Panos Theodoropoulos on precarity & IWW’s General Defence Committees: ‘The idea is to create a feedback loop where the community is connected to the workplace, & vice versa. Such initiatives allow us to go beyond seeing solidarity as a form of “activism”’ scottishleftreview.scot/precarity-an...

Brilliant resources for teaching and thinking on a huge range of topics from the Uncommon Sense Podacast and @thesociologicalreview.org. With contributions from our own @academicdiary.bsky.social and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social

In case you missed it last week: branch committees calling out the unconscionable application of employers’ worst union-busting practices by our very own union. You can still add your branch, #UCU.

The video recording of yesterday's event is now available online! Advancing a Marxist Theory of Disablement: Historical Modality, Labor Power, and the Commodified Value Form - with Keith Rosenthal www.youtube.com/watch?si=hBF... #Marxism #Disability

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

"What these young workers have managed to win after just three weeks of continuous strike action is nothing short of astonishing."

‘Don't you know how busy and important I am? I got soooo much to do Don't you know how busy and important I am? I got soooooo much to do Oh, I'm too busy to finish this so—‘ youtu.be/iG9h3KUtaIc?... #PoliticsOfRest

#16 - Ursula 'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self'. - Ursula 1/3

Yesterday, I presented at the American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social Annual Conference, on the Disability, Work & Economies of Difference panel. Many thanks to Richard Scotch for excellent chairing and to Pyung Kim, Junzhe Gu, Jennifer Brooks & Matthew Saleh for great presentations!

hey bluesky, sorry to add to the bad news but 'the rest of august' is a myth so objectively speaking it's mid september now.

Something that isn’t reported on very much is how the UK HE funding crisis is affecting countries where British unis form partnerships. See below for latest news from Prague City University, which operates in partnership with Teesside University: drive.google.com/file/d/1qGaQ...

Our campaign for the rights and interests of authors in the face of big tech companies using copyrighted work to train their generative AI models continues. Read our views on Bloomsbury offering its authors an opt-in licensing deal with a 20% revenue share. societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b...

Impressed with how much of the #UKHE mess could be fitted into one sentence, and yes that graduate debt is the ticking timebomb. Would still wiggle in the issue of governance failures and prioritisation of marketing & management over the work of university. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Social Sciences project entitled ‘Bread and roses: rest and free time as sites of struggle in disabling capitalism' is there.

Here's a chance to get into some sustained theoretical discussion with like-minded sociologists, under the auspices of the @bsatheory.bsky.social ....

SLSA-MDN Disability & Rights Conference - For & Against Rights: Legalism and Resistance under Neoliberalism with Lizzie Hughes & Jenny Logan (chair: Ioana Cerasella Chis) Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND9H... Abstracts: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/for-and-agai... @slsauk.bsky.social (2/8)

“why do you want to work here” want is a strong word

"They didn't DEFINE themselves by work"? True, but there was also no general concept of "work", folks did particular things. By turning every activity into commodity production, capitalism created a world in which every activity serves the same purpose: social control, thus, all of them = "work".

'The Social Innovators for Justice has released the UK University Repression League Table, ranking universities according to their attacks on students, with suspensions, monitoring and investment in genocide' A worthy initiative. @anilsghost.bsky.social updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...

New article out on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. American doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUTb-CmV5...

'The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked'.

“In this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.” 1: Emulate Bertrand Russell. 2: Post his writings to motivate others. harpers.org/archive/1932...

The 8 video recordings of the Disability & Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism conference co-organised/hosted with the SLSA Disability Law and Social Justice Stream are now available online! marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/v... #Marxism #Disability

SLSA-MDN Disability & Rights Conference - Opening Remarks (Clare Williams) & Workers’ and Charities’ Mobilisation of Rights panel (Shruti Iyer & Linda Steele) Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vx... Abstracts: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/their-rights... @slsauk.bsky.social #Marxism (1/8)

New LSA Executive Members: A warm welcome to... ---Adam Talbot (Research and Enterprise Officer): [UWS] ---Adele Doran (Membership Officer): [Sheffield Hallam] ---Ioana Cerasella Chis (Ordinary Member): [University of Birmingham] ---Alberto Amore (Ordinary Member): [University of Oulu]

We've got a super exciting new initiative for early career scholar at @econsocjournal.bsky.social! Submit your papers for a £1000 Early Career Paper Prize 2026.

