I love this collaboration between @redpeppermag.bsky.social & the Raymond Williams Foundation on their Key Words series. I wrote on People's Tribunals www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

An important & very clear analysis @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social esp on the existential & geo-cultural stakes #iran www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

'Our earliest and most formative experience with the problem of other people is the sibling relationship'

hackneyhistoryfestival.org/sunday-10-ma... Looks like the day passes are sold out but the individual tickets are affordable

Join Red Pepper in marching together against the far right 🌶️ We will be at the protest this Saturday with a banner at Start Zone G - welcoming any readers, friends, and indie media allies who want to walk with us 🪧 📆 Saturday 28th March 📍London

A great read, loved the piece on Raymond Williams & community education especially. But so much more too

Postdoc on the work and archives of queer of colour intellectuals active in the Netherlands and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Webinar 16th March @rafeefz.bsky.social and Sara Marzagora www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/pales...

A database on the systematic repression of Palestine Solidarity across UK and Germany. European Legal Support Centre with @forensicarchi.bsky.social www.index-of-repression.org

Fully funded PhD within the Division of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2026/03/01/g...

Questions from Palestinian children visualizingpalestine.org/visual/quest...

Here's the CfP for a SI on solidarity that I am co-editing with Clare Hemmings.Details below journals.sagepub.com/page/fty/cal...

two-days of love as a creative politically-engaged practice 'in the wake of contemporary social and student freedom movements' www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48045/

Our new article is out! Stuart Hall helps us to examine how evidence & expertise are used to help race slide into the mainstream in policies on integration & migration in Sweden & the UK

I suppose this is not really surprising, but disappointing that Oxford union are hosting Namal Rajapaksa tomorrow, whose family oversaw terror & war crimes in Sri Lanka against Tamils. His visit to the Cambridge union has been cancelled www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2587525...

Reading this new collection of John Berger's writing on miners & strikes (ed Overton & Harle). Includes an article written by JB in 1968 for the New Statesmen 'The nature of mass demonstrations' on prefigurative politics as a rehearsal of revolutionary consciousness canongate.co.uk/books/5120-t...

"It’s [the cultural boycott] about manifesting a united cultural front against genocide and imperialism" A coalition of artists, gallery employees, and other culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

Are you are member of the British Sociological Association? Going to the annual conference? Take a look at the demands that have been made on the BSA to turn up the volume on #BDS socispal.wordpress.com/sisp-stateme...

A wonderful historical account if you want to know about the significance of US imperialism in Cuba today & also it's Latin American context 'Without Cuba, then, no Venezuela and without Venezuela, no Bolivia, no Ecuador, and no rebirth of Sandinista Nicaragua'

Death in Gaza - 'taking all information into consideration, the actual death count (as of June 2025) is likely between 326,544 and 575,259 deaths' biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=5002

The series features lectures, discussions, panels and documentaries with academics and experts who explore the historical, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict www.middleeast.ugent.be/en/newsandev...

You can donate through the link in this article via Crowd Justice, which goes straight to the lawyers

The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing & Community www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-asian-...

'Who's that?' When I went into @waterstones.bsky.social in #oxford this afternoon to try & get a copy of Leila Khaled's autobiography 😭 www.goodreads.com/book/show/79...

This is good on the sway of unaccountable elites, inc Jamie Dimon CEO of JPMorgan who on Mandelson's advice 'mildly threatened' Chancellor Alastair Darling on plans to tax bankers’ bonuses. Also Starmer's awarding of an untended £240 mil contract to Palantir jacobin.com/2026/02/star...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, which examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past. buff.ly/qZp8Um0

This is a great read on the manipulation of the collegial open.substack.com/pub/jophoeni...

Been waiting for this analysis & it requires re-readings. The citations alone stage 🔥 refusals 'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'

New #podcast 📻 Researcher+organizer Omar Jabary recounts how #infrastructures are constitutive of the logics of settler colonialism, as well as a vital terrain for land-based practices of anti-colonial resistance. rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Roads, electricity, water systems+ as sites of struggle.

Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ at EarTH in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/...

Come along tomorrow (weds) for a sociological convo about the past year with @aaronwinter.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me, chaired by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social I've been thinking about sociology as mutual aid. Maybe bring your whistles?

OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal. Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey. buff.ly/lubHIf8

A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Rodney King

Do respond to the government's consultation on these nasty proposals. Making settlement harder & longer undermines its own rhetoric on integration & use time to discipline & increase vulnerability Guidance below to help you respond to the consultation www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Safe Haven Fellowship For scholars, writers, artists and journalists at risk due to conflict or war 5 month fellowship to pursue your individual research project Subsidised housing Stipend Reimbursement both outward and return travel nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/...

📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

'The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers' www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

"the offer of a fine equivalent to a parking ticket or a warning is both revealing and revolting...Revolting because it offers a fine like a sweetie – accept this sweetie, the offer states, and then stop asking us to get a moral compass”

Forget the nostalgia for 2016, were back in 2013 & the Go Home vans 'The first 20-second video shows people handcuffed & escorted on to planes, & raids being carried out to arrest illegal workers. It ends with a message reading: “And it’s just getting started.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

She says it's worth it and her mental health has been boosted by the regular sunlight and 15,000 steps she walks each day' www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email [email protected] with your story.

The European Sociological Association (ESA) Call for Papers for the 17th ESA Conference, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, from 25 to 28 August 2026 europeansociology.org/event/72289c...

New issue of Kohl - queer (non)futures kohljournal.press/issue-11-3

Historical Materialism conference 2026 CFP, deadline 15th Jan historicalmaterialismbcn.net/historical-m...

'Across the Occupied Palestinian Territories, we see a particular kind of real estate development thriving in the absence of territorial integrity and sovereign political authority'

On Luddites & AI in the classroom kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

Samaher & her 6 children in Gaza are struggling to survive the harsh winter amidst severe shortages. Please donate whatever you can, it takes less than a minute using the link below www.paypal.com/pools/c/9kZT...