What are some of the most interesting engagements/critiques/overviews of Italian autonomist Marxism, (post-)operaismo & workerism?

“American structural power had endured not despite, but because of the doomsayers.” Tim Barker reads Samuel Huntington on US “declinism” from the Cold War to the present. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...

Got to spend three wonderful months in Brighton at the University of Sussex. Really grateful for all of the amazing people I got to know during my stay. Next up: Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Are there any researches working on anti-/post-colonial theory, Caribbean studies, and/or Marxist theory in Copenhagen? Thinking about applying for this Nordic travel grant our uni is offering, and would love to do some collaborative work or attend workshops in Denmark in August.

A 185-year-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana reveals the enduring contradictions of U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean, with the “Donroe Doctrine” introducing new risks. Read Logan McMillen's (@southerngradient.bsky.social) latest for NACLA 👇 nacla.org/the-essequib...

Can anyone recommend me texts that conceptualise the distinct yet overlapping notions of "freedom" and "liberation"? Especially interested in the discussion as it relates to decolonization, Third World socialism & Black liberation movements.

On May 1, 1974, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), with proposals to end neocolonialism and dependency, advance South-South cooperation, and guarantee economic sovereignty for all nations.

🚩🚩🚩 The call for papers for Marxism NL's 1st Conference is now live! CFP deadline 29.05.26 Conference 08-09.10.26 conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp

Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 79 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/HqmmeUG

It is commonplace to claim that Fanon was taught by Aimé Césaire at Lycée Schœlcher in Martinique. Yet in his new bio on Fanon, Adam Shatz writes that this was not the case (without providing an accurate reference). Does anyone know what to make of these competing claims?

‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This essay by Emily Callaci on the complex history of the Wages for Housework Campaign in @nplusonemag.com is one of the most engaging texts I've read in a long while. Billions must-read. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...

Not sure what to read over the weekend? @imrobwalker.bsky.social and other brilliant RPRN members have you covered with this provocative anthology about Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary It also includes the first ever poem published by Red Lines! reacpol.net/theroux-docu...

Border-Academic-Industrial Complex. ‘This report exposes how universities are embedded in the EU’s border regime, driving the militarisation, surveillance, and externalisation of migration control’.

“In mainstream media outlets, Democratic senators, congressmembers, and experts condemn Trump’s ‘recklessness,’ the ‘lack of clarity’ about the war’s ‘objectives.’ In fact, the objectives are perfectly clear.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Black abolitionists saw their project as a rejection of the idea of Black transportability, insisting that freedom of movement is a human inheritance that belongs to all. Ending anti-Black policing necessitates the abolition of border regimes www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...

I reviewed Shona N. Jackson's important new book "Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition" for @antipodeonline.bsky.social. Check it out: antipodeonline.org/2026/03/27/b...

Weekend reading

On this day in 1871, revolutionary Parisians seized the cannons at Montmartre and control over Paris, establishing the #ParisCommune a radical but short-lived experiment in workers’ self-government #OTD

In his last political act, Habermas tied the survival of the public sphere & the democratic ethos of the Federal Republic of Germany to genocide denial & the state repression of its critics. He died in principled solidarity with the barbarism of 21st century liberalism

“The more the Trump administration tries to remake the Iranian power structure, the more cohesive it becomes. It’s regime-protective architecture designed to deflect this kind of threat.” @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social on regime change fantasies in Iran www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

Deeply gratified to see this rich and surpassingly engaging essay/review of my The Second Emancipation, by the estmable Adom Getachew. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Has anyone come across reviews of Timothy Mitchell's new book?

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog: truethings.naghmehs.com

What I’m reading this week. ”My goal is a world that values caring labor.” – Andaiye

"Identity is not enough in a world shaped by capitalism to offset what will be repeated every time we tell ourselves that our motivations won’t produce the same results that those with colonial underpinnings always do." thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

A beautiful piece by Nadia Bou Ali: ”Much ink is spent analyzing the psychical mechanisms of domination, of force and power and mastery, yet there is less patience with the obtuseness of staying with where pain refuses to soften.” communispress.com/dispatches-f...

We celebrate the publication of issue one of the 125th volume of SAQ! "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe," edited by Sarah Bufkin and Ida Danewid, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/x1m3Ejx

Looking forward to spending the next three months here in Brighton working on my dissertation at the University of Sussex.

‘If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure.’ @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

Salar Mohandesi on Iran and anti-imperial struggle in the present conjuncture: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”

We're living in truly despicable times.

Wrote this for @journalspectre.bsky.social in response to Vivek Chibber and the broader resurgence of economistic materialism. Drawing on the concept of fetishism, I suggest such approaches revive errors Marx had already sought to critique spectrejournal.com/beyond-the-w...

In this interview with Florian Bobin & Amadou Kébé, Momodou Taal connects the Palestinian struggle to a longer history of Black, African & anti-imperial resistance. For him, the path is clear: “the future is Pan-Africanism & transnational solidarity.” roape.net/2026/02/25/o...

Biomuovin tuotanto on prosentin luokkaa maailman muoveista, öljypohjaisten taas 99 prosenttia. ”Sellaisten raaka-ainemäärien korvaaminen [metsäbiotaloudella] on aivan mahdotonta. Pitäisi hakata koko maapallon metsät paljaaksi, eikä sekään riittäisi kuin hetkeksi.” voima.fi/artikkeli/20...

@dader-khalid.bsky.social develops a conceptualization of temporal ruination to understand scarcity-making and entrapment in Gaza. Out online first in @societyandspace.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Yahia H. Zoubir & Abdelkader Abderrahmane argue that Resolution 2797 (2025) grants Western Sahara limited self-rule under Moroccan sovereignty, sidelining the UN’s commitment to self-determination in favor of powerful Western states. buff.ly/hBi6Wh1

New from Portolan: "A Caribbean Crucifixion: The Odyssey of Rishi & Charpo" by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social Link below

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule. africasacountry.com/2026/02/revo...

more great work in @thenation.com, from Momodou Taal. the British security state is just as bad, arguably worse, than the U.S. one

Looking forward to this symposium which brings together Caribbean Studies scholars from Finnish and Canadian universities. I'll be giving a short presentation on my doctoral work as well. You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In October of 2025, Israel returned four hundred dead bodies to Gaza. But it denied entry to basic forensic materials that families would need to identify their loved ones—more proof of how Israel uses the dead to attack the living.

Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian struggle. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-... #Palestine #Israel

Black History Month recommendation: Annette K. Joseph Gabriel, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Illinois Press, 2020)

Comradely greetings from Budapest