Comrades - in a few months I'll be applying for yet another visa, and am trying to get some side cash to fund some of it. So *drumroll* i have made some tshirts which you can order on Everpress. They will ship early December, which means just in time for Christmas. everpress.com/unskilled-labour

profit margins on baby formula are like 50-70% which frankly should be radicalising far more parents

Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

New article, no paywall tks to @scripts-berlin.eu Seabed #mining may well cheapen #EV *production* in Europe/US, but who will buy all these cars? This is the question "loaded with dynamite" that a close reading of Rosa Luxemburg's economic writings suggests. academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Israeli's chief military prosecutor has been arrested and will likely face trial for "perverting the course of justice". Over the past two years, she provided legal cover for numerous crimes against humanity in Gaza. All this didn't protect her when she pursued a single torture case.

Israel continues to strike Gaza and block entry of tents despite truce deal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-continues-strike-gaza-and-block-entry-tents-despite-truce-deal

Your now near daily reminder that NI's special rights protections are not some obscure "loophole"; they were a clear element of the Brexit Agreement, explicitly agreed by the UK Parliament. Jim Allister's interventions are aimed at gutting these protections: www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

Israeli strikes on Gaza this week have killed more than 100 people following the killing of an Israeli soldier.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Reminder! You only have a few days left to register (and write your papers) for the HM London Conference. Do it now!

reminder to - vote & post your ballot - tag us in photos of you posting your ballot to get a *LIMITED* free tshirt - listen to the new lily allen album because that is very much the energy we are bringing

and for halloween i'll be dressing up as musical chairs that is the academic job market

if you see me in the corners of rooms looking awkward come say hi* * unless I have headphones on in which case let me dissociate in peace

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

this interview is full of real bangers, but my favorite one is 'the idea that labour are left is completely incoherent.'

A lot being said about how it's "normal" to go through a "Nazi phase", so here's my expert commentary as a historian who looks at (among other things) the Nazi period: What the fuck are you talking about.

a reminder to vote (you should be receiving your ballots any day now) & encourage everyone else to vote & talk about nothing else other than the ballot and the strategies for taking over the means of production 🔥

after careful consideration I’m delighted to share that I’ve figured out what my dream job would be communism

does anyone have a contact at @tribunemagazine.bsky.social? a friend and I have a very cute/cool Marxist feminist thing we’d like to submit but like ideally not to an automated inbox no one ever checks 🫠

what makes this absolutely insane is that they found the documentary was misleading because it did not reveal that the narrator was a son of hamas's deputy minister of agriculture dear reader the narrator was a child

there is a special circle of hell for people who take online meetings in cafes like jesus christ i go to cafes to escape meetings not to listen in on someone else's

struggling to find a balance between responding to emails and responding to fascism

It is hard not to despair when literally anyone could accuse you of having hid your "transgender status" from them and have you imprisoned and put on a sex offenders register.

me: I’m friendly *the face I’m friendly with*

thinking about this & about the fact that he was killed almost two years ago in a precision strike and that his eldest daughter was then killed five months later with her husband and newborn

lines from mosab abu toha’s poem ‘under the rubble’, which was originally published in the New Yorker and subsequently in his book ‘Forest of noise’

Is this just going to be a bi-annual ritual until we're all too exhausted to keep putting up a fight against the harmful stupidity? Not too tired yet, though, government. Miss us with this bigotry.

would be willing to bet a lot of money that this man lives in a neighbourhood where he only sees white faces and that he never really thinks about that

Our hearts are with the victims and their families at this terrible time.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Flotilla tracker shows Gaza-bound vessel enters territorial waters - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/flotilla-tracker-shows-gaza-bound-vessel-enters-territorial-waters

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

if you’re a swiftie i encourage you to @boycotttaylorswift.bsky.social basically - do not listen to the new album for the first week. there’s also a petition you can sign: www.change.org/p/pledge-to-... 👇👇👇

& for my next trick i will pretend to be fully functional in the face of *gestures wildly*

we also know this won’t work because um… migrants already have digital ID cards and they’re called the e-visa and we can’t start work without a right to work check or rent a property without a right to rent check… so it’s already here and already not working

fitzcarraldo is having a sale - give me your best book recs 🔥

increasingly what i enjoy doing is thinking about how to mix art, media and 'non-academic' forms of expression with my work and this has been a cool way to play around with that. major thanks goes to @voelkerrechtsblog.org for being open to this kind of thing & to anna sophia for the visual :)

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

It’s long past time that I take responsibility for what I wrote on Israel/Palestine in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR. & with the Gaza genocide, our thinking about what amends & healing may ever involve is even more urgent. Even if there may never be “forgiveness” or “atonement.”

“More than 80 per cent of Gaza’s territory has been subsumed into Israeli militarised zones or covered by forced displacement orders, with much of the rest of the population crowded into the southern Mawasi coastal strip or parts of central Gaza.” www.ft.com/content/054f...

battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: * feeling my hair float around me in the sea * meeting someone and realising instantly they're going to become a friend * great coffee * sitting outside on a first sunny day in march * sprinting as fast a I can the last 100m of a run

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

i think that maybe I’d have an easier time getting a job at a uni as a brand or marketing consultant than as a lecturer

The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.

Watch the space below for the next two weeks. Thank you @voelkerrechtsblog.org, @verfassungsblog.de & everyone involved for standing firm and making this possible. This symposium, and the lessons we take from the subject it tackles, are of critical importance. voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/symposium...

if ai does a task for me i can't complain about how much i hated doing it and like that to me is worth ten times more than ease and efficiency

i'm just a girl standing in front of her employer asking it to please stop pushing us all to use ai like jesus christ just lemme do my job the old fashioned way like i just wanna use my brain and be inefficient is that too much to ask for

Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.

i legitimately had no idea how much work getting a journal issue out requires until i joined LRIL. it's unpaid labour that's done *on top of everything else*. and while it can be fulfilling, it can also be menial and *hushed voice* boring. with that in mind, i actually really respect this response.