I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan. Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.

I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan. Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.

Time for the ISA to take a stand against colonial genocide & scholasticide in Palestine 🍉 #BDSatISA

Who’s going to the @histmat.bsky.social conference in Athens?

📝 My new article “Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts” is out in Energy Research & Social Science! Read and share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're excited to share the programme of CCPT events this semester and hope to see you there!

The government’s overall Oh well that’s how it is now attitude when one of the main pillars of your economy crumbles right there for everyone to see is quite difficult to comprehend.

“The guarantee of liberty, equality, and property implies that the visible fist of the State must complete the work of the invisible hand of the market” - Samir Amin in Eurocentrism

I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed go.bsky.app/6hwHCnh

Frankfurt Uni cancels a conference on "Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine“. Can't make it up.

Excited to share that my latest research has been published in the Critical Studies on Terrorism Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The CfP for Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26–28 June 2025) 'Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe' is now online. Please send in your abstracts by 15 February. Further details, in both French and English, below.

Excellent opportunity for Black UK students to enrol in a PhD in any research area. 12 scholarships available at the University of Glasgow.

Great many people show support to our colleague in Anglophone Studies, Dr Maboula Soumahoro, whose specialism in critical race analyses in France & US is well known. EU Parliament cancelled her intervention follwing sustained pressure from the far-right. Collective✊🏾 www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Preparing next week’s lecture ✍️🧑‍💻

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Umm Saeed, a mother of six, is living in the Deir al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza—one of the many families struggling to survive. Their home was bombed, their belongings destroyed, and their world turned upside down. Please donate and share. chuffed.org/project/1167...

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Not a starter pack but peeps to follow: @jairofunez.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com @chdesportes.bsky.social @ikabir.bsky.social @themrise.bsky.social @profsunnysingh.bsky.social @profdanhicks.bsky.social @sandyosullivan.bsky.social @drblackdeer.bsky.social @pashamkhan.bsky.social More soon

Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated. Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵

I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed go.bsky.app/6hwHCnh

open.spotify.com/episode/0vu6... For all you Adorno fans out there come learn about your free time under capitalism, Adornian autonomy, and why you shouldn’t have “hobbies” (I guess 🤷🏾)

Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'. The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org

Anyone working on racial capitalism, capitalism and imperialism (from a theoretical perspective) in the UK?

I was invited to deliver this year's Kogon Lecture at TU Darmstadt but I was canceled and called antisemitic due to my statements on the genocide in Gaza. Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity. 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Same

Hey friends can I ask you all to follow @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , an excellent project that facilitates artists, scholars, & others leading workshops where all receipts provide desperately needed support to Gazans?

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I've just been looking in the Marxists Internet Archive at www.marxists.org for the fist time for quite a while. It really is an excellent resource for anyone interested in Marxism and also the broader left.

Palestinian starter pack

Can someone explain to me the Danish Marxism metaverse?

Settler-Colonialism in the Late Neocolonial Period - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And this also applies to scholars keen on giving many social justice moral injunctions while being really quiet about Palestine.

All scholars who’ve even once used the term ‘decolonisation’ for the advancement of their careers, please note that now is the time to show solidarity with Palestine. Stand with Palestine. End all occupations✊🏽 PS: Wrote this on 7 Oct 2023. Still valid, sadly.

Racial capitalism and the critique of political economy

marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2177... there's a good critical review of the book in Marx & Philosophy Review

Please share and sign the petition in support of Cornell Professor Russel Rickford who is attacked for affirming the basic human rights of Palestinians! chng.it/TtSnVNZf

The e-book ‘Ten Myths About Israel’ by Ilan Pappe is still free on Verso’s website. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Dear Decolonial, Critical, & Feminist Academics, We see that you care more about publishing articles to advance your careers rather than showing solidarity with Palestine. Some of you even support settler colonialism & genocide. We will never forget your complicity.

And this also applies to scholars keen on giving many social justice moral injunctions who have been really quiet about Palestine.

Academia loves to decolonize everything besides occupied land. Its silence on Palestine is enough to know how decolonization has become a metaphor signifying everything besides material change and collective resistance.