Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation. time.com/7319164/phil...

We’re a collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians. We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more

Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Coming soon in paperback! The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat by Patrick Eiden-Offe www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide. This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

The obscenity that is UK imperialism and its Labour Party - close to giving a £2bn contract to Elbit, Israel’s main weapons supplier for the Gaza genocide (while proscribing those who seek to shut it down). You couldn’t make this shit up. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...

Another scumbag Labour council high on its anti-Palestinian racism

Happy to have a chapter in this wonderful collection of essays “Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition”, thanks to Luisa Lorenza Corna and Mark Crinson

Yvette Cooper’s determination to protect the Israeli killing machine is something to behold. Resigning is too good for her - may she never have a day’s peace for the rest of her life.

Fellow academics, sign this: protestisnotterrorism.wordpress.com/scholarslett...

Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk

The Guardian’s shameless attempt to rehabilitate Lammy would be laughable if it wasn’t so disgusting. The man is a war criminal drenched in Palestinian blood. It won’t wash off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Made my day 😁

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Just sayin’

This is 100% world-class bullshit

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[1/5] Please take a look at our most recent statement on the successful BDS mobilization at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Rabat earlier this month: drive.proton.me/urls/AEVX3HF...

[5/5] Against their mischaracterizations, which only serve for the continuation of the genocide and settler colonialism, please support our petition (above) and other efforts such as this one: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

[2/5] Also, if you have not already, please add your name to our petition in support of ISA's suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society. Your support is crucial to pressure National Sociological Associations in ISA for the continuation of the suspension. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Among the peers who signed the letter are Lord Pannick, a patron of the genocide deniers UK Lawyers for Israel; Baron Mendelsohn, a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel; and Lord Walney, a prominent lobbyist for Israel. There's a pattern emerging... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Do mass murderers always look so satisfied with themselves?

A portrait for Nandy and Hotovely to cherish, united in the cause of genocide and distraction

Absurd and grotesque, the Labour Party or Genocide www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The government says the direct action protest at RAF Brize Norton was the trigger for banning Palestine Action, but months earlier, in March 2025, they were the only non-overseas example on Counter-Terrorism Policing's "Left Wing, Anarchist, Single Issue Groups and Symbols" intelligence presentation

The ban on Palestine Action: how every MP voted leftfootforward.org/2025/07/pale...

🚨 EMERGENCY DEMO: Defend The Right To Protest, Don't Ban Palestine Action Join us outside Downing Street tonight to protest the government's attacks on the right to protest and to demand that MPs vote against the plans to proscribe Palestine Action. ⏰ 6PM 📍 Downing St

“The government can try and silence Palestine Action, but the direct action bell cannot be un-rung. Nobody is going back to ineffective tactics during a time of genocide. We are going to continue to see people take whatever means available to them to stop this genocide.”

UK Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant. Anonymous source describes ‘tense atmosphere’ after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe #protest group | #law www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why UK REALLY Banned Palestine Action

*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* Direct action is not terrorism; the terrorists are those committing and supporting genocide docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Palantir, headed in the UK by the grandson of the head of the British Union of Fascists, are building a police database to surveil people based on these factors. What more is there to say at this point. Source libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...

This is some of the aftermath of Israel's unprovoked attacks on the #Iran capital of #Tehran. Men women and children have been executed. The norm for #USA backed #Israel.

Too much to precis here, but great blog by @nickthoburn.bsky.social on how Robin Hood Gardens was demolished, then exhibited, showing how gentrification and "social cleansing" works Esp. sanitisation of brutalist blocks, with who they were built for swept away brutalismasfound.co.uk/demolition-a...

"an honourable course" to resign... Such bullshit from the deeply dishonourable Foreign Office. The honourable course is to stop participating in Israeli apartheid and the genocidal slaughter of men, women, and children.

Now that the V&A's fragment of the Robin Hood Gardens estate has taken its final form at the new V&A Storehouse, I've added to my account of this artefact of working-class dispossession - the last two posts here: brutalismasfound.co.uk/demolition-a...

Or put otherwise, “When will senior leadership of the University of Manchester take responsibility for and end its complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide, through its partnership with Tel Aviv University and investments and military research with BAE Systems?”

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Los Angeles protest tomorrow (Sunday): ICE out of Boyle Heights

god bless LA

This is a great look at housing issues through the example of Robin Hood Gardens The erasure of class in modern architecture, and how it replaces rather than works with the existing communities and built environment

Resending the free PDF of my book ‘Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens’, now with a link that works (scroll to ‘Access this doc’) research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati... @glenkerrycoop.bsky.social

That's a big "no" from me "UK national museums back call for end to ‘relentless negativity’ around corporate arts sponsorship" www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/04/u...

A bit like seeing someone in a fur coat - it looks better on its original owner Robin Hood Gardens section at the V&A East Storehouse

When Palestinians resist, they’re called “terrorists.” When Israel kills tens of thousands of civilians it’s dismissed as “just war.” Geneva Conventions and the UN are clear: occupied people have the right to resist, even with arms. Occupiers have no right to defend their occupation Me 10 mins ago:

Manchester colleagues, the time is long overdue for us to stop senior leadership pursuing ties with institutions of apartheid and genocide

The Future of Revolution is out now! "We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future." - Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard.bsky.social)

On a lamppost in east London this morning 💔✊🏼