We won. Every union representing workers at the University of California sued the Trump administration in September. Today, judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction barring Trump’s attempts to extort political leverage from public higher education. democracyforward.org/updates/cour...

Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book. Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm) Dept of Geography, Cambridge

The Berkeley Faculty Association is currently running an event featuring about the UC’s release of 160 names of faculty, staff and students to the Trump administration’s OCR. Three lawyers - Catherine E. Lhamon, Brian Soucek, and Asli Bali will speak. I’ll be live-tweeting key moments.

To inflict the worst pain imaginable on thousands of people, and then to tell us that we are wrong to feel outraged—it’s a murderous nihilism that shakes the moral foundation of the entire world. It’s unbearable.

66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE. That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids. In what world is starving children "efficient"?

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Toast a crumpet in his honour, on the fires of a riot

There was one night where he was feeling sad & thinking about all the notes left on Marx's grave that said "Dear Karl, I'm sorry that we have not yet lived up to what you wanted for us, we'll keep trying, I promise." I keep saying that to him now. We'll keep trying, I promise.

I talked to Joshua almost every day. I don’t know how to think about never being able to talk to him again. What now? Love you so much, friend.

This is one of the best times I've ever had at an academic conference - highly recommend submitting something to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies conference this fall.

After 6 years at UCSB, on July 1 I will be starting as acting Associate Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley, where I'll also anchor a cluster hire in AAPI studies. I feel so lucky, excited & intimidated to move to the bay are and to join such a storied center of radical intellectual inquiry.

Unreal

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

Can you recommend me writing that deftly combines reflections on organizing with theory? More like Alyssa Battistoni’s "Spadework" nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...? I have major writers block and need to get unstuck.

Amazon Teamsters begin peak-season strikes around the country today. But make no mistake that what made this possible has been years of hard-fought class struggle organizing by incredible labor organizers who’ve been building rank and file militancy on their shopfloors long before they affiliated.

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

Astonishing footage and conversations in this 16-min Jocelyne Saab documentary. Filmed aboard the Atlantis, the Greek ship that took the PLO leadership out of Beirut in 1982, into exile in Tunis. Currently free to stream. mediacityfilmfestival.com/program/le-b...

We closed out the conference with a phenomenal keynote from @charmainechua.bsky.social on the logistics counter-revolution as a response to intertwining Third World national liberation and labor struggles in the 1960s. Read some of Charmaine's work here: www.charmainechua.com/publications