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

Now online: 'People Think: On Asad Haider' by Ivo Eichhorn and Morten Paul (whom you can follow here @ivoeichhorn.bsky.social and here @mortenpaul.bsky.social).

Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty. Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with @harshawalia.bsky.social and Alberto Toscano. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

There's lots of literature on formations of Indigenous & Black solidarity, but I'm looking for work that discusses examples of, or potentialities toward, solidarities between militant labour struggles & Indigenous claims to sovereignty. Any suggestions?

"When a migrant or refugee or an undocumented person crosses the border, the struggle doesn’t end once they have entered within the nation state because the border follows them everywhere." thefunambulist.net/magazine/und...

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“The White House appears to have admitted that Beirut cannot aspire to any enduring hegemony in the South. The best it can hope for is a fragile form of domination.” Francesco Anselmetti on Southern Lebanese resistance past and present www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sou...

“Doctors Without Borders says it will provide Israeli authorities with the personal details of some of its Palestinian and international staff” Israel has killed 1,700 health workers including 15 employees of MSF www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

“The path to the Trump doctrine is long and winding, but to understand its most proximate influences we need only look back a couple of presidents—especially to their actions in the Middle East.” New from Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana:

Mondoweiss interviews author Harsha Walia about the history of ICE and how Trump's immigration crackdown is closely linked to U.S. imperialism abroad, including in Palestine. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/we-c... #Palestine #Israel

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - Nikhil Pal Singh on Donald Trump's 'Homeland Empire'. Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:

From the abduction of Venezuela’s president to the seizure of its oil, @alfatau.bsky.social traces a chilling new phase of U.S. power—extortion dressed up as policy. As Professor Robert Pape put it, this is ​“Imperialism 101,” a vision of ​“America as predator.” inthesetimes.com/article/empi...

spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...

I'm all for strong critiques of Marx/ism, but claiming that "Marxism must first normalize and generalize the western feature of owner­ship...before it posits strug­gles against it as emancipatory", is just a ridiculous claim to make. Historicization ≠ normalization.

Sharing my new article at @antipodeonline.bsky.social which suggests a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and global centers of domination. doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Long in the making, out now: the latest issue of Diacritics, dedicated entirely to Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" (1919) – his dense reflection on fate, escape and liberation, written in a world in the grip of war, failed revolutions and erupting fascism

Hicham Safieddine traces the colonial history of money in Palestine, showing how imperial and Zionist financial systems erased native sovereignty through currency design, banking control, and asset expropriation. From Britain’s monetary partition of Greater Syria to Israel’s shekelization of the

“The colonized have another take on helplessness, an obstinate strength in living in it, in knowing that no one will come for them, no one will save them.” -Nadia Bou Ali on Helplessness, out from the paywall in Issue 07 www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/on-...

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence. illwill.com/lies

Solidarity to all the thousands of brave people fighting fascists on the streets of Minnesota.

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency" ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher Join this hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social Wednesday evenings beginning February 4th RSVP to join:

Elsa Goveia – a name every Caribbean scholar should know. #cdsc #caribbeanstudies

We transitioned from wood to coal to oil—and soon we’ll transition to renewables. Or so the story goes. The reality is much more complicated.

Finally got around to submitting my article on Walter Rodney & utopianism for peer-review. The next few days will be dedicated solely to reading.

On the 20th of January, 1973, Portuguese agents assassinated Amílcar Cabral, the anti-colonial revolutionary who led the struggle to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. "Either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it."

My article on the latest uprising in Iran has just been published in @newleftreview.bsky.social: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

EPISODE 7: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM Adom Getachew joins us to discuss self-determination, pan-Africanism, and the life and thought of Marcus Garvey. open.substack.com/pub/turbulen...

“Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready.” New: a dispatch on mutual aid in South Minneapolis. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

1/ Is it about oil, the Nobel peace prize, Bidenomics, the hysterical whims of an old geezer, or what?

“New investments in border security allowed immigration agencies to flourish as unaccountable incubators of a hard-right agenda within DHS. This is the foundation on which the Trump administration has built.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enf...

"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities." An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

The kidnapping of Maduro is a declaration of American imperial power, sending a message across a continent that will be central to future struggles over energy, infrastructure, and extraction.

What are some of the best books written on the French revolution?

“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.” In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...

“We have been taught that safety lies in passivity, but that's a crock, because if our silence was supposed to have brought us safety, why aren't we safe and rich and happy?” Audre Lorde on the radio, 1979, but applies just as well to those preaching silence & passivity in 2026