Since so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading. This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment. 1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.

Please read this article if you are new to this history, y'all

#OtD 17 Jan 1893 a coup d'état took place in Hawaii, organised by United States. A republic was briefly declared, and the island was annexed by the US five years later: the first of many overseas imperialist conquests by the nation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8879...

The struggle continues against the suppression of solidarity actions with Palestine: please sign this statement in solidarity with Palestine prisoners and Greta Thunberg. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

"Vice signals are not just cultural messages or aesthetic poses. They also come with a body count." Empire of Vice | @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp... | @bostonreview.bsky.social

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

UK sports studies types; there's an intriguing looking London-based exhibition looking at new fabrics in sports wear and opening later his month - admittedly quite industry oriented, but may be of interest to some (and not far from Kings Cross station to boot) #sustainabililty #sportswear

🔴British Woman Left ‘Stranded’ in Hungary After Home Office Refuse to Let Her Bring Niece to the UK The 13-year-old girl, who she was given responsibility over after being abandoned by her parents, could be sent into state care because of the Home Office’s decision bylinetimes.com/2026/01/08/b...

Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️

Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social Professor Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians

The contemporary relevance of the social sciences is a joint publication with @sagepub.com and demonstrates how the social sciences are contributing to the wellbeing of the UK through 8 broad principles supported with evidence & case studies. Download the report📖 ➡️ acss.org.uk/publications...

There's proposals arond meaning that the EU could adopt Trump-style rules that would allow home raids and deporting people to countries they’ve never set foot in. If we don’t speak up now, this could become the new normal. Please sign the petition! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

We are witnessing a sea-change in the form of state power. Trump is ushering in a dissolution of the postcolonial world order of nation-states. But it isn't a simple resurrection of imperial states. It is new: the anti-migrant politics of nation-states + "indirect" colonization. Seatbelts required

On the day we see the US regime reviving the Monroe Doctrine, it's worth remembering also it'd be CLR James 125 birthday; it's also worth revisiting his 1986 discussion with Stuart Hall. How the world as changed that this was on broadcast TV #anti-imperialism

‘On Xmas day, the biographer of Bobby Sands, Denis O’Hearn, wrote an open letter to the British government, pleading with them to meet the solicitors of the hunger strikers. O’Hearn noted how ‘even in the case of the Irish hunger strikes of ‘80 and ‘81, where the prisoners were considered at war…’

4 of the hunger strikers are still going. And unless we up the pressure the state is going to get away with killing them. Please read this and use our toolkit to take action. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

UK authorities have refused to meet with the activists, some of whom have been on hunger strike for over 50 days.

The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...

We are sending out of our first newsletter soon, which will include what was supposed to be a short video of Amira and Jessica talking about Heated Rivalry. The video is 45 minutes long. If you don't want to miss it, sign up RIGHT NOW: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/NhFlZYv

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy

Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers and what are the health risks?

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go came out 1 year ago today. Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful. The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M

Yesterday my book on Howard Zinn, "The People's Historian", out 8/26, was made available for preorder from the publisher's website. Preorders often determine how much stores `get behind a book so if ya like my work, or dig on Zinn, please consider an early buy. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724993...

Judith generated £225 through her £100 donation. Thank you Judith! If, like Judith, you agree that nobody should live in poverty for the price of a cheap t-shirt please donate to the Big Give. Only two days left to DOUBLE your donation. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

My latest, co-written w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social: "FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd 'Peace Prize'." FIFA President Gianni Infantino, toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed the confected "FIFA Peace Prize" to the increasingly violent US president @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Christmas is a time of choices. Do you want to fuel fast fashion… or fight it? Let's dismantle exploitation and build an industry where workers are respected and paid fairly. Join @lakyncarlton.bsky.social for the BIG GIVE and DOUBLE your donation. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.

This is why I bang on about the necessity to look beyond Farage's past if we are to turn the tide around Far-right politics and moral panics are mainstream Anything short of seriously looking at the role of the mainstream in mainstreaming is just pretending to care to make one feel better

Focusing on extreme events such as the reports of Farage’s teenage past can exceptionalise the nature of far-right politics and make it harder to call out Some thoughts @theconversation.com on the mainstreaming of far-right politics theconversation.com/nigel-farage...

We’re hiring PhD students interested in shaping the future of sports. If you don’t apply, please help us spread the word... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

For an international festival of ideas on anti-colonial and anti-imperial currents in southeast asia and oceania. www.southsouthmovement.org/anticolonial...

🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝

The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters. buff.ly/rZBKFDj

We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)

It is with sadness that we learned that Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa racist massacre, has died at the age of 111. Learn more about this event here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

'Greenlandic parents in Denmark are 5.6 times more likely to have children taken into care than Danish parents, according to the Danish Centre for Social Research, a government-funded research institute.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #KalaallitNunaat #Greenland #IndigenousRights #Colonialism

Resistance by Steve McQueen is an impressive and extensive exhibition exploring a century of British popular protest from suffragettes and hunger marchers to the demonstrations against the Iraq War. It’s on at the National Gallery’s Modern Two in Edinburgh til after Christmas!

Proud to feature @shireenahmed.bsky.social's latest on how World Ultimate Frisbee players are mounting an unprecedented protest against Israel’s participation, whose team boasts active IDF soldiers. www.sportspolitika.news/p/ultimate-f...

For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

Check out the recent #OpenAccess current debate 'Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law' by Nicola Perugini: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal: Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US." journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social on the publication of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! 🎉 dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon #IoFAuthors

"To truly defeat Shein, we must radically re-evaluate and reorient our relationship to clothing."

"...a past that can never quite be forgotten." Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.

'The global scientific community has been urged to adopt and support non-profit scholarly publishing models to help solve the problems caused by today’s predominant systems—described as “arguably the largest science crisis of all time”.' 1/3