Ioana Cerasella Chis
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doing some stuff, sometimes - though I'd mostly rather not [Glasgow]
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Disablement, Work, & Free Time Under Capitalism
37 minutes ago
‘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’👇🏼
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
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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.
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This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/06/uk-death-healthy-life-expectancy-decline-state
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Plashing Vole
about 2 hours ago
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.
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John Pfaff
3 days ago
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...
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Aurelien Mondon
about 14 hours ago
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-...
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Red Lines: Is Starmer's Labour far right? (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon explores whether the Labour government under Starmer can be considered far right
https://reacpol.net/starmer-far-right/
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Sophie Lewis
about 12 hours ago
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...
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It’s Not Complicated
The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.
https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-journalism-palestine-objectivity-legacy-media-genocide-bias-gaza
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Institute of Race Relations
about 18 hours ago
📊 Gorton and Denton by-election: the instrumentalisation of anti-extermism. 🖇 Full editorial here
preview.mailerlite.com/r9g9m8g8q0
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Independent Social Research Foundation
about 23 hours ago
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.
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ISRF Newsletter – March 2026
The latest edition of the ISRF newsletter features a Director's Note on the politics of climate financing. Also included is details on our Flexible Grant competition, Fellows news & blog posts.
https://isrf.substack.com/p/isrf-newsletter-march-2026
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'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
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Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care
YouTube video by Max Haiven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyFwmpad1w
about 24 hours ago
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Rick B
2 days ago
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...
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UC sanction numbers hit record high under Labour
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/uc-sanction-numbers-hit-record-high-under-labour
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I've just made a lil' bit of progress on the book manuscript today 🫣
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Death Panel
29 days ago
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...
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Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released December 1st for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pa
https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/deportation-is-state-violence-w-nate-holdren-unlocked
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Rob Knox
2 days ago
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.
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Red Pepper Media
7 days ago
www.redpepper.org.uk/order-the-20...
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Pre-order the new print issue! - Red Pepper
The Spring 2026 edition of Red Pepper magazine launches on 16 March. Order now to secure your copy!
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/order-the-2026-print-edition/
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
3 days ago
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.
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Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmanchesteruniversitypress.co.uk%2F9781526169655%2F&data=05%7C02%7CAndrew.Smith.2%40glasgow.ac.uk%7Cdbde552145e44da2fcb508de78781434%7C6e725c29763a4f5081f22e254f0133c8%7C1%7C0%7C639080654300963467%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=P51f129qTGK4lSydr3tf6iXnzs82QhC0%2FH%2FlgIvSUog%3D&reserved=0
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📣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-...
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Section Award Nomination Calls | American Sociological Association
Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest. Following are the most recent calls for nominations
https://www.asanet.org/communities-and-sections/sections/section-award-nomination-calls/
7 days ago
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ASA Theory Section
4 days ago
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
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ASA Theory Section
https://asatheory.com
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
3 days ago
“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...
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The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre | Anthem Press
Explore more about this title.
https://anthempress.com/books/the-anthem-companion-to-henri-lefebvre-hb
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BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)
3 days ago
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...
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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)
3 days ago
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...
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Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network | SASE
3 days ago
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👇👇
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
3 days ago
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.
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Away from the faeries: the rehabilitation of Tam Lin.
Fergus McNeill asks: 'what does an old Scottish folk-tale have to teach us about the meaning of rehabilitation?'
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/sociological-cultural-studies-research/blog/headline_1248416_en.html
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Jeremy Gilbert
4 days ago
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...
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The Battle for Britain
John Clarke’s The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture (2023) is a major work of political, cultural and social analysis, investigating the state of Britain in the wake o…
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/the-battle-for-britain/
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Historical Materialism Journal
4 days ago
Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.
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A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979) - Historical Materialism
This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre's renewed engagement with the PCF was neith...
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/a-line-is-followed-a-strategy-is-constructed-an-interview-with-henri-lefebvre-1979/
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Historical Materialism Journal
4 days ago
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.
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Subscribe to the HM Newsletter - Historical Materialism
For over 28 years Historical Materialism has been disseminating critical Marxist thinking through the Journal, the Book Series, the historicalmaterialism.org website, the international network of Hist...
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/newsletter/
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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...
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Kim Kelly
6 days ago
no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit
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Rickard Sisters
6 days ago
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...
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‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing
The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/children-dead-as-missile-hits-elementary-school-in-southern-iran?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
5 days ago
The US and Israel reportedly slaughtered twenty volleyball players at a sports hall today in southern Iran. Self-defense, they call it.
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Red Pepper Media
7 days ago
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!
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📣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-...
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Section Award Nomination Calls | American Sociological Association
Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest. Following are the most recent calls for nominations
https://www.asanet.org/communities-and-sections/sections/section-award-nomination-calls/
7 days ago
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Unite UCU
9 days ago
Sending massive solidarity to Ryan and everyone at
@uniteitf.bsky.social
and elsewhere whose employers are undermining their own core values.
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Unite UCU
8 days ago
🚨 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
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
8 days ago
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-...
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Border as Possibility: Rewriting Reality with Gloria Anzaldua
Workshop with Juliana Ramírez-Muñoz.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/border-as-possibility-rewriting-reality-with-gloria-anzaldua-tickets-1983958627662?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
9 days ago
Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own
@nasarmeer.bsky.social
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Laleh Khalili
10 days ago
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...
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Andrea Wright - Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=15121
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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)
9 days ago
3 days left (including today) to submit an abstract for the Notes from Below issue on Disability & Work!
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British Sociological Association
10 days ago
‘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
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Chris O’Kane
10 days ago
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.
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Red Pepper Media
10 days ago
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...
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Keir Starmer's humiliation kink - Red Pepper
Ben Smoke questions what is driving Prime Minister Starmer, as he blunders from gaffe to gaffe, from Mandelson to repeated policy reversal
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/labour-party/keir-starmers-humiliation-kink/
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Jason Read
11 days ago
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...
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(1951) We Charge Genocide
We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of The United States Government Against the Negro People (1951) Introduction: Out of the inhuman black ghettos o...
https://blackpast.org/global-african-history/we-charge-genocide-historic-petition-united-nations-relief-crime-united-states-government-against/
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Carol J Adams
10 days ago
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
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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!
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Jeff Sharlet
12 days ago
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.
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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...
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Marxist Section Council & Committees | Section on Marxist Sociology
https://marxistsociology.org/about-the-section/council-committees/
12 days ago
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Only a month & a week left to submit nominations! ⌛
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⛓️💥 Prisoner Correspondence Project ⛓️💥
11 months ago
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 ❤️🔥
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Glasgow Times
14 days ago
Trade unions to protest Glasgow budget cuts
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Trade unions to protest Glasgow budget cuts
https://ebx.sh/Qa8GbP
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Birgan Gokmenoglu
15 days ago
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
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Unite UCU
15 days ago
Over 100 attendees at our rally last night and another solid picket at the
@ucu.org.uk
North West Regional Office today ✊🪧
#HandsOffMarie
#UniteAgainstVictimisation
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