Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.

This is such a wonderful piece by Sara Kazmi. I loved working on it with her.

Join our wonderful team! Two paid editorial fellowships available for 3rd year PhDs and beyond (/in non-permanent posts). My DMs are open if you want to apply and have any questions.

Netpol's statement on today's court decision is available here netpol.org/2025/07/04/p...

"The Netpol lawyers’ group letter, shared exclusively with the Guardian, was signed by 266 solicitors, barristers and legal academics, including 11 KCs and 11 law professors" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

What an astonishing thing for the President of the European Commission to say in the present context in a long readout of her call with Netanyahu published on socials.

NO WAR WITH IRAN - please urgently write to your MP, email template link docs.google.com/document/d/1...

BREAKING: Trump took to Truth Social to stoke panic with a reckless threat, telling Iranians: “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran.” It’s 2 a.m. in the Iranian capital. Some 16.8 million Iranians call the Tehran metro area home.

"It's so painful what we see in Gaza. It hurts me all over my body. And let me be clear, it's not about ideology. It's not about I'm right or I'm wrong. Come on. It's just about the love of life, the care of your neighbour" - Pep Guardiola

The Gaza Aid Flotilla 12: Greta Thunberg; Sweden Rima Hassan; French-Palestinian EU Parliament member France: Baptiste Andre Pascal Maurieras Yanis Mhamdi Reva Viard Omar Faiad; Reporter Thiago Avila; Brazil Suayb Ordu; Turkey Sergio Toribio; Spain Marco van Rennes; Netherlands Yasemin Acar; Germany

Fascinating to learn about what Bristol city council did right! So happy to publish Eleanor’s important research on the 5th anniversary of the statue’s toppling.

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

On 5 June 2020, anti-racism protestors toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston. Where is it now? Eleanor Callaghan examines how local authorities and museum curators in Bristol turned the controversial monument into an opportunity for inclusive public history. www.historyworkshop....

How did South African women use culture to build an international anti-apartheid movement? Kebotlhale Motseathata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble. www.historyworkshop....

Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech follows a well-trodden path for Labour leaders. In our latest Historians' Watch piece, Kieran Connell (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) examines how far-right rhetoric on immigration has been mainstreamed in British politics. www.historyworkshop....

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories. www.historyworkshop....

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Today marks 46 years since the death of Blair Peach, an anti-fascist activist who mobilised alongside Southall’s migrant community in 1979. Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on the British Asian women in Southall who subsequently organised against racism and sexism. www.historyworkshop....

New for @historywo.bsky.social - a piece on South African exiles in socialist Tanzania, the 1976 Soweto student movement, and the lasting resonance of self-reliance

How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s? Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

Read what Hossam, a 24-year-old Palestinian journalist, wrote just hours before he was killed today. There are no words to describe the inhumanity of the times you and I are sharing.

Interview with Avi Shlaim on his new book “Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine”. “I was radicalised in the archives. I was indoctrinated at school in Israel, and even more so, when I served in the IDF in the mid 1960s.” “I believe…Zionism is in the process of destroying itself.”

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.

We’re sharing below clips of journalist Hossam Shabat, whom Israel assassinated in northern Gaza earlier today. He was a role model to Gaza’s children, especially those aspiring to become reporters. Video from @ GazaMartyrs

Mahmoud's wife recounts ICE following them into their building as they returned from an Iftar dinner. She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too. The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.

Donald Trump's January 20th Executive Order is a harmful attack on queer and transgender healthcare education, but it will be resisted. Lucy Kelly turns to the legacy of queer activists and allies in the struggle for AIDS education in the 1980-90s. www.historyworkshop....

Very pleased to share the news that this is finally out! Hopefully it will be of interest to anyone working on histories of energy, labour, science & technology, and decolonisation!

New article out today! I wrote about the African Association - an influential network of anti-colonial activists based in the heart of Nasser's Egypt. You can read it at @historywo.bsky.social here:

It’s a pleasure to publish @alexjwhite.bsky.social’s research on transnational African activists in anticolonial Cairo for History Workshop online👇

The 2022 People's Struggle in Sri Lanka, known as Aragalaya, led to the toppling of the government. In this week's podcast episode, Samal Hemachandra, Lara Wijesuriya and Andi Schubert reflect on articles they recently published in HWJ 97 on the roots of the protests. www.historyworkshop....

The New Left "was an avowedly socialist endeavour which... sought to operate largely outside conventional political parties and electoral politics" Andrew Whitehead brings together 50 years of writing on the New Left, in a free-access issue of History Workshop Journal. www.historyworkshop....

The racial exclusions of the border regime have malfunctioned. Somehow the British state extended a minimal act of kindness to a family of the wrong sort of humans. Bipartisan resolve that this will never happen again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's a big day! This intro took a while to put together, a lot of ideas, and lots of thoughts on itinerance while 'wandering and working' in some ways myself... plus I realise definitions are difficult and scary! I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts! DMs are open!

CALL-OUT: we are looking for video evidence of arrests at Saturday's Palestine protest, to assist lawyers defending those arrested. You can share videos in confidence through our secure email address: [email protected]

70+ arrests at the national demo yday. For protesting. If you’re in London and can spend a few hours today outside a police station as we wait for arrestees to be released pls message me and I will loop you in and also answer any questions - people needed especially in SOUTH EAST LDN locations

The AHA Council vetoed the Scholasticide Resolution. Time to cancel your membership. www.historians.org/news/busines...

The Metropolitan Police last night arbitrarily announced the assembly point for Saturday's Palestine solidarity march at a location organisers had never expressed any intention of using. The pro-Israel Board of Deputies claims it advised the police on the route www.stopwar.org.uk/article/impo...

No less than six (!) PhD scholarships announced at our fantastic department. 2 are open calls for anyone (+1 open call for Danish MA’s) and 1 is reserved for Turkish Studies in our Mid East Section. Please spread the word! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

In 2022, a student-staff research project @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social explored how histories of anticolonialism and solidarity can inform inclusive pedagogy. Malak Abdelkhalek reflects on what putting decolonial, anti-racist learnings into practice looks like.

Here is a now outdated press release from the day of. We have since found out that Fountain Walker, Vice President for Global Safety, ordered the arrests and issued the persona non grata statuses, basically without oversight. The provost’s office in unable to control his decisions.

Matt Beard. ‘I hope Renee gets the job, she’s done an amazing job. It’s night and day, you can see they’re really enjoying their football again.’

Very good, informative and cautionary analysis on the current state of Syria. Well worth the read.

Fascism was bad in the 1930s and 40s. Could it be better this time?

Say his name: Mohamed Baalusha.This one really hurts. He discovered the massacred babies as Al Nasar hospital. Many months ago Mohamed was shot. Then, he was unable to move w an infection. He bravely returned to reporting , only to be killed today. He is abt the 200th journalist killed by US-Israel

History repeats itself.. after almost 5 months of sustained pressure the suspensions have been dropped!

It’s heartbreaking to see the price we pay for supporting women. This article was published after Prof @taylorcsherman.bsky.social resigned from the dept. Myself and others also forced from our jobs. Now those who continue to advocate are being harassed. thebeaverlse.co.uk/sexual-misco...

Reposting from X: Troubled to learn that students & staff both LSE & non-LSE are being targeted with complaints & defamation threats for social media posts in relation to the findings of a March 2024 Beaver article. ❗️ Pls share with anyone who may have been targeted, legal info below 👇🧵 1/3

📜🕊 How can pre-Nakba archives be mobilized to dispel the myth of “a land without a people for a people without a land?” Explore this and more in the 5th installment of Archives & Heritage for Palestine with Dr. Salim Tamari on Dec. 16. 🔗 t.ly/i_33o #CritArch #CritLib #GLAMs cc: @wehere.bsky.social