & Engels krass herumgefeilt, Jux + Rants inklusive. Wir verlosen heute Abend 1 Paperback. Es kann mehr als zuvor, es enthält 100 magic Seiten mehr: dietzberlin.de/mew-marx-eng...