‘We still have to make the case for our sort of sensible arithmetic that is based upon community care, the sharing of responsibility, the sharing of resources and the fact that most of the problems that now confront the great mass of working people in this country cannot be solved’ 1/2

Out now! Sideways Sociology looks at three key figures in UK anti-racism – Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean, Len Garrison – and shows how they teach us what that term means and takes, and how they speak to sociology now. Feat. John Narayan, A.S. Francis, Hannah Ismael. Subscribe: buff.ly/lRwSQSD

Reclaiming power in the workplace: sociologist Bob Jeffery draws on his own experience of “low-skilled”, low-waged work, as well as his trade union roles at universities, to look at how employees in very different sectors are fighting for their rights. Out now in our June magazine. buff.ly/SVkJlIV

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#15 - Amelie 'You can't work where there's a constant battle, it's just impossible. You might be able to do your day job but you're not going to be able to progress or enjoy it or rest, or get on with your life. I don't know what the advice is but hopefully don't spend time on that..' - Amelie 1/3

Excellent interview and great playlist - including Billy Nomates' Call In Sick and my latest new favourite song by Johnny Paycheck: Take This Job and Shove It!

Irresistible Magazine is the place where resistance meets fabulousness! I had a great time talking to them about billionaires, economic injustice, neoliberalism, masculinity and so much more... irresistiblemagazine.com.au/modern-heroe...

16-07-1934 USA: 20,000 Alabama textile workers go on strike at the employers' announcement of a reduction in working hours equivalent to a 25% cut in wages. In September, the strikers will number 300,000.

Call for abstracts for the BSA @britsoci.bsky.social Annual Conference 2026 at Edinburgh Uni! Submit abstracts for 15-min presentations, roundtable contributions, posters, and 🥁Special Events🥁 by 3 Oct 2025! Also: consider submitting to the Theory Stream! www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Theory

The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism Edited by Kirstin Munro, published by @plutopress.bsky.social - with a focus on the work of Lise Vogel, part of the Mapping Social Reproduction Theory series Preorder this excellent book here!👇🏼 www.plutobooks.com/978074535140...

“The amendment doesn’t take account..,the imbalance of power in workplaces & the characteristics of employees who are working on zero-hours contracts...many of those workers, vulnerable as they are, might come under pressure not to press for guaranteed hours" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Only 2 weeks left to submit your application! Disability Studies Quarterly (to my knowledge, the longest running DS journal in the world), is looking for two Editors (In Chief)! DSQ is the (fully OA) journal of Society for Disability Studies lnkd.in/euswqfyE #AcademicChatter #DisabilityStudies

That "cruel & fckd up society" is a capitalist one that uses & abuses both humans & non-humans, indeed anything & everything it can to strengthen its hold over the planet.

If you're looking for a disabled academic to give a talk at your med school/class, I do that! Check the link in my bio for my personal website where you can see a CV with my past talks, pubs, and workshops. You can preorder at: press.jhu.edu/books/title/... #HistMed #MedEd 5/5

Its finally here! Feels SO good to finally see it in print. Many thanks to the editors who handled this book with such care, and the other contributors who challenged me to think about my own ethical commitments throughout this process. It was a dream to work with yall! 1/5

Only 2 weeks left to submit your application! Disability Studies Quarterly (to my knowledge, the longest running DS journal in the world), is looking for two Editors (In Chief)! DSQ is the (fully OA) journal of Society for Disability Studies lnkd.in/euswqfyE #AcademicChatter #DisabilityStudies

A summary of this project in the European Sociological Association's 'European Sociologist' magazine, Issue 152 www.europeansociology.org/european-soc... #Sociology #Capitalism #Disability #Marxism

New article! In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism. Now out in @NPEjournal! (Open Access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

75 Years of Sociology BSA Annual Conference 2026 Submit your abstract for the Theory Stream! Deadlines: * Special Event Submission: Friday, 3 Oct 2025 * Abstract Submission: Friday, 3 Oct 2025 * Abstract decisions to go out: No later than Mon, 17 Nov 2025 #BritSoc26 britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Basically rich people (note that includes MP’s) get 20 more healthy years than the poorest 10th. The rich enter pension age healthy, the poor will have to work over 15 years while unwell.

Are you interested in presenting and discussing your ideas on a topic related to disability through a Marxist perspective? This autumn, we will be putting out a call for papers for the 2026 MDN series of events. Please consider submitting an abstract in a few months' time! #Disability #Marxism

A view of social reproduction, and more specifically domestic labor, that views "the home" and SR as outside of the realm of capitalist control actually limits the vision of the domestic realm as a sit of struggle by declaring it already free.