‘They went for wealth, not health. They chose to tolerate inequality. They opted for more of the same as we’ve had since 2010. That choice says much about Westminster’s priorities. People in power don’t look at life expectancy because [...] we’ve all got used to expecting less from our lives’👇🏼

It's encouraging to see @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and David Walsh's crucial work being referenced in this article on declining life-expectancy in the UK.

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

Somehow I missed the story about the anti-prison activist who just got arrested for planting LOADED GUNS (and other equipment) throughout Nashville's new jail while it was under construction. www.nashvillescene.com/news/the-sho...

Just under a year ago, I provocatively asked in a title whether Starmer's Labour could be considered far right Recent events, between Mahmood's appalling asylum seeker policy and Starmer's own appalling comments against Mothin Ali make it sound ever less provocative... reacpol.net/starmer-far-...

NEW MAGAZINE ALERT "When you are in Palestine, you see things exactly as they are." -Sara Yasin @palfest.bsky.social www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

📊 Gorton and Denton by-election: the instrumentalisation of anti-extermism. 🖇 Full editorial here preview.mailerlite.com/r9g9m8g8q0

ISRF Newsletter – March 2026 Check out the latest edition of the ISRF newsletter featuring a Director's Note on the politics of climate financing. Also included is details on our Flexible Grant competition, news from our Fellows & blog posts.

'Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care' - video recording available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyF... #PirateCare #Anticapitalism

Before Labour took office, the highest monthly sanctions had been 57,276 in Jan 2024. In October 2024 there were 61,601 adverse sanction decisions, in January 2025 there were 64,866 and in October 2025 there were 63,025. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/uc-sanc...

I've just made a lil' bit of progress on the book manuscript today 🫣

In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal” on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...

The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere. The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.

Advance notice of this seminar - Islamophobia and anti-racism: ongoing lessons for the ‘British left - taking place next Friday 13th with @scarletharris.bsky.social. Scarlet's book has just been published by MUP (below). 11-1 in Room 416 in the Gilbert Scott building, East Quadrangle. All welcome.

📣Teaching & Praxis award - the #Marxist Sociology section of the ASA📣 - only a few days left to submit a nomination before the 6 March deadline! This award recognizes outstanding integration of theory and practice in teaching and/or in the achievement of social change www.asanet.org/communities-...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Theorizing Our Times We’re launching a new blog and would love to feature your work! We welcome book and article summaries, reviews, reflections on current events, interviews, curated reading lists, and works in progress. Posts should be 500–3,000 words. 🔗 asatheory.com

“The Anthem Press Companion to Henri Lefebvre" a new edited book by our own Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson explores the sociology of Lefebvre including rural sociology, everyday life, the urban, utopia, space and its continuing relevance for the discipline today. anthempress.com/books/the-an...

Many thanks to everyone who attended the Pirate Care event today! The video recording will be shared soon. Make sure to register for our next event which is due to take place on the 26th March from 5pm GMT - Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Thanks to everyone who joined us today! Once the recording becomes available, we'll share it here Our next event will take place on 24 March from 6:30pm GMT with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni – The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’ marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...

TODAY at 7-8:15pm GMT, online! We're co-hosting this public event on Pirate Care. Join us if interested in care provision systems, austerity, cuts, disposability, and how people organise in the context of a care-less system of nation-states, criminalised solidarity, and capitalism. More info👇👇

We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Away From the Faeries' @fergusmcneill.bsky.social asks what an old Scottish folktale might have to tell us about the meaning of rehabilitation. Please share.

Free online seminar this summer with John Clarke, one of the original authors of Policing the Crisis, on his brilliant recent book, The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture. Co-hosted with The Autonomy Institute. culturepowerpolitics.org/the-battle-f...

Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.

HM Newsletter Number 5 has just gone out. If you want to be a subscriber, sign up here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/newsletter/. N.B. We will be gradually decommissioning the old email list.

This [online] event will take place tomorrow from 7pm GMT! Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care For more info & to register, visit this page: vagabonds.xyz/hope-and-ref... #PirateCare #Anticapitalism @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/product/pira...

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

Eighty elementary schoolchildren died a violent death today, killed by the United States. Eighty little girls. There is no justification for that www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The US and Israel reportedly slaughtered twenty volleyball players at a sports hall today in southern Iran. Self-defense, they call it. modern.az/en/dunya/575...

Red Pepper returns to print. 'Striking back' explores 100 years since the 1926 General Strike, migration justice, repression in Latin America and wars for oil in Nigeria and Iran. Culture critics take on film, TV, music and books. Order by 5 March to guarantee pre-launch delivery to your door!

📣Teaching & Praxis award - the #Marxist Sociology section of the ASA📣 - only a few days left to submit a nomination before the 6 March deadline! This award recognizes outstanding integration of theory and practice in teaching and/or in the achievement of social change www.asanet.org/communities-...

Sending massive solidarity to Ryan and everyone at @uniteitf.bsky.social and elsewhere whose employers are undermining their own core values.

🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 🔥 Two week ballot window 🔥 75% turnout 🔥 73% YES to strike action 🔥 81% YES to ASOS Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated. UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us. #HandsOffMarie

Join GLARN @glalarn.bsky.social for their upcoming workshop Border as Possibility: Rewriting Reality with Gloria Anzaldua. Friday 20 March, 2-5pm. Register below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/border-as-...

Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social

Join our virtual seminar series next week for Andrea Wright speaking about "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" - 3 March 17.00-18.30 London time. To register and for details see: www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... All welcome.

3 days left (including today) to submit an abstract for the Notes from Below issue on Disability & Work!

‘We witness, around the world, people rising up to defend one another from fascism, austerity and the cruel politics of disposability’. Book now for a free online event, ‘Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care’, supported by @bsatheory.bsky.social 3 March tinyurl.com/ee8eskjw

This article was very helpful in illuminating why there has been a flowering of work on showing why the capital relation is reliant on other spheres.

From the archive: ""A jellyfish with no shape, substance or sting – but for that reserved for attacking the left. Cucked by the right of the party, his enduring legacy is that of bankrupting Labour" Ben Smoke questions what is driving the Labour leader www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

It is W.E.B. DuBois birthday, a good day to read the We Charge Genocide petition that he co-authored and was supposed to present to the UN had the US not messed with his travel. blackpast.org/global-afric...

I'll be giving The Bloomsbury Lecture on "The Sexual Politics of Meat in Authoritarian Times" on March 26. Info on the lecture and registration here: zoom.us/webinar/regi... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

This is such an abysmal assault on an excellent and unique group of networks that happen (due to concerted efforts of university workers) to be based at the same institution. Cut management 🚮, not staff!

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

ASA Marxist Section Awards - deadline 6th March! * Lifetime Achievement Award * The Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award * Teaching and Praxis Award * Outstanding Marxist Sociology Article Award * Szymanski-Young Graduate Student Paper Award marxistsociology.org/about-the-se... 📝

Only a month & a week left to submit nominations! ⌛

Our first bluesky post! How do you sign up to be a penpal to an LGBTQ+ prisoner through the Prisoner Correspondence Project? With nearly 3000 prisoners waiting for penpals for up to 7 years, we desperately need new penpals! Sign up now, and tell your friends ❤️‍🔥

Trade unions to protest Glasgow budget cuts

First seminar of a series of three starts next week! Our speakers will be Alexis Gros, Lucy Osler, and Sebastian Raza. For info and registration visit: tinyurl.com/yxfu2dra

Over 100 attendees at our rally last night and another solid picket at the @ucu.org.uk North West Regional Office today ✊🪧 #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation