You know what no one has ever done before? Tried to 'reclaim' patriotism for the left.

Registrations are now open for our workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism'! The workshop will be hybrid and take place on 30 & 31 October at Melbourne Law School. See the draft program: drive.google.com/file/d/1YbYn...

On a curious and failed effort to rehabilitate Labour Together

There's going to be attention to whether there are/were issues with Roberts's visa and imo it's important to not let that stuff matter. The fight shouldn't be 'only deportations where the paperwork is correct!' it should be against deportations and ICE per se www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians. But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨 The Land Question October 30-31, 2025 Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

I would simply have 1 curiosity about why the guy who clearly wants to feed all our data to the AI gods keeps coming up with increasingly silly excuses for packaging up all our data in one ready-to-eat serving. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Five hours apart

An anti-racist strategy: Step 1: get rid of every racialised person Step 2: the racists have nothing to complain about anymore Step 3: we win!

Still beaming from teaching with this today - it’s incredible to witness the ease with which students make sense of complex theory when it comes to applying it to the most urgent contexts. Thanks for writing it @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam!

It is actually completely mind bending watching a Home Counties numpty scream “Christ is King“ - would have been unimaginable even a year ago - how susceptible their whole personality is to American YouTubers - pathetic really

If you are not anti-fsscist you are pro-fascist.

1. When we are thinking about race and racism, we *do* need a materialist account. We can't just imagine that these are 'ideas' which people. And we also can't imagine these are responses to 'real' racial categories.

Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas." @mflohr.bsky.social

'AND PARTICULARLY MANY ETHNIC MINORITY BRITONS'. He's our anti-racist hero.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I always want to ask “who hurt you, JD?”, and then remember that he wrote a book about it

Maybe should go through all the Iain M Banks novels, but replace the Minds with ChatGPT. It would definitely put a new spin on the Idiran-Culture War.

What we hoped for was The Culture, what we got were Nazi exam cheating machines.

Comrade @rafeefz.bsky.social once again showing how to do incisive materialist analysis of Palestine. It's short, but it sharply traces out how accumulation strategies are shaping the future of Gaza, and how these limit and condition any future 'statehood'. theconversation.com/donald-trump...

I think a lot of the problem is that the kind of people who usually organize anti racist demonstrations have been pretty badly demoralized and burnt out (and in some cases arrested for terrorist offences) over the last two years.

For non-Brits: Our political/media class bet absolutely everything on it being fine to demonise and destroy the anti-racist left, who were getting too big for their boots, because the Sensible Moderates could co-opt and control the racist right. And they have now fucked it into the upper ionosphere.

We just spent ten years *screaming* at the public on every available channel that the type of people who would organise anti-racist rock concerts to build a broad progressive movement are hateful, Britain-hating racist extremists. Best of luck doing this now, lads.

Just a reminder that this is next Monday (9/15) y'all. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

Good to have this whole thing up and translated. But when I've read bits of it in hte past I've always thought - and continued to think! - that Korsch's reading is pretty uncharitable, and - ultimately- a little vulgar Marxist.

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.

On top of everything else nationalism is just so CRINGE

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Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Today's @osgoodenews.bsky.social Grad Reading Group on Social Justice opens thinking abt the university as a site of social justice, reading @pashukanist.bsky.social's "Strategy & Tactics", @norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social's, "Reflections on Fugitive Practices in the University.."

Thanks to everyone who came out for the second study of Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”! Next up: two meetings on “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah—Sections I & II presented by Esther Planas Balduz & Morgan Lily this Saturday, 9/6, @ noon EST. See you there!

Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge

Really makes you think.

partly because its Labor Day I decided to finish a draft I had on my computer, it's a sort of open letter to the editors at @long-haul-mag.bsky.social, in reply to a bit I disagree with in a Paul Buhle article they ran (and that I like over all!) ymmv ofc! It's here: buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

(observing the smoldering ruins of civilization) see what happens when you misdefine “value”

In all the well-meaning talk about how the flag belongs to all of us, I think something very important gets lost: the flag belongs to us *as something you ignore and forget about most, if not all, of the time*. Certainly not as something it's normal to hang down your street, let alone in your house.

This is going to be great!

Amidst legitimate fears about cultural decline Labour Party proposes compulsory Maypole dancing classes for all.

Honestly, one 'British value' I've always liked is the widespread sense that anyone who is really into flags and shit is - at best - just a bit fucking weird.

These red crossed animals are going to kill somebody soon and all the cheerleading journalists are going to do a solemn “how did it happen” and then a politician is going to suggest the state round people up to stop the pink faces murdering them

Another example of that timless British social-democratic adage 'you can only defeat the far right by adopting their politics'. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In this piece entitled “The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector,” Fatima Ahdash reflects on the orientalism and racism underpinning Western human rights organisations, arguing that a complete overhaul of the sector is urgently necessary. Read (for free) here:

Finally got my hands on a copy of @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh’s latest

Many such cases

Hot of the press, new article "Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly: Liberal, Associative, Radical" co-authored with @bpoppmadsen.bsky.social, and available Open Access from Politics and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0032... 1/3

Labour figures have the beautiful combo of saying disgusting things to try and sound like like hardmen on migration but doing so with the same tone vibe of Ed Miliband declaring that he's 'tuss enough'.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵

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...