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The fate of Glasgow's last city centre arts production building is crucial to the city and to the role of art in it. Eviction could happen from this Friday. Please sign the petition www.change.org/p/save-trong... Join the protest on Friday. Write to your MSP, MP, councillors. Resist!

Join the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive for a hands-on oral history training led by historian Kate Wilson. Saturday 14th March, 10am – 2pm The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow DM me to book!

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, was honoured to write the @theguardian.com obituary for sculptor and educator David Harding. As town artist in Glenrothes he embedded sculpture in everyday spaces, shaping a vision of public art that lives with the weather and the street.

Drew is singing again! And it's Bandcamp Friday. Treat yourself: hochmatoch.bandcamp.com/album/a-moun...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

Good times at the Living Rent National Conference today - Joey Simons ran our Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive breakout group @living-rent.bsky.social

The consultancy Nous takes hundreds of thousands of pounds from universities, leaves the exact same path of destruction everywhere, and keeps trying to avoid transparent contracts. We’re urgently need control over consultancy spent in #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

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@benmacpherson.bsky.social is my MSP. I'm on strike and heading for the the picket then rally at the Scottish parliament later today. The government's education committee MUST act and intervene in the UoE's entirely unnecessary 'crisis'. Prevent further job losses & crazy sector vandalism! ✊

'It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Tom Holland’s Umbrella lip sync appears in your feed, you will watch it all the way through — every. single. time.' And repost. Currently unsure whether this is better for the soul or Kenny McLean's goal from the halfway line last night.

outrageous move by @waterstones.bsky.social

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian. King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary

Join the Rally at Parliament on Wednesday, if you're in Edinburgh: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s...

la commune is one of my favourite films ever & you can watch Universal Clock, a documentary about his methods with footage of la commune's making here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

This is awful. Solidarity with UK colleagues against this cruel and stupid gutting of university education and disciplinary knowledge

My branch (LEITH!) of @living-rent.bsky.social absolutely killing it in their deputation at the last council meeting as part of our campaign against rogue landlords - see 3a and stay for the Q&A. 5 mins of your time to find some hope in dark times: edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/... ✊

Still some spaces left for this talk tomorrow. Please share.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

This book is brilliant and Ståle is a great speaker - join us for the launch in Glasgow on Tuesday the 4th!

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!

Super delighted to be included in this book - my chapter focuses on the histories of Take Root, an incredible self-build housing collective established in 1993 in Glasgow. 'Taking Root and Raising Roofs: Reimagining the Housing Question'....

Optimo (Espacio)’s JD Twitch has died. RIP to an all-time great of UK dance music 🖤

Edinburgh University staff set to walkout amid £140m cuts plan dispute www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Comrades, registration for the twenty-second annual Historical Materialism Conference in London is now open. The plenaries and programme will be released soon. Join us this year (and every year) in November!

Interesting reflection on the removal of the Kirkgate benches by Connor Robertson. What did it signify and why does it matter? "The benches are back, but the battle for the right to the city continues."

"And what is happening may yet come to define its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity which will endure for generations" Truly chilling two minutes here.

“Palestine: A Sociological Issue is a way to reflect on the role of sociology in times of genocidal violence & settler colonialism" @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social All the articles in the special section are free to access here journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die. “This is an abomination.” (🎥 Middle East Eye)

Delighted about this. 🇵🇸

Join us on Tuesday in Edinburgh for the relaunch of 'Culture is Bad for You'....

Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee. Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee. Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632 youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

I’m giving up for Lent

Culture is bad for you is doing a book tour! @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social or me in Bristol 24th March (in person), Manchester 27th March (in person), Edinburgh 1st April (online & in person) & Sheffield 9th April (in person). Details/tickets manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/

Now only one working day away!

I'm speaking about 'The Working Day in Contemporary Art' on Friday (28th) as part of the Marxism in Culture seminar series in London - join us if you can: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Opening tonight! Petra Bauer: Sisters! at @fruitmarket.bsky.social Edinburgh. Curated by students on the MScR Collections and Curating Practices programme and supported by the University of Edinburgh's Contemporary Art Research Collection. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/petra-...

This week the Travelling Gallery will be visiting St Andrews with the exhibition Between Women: Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu.

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

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Thirty years ago today

Activists from Rise Up for Rojava have occupied the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. They are demanding "recognition of the northeast Syrian self-government, an end to Turkish jihadist attacks on the region, and a halt to arms exports to Ankara". @defendrojava.bsky.social

For all those wanting to follow members of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board, Corresponding Editorial Board, and Advisory Board, we have put together a little starter pack...

This was a fantastic rally. Let nobody forget that Scotland is only on the verge of reintroducing rent controls because of the patient, brilliant organising of Living Rent. Today is a momentous day in the Scottish Parliament for anyone who cares about housing justice. England take note.