Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Call for Papers (De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship 27-28 August 2026 University of Turku, Finland Deadline: 15 February 2026 Thanks to Alice Baroni for sharing!

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

This special issue includes an article of mine on the politics of time in Fanon's thinking, as well as truly excellent contributions by some of the leading Fanon scholars of our time. Be sure to check it out!

Terrell Carver

That’s a wrap. What an amazing @histmat.bsky.social conference once again. See you next year!

Tomorrow!

Edouard Glissant, preface to his 1961 play "Monsieur Toussaint": "For those whose history has been reduced by others to darkness and despair, the recuperation of the near or distant past is imperative.

‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’ In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’ buff.ly/vKAZqnk

Looking forward to presenting at HM this year!

Thanks for all the follows this week! Just a reminder to let me know about any new online collections or archives connected to radical, labour or anti-colonial history, from anywhere around the world! hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

I wrote a little bit about Aimé Césaire's play A Season in the Congo, written after Patrice Lumumba's assassination, for @bostonreview.bsky.social.

Kirjoitimme lyhyen tekstin siitä miten Israelilaiset yliopistot ovat kytköksissä valtion väkivaltakoneistoon, kansanmurhaan ja asuttajakolonialismiin. Akateeminen boikotti on tässä tilanteessa vähintä mitä Helsingin yliopisto ja muut yliopistot voivat tehdä. ylioppilaslehti.fi/2025/10/nain...

Fresh off a weekend filled with Marxist theory, starting this week by re-reading Stuart Hall’s classic essay ”Rethinking the ’Base and Superstructure’ Metaphor” (1977). Remains a vital read today.

My first @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in the books. Today’s keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. Learned a lot & got to meet so many great people. I’ll definitely be back!

Our next #IdentitiesEvent! 'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Glad to see my short article on temporality in Fanon's political thought published today in the Review of African Political Economy. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

My favorite companion text so far has been Stuart Hall’s ”Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates” (1985). Definitely worth a read.

Very much looking forward to this!

Question for Marxists: We're reading Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" in our reading circle next week. What's one companion text you'd recommend to make sense of Althusser's work on ideology?

"Reaffirming a relation to the environment was a way of becoming-other than colonial subjects.” www.e-flux.com/architecture...

The board and membership of the Helsinki University Association of Researchers and Teachers (HUART) has successfully voted for the academic boycott of Israel! This is the first Finnish academic union to commit to the BDS campaign.

If you work at University of Helsinki and belong to the HYT/HUART union please take part in the upcoming vote on the academic boycott of Israel. It takes place on September 2nd at 5pm!

When movements call for the boycott of entities clearly complicit in genocide & settler-colonialism, we should do just that: boycott. Participation coupled with symbolic gestures of support is not solidarity. It undermines the cause & legitimates colonial violence.

Looking forward to this one

How should we read Fanon in our current conjuncture? Grappling with difficult questions in Berlin.

next up

Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin säätiön tutkija YTM Antti Tarvainen väittelee Helsingin yliopistossa tänä perjantaina 6.6.2025. Väitöstä voi seurata paikan päällä Helsingin yliopistolla tai etäyhteydellä.

A huge well done to the Trinity students and staff who did worked so hard to get this over the line. We need total divestment from, and boycott of, apartheid Israel until Palestinian liberation. #BDS #FreePalestine TCD votes to cut ties with Israel www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

I wrote a review of @brunoleipold.com's brilliant book:

Does anyone have contacts to scholars pursuing Palestine solidarity action and the academic boycott at Swedish or Danish universities? Please be in touch!

Giving a lecture tomorrow at the Museum of Impossible Forms here in Helsinki. Drop by if you’re around. We start at 18.00.

This is not war btwn two states, or just about Modi. India is occupying Kashmir. There is no evidence that Pakistan was behind Pahalgam, but Indian imperial expansionism and Islamophobia drives this jingoism. Most impacted regions are lands of struggle - partioned Panjab & esp Kashmir. Free Kashmir

What does it mean to be civilised?

Steve salaita, as always, speaking clearly.

“Only Sisyphus can inhabit...an endlessly extending present, amidst the shreds of historical reason, a present that seems out of joint now that the sense of temporal concordance is gone.” aaa.org.hk/en/like-a-fe...

"In the twentieth century, decolonisation remade the world. This new world did not begin in tabula rasa. Rather, it was formed out of debris and fragmentation." aaa.org.hk/en/like-a-fe...

“Since the colonial period, every effort has been made to ensure that users of the CFA franc know as little as possible about the device hidden behind these three enigmatic letters.” Today in the philosophies of money class: the CFA franc story.

We at Twentieth Century Communism are very sad to hear of Marika Sherwood's passing, a pioneering historian of communism, anti-colonialism and pan-Africanism. Amongst other writings, her book for @lawrencewishart.bsky.social on Claudia Jones was a ground-breaking work. lwbooks.co.uk/product/clau...

all of these lovely new york bookstores got me declaring bankruptcy

Baldwin in New York

New Dig: it's Michael Denning on Stuart Hall and co's Policing the Crisis. Marxist conjunctural analysis of generalized crisis that paved way for neoliberalism's rise; a model for asking questions about our world that provide us w/ knowledge we need to change it. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/poli...

Roads in the west bank blocked, Palestinians from Jerusalem receiving text messages telling them to go back to Jerusalem, mass arrests, and almost 900 checkpoints set up across the territory. Whats going to happen to the west bank?

Manu Karuka, "Black and Native Visions of Self-Determination" (2017): "[L]ands that are already the site of settler colonialism cannot provide the grounds for liberation from racial capitalism without a process of decolonization". www.jstor.org/stable/10.57...

found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB

Heading to the US in a few weeks. Going to be staying in Memphis, Atlanta and New York. Any and all recommendations on things to see and do more than welcome.

Cedric Robinson on fascism